Category: North West Blog

Manchester Youth Council gets home in Manchester Town Hall

Manchester’s Youth Council are celebrating the opening of a permanent new home for them in Manchester Town Hall. The Youth Council have been given their own office space inside the Town Hall to reflect how serious the Council is about working with young people and listening to their voice. The official opening of the room was …

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Major award for Liverpool’s Central Library

The city has scooped a prestigious National Building Excellence Award, for its work to sensitively restore the historic building while creating a modern, world-class, 21st century library. Awarding Liverpool the gong for ‘Technical Innovation’, judges from national body Local Authority Building Control (LABC) highlighted the challenges the city faced in marrying the new build extension to …

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Historic pictures to brighten up empty Blackpool shops

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A Blackpool street is battling the blight caused by empty shops by turning to photography. Empty shops have, for some time, been a problem on Blackpool’s Central Drive with business owners and residents complaining they can be unsightly. But visitors to the area will soon start to notice those shops looking much better with windows filling up with …

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