MORE than 4,000 children will be moved out of poverty and an extra 7,000 jobs created, in a new vision for Liverpool unveiled today.

It is also planned that within three years more than 80,000 extra hotel nights will be sold in the city every year, helping the city break through the £50m annual spend on its hotels for the first time.

The targets are part of a commitment to improve Liverpool’s health, wealth and education contained in a Local Area Agreement document signed this week by the city’s key agencies.

The priorities are regarded as vital if the city is to meet its ambition of being regarded as a thriving international city of world status.

Major city organisations iwill use the document as a blueprint for progress up to 2011.

One of the key targets is reducing the children living in poverty from 28,264 to 23,915 in three years’ time.

Increasing the number of hotel nights sold by 82,000 to 890,000 every year would bring in more than £5m extra annually. A hotel room in the city currently averages around £71 a night to visitors, though the hotel operators receive around £56 of that.