Latest News
Keep up to date with the latest news and activities happening in around the Cunard.
Key
- Cunard Event
- Liverpool Events
- Cunard News
- Liverpool News
07.07.2018
Liverpool City Council's listed building banner blunder
A tourism banner on the side of a Grade II*-listed Liverpool City Council building is being removed because the authority hung it without permission.
16.11.2017
Plans in for £50m cruise terminal
Plans have been lodged to build a £50m cruise terminal on Liverpool's iconic waterfront capable of welcoming the world's biggest cruise ships.
30.10.2017
Wood pellet business set for £2m takeover
A wood pellet distributor with 34 staff, which is headquartered in one of Liverpool's most iconic buildings, looks set to be sold by energy giant Drax to an AIM-listed company for £2m
23.10.2017
Signed 8ft sculpture of guitarist Slash heading for Liverpool
A signed 8ft metal sculpture of guitar legend Slash will go on display in Liverpool this weekend.
20.10.2017
Images show Liverpool dock transformation
New buildings are set to transform Liverpool’s waterfront as part of a transformation that will create around 1500 jobs.
16.10.2017
Ernst Van Zyl to launch restaurant in Signature Living’s Cunard Building
Chef Ernst Van Zyl is joining Signature Living as executive chef of its new venture in Liverpool’s Cunard Building.
21.09.2017
River of Light is coming back for Bonfire Night 2017 in Liverpool
The River of Light festival is returning to Liverpool this Bonfire Night for the second year.
One of the UK’s most successful firework companies, Titanium Fireworks , are on board to light up the skies above both sides of the River Mersey.
21.08.2017
Round-the-world race starts in Liverpool
More than 700 amateur sailors - led by professional skippers - are involved in the 11th edition of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
18.08.2017
HMRC rubber-stamps India Buildings move
Liverpool’s India Buildings is to become a UK government “hub”, with confirmation of the long-rumoured 270,000 sq ft letting also meaning that the £125m sale of the building to L&G is set to go through.
11.08.2017
Revealed: Crucial role King's Dock will play in city's 2022 Commonwealth Games
A planned new venue on land behind the new exhibition centre will be used as a specialist area for athletes.
21.06.2017
This is why the Cunard Building was lit up in red, white and blue tonight
Liverpool’s Cunard Building was lit up in red, white and blue this evening in celebration of Saturday’s Armed Forces Day.
14.06.2017
Liverpool's Cunard Building to become event and dining destination
Hotel owner and developer Signature Living has confirmed it is very close to closing a deal on Liverpool's historic Cunard Building.
17.05.2017
Albert Dock owner presses ahead with new retail vision for the site
Plans to overhaul the retail offer at Albert Dock as part of a previously unveiled vision for the destination are being progressed.
15.05.2017
Albert Dock launches Hidden Histories trail so you can explore Liverpool's secrets
This month Albert Dock Liverpool is launching a brand new digital heritage trail that will take visitors on a tour of the Grade I Listed attraction and unearth secrets about the Dock that have been hidden until now.
27.04.2017
The future of Liverpool: does the great port city still face out to sea?
Liverpool is a city that has a face, but to gaze upon it you must either be aboard a ship on the Mersey, or looking across the water from Wirral.
07.04.2017
Liverpool cruise terminal celebrates 10th birthday with packed programme
The return of the Disney Magic and the arrival of one of the largest vessels to ever sail up the River Mersey are just two of the highlights in a special waterfront celebration this summer
21.03.2017
Park to form focal part of £5bn Liverpool Waters regeneration
A 6.9-hectare public park will form part of the biggest regeneration project in Liverpool's history - with construction expected to start by the end of this year.
08.03.2017
Review: British Music Experience (BME), Liverpool
The British Music Experience (BME), which arrives at its new permanent home on Liverpool’s waterfront after five years at London’s O2, charts the rise of popular music from 1945 up to the present day with over 600 rare music heritage items on display
08.02.2017
Royal Liver Building sold for £48M
The grade one-listed Royal Liver Building in Liverpool has sold for £48m to a Luxembourg-based real estate investment manager, Corestate Capital.
21.11.2016
Tickets on sale today for the British Music Experience inside the Cunard Building
The British Music Experience is opening in February next year inside the iconic Cunard Building.
15.11.2016
Filming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in Liverpool was amazing says producer
Eagle-eyed cinema goers will be able to enjoy spotting St George’s Hall and the Cunard Building in the story, which stars Eddie Redmayne as the central character Newt Scamander.
31.10.2016
Municipal Buildings marketed for sale
The grade II*-listed Municipal Buildings in Liverpool city centre is being marketed for sale as part of Liverpool City Council's efforts to make £90m of savings over the next three years.
31.10.2016
‘Landmark’ £48m tower planned for Liverpool waterfront
Plans to build a 30-storey tower on Liverpool’s waterfront have been revealed.
Housing provider Your Housing Group (YHG) is behind the proposed £48 million scheme at Princes Dock, which forms part of Peel’s £5.5 billion Liverpool Waters development.
31.10.2016
The council are interested in buying the Liver Building
Liverpool Council is considering buying the Royal Liver Building .
11.10.2016
Liverpool earmarks docklands for creative zone
Liverpool City council’s cabinet will meet on Friday to consider a new development framework for the city’s Northern docklands, in which the council has identified a 27-acre priority zone for regeneration known as Ten Streets.
06.10.2016
New images show how council's £45m roads revamp would look
The scheme includes eight major projects including halving the lanes on the Strand and extending St George’s Hall plateau.
03.10.2016
Municipal Buildings up for sale
FOR almost 150 years it has been the nerve centre of all civic and public life - and now it is going into private hands
21.09.2016
Liverpool’s £250m investment fund opens for bids
Private developers can now apply for funding towards projects in Liverpool City Region under a new Single Investment Fund established by the combined authority through the devolution deal with government. - See more at: https://www.placenorthwest.co....
21.09.2016
£82m Lexington brings New York living to Liverpool
An £82m premium rental development, ‘The Lexington, Liverpool’, is to be brought to life by a joint venture between Moda Living and Apache Capital Partners.
08.08.2016
Stunning images show latest plans for Liverpool's thriving docklands
Plans have been submitted to the city council to build two new eight-storey blocks, comprising more than 250 apartments, on the car park of the former tax office building...
04.08.2016
Liverpool posts positive office figures, but conversions show threat
Office take-up in Liverpool city centre reached 170,000 sq ft in the first half of this year, a 13% increase on the same period in 2015, according to Professional Liverpool’s property group...
25.07.2016
Liverpool Risks Losing Its World Heritage Status
Liverpool’s historic waterfront could be at risk of losing its highly-coveted World Heritage Site status after its mayor has rejected a plea by UN cultural chiefs to halt development in the city.
05.07.2016
18 photos that show how proud Liverpool is of our beautiful Cunard Building
Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth attracted crowds to the Liverpool waterfront on Saturday when she arrived in the river to help celebrate the landmark birthday for the Grade II* listed building – the youngest of the Three Graces.
04.07.2016
Thousands turn out for Cunard Building's 100th birthday celebrations
Thousands of people turned out to mark the 100th anniversary of the Cunard Building...
27.06.2016
Last Night of the Proms-style concerts to mark the Cunard Building centenary
Two Last Night of the Proms-style concerts of rousing tunes will be held to mark the centenary of the Cunard Building next weekend.
27.06.2016
160ft bench to be unveiled to mark the Cunard Building centenary
A new stone bench which stretches 160ft (50m) is set to be unveiled outside the Cunard Building to mark its centenary.
24.06.2016
The Queen opens Exhibition Centre Liverpool and visits IFB
The Queen officially opened Exhibition Centre Liverpool and its adjoining hotel Pullman Liverpool last night (22 June).
17.06.2016
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will spend a busy day in Liverpool
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, will be attending a number of engagements in Liverpool next Wednesday. These acknowledge both the great history and heritage of the city, but also how Great Britain is becoming a centre of excellence in a number of fields on the world stage.
17.06.2016
Lord Heseltine praises "extraordinary"n Liverpool Waters development
Lord Heseltine took a tour of Liverpool Waters during his trip to the International Festival for Business (IFB2016) and declared it “extraordinary”.
13.06.2016
Cunard Building celebrated in a new book to mark its centenery
One of Liverpool’s Three Graces is the subject of a new book being published to mark its centenary.
06.06.2016
Mersey River Festival June 2016
Music fans danced in the sunshine while boat lovers admired crafts from across the country at day two of the International Mersey River Festival on the waterfront.
06.06.2016
£80M Tower to Transform Liverpool Skyline
Eye-catching plans are in for an £80m tower rising 34 storeys high near the Three Graces in Liverpool, creating a new landmark on the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site waterfront.
03.06.2016
Mersey River Festival 2016
The festival opens on Friday, June 3 and the main events takes place over Saturday and Sunday, June 4-5...
23.05.2016
Queen Elizabeth will return to Liverpool for Cunard Building centenary celebrations
One of the Cunard liners – Queen Elizabeth – which drew huge crowds last May is on her way back to the waterfront to mark another major anniversary for the shipping giant.
12.05.2016
12.05.2016
13 New Restaurants to open in Liverpool
The Cunard building is to get two new spectacular restaurants - Australasia and Cunard House, headed up by Liverpool celebrity chef Aiden Byrne.
18.03.2016
Liverpool Mayor to discuss waterfront developments with European leaders
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson is meeting European leaders at Cannes this week with a view to leveraging the economic power of the city’s historic waterfront.
17.03.2016
Liverpool aims to double the number of cruise liner passengers visiting the city
Plans to more than double the number of passengers arriving in the city on cruise liners have been revealed.
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he wants see 250,000 visitors as the council pushes ahead with plans for a new cruise liner terminal.
15.03.2016
Primesite on with office-to-resi conversion
Primesite Developments has started work on a 122-unit apartment conversion of former Ministry of Defence offices on Liverpool’s Strand after acquiring the site from Jupiter Developments for £7m. Mersey House, to be renamed Strand Plaza, occupies a prominent site in the Unesco World Heritage area facing the Cunard Building...
14.03.2016
British Music Experience set to move to Cunard in the summer
The city counci’s cabinet will next week be asked to agree a seven year lease with the British Music Experience (BME) to move into the Cunard Building in the summer.
It is expected the new museum will see 250,000 visitors a year as well as creating around 35 jobs.
29.02.2016
Iconic Liverpool waterfron is crowned England's greates place
Liverpool Waterfront has been crowned the overall winner in England’s Great Places, a nationwide competition organised by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) to show off the diverse places that planners and the planning system have created, protected and enhanced for communities.
29.02.2016
Cunard celebrates Freedom of the City of Liverpool
Cunard Celebrates Freedom of the City of Liverpool to Launch Centenary of former World Headquarters.
29.02.2016
New Cruise Terminal building plans to be drawn up
A detailed study into the construction of a permanent cruise liner building in Liverpool is to be progressed.
25.02.2016
Cunard's transatlantic crossings could return to Liverpool
Cunard could reintroduce their transatlantic crossings from Liverpool if plans for a permanent cruise liner buildings come to fruition.
19.01.2016
Cruise on film!
A special prize giving event for students inspired by Liverpool’s 2015 cruise season is taking place on Monday 22nd February.