A CARING team of travel agents in Wallasey are using their brand new shop as a drop-off point for vital donations for the homeless. Staff at Hays Travel in Wallasey, which has recently relocated to a more prominent branch on Liscard Way, have teamed up with Birkenhead-based Charles Thompson’s Mission to help rough sleepers and […]
One of the region’s best-known accountancy firms is expanding and merging with a practice in Chester. According to Coxeys, which has offices in Wrexham and Saltney, the city’s branch of the Hall Livesey Brown group is the “perfect fit” for their ambitious growth plans. The Chester operation will still be based at their offices in […]
A retired police officer who patrolled the streets or more than 25 years has swapped his handcuffs for paintbrushes to set up a new business teaching people how to paint, from his back garden. Former bobby David Wiles has found a new lease of life after creating his own art studio, saving him hundreds of […]
A POPULAR vet receptionist whose help to thousands of pet owners once won her an Oscar of the veterinary world is leaving her role after nearly four decades. Sarah Bowler, 54, has been the familiar face behind the counter at Holly House Veterinary Surgery in Knutsford, which is part of Willows Veterinary Group, for a […]
One of Europe’s finest young conductors who has been chosen to lead the world premiere of a new work inspired by the 200th anniversary of an infamous massacre and the horrific experiences of a child labourer which prompted Charles Dickens to write Oliver Twist. Robert Guy, who comes from Wrexham, says it will be a […]
The first surviving film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is to be screened at Stretford Mall more than a century after it first wowed silent movie audiences, as part of a unique pop-up cinema event. Audience members are set for a magical experience as the film, directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio in Italy in 1912, […]
SCHOOLCHILDREN are designing two huge murals featuring Manchester icons including LS Lowry, John Rylands, the Essoldo cinema, Frances Lennon MBE, and even a number 256 bus, as part of the multi-million pound redevelopment at Stretford Mall. The seven-foot-high by fifteen-foot-long foot long community art panels are being designed by pupils at Lostock College secondary school […]
BRITAIN’S Got Talent dance sensation Signature will take centre stage at a charity ball organised by a Wrexham businessman to raise funds for children with a rare disease. The world’s number one Michael Jackson dance tribute, who came runners up in the second series of the hit TV talent show and have been complimented by […]
CROWDS joined in singing and dancing as Liverpool’s biggest ever open-air ukulele jam saw more than a hundred musicians burst into a rousing rendition of You Are My Sunshine, at the heart of the city’s busy shopping district. More than a hundred ukulele players were greeted with cheers and applause at the megabusk sing-along organised […]
More than a hundred ukulele players are set to get Liverpool smiling with a mass singalong of the classic lullaby ‘You Are My Sunshine’, to celebrate World Ukulele Day. Musicians from ten Merseyside ukulele bands will join together for the biggest open air uke jam the city centre has ever seen, on Saturday February 2. […]
