Mr Brocklebank's World Wide Web Log

ONCE hailed as “the gateway to Birkenhead”, the abysmal condition of Oxton Congregational Church, Balls Road, encapsulates the dither and prevarication blighting modern life.

SQUIRREL X-factor: Mr Brockle- bank’s new reader participation feature. Permission for Natural England to fell a quarter of Formby’s red squirrel refuge means that 22 of these animals could be lost.
But restoring the dunes will reprieve threatened natterjack toads, sand lizards and tiger beetles, which cannot live in shade and pine-needle cover. Which species is more impor- tant? You decide. Sadly, Mr Brocklebank has no copies for winners of his cheery festive kid- dies’ film, When Reindeer Go Bad.

A COLUMN correspondent writes to Mr Brocklebank in praise of Liverpool’s much critically abused Britannia Adelphi Hotel because of its "dog-friendly" attitude, which made his whippet feel so at home during a visit.

A LITTLE Liver Bird whispered in Mr Brocklebank’s shell-like that there is a NML moratorium on buying historic artefacts with only modern objects

ON CUE, while still reeling from accusations over diluting the inquiry report into the Mathew Street Festival fiasco, comes the news that Liverpool Culture Company staged a Euro- showcase event in Brussels while all 10 of the region’s MEP were away in Strasbourg.

NEW airport security alert: Christopher Tigwell, Esq, of Rainhill, submits the following verses, an ode on the loss of the sculpted John Lennon’s spectacles at his namesake Liverpool airpor

MORE sculpture news: Crowne Plaza hotel bosses deny their new sculpture Fallen Angel, commissioned to mark Capital of Culture – resembling a man frantically trying to keep his balance – is incomplete due to lack of a banana skin