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    Get going on ‘green’ jobs Jul 06 2009

    THE Mersey Partnership’s report into the ways in which Liverpool and its surrounding areas can face up to the legal need to cut carbon emissions makes sober reading. Read

    Comment: Vital legacy of Liverpool's Culture Year Jun 30 2009

    THE aim of Capital of Culture year was always to put Liverpool on the international map, and ease the passage of some prestige developments that might otherwise have some difficulty in coming to fruition. Read

    Comment: Our sympathies go to the Iraq hostages' families Jun 22 2009

    THE deaths of two hostages in Iraq, after more than two years in the hands of kidnappers, throws into sharp focus once again the awful dilemma of how governments should respond to such cases. Read

    Comment: Wirral libraries saga could yet be brought to an end Jun 10 2009

    WHILE it seems in some quarters to be open season for hunting down MPs of all parties, the business of Government has to go on. Read

    Comment: New belief and hope in defeat Jun 01 2009

    TELL Me Ma to keep the champagne on ice, rang out the Everton fans’ enthusiastic anthem for their club's courageous FA Cup run. Read

    Comment: Civil servants must head north May 27 2009

    IT REMAINS to be seen if the Government’s commitment to move thousands of civil service jobs from London to major regional cities will ever benefit Liverpool on the scale that it should. Read

    Comment: Wrong message from Whitehall over Liverpool civil service jobs May 18 2009

    LOSING 40 good quality jobs from Liverpool at any time is never going to be good news. But it is the manner in which the Civil Service is to switch jobs from Liverpool to Manchester that is particularly hurtful. Read

    Comment: Clouds over Vauxhall plant May 13 2009

    WORKERS at the Vauxhall plant, at Ellesmere Port, must be feeling a mixture of anger and frustration as negotiations to sell the plant run to the eleventh hour. Read

    Comment: Music hitting the right notes May 12 2009

    THOSE in the know have always maintained that the Mersey sound is more than just that of The Beatles and their contemporaries of the 1960s. Read

    Comment: the cost of councils going to war with each other May 11 2009

    WHEN it comes to shelling out a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers’ money to cover legal and other costs it ran up in the public inquiry into the combined Tesco and Everton FC plans for Kirkby, Liverpool City Council has found itself over a barrel. Read

    Comment: Local fears must be addressed over Knowsley incinerator May 08 2009

    THE company behind the Knowsley waste incinerator, Energos, needs to get its act together quickly if the project is ever to go ahead. Read

    Never again – no excuses May 07 2009

    THE case of Roy Murray, the Merseyside GP who molested young women patients over two decades, almost beggars belief. Read

    Wirral on the leaders board May 06 2009

    TODAY, we are delighted to reveal that the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake has emerged as the strong favourite to stage the Open Golf Championship again in 2014. Read

    Reaching for the sky as aviation industry flocks to borough May 05 2009

    LIVERPOOL'S place in the pantheon of popular culture will long be celebrated. From rock ’n’ roll and comedy to drama and football, the roll-call of famous sons and daughters is long. Read

    More questions than answers May 05 2009

    FIAT appears to be casting covetous eyes over the European arm of General Motors – and the unions are worried about what the future might hold. Read

    Civil service prize to be won May 04 2009

    PLANS to set up a “Whitehall of the North” in Manchester have the smell of a done deal hanging over them. It is a smell particularly offensive to Liverpool noses. Read

    Comment: Stiff upper lips out in force as Swine Flu advances May 01 2009

    SO FAR, so good. With swine flu spreading relentlessly across the globe, it is encouraging to note the stoical attitude of Britons as the first cases are reported in the UK. Read

    Everyman plan must be backed Apr 30 2009

    IN A perfect worl,d the decision to fund the £24m rebuilding project at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool would be the proverbial no-brainer. Read

    Comment: What does the University of Liverpool really mean? Apr 29 2009

    THE trouble with words is that, if carefully chosen, they can mean almost whatever the speaker wants. Especially when uttered by that universal functionary of modern life, the Official Spokesman. Read

    Comment: Time for some common sense Apr 28 2009

    THERE are times when even the most well-meaning of people can come up with the most lunatic of decisions, arrived at by a process that seems all too sensible. Read

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