LCR Finance Hub helps firms become ‘investment-ready’ and matches them with funders and after a record performance in 2025 funding secured now totals more than £29m. Tony McDonough reports LCR Finance Hub was set up in 2017 and so…

Shipping movements on the Mersey today, include: Vespertine, a cargo vessel coming from and returning to Ireland. Agent is CLdN Ro Ro. Mazarine, a cargo vessel coming from and returning to Ireland. Agent is CLdN Ro Ro. Hunzedijk, a…

Exclusive: Liverpool city centre’s Hilton Hotel - which includes 221 rooms and 47 residential apartments - is up for sale with a reported price tag of £60m in what is called ‘Project Beatle’. Tony McDonough reports Owners of the…

Liverpool city region will send its ‘biggest ever’ delegation to the MIPIM property expo in Cannes in March and will pitch £11bn of opportunities to global investors. Tony McDonough reports A total of 30 companies and organisations…

Two specialist Merseyside firms secure contracts on the new £35m transport interchange being built in St Helens - part of a wider £100m regeneration project. Tony McDonough reports Two local firms - Webber NW and NL Williams Group -…

Shipping movements on the Mersey today, include: Vespertine, a cargo vessel coming from and returning to Ireland. Agent is CLdN Ro Ro. Peregrine, a cargo vessel coming from and returning to Ireland. Agent is CLdN Ro Ro. Americaborg,…

One of Liverpool’s biggest commercial property owners, Bruntwood, cuts annual pre-tax losses from almost £74m last year to £12.9m in its latest accounts as it hails a ‘strong underlying performance’. Tony McDonough reports Property…

After more than 60 years of service as a Mersey Ferry, the likely date of the final voyage of Royal Iris is revealed ahead of the introduction of the new £26m Royal Daffodil ferry this summer. Tony McDonough reports After more than…

Spades are in the ground for a new Sainsbury’s store being built next to a 500-home waterside development in Wirral. Tony McDonough reports Work has started on the construction of a new Sainsbury’s Local store at Wirral Waters. Being…

Coleen Rooney to expand her range of nutrition products with Liverpool city region-based Applied Nutrition and will invest further in the company. Tony McDonough reports Coleen Rooney is to strengthen her relationship with Merseyside…