Liverpool Echo Adelphi Musical july 3 2008

Colin Williams wrote...

Whilst I have no real critism of the content of the echo, I feel that over the past few months the quality of the printing has deteriorated. Some of the coloured adverts you can't read and the pictures in colour you might as well not bother. The registration on my copy (Friday night) of the colour was disgraceful. The first thing is that web should not run until registration is almost complete and the first one off should be discarded. I seem to be getting the first of the run every time.

Alastair writes: We are working very hard on print quality and I fully appreciate the irritation poor reproduction causes for readers. I'll make sure your comments are fed to the press hall team and that we keep pressing for impovements.

Posted by: Colin Williams  | July 5, 2008 7:56 PM

richard davies wrote...

I'm glad to read that the production of the Adelphi musical made you proud to come from Liverpool. So it should for that is one of the reasons for giving a city Capital of Culture status. Regrettably, while so many events and individuals are promoting the positive, the organisation around the tall ships festival that began today has done very much the opposite.

A one way pedestrian walkway has been implemented but without the signs necessary for people to understand what is going on. The job of directing people has been left to the massed ranks of stewards who seem overwhelmed by the confusion that I witnessed today.

I arrived at the dock area at just after 10.30 on Friday morning. Along the dock road were dozens of stewards in yellow tabards almost all of them engaged in one or more of the following: leaning against the nearest wall, eating, or smoking (not the best image the city could portray of itself).

Around the dock area itself, access was being denied to people regardless of whether or not they had come to see the tall ships. The scene was the most chaotic I have ever encountered at an event such as this (I'm comparing it to sports, music and cultural events in this country and abroad when I say it was the worst). Members of the public, many of them elderly, were being treated as if they were cattle. It was a complete disgrace and one that must be subject to an enquiry of some sort).

I came with my mother and young son with the intention of seeing the Klimt exhibition at the Tate but, having spent in excess of 90 minutes trying to gain access, I gave up and returned home.

What finally made me give up was, having tried to reason with a steward by telling him that I had travelled from Manchester and needed to go only 100 yards further n the direction he was blocking, he told me to clear off back to Manchester.

I have since contacted the Tate in London. They had already received complaints about the stewarding and I will be contacting the leader of the council to raise my concerns. I should add that I wheelchair user was given the same blunt refusal immediately after me.

I sincerely hope that, as the respected newspaper for Liverpool, you report on this total lack of organisation. The image presented of Liverpool today was of a city that was lost in chaos and frustration.
Yours,

R. Davies

Posted by: richard davies  | July 18, 2008 11:51 PM

Stephen McCluskie wrote...

I am disgusted at the Echo leader this evening (22/7/08) equating claiming benefit with fun.You will reply that you were talking about scroungers.All the research suggest that fraud amounts to a small percentage of benefit claimants. You in turn are helping to stigmatise people claiming what has become by any standard a pittance. The reason for a high percentage of claimants on Merseyside is still the deindustrialisation of the 80's.Besides a few shops and bars have you noticed any large scale,labour intensive industries coming to Merseyside ?. I look forward to your leaders excoriating corporate tax evasion and fraud. Shame on you.

Posted by: Stephen McCluskie  | July 22, 2008 6:48 PM

Tony Meredith wrote...

Thank you for producing the every superlamb suplement which appeared in the Liverpool Echo of July 18th 2008. I have found it extremely useful.I have used to view and photograph over 90 of the lambs. Unfortunately the information printed under the the Starry Sunflower is incorrct. It is actually sited at Olive Mount Gardens in Wavertree, Liverpool not at Olive Mount Gardens in Birkenhead. Thank you. Tony Heredith.

Posted by: Tony Meredith  | July 30, 2008 8:42 PM