The government's UK Town of Culture follows the City of Culture competition, which has been won by Hull, Coventry and Bradford in recent years. The new competition is open to small, medium and large ...

A 47-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was brutally stabbed to death inside a shop. Merseyside Police rushed to the scene on Stanley Road, close to Wadham Road junction, following a call ...

A man who became critically ill after being arrested on suspicion of killing a shopkeeper in front of witnesses including children may have "ingested a substance", police have said. Nilani Nimalarajah ...

The 'Town of Culture' competition is being led by Brookside and Hollyoaks creator Sir Phil Redmond ...

Bootle town centre is subject to a major regeneration project, with work underway to renovate The Strand shopping centre, as well as other planned improvements. Sefton Council hopes to make Bootle ...

Parents of a two-year-old boy who passed away following a medical episode in Bootle, Merseyside, have issued a touching tribute to their ‘sweet baby boy’. The boy, who has now been named as Jude ...

Britpop is back at the centre of the cultural firmament thanks to a 90s revival led by the Oasis reunion and the hundreds of thousands of fans turning up all over the country to pay homage to a bygone ...