All the venues and attractions reopening in Liverpool on May 17
The next stage of lockdown restrictions are expected to lift on May 17
More venues and attractions will reopen in Liverpool from May 17, including plenty of spots on the iconic Albert Dock (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)
The next stage of lockdown restrictions are due to be lifted on May 17, which will see the country edge even closer to normality.
The four tests include the vaccine-roll out continuing successfully, vaccine efficacy, infection rates and hospitals and new variants.
The roadmap will ease restrictions in four steps. According to the government s website, the four steps out of lockdown are designed to apply to all regions due to how quickly the virus can spread across the country.
Day Liverpool s St Luke s church was bombed out captured in lost recording from May Blitz
The eye witness account was given from the roof of a Liverpool building as bombs rained down on the city
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An extraordinary recording that detailed the battle to save a Liverpool landmark during the Blitz was played on the radio for the first time today.
Woke students have forced Liverpool University to rebrand an accommodation block named after William Gladstone because of his family s links to slavery.
Gladstone Halls will be renamed after racial inequality campaigner Dorothy Kuya, who was the city s first community slavery officer.
But the move has caused fury among members of the faculty, with politics professor Dr David Jeffrey slamming the decision as shameful .
He added: Liverpool University is shamefully going ahead with renaming Gladstone Hall. Named after one of our greatest Prime Ministers and one of Liverpool s most consequential political exports. He worked for the abolition of slavery and never owned slaves himself.
Protesters pull down a statue of Edward Colston (Ben Birchall/PA)
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Historic statues should stay in place despite controversy, but artefacts could be reinterpreted, arts boss Sir Nicholas Serota has said.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has previously warned, in a leaked letter, that Government-funded museums and galleries risk losing taxpayer support if they remove artefacts.
And Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his dismay at the focus on removing statues in the wake of the toppling of the memorial to slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.
Arts Council chairman Sir Nicholas Serota, pictured, told MPs controversial statues or items should not be removed could could be reinterpreted where it feels appropriate or a new scholarship emerges .