Beatles festival will go ahead, vows council

LIVERPOOLS 2007 Mathew Street Festival has been cancelled for health and safety reasons.

She proposed that the city council should take responsibility for the Mathew Street festival from the council-owned Culture Company, and it should appoint its own officers to run the event and make sure that the festival takes place.

She wants a full report to be presented to an emergency meeting of the executive board next week.

Cllr Clucas also wants a conclusive statement that the festival will take place in Capital of Culture year in 2008.

Cllr Paul Clein told his board colleagues: “I am not upset, I am absolutely bloody furious. Heads should roll and roll at the highest level.”

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