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Homeless on Lord Street, Southport, raises questions about
support
WE have been following up on reports about
'homeless' and
rough sleeping still taking place on Lord Street, Southport. With Liverpool City
Council and others helping the best they can, we are quite surprised and
saddened to hear this. But we are also shocked to hear that a few of those who
are thought to be 'homeless' have been seen approaching people and
asking for money, over the last few days...
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The UK's Horticultural is worth ₤1.4
Billion sector cold be wiped out in just weeks
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A major part of
the UK's gardening industry worth ₤1.4 billion, which includes hundreds of
family businesses up and down the country, could be destroyed following the UK
Coronavirus shutdown, claims the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA). Peak
season has only a matter of...
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Banks are still not helping
small businesses and the self employed
WE have been trying to find out what is
being done about the UK Banks, who are appear to still be refusing to give
businesses loans or putting blocks in place when it comes to getting cover to
fund the gap until the Government support comes through. For many small
businesses, the UK Banks are..
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Liverpool has new Director of Public
Health
LIVERPOOL'S new
Director of Public Health officially begins the job today of keeping its 500,000
citizens healthy and happy, but he won't be setting foot outside his house.
Matt, 47, joins Liverpool City Council amidst its huge operation to tackle the
Covid-19 pandemic, but due to Government guidelines will have to help
co-ordinate the many challenges it poses from his small study. The...
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A video powerful message from Son after his
dad dies of Covid-19
WE have been contacted by
Carolyn Smith and her partner Stu Ivany, from Ainsdale, Merseyside,
following the death of Stu's Dad, Doug, due to the Coronavirus, on 2 April 2020.
This very powerful video message is hard to watch and gets across very clearly
why we must keep social distancing. This is...
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Volunteers turn Melling pub
into community hub to feed the elderly and vulnerable during Coronavirus
lockdown
A group of volunteers is putting the 'family'
into the community by providing meals for those isolated and in need of
food and supplies during the Coronavirus lockdown.
It was just 2 weeks ago when Sue and Adam Franklin, landlords of the Horse and
Jockey pub in Melling, Merseyside, came up with the idea of helping others
after...
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Home Care Sector sends SOS
out for more staff in Southport
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CRG Homecare is 1 of the UK's leading
providers of domiciliary care, has revealed it plans to recruit more than 250
new care workers in a bid to meet the growing demand for its services, across
the UK. The company, which provides support to individuals living within the
comfort and security of their own homes...
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Cara scores a meeting with Stevie G!
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AT the start of March 2020 the Starlight Children's Foundation granted
19 year old, Cara Wall's wish to meet her idol, Steven Gerrard. The teen, from
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, described the meeting as:-
'perfect'
and even got some coaching advice for herself from the Liverpool legend.
Cara was diagnosed in January 2020 with a type of soft tissue cancer that grows
in active muscles of the body. Cara is a huge football fan and her idol...
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Online voting launched to find the Region's top young artists
A
public vote to find Liverpool City Region's best young artists opened on
Saturday, 28 March 2020 and continues until 28 April 2020.
This year 1257 pupils from 76 Schools have entered the 'dot-art'
Schools competition and the shortlisted students from each School are now hoping
for your votes to win a place in the 8th Annual exhibition. The online inter
School art...
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Councils will be facing a
'tide wave of waste' over rubbish collections after the lockdown
THE District
Councils' Network has concerns that a:- "wave of waste" will
emerge from households in the coming weeks, as families generate more waste and
recycling while rightly staying safe at home and in some cases, as a result of
having stocked up with food and other goods they need.
It wants residents to work with their Local Council to best manage bin
collections. This coincides with some Councils having to reduce certain waste
services, such as garden waste collections, as a result of many waste
collection staff needing to self isolate or...
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Snag Tights announce their
new initiative to gift frontline NHS workers with free tights
THE award winning
hosiery brand Snag Tights have announced a new initiative to gift frontline NHS
workers with free tights. The scheme is open to all NHS workers, from Doctors
and nurses to midwives, radiologists and...
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University of Liverpool
engineers use 3D printing technologies to produce protective visors for NHS
ENGINEERS at the
University of Liverpool are using their expertise in 3D printing and laser
cutting technologies to produce protective visors for use by local Hospitals.
The protective visors, developed...
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SP Energy Network is keeping the electricity
flowing throughout the COVID-19 crisis
SP Energy
Networks has revealed contingency plans to ensure homes and businesses in
Southport and the rest of the Liverpool City Region, maintain their electricity
supply throughout the Coronavirus crisis.
The plans being implemented by the electricity distributor also introduce
special measures to protect...
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The cub which was separated
from his mother is now in RSPCA care
A fox cub which
was found separated from his mother at a building site on Merseyside. It
was then was taken home by a worker who thought it was an abandoned puppy. But
it wasn't long after the animal was taken to the home in Speake that it was
realised he was in fact not a puppy; but a fox cub! The building site worker
then...
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Coronavirus response in
Merseyside to get helping hand from Cadent staff
CHARITIES and
community groups in Merseyside, battling to help the most vulnerable during the
Coronavirus crisis, are set to get a helping hand from local gas distributor,
Cadent. The company, which manages the area's gas mains network, is rallying its
staff to support local organisations that are helping the most needy...
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Southport Foodbank at work
during lockdown
NEWLY unemployed
and those self employed; who have been left "virtually destitute"
by the lockdown; have been helped by Southport Foodbank in the last week.
Meanwhile, generous locals responded to the Foodbank emergency appeal, donating
what they could afford to help Foodbank, which is operated...
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Police Commissioner announces
preferred candidate to be Deputy
MERSEYSIDE'S Police Commissioner has
announced the preferred candidate to be her Deputy during the coming year with
the aim of adding resilience to her office. Jane Kennedy has confirmed her
choice to take...
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600% boom in online library
membership
LIBRARIES across some parts of the country have seen
an increase in newly registered users of more than 600 % since lockdown measures
were introduced, the Local Government Association reveals. All Council owned
libraries have closed because of the Coronavirus outbreak but residents are
still able to access digital library resources online. Councils are providing
additional online access to resources under the hashtag:- '#LibrariesFromHome,'
extending online memberships for no extra fee, and all fines incurred as a...
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Play equipment is being
removed from the park
ALL exercise outside the home could be banned if
people ignore Coronavirus social distancing rules, the Health Secretary, Matt
Hancock, has warned. This comes as yet again people in Sefton are being told:-
"Do not use this playground equipment or outdoor Gym equipment."
A few days back we posted on our Social Media accounts that people are still
using the playground equipment and warned that action will likely follow if
people continued to do this. Now in Southport, Sefton Council has been forced...
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CLA responds to newly
published carbon report
FOLLOWING the
publication of Green Alliance's new policy document The flight path to net zero:
Making the most of nature based carbon offsetting by airlines, the CLA has
responded. CLA President Mark Bridgeman said:- "We
welcome this report which raises some thought provoking points about the pathway
to achieving a net-zero economy. Nature based solutions, such as tree planting,
hedgerows and management of soils, are technologies that are here now and offer
multiple..."
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The Pavilions Hotels and
Resorts have launched a world wide competition
THE Pavilions Hotels and Resorts have launched an
enticing competition targeted at content creators around the globe who are at
home and looking for an activity to focus their passions on during Covid-19. The
'Curated Journey Video Competition,' gives amateur or professional
film-makers an opportunity to win a 7 night stay at one of The Pavilions Hotels
and Resorts. The initiative follows the evolving global circumstances of
Covid-19, where people around the globe are...
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Further delays to Port of
Liverpool Access Scheme
HIGHWAYS England has announced that the ongoing
Covid-19 situation will result in further delays to the Government led road
scheme. The road building company has suspended noise level surveys and
postponed its public consultation on the latest road design, which was due to
take place in the 1st ½ of the year. The project to
link the nearby motorway network to the Port of Liverpool, with a dual
carriageway down the middle of Rimrose Valley Country Park, has faced huge
opposition from the outset. Speaking..
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LOVE LOCK DOWN!
42% of online daters in the North West say the
outbreak of Covid-19 has made their quest for love more important than ever, a
new survey reveals. With people across the UK stuck inside, singletons are still
on the look out for love, despite being near enough confined to their own 4
walls. Speaking to online daters, the new study by leading international dating
app, 'happn,' found that 8 in 10 (79%) feel the outbreak of
Covid-19 has seriously affected their approach to dating. 43% of singletons feel
even more isolated because of the pandemic restrictions, and 31% feel lonely and
wish they were still...
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Working from home causes insurance confusion for millions of workers
1 week since millions of people across the UK were officially sent home to work,
new research has revealed confusion on the impact this could have on their
insurance. That's according to a new study from Confused.com, which found 44% of
UK adults admit they are currently working from home, with a further 7%
expecting to be sent home to work soon. Millions of Brits have already set up
office at home, with valuable laptops, monitors and other work materials taking
over dining tables...
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Local Government and Arts
Council England launch collaboration to support cultural organisations
THE Coronavirus outbreak poses serious risks to the
country's network of cultural organisations unless there is a joined up approach
to supporting them. The Local Government Association (LGA), which
represents Councils within England and Wales, are collaborating with Arts
Council
England, the leisure and culture trust sectors, to help support cultural
organisations to deal with the current situation. Arts and culture add more than
₤10.8...
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What could your community do
with ₤5,000?
NOW in its 4th year, leading off grid energy supplier, Calor,
is once again calling on worthy rural community projects of all shapes and sizes
to enter its Rural Community Fund for 2020 and be in with the chance of securing
grants from its ₤85,000 fund pot. Calor is celebrating its 85th anniversary this year and is
marking the milestone by making this year's investment bigger than ever before,
with a grand total of ₤85,000. The competition, which opened for applications on 10 March
2020 and closes on...
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Grant levels need to rise to
pump prime social housing investment
UK Housing Review 2020 shows grant levels for new
social housing in England have fallen dangerously low and will need to rise to
boost investment in response to the economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus
outbreak.
While grants have risen slightly in the last 2 years, they now cover just 11% of
housing association's development costs, leaving the rest to be met by borrowing
and surpluses. ⅓ of new homes are being built without
any grant.
The review also shows that only...
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Households in the North West of
England are the 3rd most expensive Region in the UK for utility bills
WHILST social distancing and working from home is
mandatory for people across the UK, worry has begun to set in about how much
utility bill prices are likely to rise over the next few months.
Using more than 18,000,000 EPC certificates from Open Data Communities, energy
cost experts at SaveonEnergy.com identified the top 10 areas in the UK, as well
as Regions where households pay the most and least annually on their utility
bills. Save on...
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Housing standards pledge as licensing scheme ends
HOUSING chiefs in Liverpool are pledging to continue taking action against poor
standards in the private rented sector; despite the City's pioneering Landlord
Licensing scheme coming to an end. For the past 5 years, all property owners,
landlords and managing agents have been legally required to licence any property
unless a statutory exemption applied, but it ended on 31 March 2020, after the
Government turned down a renewal application.
Deputy Mayor and Cabinet Member for Housing, Councillor Lynnie...
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Wirral based artisan gin company switches manufacturing to
vital production of hand sanitiser during COVID-19 crisis
TAPPERS Gin, Wirral's independent family run
Distillery, is joining a growing number of producers that are switching
production to hand sanitiser. They hope to make a small, but vital contribution
to tackle the ongoing shortage across the UK which is also affecting key workers
on the front line in the fight against COVID-19.
"We work with ethanol (alcohol) on a daily..."
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NICEIC advises parents to
switch on to electrical safety week
DURING Family
Safety Week, NICEIC, the UK's leading electrical safety authority, is reminding
consumers of the importance of having adequate measures in place to ensure
electrical safety in the home.
As the way we use our homes has continued to evolve in line with the digital
landscape, the average UK home now uses more electrical appliances than ever
before. According to recent estimates 57% of the nation's households now has a
smart device to control:- lights, securit...
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MP's call for non-essential
businesses to close gets cross party support
BILL Esterson MP has written a letter, which has been
signed by over 120 MPs cross party, to the Business Secretary to ask for clear
advice to be given to non-essential workplaces such as construction sites,
warehouses, manufacturers and call centres to help to halt the
spread of Coronavirus.
Mr Esterson told Business Secretary Alok Sharma that many workplaces had stayed
open even if their work was not essential and questioned how...
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UCLan to postpone summer
2020 graduation ceremonies
THE University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has today
announced the postponement of its July 2020 graduation ceremonies due to the
continuing spread and impact of Covid-19 Coronavirus. The ceremonies have been
rescheduled for December 2020, when winter graduation will be extended into a 2
week celebration. Additional high profile and popular community events,
including:- the graduate fashion show and the Lancashire Science Festival, have
been deferred for..
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Liverpool City Council moves
quickly to relocate rough sleepers
MORE than 60 rough sleepers and
homeless people have been moved out of Liverpool City Council's Labre House
night hub to alternative accommodation due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
Whitechapel Centre staff from across the project worked throughout the weekend
to ensure that the majority of people currently using the Camden Street shelter
were helped to relocate into more appropriate accommodation.
The team also prepared food parcels for everyone leaving Labre...
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