Organisers of the North West Fashion Festival 2016 have announced the celebrity names who will headline next month’s event. Tanya Bardsley and Dawn Ward, stars of the smash hit ITVBe programme Real Housewives Of Cheshire, lead the glamorous…

Find out what works best for you, forget multitasking, make sure you take enough breaks and, oh, don't feed cornflakes to your horse. Our modern workplaces are rife with distractions - telephones, emails, social media, text messages and…

Trattoria 51 has joined forces with Big Comedy for the third year running as part of the upcoming Southport Comedy Festival. Local restaurateur Attilio Sergi is set to host and perform an evening of stand-up in front of a live audience at…

One of the North West’s most popular community coffee shops is helping youngsters boost their career prospects as part of its apprentice scheme. The Kirkby based Poco Coffee outlet, which is soon to transition into a social enterprise,…

Plans are in place to make this year’s November 5 Fireworks display a spectacular fusion of percussion and pyrotechnics. World-renowned drummers Les Commandos Percu and Deabru Beltzak are two street theatre companies who have taken part in…

Urban pop trio Mr Meanor, are visiting schools, youth clubs and urban centres across the north of England to perform, and discuss their new charity single ‘Think About It’ (#THINKABOUTIT) as part of a 10-day regional tour. The song, which…

Romanian low-cost carrier will be offering a daily departure to Rome Fiumicino, four times weekly to Milan Bergamo, four times weekly to Hamburg and a three times weekly service to Alicante. Tony McDonough reports. Low-cost airline Blue Air…

Rating expert at Colliers International in the North West claims the latest revaluations do little to help struggling small firms in the region. Tony McDonough reports. Small businesses in Merseyside and across the North West are “buckling”…

A derelict former watchmaking workshop in the Ropewalks area has been fully refurbished, marking the completion of a successful regeneration programme. The Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI), the Heritage Lottery Fund's programme for the…

In 2014, Liverpool City Council was subsidising every game of golf played at Allerton Manor Golf Club by £5 a round. Since then it has established a partnership with specialist golf course operator GreenCircle Estates Ltd and now, after a…