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'Heart of Bootle' divides opinion as promises made for a brighter future It's been the subject of much controversy but council chiefs say the future is looking up for the Strand shopping centre 11:14, 7 MAR 2021 Updated Get the best local news with our MySefton newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign Up Now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice This week, Sefton Co...

Steel support for local homelessness charity Date published: 17 February 2021 Simon Shaw from Shaw & Sons Engineering Services at Emmaus Mossley A local engineering firm has gifted their services to help remove a large steel beam from a homelessness charity's community building.   As part of ongoing refurbishment work at Emmaus Mossley, the charity sought help to remove a large steel beam that had been left in the building for many years. Simon and Chris from Shaw & Sons Engineering Services volunteered their professional services to safely cut and remove the steel beam, saving the chari...

“This was Christo’s absolute wish—that there be an auction of the works he and Jeanne-Claude had lived with,” Simon Shaw, the vice chairman of the fine arts division of Sotheby’s, explains to AD. Now, after months in the making, the two-part auction, which is fittingly titled “Unwrapped: The Hidden World of Christo and Jeanne-Claude,” is set to kick off tomorrow in Paris.  For those familiar with the artists, the choice of the City of Light may come as something of a surprise, given that they lived in New York for years. “Paris was sort of their spi...

My heart leapt when I read the words “There is such a thing… as the national interest – and it is not measured by shareholder value alone” (Leader, 5 February). For decades, as the head of a quoted and later private company, I attempted to convey this to both the financial world and successive governments. Repeatedly, I reminded them that the other stakeholders in a company (customers, employees and suppliers), on all of whom the taxpayer and the state are ultimately dependent, should not be sacrificed on the false altar of shareholder value.  Britain is fortunate that AstraZeneca w...

A crop of Edvard Munch’s Embrace on the Beach. The work is expected to fetch between £9m and £12m. Photograph: Sotheby's Two works by Edvard Munch that the Nazis classified as degenerate before selling them for profit are to be offered at auction in London next month, at a time when interest in the Norwegian artist has never been bigger. A self-portrait painted in 1926, the first formal portrait of Munch to come to auction for 15 years, and Embrace on the Beach, painted for a children’s nursery in 1904 and last on sale more than 80 yea...