Manchester’s spectacular Dragon Parade returns to city streets to mark Chinese New Year
Manchester will be celebrating the Year of the Rabbit this weekend with the return of its legendary Dragon Parade after a two-year absence due to the pandemic. Headlining this year’s celebrations, the popular parade – which attracts thousands of visitors – will take place this Sunday (22 January). Weaving its way through the city’s streets, […]
Hop to it! It’s Liverpool’s Chinese New Year celebrations
Liverpool’s Chinatown is set to be a festival of colour and sound this month as it welcomes the Year of the Rabbit. Taking place on Sunday 22 January, the FREE celebrations of Europe’s oldest Chinese community will include the traditional dragon, lion and unicorn parades, firecracker displays, family workshops, Tai Chi demonstrations, live music performances, […]
CHRISTMAS FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS AND MEMORABILIA IN CEMETERIES
Residents with Christmas floral tributes and memorabilia on graves in any of Halton’s cemeteries are advised that they will be removed in February. In preparation for the forthcoming grass cutting, the Council’s cemetery staff will begin to remove wreaths and other Christmas items from graves in February. Therefore if there are any Christmas tributes on graves […]
Sutton Kersh Auctions signs off the year by selling £58 million worth of property in 2022.
Sutton Kersh Auctions held their final auction of their 20th anniversary year. This year saw the Merseyside based auction house sell 510 Lots worth over £58 million. ‘The last 12 months has been a bit of a roller coaster within the property industry; there have been some incredible months with exceptional sales figures, a vast number […]
CULTURE FOCUS FOR LIVERPOOL CITY REGION SWITCHES TO ST HELENS BOROUGH
St Helens Borough has taken up the mantle of Liverpool City Region Borough of Culture for 2023. Councillor David Baines, Leader for St Helens Borough Council, officially received the sculpture designed by Emma Rogers, at Knowsley Council’s final events of their year of culture at a performance of A Christmas Carol at the Shakespeare Playhouse North […]
Manchester celebrates 5 years of being a UNESCO City of Literature
Manchester City Council is marking the fifth anniversary of Manchester joining the UNESCO’s worldwide Creative Cities network as a City of Literature. In 2017, after a successful bid to UNESCO, Manchester became a UNESCO City of Literature and joined other cities such as Dublin, Barcelona, Prague, Melbourne, and Reykjavik in the prestigious global network and […]
Adam Ellison fifth anniversary appeal: ‘Adam’s death is a black hole that will never be filled’
We are today, Friday 4th November, renewing our appeal to find the killer of a man on the fifth anniversary of his murder. Adam Ellison, 29, was assaulted in Market Place in Prescot in the early hours of 4 November 2017 after becoming involved in an altercation with two males onboard a scrambler bike. During the incident […]
Walton zoo ranger celebrates 40th anniversary
Peter Cookson-Dean has worked at Walton Hall and Gardens Children’s Zoo since 1982. To celebrate Peter’s dedication to his job for the past 40 years, a plaque has been installed at the entrance to the Children’s Zoo at Walton Hall and Gardens in his honour. Peter began his career at Walton after gaining experience working at other […]
Liverpool’s Remembrance Sunday plans unveiled
A series of events will take place in Liverpool to mark Remembrance Sunday this year. The main focus is the Remembrance Service on 13 November, which is returning to St George’s Plateau for the first time in three years. Thousands of people will gather as the city falls silent to remember those who have lost […]
Sutton Kersh Auctions 20 Years in Business
Sutton Kersh Auctions are celebrating their 20th anniversary this month and what a way to celebrate it with an auction selling over £6 million pounds worth of property. This is the business’s sixth auction of the year and has so far seen a total of 449 properties sold by Sutton Kersh Auctions. Founder of Sutton […]