Articles...
Aug 12 2008
OUR man from Crosby, Sir Ivor Roberts, Britain’s former ambassador to Italy and now president of Trinity College, Oxford, will visit Liverpool to meet old college members....
Aug 5 2008
WHILE used to repeat fixtures in the sports world, they tend to happen less in the world of local politics....
Jul 29 2008
MR BROCKLEBANK hears that the Royal Opera House is starting a long- term relationship with the biennial Manchester Festival after the successful transfer to London of former Blur frontman Damon Albarn’s Monkey: Journey to the West. ...
Jul 22 2008
MR BROCKLEBANK is bemused by the rising estimates provided by the media over the numbers of people attending the Tall Ships’ Races event in Liverpool last weekend....
Jul 15 2008
AFTER suddenly instructing the Royal Navy last week that its warships could not open to the public during the Tall Ships’ Races, due to health and safety issues on Seament Jetty, Liverpool docks owner Peel Ports relented and will allow public access to destroyer HMS Argyll. ...
Jul 8 2008
MR BROCKLEBANK flushed with pride at the University of Liverpool’s centenary graduand dinner at St George’s Hall, packed with the great, the good and Elvis Costello....
Jun 24 2008
IS STAGING the Design Show Liverpool at the Contemporary Urban Centre, Greenland Street, an example of post-modern irony? Visitors will doubtless be intrigued by the image of modern Liverpool cleverly juxtaposed with scenes outside of urban dereliction, skips and scaffolding....
Jun 10 2008
CARING Royal Navy commanders halted visitors boarding HMS Ark Royal at Liverpool when the queuing time reached two hours on Saturday, thus dashing northern Navy chief Commodore Madgwick’s goal of beating Newcastle’s 6,000 visitor total by a 500 shortfall....
May 27 2008
HOW time flies. It seems only 18 months ago that the new Canning Place bus station was opened for business, yet it is now closed for the tarmac to be replaced. Or, after the success of Tony Robinson’s Time Team TV documentary on Manchester Dock, is it being dug up for a follow-up programme?...
May 20 2008
NATURE watch: ornithologists aerated over dredging Sefton Park lake during the breeding season prompted a Liverpool council spokesperson to smooth ruffled feathers, saying: “This programme of mitigation measures includes relaxing the maintenance regime in those areas of the park outside the contract boundary and providing additional nesting opportunities in neighbouring Greenbank Park.”...
