Articles...
Sep 3 2007
ON WEDNESDAY, a special meeting of the city council will discuss a Labour suggestion that a QC should be hired to conduct an inquiry into the Mathew Street fiasco. Top bods at the town hall are already doing a thorough internal inquiry....
Aug 20 2007
TEENAGE yob anti-social behaviour has been in the news a lot recently, fuelled by the tragic death in Warrington of father-of-three Garry Newlove. Much of the debate has centred on the availability of cheap booze....
Jul 30 2007
IN THE days when you couldn’t give away buildings in Liverpool, businessman and restaurateur Jimmy Wong bought the Scandinavia Hotel, a magnificent building on the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street. His dream was to turn it into a major attraction at the heart of Liverpool’s Chinatown, the oldest Chinese community in Europe....
Jul 23 2007
LIKE his alter ego Superman, city council leader Warren Bradley has just seven days to save the world, well at least the world as Everton fans see it....
Jul 16 2007
A WONDERING friend has just come back from an expedition to Patras. The Greek city, known as the gateway to the West, was European Capital of Culture in 2006....
Jul 9 2007
SEEMS strange to me how Merseysiders have a knack of spending a King’s ransom on international headhunters to track down the best in the world for jobs we need doing. Then what happens? We take a peek over the garden wall and all the time, the person we were looking for lives just around the corner....
