LIVERPOOL’S walk of fame to celebrate some of Merseyside’s 100 greatest figures has been delayed again.
It was originally hoped it could be built into the paving outside the Echo Arena Liverpool, but that fell through.
Now a plan to include the attraction as part of the new Museum of Liverpool at Mann Island has also been scrapped.
Money from the Northwest Development Agency that would have helped pay for the tourist attraction had to be spent before March but the work cannot be done before that deadline.
Former Lord Mayor, Labour’s Steve Rotheram, said he now feared it would never happen. But the city’s enterprise and tourism leader, Liberal Democrat Gary Millar, said he was confident it would be built by the end of April, 2011.
It cannot be called the Walk of Fame because Hollywood owns the international copyright to the phrase. Instead, it will be called Spirit of Merseyside.
