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Books wanted for new Liverpool exchange scheme

HAD enough of Harry Potter? Sick of Stephen King? Done with Bridget Jones’ Diary? If your bookshelves are groaning with novels and publications that you or your children have long since read and discarded, Liverpool City Council will gladly take them off your hands! Old or new publications are needed to kickstart a book exchange …

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Liverpool prepare to combat winter weather

LIVERPOOL is getting ready to combat the worst of winter weather – through a series of community hubs. The 10 hubs, based at housing associations and council offices, will be equipped with: de-icing salt, snow shovels blankets, wind-up radios and torches and other equipment which have been delivered to the hubs by council officers. The …

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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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