Mr Brocklebank's World Wide Web Log

LIVERPOOL often follows in the footsteps of that other historic Atlantic trading city, Glasgow. It was City of Culture (as the title was called then) in 1990 and the two cities went head-to- head for City of Architecture 1999, won by Glasgow, which has now been awarded the Commonwealth Games for 2014.

LORRAINE Rogers, double top banana at Tranmere Rovers and The Merseyside Partnership, was guest speaker at Downtown Business in Liverpool’s annual dinner to declare in promotional terms, Merseyside is now semi- officially known as "Liverpool City Region".
She received jeers and boos (in the nicest possible way) on relating how she would like to see Liverpool "up there with the Arsenals of this world" – showing

ANY professional shoppers should carefully take note of Liverpool’s biggest retail secret, the opening of Grosvenor’s huge Liverpool One development.

MR BROCKLEBANK has niggled over the pie-bald look of Liverpool thoroughfares where expensively- laid paving has been dug up and instead of being relaid is "lost" and replaced by tarmac.

CHRIMBO-WATCH: as everyone else is “doing Yule”, Brocklebank resident column humorist Peter Moloney has penned readers a seasonal poem entitled A Plea for Sanity Claus, which he boasts was adapted without permission from the author, Lewis Carroll, who was too busy being dead to refuse.