TRIBUTE TO PIONEERS OF EIGHTIES ELECTRONICA
Electromantics, the UK’s premier 1980’s Electronica/New Wave tribute band are coming to the DCBL Stadium Halton on Saturday 1 April. The Eighties were a time of radical changes in music and fashion. In the aftermath of the punk revolution, daring new romantics embraced new sounds and technologies to change the face of music forever. Electromantics […]
Skills Commission to help boost employment skills and economy
Work is under way on a new strategic review of employment skills in Warrington, to help secure the economic success of the borough for decades to come. The Warrington Skills Commission has held its inaugural meeting, at Warrington & Vale Royal College, commencing a new public facing partnership debate on skills needs and opportunities required for Warrington’s […]
Rugby legend launches electric vehicle revolution in Warrington
Former England and Wigan Warriors rugby great Martin Offiah was in Warrington on 18 January to launch a new network of electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the town. Offiah, who has a statue outside Wembley Stadium after scoring what is widely recognised as the ‘greatest Wembley try of all time’, is the brand ambassador […]
Manchester City Council plans to open the ‘digital front door’ with new four year strategy launch
Manchester City Council is set to launch a new Digital and ICT Strategy focused on growing the city’s economy and establishing a secure new Digital Front Door for Council services. As the city continues to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and react to the increasingly volatile current economic climate, digital technologies will be key to […]
Solar System Sculpture Trail touches down in Liverpool
A recreation of the solar system is coming to Liverpool! Our Place in Space is an 8.1km trail which will launch on Friday 14 October and run until Sunday 6 November. Beginning on Church Street in the heart of the city centre and running along the riverside all the way to Otterspool, Our Place in Space […]
GET ONLINE WITH ADULT AND COMMUNITY LEARNING
As part of Get Online Week (17-23 October), St Helens Borough Council’s Adult and Community Learning team will be holding a drop-in event for residents wanting to get online for the first time, or to improve their digital skills. Held annually, the digital inclusion campaign run by charity, Good Things Foundation, sees thousands of local […]
More Liverpool children #GetConnected
Gill Murphy, head teacher of St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, Toxteth, left, and Megan Hanford, business manager, Rice Lane Primary School, collect their schools’ Chromebooks. ALMOST 600 children and young people in Liverpool are being supported to #GetConnected thanks to a partnership with Liverpool City Council and London Grid for Learning. The council has partnered […]
DISCOVER THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF ST HELENS TOWN CENTRE WITH EXCITING NEW AUGMENTED REALITY TRAIL
A digital exhibition with a difference has launched in St Helens town centre. CulturEd (St Helens Cultural Education Partnership) has worked with a number of creative practitioners, schools and alternative provision providers to present ‘HERE’ – a new augmented reality (AR) experience to showcase virtual artworks, sound installations and performances to create a digital portrait […]
Upgrades to Liverpool City Council payment systems on Wednesday 28 September
Planned ICT upgrades mean that some Liverpool City Council telephone and online payments, booking systems, and e-forms will be unavailable on Wednesday 28 September between 10am and 2pm. These include: Automated telephone payment line Parking Services payment kiosk (Mount Pleasant – 7th Floor) Liverpool Film Office Registrar booking system Parking Service permits and penalty charge […]
LET’S SAVE ENERGY TOGETHER
Do you want to save on your energy bill and generate your own clean electricity? Having your own solar panels could be the way forward. Halton Borough Council is working in partnership with Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and independent experts iChoosr to launch Solar Together, a group-buying scheme for solar panels to help residents cut […]