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Comment: Bringing fresh heart to our city

TODAY brings yet more evidence of growing economic confidence on Merseyside. For, even as Northwestern Shipbuilders and Ship Builders was confirming it had landed a lucrative new contract with the Royal Navy -– as revealed in Saturday’s Daily Post – there was further good news in the pipeline for Liverpool. Read

CRASH, famine, panic, inflation, stagnation, depression, recession, slump, squeeze, freeze and now a credit crunch – the words tumbled down from history into the polished gaze of a mid-summer’s day.

I sat with the newspapers, listening to the wind howling from the river, straining against the plastic limbs of our suburban conservatory. Read

Laird’s deserves its renaissance on the riverside

THE renaissance taking place at the Cammell Laird site is really quite remarkable. It has been a long and painstaking process, but this once-mighty name is increasingly becoming a force to be reckoned with once more. Read

City mess that needs sorting

THE relationship between Liverpool city council and Liverpool Direct Ltd is today under the spotlight. A new independent report, the findings of which are revealed by the Daily Post, is bound to spark yet more debates over the rights and wrongs of this partnership. Read

Themodel model

MODEL. Economic, not size zero. I’ve been talking a lot lately about culture creating footfall, which means people turning up with cash to spend on refuelling the regeneration engine. Read

Here comes the bride – again and again

IF SUMMER is a coming in – albeit dragging its feet and skulking slyly behind the door – then that can only mean one thing for every weekend from now until October. Read

Tennis stars are courting style experts

CONFESSION to make. I don’t know or care that much about tennis. Correction, I know that Goran Ivanisevic is fit and Jean Michael Gambill (big star circa 2002) is so gorgeous it was all I could do not to lick him when I was sent to interview him. Read

Wonderful women

LAST Friday, the Liver- pool Daily Post had the pleasure of presenting an award at this year’s Merseyside Women of the Year ceremony, an event which we have been proud to be a part of since it launched six years ago. Read

Comment: City brimming with confidence

TODAY’S news that 1,500 skilled jobs are being created in Liverpool by Enterprise PLC is a real confidence boost for the city. Read

Gordon Brown’s happy daze

ONE year on from the June day when he kissed the Queen’s hand and entered No.10, Gordon Brown sipped a celebratory Scotch whisky as he toasted his greatest triumph. Read

Comment: Judges outside the real world

SOMETIMES, the law is, really is, an ass. It is, frankly, astonishing that vulnerable witnesses are set to be denied anonymity when they give evidence in court. Sadly, it is something in very real danger of becoming a reality. Read

Valerie Hill: More is less when you want to impress

EVERYONE knows that a woman’s place is in the wrong, whether it’s Joan Rivers being hauled off the Loose Women set for using expletives which weren’t deleted, or Ulrika Jonsson for flaunting her latest offspring in the celeb mags. Read

Comment: Unfair toll on emergency staff

REGULAR users of the Mersey Tunnels are probably well aware that the Liverpool Daily Post takes a very dim view of the tolls charged to drivers. Read

Phil Redmond: Plan for the future

STRATEGY. Something generals love, while Napoleon favoured luck. As he discovered, the strategy was to conquer Russia; the tactics were to capture Moscow; the luck was in the weather. Or, as he found out, not. Read

Fashion Victim: Reality gets in the way of my stylish intentions

AS I write this column, I am sitting in a Spanish airport wondering how it is that, despite spending an obscene number of hours each week scrutinising pictures of celebrities arriving at Heathrow and LAX looking impossibly glamorous, I am about to board a flight home in Havaianas and a creased-up black sundress, which will blow up over my head at the first hint of a British breeze, while suffering a hair malfunction of epic proportions. Read

Superlambonanza

ON ROUNDABOUTS, outside shops, on central reservations, in hotels, unless you have been wandering around with your eyes closed this past week, you cannot fail to have noticed there are Superlambananas everywhere. Read

Comment: City should have planned ahead

THE phrase “never a borrower nor a lender be” doesn’t seem to hold much water at Liverpool city council at the moment. Read

David Charters: There is so little time between nursery rhymes and rock and roll

THE soldier stood tall and he stood proud – his sword glistened and his moustache bristled, his legs stout and his shield defiant. Read

The Great Liverpool Pub Crawl

THE realisation that pubs and Yours Truly were set for a lifetime’s romance came one Christmas Eve at 16 years of age. Read

People flock to Dock as city revamp pays off

AT A time when motorists are queuing for petrol, and house prices seem to be locked in a perpetual downward spiral, it is heartening to have some positive news to report. Read