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PROFILE: CHRIS WHELAN
CATCHING UP WITH ONE OF CRICKET’S YOUNG STARS
David Naylor
For those of you who don’t know, Chris Whelan announced himself into the world of cricket at the tender age of 18, making his first class debut for Middlesex county cricket club in 2005. Since then, although the right-arm medium pace bowler has been kept out of [...]
SHOPPING - ONLINE VS THE HIGH STREET
WE INVESTIGATE THE BENEFITS OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN CYBERSPACE
Sophie Wilmot and Tamsin Vickers
Welcome to the new age. All your shopping is simply a click away. Thanks to the wonderful creation of online shopping you can now hunt through the collections of your favourite stores from the comfort of your own home.
If it’s perfumes or [...]
FESTIVE FANCY DRESS FOR ALL
MERRY-MAKING ON A BUDGET
Katie Brown and Victoria Bates
No matter how hard you try, there’s just no getting away from those Christmas inspired carry-ons, with one (well, two really) main requirements: alcohol and fancy dress. Although these seem like fantastic ideas at first, when you check your bank balance, reality steps in. Well, worry [...]
REVIEW: CIRCUS AND CHIBUKU
Olivia Bunting and Nicci Cloke
It was a cold, dark Saturday night when hundreds of clubbers braved the elements and descended on the Liverpool Barfly. The reason? Circus. The city’s renowned ‘House Club of the Year’ was celebrating its 50th gig at Barfly’s Masque. The milestone was marked with a residents’ party which included a five [...]
CULTURE CLUB
Let me throw a few definitions your way. ‘Culture’: intellectual and artistic achievement or expression; ‘culture’: customs of a particular time or people. Liverpool’s prestigious 2008 title possesses a capital ‘C’ with good reason.
I urge you, if only for a short time, to resist popular culture’s homogenised, standardised televisual drivel that breathes inertia into the [...]
TRAIN FARES TO RISE ABOVE INFLATION
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT SEES TICKET PRICES SET TO SOAR
Stella Mills
The new year will see an unwelcome rise in train fares after an announcement from the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) at the end of November. The change has invoked criticism from rail watchdogs saying it is ‘outrageous’ and that the Government should do more to [...]
PRIMARK: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
Now I am ‘Primarni’ all the way, but even us die hard fans have to admit that wearing the same flaming gold dress that three other girls in the queue at the taxi rank have on has run its course! Trying to disguise your red handbag that is being held by almost everyone in Wetherspoons [...]
VIVA FOR NEVER?
A bitter dumpee, Mrs ‘I’m-so-thin-you-can-nearly-see-through-me’, a yoga loving failed solo artist, several babies later and yes, you have what makes up apparently the best girl band since sliced bread! Well, excuse me but I beg to differ. How is taking your clothes off and prancing around an ideal ‘Children in Need’ single, let alone the [...]
TWO HEARTS: ONE LIGHT, ONE DARK
Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story: a dark fairytale for adults
Ruby Miller
As always King delivers a plot rich in imagination and layers, as he explores widow Lisey struggling in various ways without her husband, writer Scott Landon. Lisey’s Story is as gripping a story as any of his, but is also littered with literary references and titbits, [...]
HARD TO BEAT
LX News gets close and personal with Hard-Fi
Carolina Cole
With ‘Living for the Weekend’, ‘Hard To Beat’ and ‘Cash Machine’ essential tracks from their debut album, Stars of CCTV, Hard-Fi have amassed an acclaimed back-catalogue just ready to be plundered for their show as part of Liverpool Music Week. Ahead of the date, we manage to [...]
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