LIVERPOOL’S LATEST SKYSCRAPER PLANS ARE REVEALED. If given planning permission, landowners Richmont and developer Y1 say the 165-metre and 54-storey King Edward Tower, near the junction of Leeds Street and King Edward Street, would cost £130m and would house offices, leisure space and apartments.
It would be four floors bigger and around 15m taller than Manchester’s Beetham Tower, making it the tallest skyscraper outside London.
CITY-BASED ETHEL AUSTIN IS CLOSE TO BANKRUPTCY, putting more than 2,500 jobs at risk. It is almost two years since the company filed for administration, this time also appointing administrators its sister company, Au Naturale.
Warehouse staff at its Knowsley distribution centre, where 300 people are employed, were told to take holidays or unpaid leave for a month because no store deliveries of new stock were planned for the next four weeks.
A TEENAGER IS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE AFTER A DRIVE-BY shooting in Kirkdale last night. The 19-year-old was hit at least once by the gunman, who was firing indiscriminately across Stanley Road.
The victim was taken to hospital with wounds to his chest and arm, where his condition was described as “serious”.
Police are appealing for information.
THE NUMBER OF Wii-RELATED INJURIES HAS SURGED since Christmas. Children and adults are going into walk-in centres in the city with muscle strains after being too enthusiastic on the consoles.
Veronica Bellis, from NHS Liverpool Community Health, said, “At first we were baffled, and then we realised – all had been given a Wii.”
WORD OF THE DAY: Mondaze (n). A daze you find yourself in due to it being Monday.
*Taken from the Urban Dictionary.
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