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Tailors Liverpool. Image: Google

Liverpool ‘secret agent bar’ granted licence to thrill

Hooters Liverpool.

Controversial Liverpool Hooters bar in trouble with council again

Royal Daffodil. Image: El Pollock

Historic River Mersey ferry to become floating restaurant

Alt Park Nursing Home. Image: Google Street View

‘Unsafe living environment’ - Care home plunged into special measures

The cafe is now rated as “very good”. Image: Cat Cafe Liverpool

Cat cafe awarded top marks after previous one star hygiene rating

Hard Days Night, Liverpool. Image: Jen Hunter, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia

World’s only Beatles themed hotel hit with zero star hygiene rating

The Oldershaw School.

Teacher banned for life after asking students to perform ‘sex acts’

The former Rapid Hardware building, previously home to Vanquish Law, which could become a new hotel.

Former flagship hardware store could become new city centre hotel

Dixons Croxteth Academy. Image: Google Street View

Pair of historic Liverpool school buildings face demolition

How the proposed development may look. Image: ARC

Student housing to expand on Liverpool’s historic tunnels

Hooters opening in Liverpool

Hooters controversy set to rumble on into court

A postbox in New Brighton is topped with a knitted King Charles III. Image: Emily Bonner

Street parties and screenings for King Charles III coronation

Steve Rotheram has revealed the new Eurovision buses and trains. Image: LCR

Late night buses and trains to run across Liverpool for Eurovision

The Springfield Park sign was listed on ebay.

Council investigates how to retrieve city park sign listed on eBay

Exterior of Burnley's branch of Tim Horton's gives an idea of what a new Speke branch could look like. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

New Tim Hortons coffee shop could open in Liverpool

Erotica Liverpool. Image: Erotica Liverpool

Liverpool strip club gets green light for expansion plans

Hooters opening in Liverpool

Hooters ordered to remove ‘garish’ signs or face prosecution

Mathew Street in Liverpool

150-bed Beatles themed hotel set for Liverpool

Hooters opening in Liverpool

Controversial Hooters appeal rejected by city council

The derelict pub on Prescot Road. Image: Google

Plans to transform long-abandoned former pub halted

Park View Medical Centre will close in July. Image: Google

Residents fight back as ‘loved’ Liverpool GP surgery is set to close

Liverpool takeaway given lowest possible food hygiene rating

The derelict pub on Prescot Road. Image: Google

Long-abandoned former pub to become new flats

Sweet Time Bakery, Liverpool

City bakery given zero hygiene rating - ‘major improvement’ needed

Mount Pleasant car park. Image: Google

Major city car park could have charges raised to meet cash shortfall

Cyclists in Sefton Park. Image: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images

Controversial temporary cycle lanes to become permanent

Clock View Hospital in Walton

Nurse struck off for racist sexual remarks that made ‘skin crawl’

The PCS union said the strike was likely to have a “significant impact” on the delivery of passports (Photo: Brian Jackson - stock.adobe)

Merseyside passport office staff set to strike for five weeks

A reader questions why two car parks owned by the same company have different rules for parking charges.

Free parking in Liverpool to end and charges set to rise

Pier Head, Liverpool.

Thousands expected at Pier Head as Eurovision fan village approved

Wirral University Teaching Hospital. Image: Google

Baby died after midwife failed to diagnose life-threatening condition

Hooters Liverpool.

‘It’s unfair’ - Hooters dispute will not go to public hearing

The Beehive is a traditional pub that has been serving customers for decades. It is currently a Greene King pub and will be undergoing major rejuvenation from the end of February 2023. Greene King will completely overhaul the exterior of the pub as well as the bar area and they are looking for new landlords. The annual rent is £75,000 with an ingoing cost of £64,125.

New image shows what Beehive will look like after refit and rebrand

Ambulances outside the Royal. Image: Getty

Region hospitals ‘still too full’ as one in 10 fail ambulance targets

Council tax in Liverpool to increase by nearly 5% after fiery meeting

The host city of Liverpool was given the ‘keys to Eurovision’ during a special ceremony on 31 January. (Credit: PA)

Eurovision 2023: EuroFest to take over city with raves and parades

Childwall Primary School. Image: Google Street View

Teacher cleared after boy, 4, allowed to wander out of school alone

Childwall Primary School. Image: Google Street View

Four-year-old boy allowed to wander out of school alone

Gordon Ramsey and Gino D’ACampo

‘Gordon will be furious’ – reaction to Gino one star hygiene rating

A look inside Gino D’Acampo’s new 360 Sky Bar

Reason behind Gino D’Acampo one star hygiene rating revealed

Police and fire service tax rise will add to your household bills

A look inside Gino D’Acampo’s new 360 Sky Bar

Gino D’Acampo restaurant hit with one star hygiene rating

This is how the venue could look. Image: BOXPARK

BOXPARK outlines plans for new venue set to open in Liverpool

The host city of Liverpool was given the ‘keys to Eurovision’ during a special ceremony on 31 January. (Credit: PA)

Eurovision 2023: Liverpool Pier Head to host huge fan zone

Across more than 450 square metres of staging, the stunning Eurovision stage in Liverpool will bring together another 220 square metres of independently moving and turning video screens, as well as over 700 video tiles integrated into the floor and more than 1500 metres of LED lights. Pic: BBC.

Eurovision venue owes £7.1m to Liverpool Council

A generic photo of girls in a classroom. Image: David Fuentes - stock.adobe.com

Teacher at girls school who stuck hand in pupil’s mouth is struck off