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Jan 29 2008
NEW city centre residents desperate for green space for dog walking await with bated breath to see if they will be allowed to exercise pooches on Chavasse Park. After all, posters lining The Strand advertising Grosvenor’s Liverpool One development show a larger than life dog-walker striding over said green space. Evidence, surely, that dogs will be allowed? This is in contrast to Albert Dock’s total ban on dogs, although the riverside walk is legally a public right of way. Clearly, we need a dogs of war campaign, not a dog blanket ban....
Jan 22 2008
THE spirit of Drake and Raleigh blows through Moorfields underground station (along with other debris) with the uplifting posters urging local volunteers to join the next Round the World Clipper Race which Liverpool is so proud to sponsor....
Jan 8 2008
AS IF freshly minted for the first column of the new year, an amazing scheme is whispered in Mr Brocklebank’s exquisite shell-like....
Nov 27 2007
CHRIMBO-WATCH: as everyone else is “doing Yule”, Brocklebank resident column humorist Peter Moloney has penned readers a seasonal poem entitled A Plea for Sanity Claus, which he boasts was adapted without permission from the author, Lewis Carroll, who was too busy being dead to refuse....
Nov 20 2007
A COLUMN correspondent writes to Mr Brocklebank in praise of Liverpool’s much critically abused Britannia Adelphi Hotel because of its "dog-friendly" attitude, which made his whippet feel so at home during a visit....
Oct 23 2007
A CARING Mr Brocklebank paid a call on actor/ traveller Michael Palin at Waterstone’s last week, to ensure he was not bereft of fans at his book-signing after the lukewarm critical reception to his TV series on Europe....
Oct 16 2007
HAND-IN-HAND with efforts to make Liverpool city centre motoring and parking nigh on impossible must come improvements to public transport....
Oct 9 2007
SURELY correct spelling matters, even in this day and age, especially when concerning a school. Now that Liverpool’s Belvedere School is changing its name to Belvedere Academy, could the anomaly with the street in which it stands, Belvidere Road, be resolved?...
Oct 2 2007
NOW that The Strand access tunnels to the huge new Grosvenor Liverpool One shopping development are finished, we are told that the road will be skewed back to its original position....
Sep 25 2007
HAD HRH the Duke of Kent taken a vow of silence when he formally and mutely opened the new Princes Landing Stage and City of Liverpool Cruise Liner Terminal?...
