A mural of Jürgen Klopp in Liverpool.
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Jurgen Klopp will leave Liverpool with a remarkably similar legacy to the club’s iconic manager, Bill Shankly.
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A Manchester-based local news company is turning heads and attracting a new readership.
The stage of the 67th annual Eurovision Song Contest at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.
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2023 sees the UK host the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of Ukraine. But what role does the stage itself have to play in the musical spectacle?
The Eurovision Song Contest stage.
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The UK has now chalked up a record 16 second place finishes. But what would it take to go one better and win the whole thing?
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Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go: this contest is way older than the European Union.
Ukraine were the winners of Eurovision 2022.
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Moving the voting system away from experts could be interpreted as a tactic to include American audiences.
Art installation ‘Liverpool, Love of My Life’ by Chila Kumari Burman, part of the city’s 2021 River of Light trail.
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New research shows the region’s arts organisations were a critical source of support for vulnerable people during lockdown
Tributes to Olivia Pratt-Korbel have come from across the country.
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Violence affects entire communities, even law-abiding residents.
As one of the UK’s 11 core cities, Nottingham lags behind its European counterparts.
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If the UK government is serious about levelling up the country, granting its second-tier cities more political and financial independence would be a good place to start.
In 2020, Liverpool became the first city in England to set up a land commission.
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Liverpool is the first city in England to investigate, via a land commission, how urban property can best serve everyone.
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Some areas of Merseyside have more children at risk from gangs than in London. So why isn’t it studied more?
Liverpool’s challenge has been to restore its historic docklands while investing in contemporary city life.
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Preserving the cultural heritage of a city like Liverpool has to be reconciled with investing in its residents’ futures.
Sefton Park Pilot music festival was attended by 5,000 people.
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Knowing how much virus someone has in their body when testing positive for COVID-19 allows you to estimate when they picked up the virus.
Fans feel the new European Super League is not about the tradition or love of the sport but simply about making as much money as possible.
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From the emergence of Premier League to Cricket’s newer formats, the history of professional sport is full of breakups.
Super League plans have fans screaming into the void, like soccer star Lionel Messi here.
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More competitive games between top soccer clubs is desirable but creating a ‘closed’ system would harm a soccer culture built on dreams, says the man who predicted the Super League two decades ago.
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Everyone seems united against the new proposals, but can they really be stopped?
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The pilot of mass testing people in Liverpool failed to pick up over half of cases, but this isn’t the end of the road for antigen testing.
Hospitals have been squeezed and lack adequate government support.
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🎧 PODCAST: An audio version of an in depth article by two doctors on what it’s like fighting COVID-19 the second time around.
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In both London and Liverpool – two extremes of Britain’s polarised housing market – activists have been busy re-imagining the future of public housing.
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This is what it’s like fighting COVID-19 the second time around.