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#1 ·
We still need one of these.

There are so many relevant events, news stories and other piece of information that do not relate to any individual building or project, but which are relevant to the development of Liverpool, its city region and the wider bay area, which need to be discussed.

These matters are not those suitable for a skybar. They need to be in the main city subforum, as they are in the other city subforum.

B4mmy, stickify this please.
 
#201 ·
AN X-FACTOR style showdown between some of the brightest talents in UK graphic design in front of a frenzied crowd is heading for Liverpool.

Cut and Paste is an international competition that began in New York city in 2005 and pits designers against each other in a live stage show.

It is part of the first International Design Show for Liverpool in June at the Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt which is hoped will become an annual event.

Since the first competition it has been staged in 11 international cities, including Sydney, Berlin and London. Liverpool is only the third European city to host the event.

Lizzie Ostrom, of organiser Germination, said: “It’s like going to a club night or a gig but instead of a band you have graphic designers with their tablets and an MC and DJ. They’re given a theme and off they go and the audience says which is their favourite.

“Liverpool seemed the perfect place because it is one of the UK’s brightest creative hubs. (London's obviously the other) Graphic design is always behind closed doors and this is about bringing it out of studios and into the public.”

The Liverpool event is also the first to involve schools in the competition.

International Design Show for Liverpool is expected to attract more than 9,000 visitors during its run from June 20-22.

Organisers aim to involve people in design and give them a chance to meet world-renowned designers and even commission and buy their work.

Among the 150 exhibitors are Chester-based ceramic designers People Will Always Need Plates who have created limited edition mugs featuring iconic Liverpool architecture for the show.

And Nick Munro, whose distinctive glassware is stocked by high street giant John Lewis, will rise to a “fast glass” challenge by creating three items from empty beer bottles melted in a glass furnace at the show which will be judged by a John Lewis buyer, with the winning entry on the chain store’s shelves within 24 hours.

Della Tinsley, from London’s Momentous Events which has organised the three day show with Liverpool’s Design Initiative, added: “We want to encourage people to come up with designs for the glass blowers, which they can then negotiate a price for and take away packaged.

“We’re working hard to make this a show we can continue with annually.”

And Sarah Elderkin of Design Initiative added: “This should be unique to Liverpool and we hope that people take the show to their hearts.”
were is this article from??? : )
 
#203 ·
DP claims of fury as London Olympics rob area of £86m

Fury as London Olympics rob area of £86m

Jan 16 2008
By Rob Merrick, Liverpool Daily Post Correspondent


UP TO £86m will be snatched from Merseyside and Cheshire’s village halls and community groups to fund the London Olympics after a fresh raid on Lottery funds, it was claimed yesterday. Local authority leaders reacted with fury after an extra £675m was diverted from the National Lottery’s good causes pot to pay for the 2012 Games.

The move means a total of £2.17bn of Lottery cash will now be spent on the Olympics – equivalent to £35 for every person in the country. An alliance of local councils from across the North calculated that £50m would be lost from Merseyside and a further £36m from Cheshire. And it warned that the victims would be grassroots voluntary groups and projects, for whom the Lottery had offered a “lifeline”.

Among the projects typically funded by good causes grants are sports facilities and village halls and schemes helping disabled children and the homeless. In the Commons, it was claimed the raid was the equivalent of a sports pitch in every single parliamentary constituency.


Meanwhile, the Government was forced to deny it faced a further £1bn black hole in the 2012 finances, after drastically underestimating likely profits from land sales. But, despite the escalating row, the Tories and Liberal Democrats stepped back from forcing a Commons vote on the £675m diversion. Despite condemning the “financial incompetence”, they backed the package in return for a strict pledge that there would be no further raids on Lottery cash.

Last night, The Alliance – which represents 70 local councils in traditional industrial areas – said: “The Lottery has thrown a lifeline to small groups in some of the UK’s most vulnerable communities. These losses will directly impact on good causes throughout the UK, with some areas of greatest need suffer-ing the worst. There is a danger 2012 London Games could become deeply unpopular, robbing good causes to pay for more investment in the country’s most prosperous city.”

Among local authorities in The Alliance group are Knowsley, St Helens and Warrington, but not Liverpool. It demands Government reverse a previous pledge that London will enjoy the first claim on profits from the sales of Olympic land after 2012. But it is that funding stream at the centre of the alleged £1bn black hole, after it was reported that sales were now predicted to raise £800m, not the original £1.8bn. A shortfall would jeopardise the intention to repay to the National Lottery the £675m, which is technically a loan.

Insisting there was no black hole and that the £9.3bn package was “robust”, Culture Secretary James Purnell said: “There will be no further diversion from the Lottery good causes to fund the Olympics.”
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#214 ·
January - March .....

The chance to email and tell them perhaps? :cheers:
 
#215 ·
I've just been reading that the Atomic Kitten song that it is hoped will be Liverpool's 57th Number 1 single, will be download only. I know there is a precedent for singles to reach Number 1 from download sales only. But those that have have been extremely popular singles (Gnarls Barkley - Crazy, Rihanna - Umbrella). Surely it would help the cause if the single was available physically in shops all over the country?

Does anyone think Atomic Kitten will even trouble the Top 10? Will you be downloadng it for 79p, to do your bit, or aren't you bothered?
 
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