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Combined Authority Establishes Task Force to Tackle Poor Air Quality

At its meeting on Friday, the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority voted to establish a new Air Quality Task Force......
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Steve Rotheram Names Award-Winning Architect as Liverpool City Region Design Champion

Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, will today announce the appointment of Stirling Prize-winning architect Paul Monaghan as the City Region’s first Design Champion......
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Steve Rotheram Launches Transformational £500m Fund for the Liverpool City Region

“Our key purpose as a Combined Authority is to improve our residents’ lives, by creating the right environment for our economy to thrive..."...
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Steve Rotheram Urges Employers to Pay Real Living Wage

Steve Rotheram is marking National Living Wage Week by writing to the city region’s 50 biggest employers, asking them to introduce the Real Living Wage for their employees......
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Huge Public Response to Metro Mayor’s Big Bus Debate

Less than a week after Steve Rotheram launched a debate on the future of buses in the Liverpool City Region more than 1000 people have already completed a digital survey about the bus system......
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Energy & Environment

Liverpool City Region Sets Sights on Becoming Zero-Carbon by 2040

Liverpool City Region has pledged to become zero-carbon by 2040, building on its burgeoning low carbon sector and natural assets to make the city region a cleaner and greener place to live, work and invest.
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Steve Rotheram Launches Big Bus Debate

Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, will today launch a public debate to find out what people in the city region think about the bus system.
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Liverpool City Region Combined Authority formally adopts official definition of antisemitism

“I am delighted that this has been acted upon so swiftly and I would like to place on record my thanks to Steve for taking the concerns of the Jewish community so seriously.”...
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Steve Rotheram Announces “One Front Door” for the Liverpool City Region

Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has announced a new approach to attracting more investment and major business relocation into the Liverpool City Region......
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New report finds over 500,000 home owners in the North West are living in poor quality housing

The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC), a membership body, calls for more focus on improving the North West’s existing housing stock in light of a new report launched today......
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Young Liverpool City Region boxers fly to Louisville as part of Cultural Exchange

A group of six young boxers are jetting off to Louisville today, as part of the next stage of a sporting and musical exchange between the Liverpool City Region and Louisville, Kentucky...
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Ron Russell

Ron Russell

Ron Russell is the Centre Manager at The Rutherford Cancer Centre North West, which is currently being built as part of Paddington Village in the heart of Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter. Scheduled to open in 2019, the new centre will treat up to 500 patients a year.
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