Latest data from Begbies Traynor shows a 40% year-on-year rise in Liverpool city region firms in ‘significant financial distress’ in third quarter of 2024 – but the rise is slowing.…

330 North West businesses, including 56 from Liverpool city region, have invested £25m into digital projects and created 400 new jobs with the support of the Made Smarter programme. Tony…

Merseyside ‘Woman of the Year’ and joint owner of Carpenters Group, Donna Scully, shares £800,000 dividends windfall amid legal insurance firm’s 25% rise in revenues to £62.3m. Tony McDonough reports…

One of Liverpool’s beast-known creative agencies, Kenyons, rebrands and upgrades its audio and video offer with a new podcast studio Kenyons & Co managing director Rosie Kenyon   Liverpool creative…

Front Idun, a tanker on the Mersey. Picture by HowardLiverpool   Shipping movements on the Mersey today, include: RDJ Johanna, a cargo vessel carring scrap metal from Ireland. Agent is…

Liverpool councillors will this week decide whether to allow another new hotel in the city, a conversion of a Grade-II listed building just yards from the new Everton Stadium. Tony…

Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 on the Mersey. Picture by HowardLiverpool   Shipping movements on the Mersey today, include: JSP Anna, a container vessel coming from and returning to Ireland. Agent…

Entrepreneur who helped found a cybersecurity business that sold for $400m, and worked with rock legend Peter Gabriel on a music streaming venture, is to help drive forward Cheshire’s economy.…

An angler on the Mersey. Picture by Tony McDonough   Shipping movements on the Mersey today, include: Champion Istra, a tanker carrying animal and vegetable oils from Papua New Guinea.…

With hundreds of millions of pounds in regeneration projects in the pipeline for Birkenhead Wirral Council will invest £7m to make sure the town has enough power. Tony McDonough reports…