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Apprenticeships
- National Apprenticeship week continues
- Liverpool City Region Apprenticeship Portal Shortlisted For European Award
- Metro Mayor calls for ‘revolution’ in walking and cycling across Liverpool City Region as he confirms investment for new foot and bike routes
- Half-price rail travel for young apprentices in the Liverpool City Region launched today
- First LCR transfer of Apprenticeship Levy funds creates 44 apprentices for autism charity
- Stadler apprentices qualify and get jobs at the company.
- Metro Mayor announces half-price rail travel for young apprentices in the Liverpool City Region
- Metro Mayor Marks Two-Year Anniversary
- Metro Mayor celebrates completion of new St Winefride’s Campus
- Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram launches Liverpool City Region apprenticeship portal
- Liverpool City Region Careers Hub to improve opportunities for young people
- Young apprentices benefit from half-price bus travel
Brexit
- Northern Labour leaders demand £70bn plan for the north as post-Brexit safety net
- Metro Mayor pushes city region’s case with Brexit minister
- Metro Mayors’ Summit calls for strengthened commitment to devolution
Budget
- Metro Mayor of Liverpool City Region Proposes Freeze on Precept and Tunnel Tolls
- Combined Authority agrees budget and priorities for 2019/20
- Steve Rotheram proposes £1 Fast Tag toll for Mersey Tunnels
- Steve Rotheram announces priorities for the coming year
Business & Economic Resilience Updates
- The Good Business Festival announces new format and event partners
- Metro Mayor launches new LCR Future Innovation Fund to support the city region’s most innovative SMEs
- “We cannot allow a lost generation” – Metro Mayor
- £180m of Existing Liverpool City Region Schemes that will help drive our Economic Recovery
- “We must be ambitious for our economic recovery” – Metro Mayor
- Metro Mayor launches Sustain – a new programme to support Liverpool City Region businesses
- Metro Mayor Announces Liverpool City Region Economic Recovery Panel
- Liverpool City Region SMEs step up as LCR Cares Fund fast-tracks £500k for community groups
- Metro Mayor announces £15m Coronavirus business support
- Metro Mayor announces £400,000 of immediate funding to support Music, Film and TV industries
- First recipients of LCR Cares grants revealed as fund nears half a million pound mark
- Urgent Call for Help with Personal Protective Equipment for Frontline workers
- Employment advice and support for those affected by current situation relating to Coronavirus
- Metro Mayor Announces 100% Funding allocation for All Adult Education Budget Providers in Liverpool City Region As Response to Coronavirus
- Survey Reveals 95% of LCR businesses are affected by COVID-19
- Metro Mayor Announces Tailored Business Support for Socially Trading Organisations
- Metro Mayor and Leader of Halton announcement on Mersey Tunnel and Mersey Gateway tolls
- Merseyrail and the RMT Union reach agreement on release of back-dated pay awards to support Guards during Coronavirus crisis
- Metro Mayor unveils first package of measures to help Liverpool City Region deal with Coronavirus
- Statement from Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor following conference call with city region businesses and economic stakeholders
- Steve Rotheram exploring measures to help local people deal with Coronavirus
- Statement on Coronavirus crisis from Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor
- BUDGET: Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram: Urgent action on Coronavirus must be the priority in this budget
Culture
- Music Fund supporting city region’s economic recovery
- Trio of buildings to light up for a Nightingale’s Song as part of Sefton’s Borough of Culture.
- Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor announces new co-chair of the Cultural Partnership.
- Inaugural Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards take place
- Finalists in the Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards announced.
- Still Time to Enter the Design a House Competition.
- Culture and Creativity Awards – Deadline extended!
- Still time to enter the Culture and Creativity Awards!
- Metro Mayor Launches Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards.
- RLPO performance to celebrate Wirral’s Borough of Culture celebrations.
- £4 million Funding Boost for Shakespeare North Playhouse
- Metro Mayor reminds fans to heed travel advice ahead of massive LFC weekend
- Tour of Britain heads to Wirral in September
- Wirral welcomes Britain’s top men’s and women’s cycling teams
- Liverpool City Region Music Board consults on key priorities
- Metro Mayor backs Liverpool City Region bid to host Gay Games in 2026
- Foundation launches to make Liverpool City Region the most LGBT+ friendly region in the UK
- Liverpool City Region Borough of Culture – Wirral – holds its first event.
- Winning design of new Borough of Culture logo unveiled
- The Liverpool City Region announces members of Music Board
- Wirral to be the city region’s Borough of Culture for 2019
- Combined Authority approves £20m for new cruise liner terminal
Devolution
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Announces Proposals for £5.3m Funding for Data-Driven Health Improvements
- Further funding secured for Kirkby
- Steve Rotheram Launches £75m Business Growth Package – “Biggest for Liverpool City Region in 20 Years”
- Metro Mayor Launches LCR Listens – Combined Authority’s Biggest Ever Public Engagement Exercise
- Steve Rotheram Announces Commission to Deliver New Station for Liverpool City Centre
- Liverpool high-speed rail link plans approved by Transport for the North
- Steve Rotheram vows to bring politics to the people
- Steve Rotheram launches £500m fund for the city region
- Mayors join forces to push for Crossrail for the North
- Steve Rotheram announces new £6 million fund to support our town centres
Digital
- Ultrafast broadband infrastructure for Liverpool City Region by 2023
- £15m funding package for world leading research and technology organisation the Manufacturing Technology Centre set to be approved by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.
- Metro Mayor announces next steps in city region’s digital revolution
- Metro Mayor launches programme to improve the gender balance in tech sector
- Digital Spine to connect city region to ultra-fast fibre broadband
Energy
- Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram cites national need for Mersey Tidal Power Project to “keep the lights on” and avoid future energy crisis
- Mersey Tidal could position Liverpool City Region as a world leader in Tidal Power
- Steve Rotheram Announces Plans for a £10 million Green Investment Fund
Environment
- Most people expect to continue walking and cycling to get around following lockdown, new research reveals
- Metro Mayor and Active Travel Commissioner push forward with walking and cycling plans for socially-distanced travel
- New report shows support in Liverpool City Region to improve cycling on roads and reduce cars
- First Liverpool City Region Environment Summit Celebrates Community Action in Year of the Environment
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Publishes Clean Air Proposals
- Simon O’Brien named as Liverpool City Region cycling and walking commissioner
- Combined Authority Sets Ambitious Targets to Tackle Climate Emergency
- Climate emergency declared for Liverpool City Region
- Steve Rotheram’s open letter to environmental campaigners
- Liverpool City Region residents back new walking and cycling network plans
- Liverpool City Region Launches £6.4m Hydrogen Bus Project
- Bus travel and satisfaction levels are up across the Liverpool City Region
- Metro Mayor leads calls for action to improve air quality
- Next stage of bus and cycling network is given the go-ahead
- Liverpool City Region launches the Year of the Environment
- Work to start on 600km walking and cycling network
- The Liverpool City Region trials charge-on-the-go electric bus
- Combined Authority establishes an air quality task force
- The Liverpool City Region sets sights on becoming zero-carbon by 2040
General News
- Coronavirus NHS free travel scheme to end from Monday 13th July
- LCR Cares passes £1.5 million mark
- Reaction from Steve Rotheram to today’s local government funding announcement
- Statement from Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram on last night’s city centre disorder
- Households into Work team set to resume face-to-face support.
- Could you be part of Liverpool City Region’s Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board?
- Revenue losses for local transport risk economic recovery Metro Mayor warns
- Metro Mayor and Government Ministers meet to discuss regional recovery following the pandemic
- Young people invited to join the Metro Mayor’s Youth Advisory Group to tackle Coronavirus impact
- More Mersey Ferry services added as people Rethink Travel
- LCR Cares distributes more than £1 million in less than two months
- The Case for the Liverpool City Region: The impact of Covid-19 is greater in the Liverpool City Region than anywhere else
- Mersey Ferries to re-start commuter services and temporary suspension of Mersey Tunnel tolls to end from Thursday 14 May.
- Joint statement on Domestic Abuse from Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, Chief Constable of Merseyside Police and Merseyside’s Police and Crime Commissioner
- LCR Cares Hits £1 million Target
- LCR Cares COVID-19 Fund passes £700k with dozens of community groups awarded funding
- Metro Mayor Launches Appeal to Liverpool Fans to Support LCR Cares
- LCR Cares: New donations see fund pass £500k mark as next wave of funding reaches community groups
- LCR Cares grants now total more than £160,000
- Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram appeals for people to stay home and help beat the coronavirus this Easter
- Jamie Carragher Supports LCR Cares
- Metro Mayor Announces Free Travel for NHS Staff on Liverpool City Region Buses and Merseyrail
- LCR Cares fund closing in fast on the half million pound mark
- Metro Mayor welcomes move to make travel easier for those carrying out essential journeys
- Metro Mayor issues important advice for key workers using public transport
- Metro Mayor Kick-starts LCRCares fund to support Coronavirus “Community Heroes”
- LCR Combined Authority Meeting: 20 March 2020 Update
- Metro Mayor announces revised timetables to maintain essential transport services during the COVID-19 crisis
- Combined Authority Approves £3.1m Boost for Crosby Lakeside
- Coronavirus updates
- Metro Mayor Launches Town Centres Commission
- Architects unveil their ideas in the Liverpool City Region Forgotten Spaces Competition.
- Bus franchising has emerged as the “leading option” as Liverpool City Region aims for London-style transport system
- Metro Mayor launches next step in creating Liverpool City Region’s first Fair Employment Charter.
- Joint statement in support of the Chinese community in response to the coronavirus outbreak in China.
- Statement regarding the 61 bus service
- Metro Mayor’s fast and flexible fund now ready to unlock growth
- Joint statement from Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, and Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester.
- Metro Mayor welcomes first new train to the Liverpool City Region
- Metro Mayor: “I’ll step in to save Halton Transport buses serving schools”
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Approves £2m for Moss Nook Housing Scheme
- New report calls for government action on Universal Credit
- Housing First celebrate clients’ ‘firsts’
- Metro Mayor’s fast and flexible fund now ready to unlock growth
- Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram Announces £16.1 million for Skills across the Liverpool City Region
- Metro Mayor launches group to tackle poverty and improve life chances
- Local residents asked to share their views on the future of the city region
- Housing First Course Welcomes Delegates From Around The World
- Metro Mayor recognises local workers and regional firms on completion of new rail depot
- Metro Mayor Calls for £200m To Clean Up Brownfield Sites for Housing
- Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram launches Good Business Festival
- Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram Announces Potential £5 million Support for Social Economy
- New ‘MetroCard’ travel scheme to replace Walrus card
- METRO MAYOR LAUNCHES CONSULTATION TO SHAPE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIVERPOOL CITY REGION
- Contactless convenience a hit for Liverpool City Region bus users
- First new train for the Merseyrail network heads for test track testing
- Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Calls for Northern Rail to be Stripped of its Franchise
- Constellations to come to earth and light up Liverpool City Region
- Have your say!
- £172.5m Plans Approved for Green Transport to Boost Liverpool City Region Economy
- New approach for International Business Festival approved
- New trains for the Merseyrail network begin to take shape
- Liverpool City Region Commits to Working Towards Eradicating Child Poverty
- A green light on HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail is ‘critical to the long term success of the UK and all its parts’, says new campaign backed by business and political leaders
- £172m for Green Transport to Boost Liverpool City Region Economy
- New Mersey Ferry funding decision to be taken by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
- New approach for International Business Festival
- LCR Listens – More Than 500 People Have Their Say on Future of Liverpool City Region
- Service users talk about the benefits of Households into Work
- 8,000 children benefit from cycle training from Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
- Metro Mayor responds to RMT strike announcement for Merseyrail network
- £3m Investment in Grade A Office Space Could Create More than 100 New Jobs for Birkenhead
- Households into Work Supports More Than 800 Households In First Year
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Set to Approve £6.6m for Eureka! Mersey
- Beneficiaries of Liverpool City Region’s £6 million Town Centre Fund Announced
- Liverpool City Region bus reform on Combined Authority Agenda
- Households into Work client honoured with Determined Learner Award
- £2m boost for Halton Business from LCR Combined Authority’s Strategic Investment Fund
- Housing First Staff Start Delivery in Liverpool City Region
- Contactless payments to go live on all Liverpool City Region buses by 31 July
- Combined Authority Publishes New Transport Plan
- Kingsway tunnel receives Liverpool City Region key route investment
- House of the Future Competition
- Liverpool City Region Publishes Adult Education Budget Allocation
- Liverpool City Region finally on the HS2 map
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority launches £18 million Skills Capital Fund
- Mayors call for Northern franchise to be terminated
- Search for Private Sector Representatives
- Steve Rotheram condemns child poverty following new report
- Free adult education courses for low income learners
- Liverpool City Region Pioneers Social Value Evaluation in Planning
- Steve Rotheram backs Domestic Abuse Workplace scheme
- Funding announced for new lifts at five Liverpool City Region rail stations
- New home for Royal Daffodil
- Roll-out of new 24-7 £1 Mersey Tunnel toll begins
- Traffic light technology improving journeys for Liverpool City Region bus users.
- Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram Consults on Fair Employment Charter
- Business and rail leaders mark five years of rail advancement
- Metro Mayor hails improved facilities as Newton-le-Willows Interchange scheme officially opens
- Combined Authority responds to job losses at Jaguar Land Rover
- Steve Rotheram announces tender for new Mersey Ferry
- State-of-the-art trains are coming to the Liverpool City Region
- Statement regarding industrial action at Cammell Laird
- Steve Rotheram and Bus Alliance provide free bus tickets to foodbanks
- Combined Authority approves £24m funding for Parkside Link Road
- Steve Rotheram names award-winning architect as design champion
- Steve Rotheram urges employers to pay the Real Living Wage
- Huge public response to Metro Mayor’s big bus debate
- Steve Rotheram launches big bus debate for the city region
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority formally adopts official definition of antisemitism
- Steve Rotheram Announces “One Front Door” for the Liverpool City Region
- New report finds over 500,000 home owners in the North West are living in poor quality housing
- Young Liverpool City Region boxers fly to Louisville as part of Cultural Exchange
- Steve Rotheram and Luciana Berger back the Zero Suicide Alliance
- Joint statement from the Combined Authority, Merseyrail and the RMT
- Metro Mayor says 18,000 more construction workers are needed
- Northern Mayors demand fare freeze on Northern and TransPennine Express
- Steve Rotheram welcomes £4m Inspiring Science Fund investment in the city region
- £6m Combined Authority funding could create more than 500 jobs
- Steve Rotheram Urges Developers to Take Up Free Design Reviews
- Joint statement from Steve Rotheram and the RMT union
- Steve Rotheram launches campaign to close the UK skills gap
- Metro Mayor announces bus discount scheme for apprentices, saving £420 a year
- National Infrastructure Assessment “endorses Liverpool City Region priorities” — says Steve Rotheram
- Steve Rotheram responds to plans to leave train schedules unchanged
- Metro Mayor secures £50,000 compensation for Southport for rail disruption
- Combined Authority comes together in Armed Forces Week to support the armed forces community
- Steve Rotheram sets out transport red lines
- Steve Rotheram praises Bus Alliance ahead of Clean Air Day 2018
- Metro Mayors call for the RMT to postpone planned industrial action on intercity rail services
- City Region Leaders Join Calls For Government Action to Improve Air Quality
- Steve Rotheram announces latest stage in plans for new Mersey Ferry
- Regional mayors’ skills summit calls for further devolution
- Bus driver training drives up satisfaction levels
- Liverpool City Region welcomes Wales and Borders rail franchise announcement
- Steve Rotheram calls for answers about Northern Rail fiasco
- Combined Authority sharpens focus on inclusive growth, air quality, and further devolution
- Funding boost for Shakespeare North Playhouse and Prescot town centre
- Steve Rotheram presses Transport Secretary for support over bank holiday weekend
- Joint statement from Metro Mayors on Northern rail disruption
- Steve Rotheram warns of dangers of not addressing causes of Brexit
- Liverpool City Region and Greater Manchester Metro Mayors back devolution for Cheshire
- Liverpool City Region to receive £7m to help tackle homelessness
- Liverpool City Region Apprenticeship Awards 2018 Announced
- Liverpool City Region Skills Show 2018
- St Helens named as the first Borough of Culture in the Liverpool City Region
- Steve Rotheram urges rural businesses to apply for funding
- Liverpool City Region approves new Skills Strategy to drive inclusive growth
- Liverpool City Region introduces 1% for culture programme to support cultural activities
- Combined Authority adopts Culture and Creativity Strategy
- Liverpool City Region approves £25m funding to boost key route network
- Liverpool City Region leaders release new mission statement in fight against violence against women and girls
- Steve Rotheram meets the apprentices helping to keep Merseyrail trains on track
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Launches Plan to Increase Apprenticeships
- Steve Rotheram and UK Music launch Wish You Were Here report
- Liverpool City Region to host summit to improve mental health awareness
- Steve Rotheram and Andy Burnham call first Convention of the North
- Steve Rotheram launches £4.5m initiative to help households into work
- Steve Rotheram challenges house builders
- Influential report says Liverpool is top UK investment destination in the North West
- Steve Rotheram joins fellow regional mayors to call on government for further investment and devolution for their city regions.
- £3m boost for clean buses in the Liverpool City Region
- Metro Mayor pledges to make City Region the UK’s third most visited destination
- Steve Rotheram urges communities to help shape a shared cultural future
- Steve Rotheram calls on government to engage with the Liverpool City Region on education and skills devolution
- Steve Rotheram calls on government to provide impact statement on the effect of Brexit on the Liverpool City Region
- Note of the appointment of an external auditor
- Steve Rotheram says “no justification” for fracking plans in the Liverpool City Region
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority publishes budget proposals
- First Meeting of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board
- Steve Rotheram calls on government to do more to make National Apprenticeship Levy work
- Steve Rotheram announces proposal for new Mersey Ferry
- Steve Rotheram meets Sajid Javid to discuss tackling homelessness
- Steve Rotheram announces plans for £1 off-peak fast tag for Mersey Tunnels
- Steve Rotheram pledges “no precept” for the Liverpool City Region this year.
- Shadow Chancellor backs plans for Mersey tidal project
- Steve Rotheram speaks at the launch of Transport for the North’s Strategic Transport Plan
- Digital Infrastructure Plan Announced for Liverpool City Region
- Steve Rotheram calls for urgent government response to Carillion crisis
- Steve Rotheram calls for government backing for the Mersey tidal energy scheme
- Steve Rotheram urges RMT union to enter talks to settle dispute
- Steve Rotheram holds the second Metro Mayor’s Question Time in Wirral
- Steve Rotheram calls for greater devolved powers to address failing schools crisis
- Liverpool City Region awards £12M funding for Paddington Village development
- How you can help to build the Liverpool City Region Skills Strategy
- Steve Rotheram tells Universities UK that hard-wired bias to South East will frustrate Industrial Strategy
- Steve Rotheram says Liverpool City Region could be an industrial powerhouse for UK, but devolution is the key
- Steve Rotheram offers his reaction to today’s budget announcements
- Liverpool City Region hosts the German British Forum conference: Digitalisation and The Future of Work
- Steve Rotheram shares vision for future and makes 10 big pledges
- Steve Rotheram holds the first Metro Mayor’s Question Time in St Helens
- Steve Rotheram demands the government end cover-up culture
- Steve Rotheram continues call for greater powers to avert Universal Credit misery
- Steve Rotheram joins fellow regional mayors in calls for more devolved powers
- Liverpool City Region can become magnet for global tech companies, Steve Rotheram tells Digital Summit
- First Virtual Reality Question Time to be hosted at the Metro Mayor’s Digital Summit
- Steve Rotheram calls for an urgent re-think on heartless and regressive Universal Credit
- Steve Rotheram to offer David Davis “a northern perspective” on Brexit today
- Join the Metro Mayor’s drive for fairness and social justice across Liverpool City Region
- Steve Rotheram says rail announcement is a “modest down payment on what’s really needed”
- Steve Rotheram joins fellow leaders in plans to give the North a stronger voice
- Transport for the North endorses Liverpool City Region’s case for High Speed connectivity
- Steve Rotheram visits Cammell Laird to see progress on the RRS Sir David Attenborough
- Steve Rotheram signs the Armed Forces Covenant
- Steve Rotheram visits the University of Liverpool for a tour of two flagship projects
- Steve Rotheram appoints Lynn Collins to chair the Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority awards £8.9 million to improve skills facilities
- Liverpool City Region is open for business during major upgrade to Lime Street station
- Steve Rotheram invites Prime Minister to make personal visit to New Ferry
- Steve Rotheram tells business leaders “Halton is key to Liverpool City Region’s economic future”
- Steve Rotheram says Skills Commission key to successful and dynamic economy
- Liverpool City Region secures £3.5m for innovative employment programme
- Work gets underway on ‘Halton Curve’ to boost rail links across Liverpool City Region, Cheshire and North Wales
- New road safety strategy for the Liverpool City Region given the green light
- Metro Mayor and Combined Authority unveil 100 day plan
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority website launched today.
- Liverpool City Region pledges £20,000 for New Ferry disaster relief fund
- Crossfield Construction win contract to build UK’s first £2.5m Digital Academy at the City of Liverpool College
- Steve Rotheram invites Lord O’Neill to review City Region’s Economic Strategy
- Steve Rotheram issues statement on fire safety following Grenfell Tower disaster
- Steve Rotheram tells property sector that the City Region must raise its ambition to compete and prosper
- Liverpool City Region marks National Clean Air Day with electric charge points pledge
- Steve Rotheram offers support for third runway at Heathrow
- Steve Rotheram calls on businesses to help shape future skills agenda
- Steve Rotheram commits to Mersey Barrage
- Steve Rotheram reveals new team and new purpose for Combined Authority
- Metro Mayors call for party leaders to support for transformational rail investment
- Liverpool City Region bus users benefit from an improved ticket offer
- 43 projects shortlisted for SIF funding
- £72m cash boost for the Liverpool City Region to help create local jobs and growth
- UK’s first digital academy to open in the Liverpool City Region
- Liverpool City Region establishes Health and Life Sciences Board
- The Liverpool City Region publish Area Based Review
- Liverpool City Region leaders give green light to new Merseyrail trains by 2020
- Liverpool City Region calls on government to push through the Buses Bill
- Devolution deal brings multi-million pound boost to Liverpool City Region
- Green light for travel plans in the Liverpool City Region
Halton
- New company to deliver growth for the Liverpool City Region
- Combined Authority Publishes Armed Forces Covenant Review
Homelessness
Housing
Inclusive growth
- Steve Rotheram launches Fair Employment Charter
- One year anniversary of the Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board
Knowsley
- £12m paves the way for Halsnead Garden Village development
LCR Cares
- LCR Cares – Sew Halton and how they are making a difference
- LCR Cares – How Listening Ear in Halewood are doing things differently
- LCR Cares – how The Martin Gallier Project in New Ferry will use its £5000 grant
Liverpool
Sefton
- Steve Rotheram hails improved rail links at Maghull North station official opening
Skills
Spatial Planning
St Helens
Transport
- £4m scheme to revive Liverpool’s “most beautiful boulevard” approved
- Liverpool high-speed rail link plans reach major milestone
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