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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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Manchester Residents urged to back small businesses

Residents across Manchester are being urged to get behind the city’s small businesses as part of a national drive to sing the praises of independent companies. Manchester City Council is backing the Small Business Saturday campaign to celebrate the work done by small businesses and the important role they play within communities. Residents are being …

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