Daily news bulletin: Purple Flag status, vaccine bus and museum romance

📰 Liverpool is celebrating securing prestigious Purple Flag status again – taking its reign into a twelfth successive year.

Places awarded the status are recognised for achieving excellence in providing a vibrant mix of entertainment while promoting the safety and wellbeing of visitors and local residents.

Liverpool, which first gained the Purple Flag in 2010, demonstrated again that it has a safe and well-managed night-time economy.

📰 Liverpool City Council and the local NHS are teaming up with Arriva once again to bring the NHS Covid-19 vaccination bus back onto the streets of Liverpool.

Last year, the city’s vaccination bus provided 48 community outreach events across 18 different locations and saw over 10,000 people vaccinated on board.

The bus will be making the following stops during February and March:

• 19 and 20 February – Anglican Cathedral, St James Mount, L1 7AZ
• 26 and 27 February – Williamson Square, City Centre
• 5 and 6 March – Old Bus Terminal, The Orient Hotel, L24 2SX
• 12 & 13 March – Newsham Park (by St Francis of Assisi), L6 7UN

📰 The start of 2022 has brought a record number of wedding requests to National Museums Liverpool as its events team prepares for its most romantic year in history.

With seven venues - the oldest dating back to the 1800s - it includes some of the most visited museums in England outside of London.

It has received hundreds of special wedding requests over the past decade and now hosts wedding events at a selection of its venues, including the Walker Art Gallery and World Museum in Liverpool city centre.