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This Love Parks Week we want you to celebrate our green spaces, including Knowsley’s 18 award-winning Green Flag parks, by visiting them. Find out about some of the great parks we have in Knowsley.

Calling all performers, singers, actors, dancers, musicians, poets, magicians… in fact anyone with a talent to share!

A beautiful new sensory garden was officially opened this weekend at Swanside Community Centre in Huyton. The garden was the…

Over 1,700 people attended concerts and cultural events during the 15th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts in June 2019.

The penultimate stage of the 52 mile run comes to Knowsley this Friday – here’s how you can cheer on the participants.

El Pueblo will open later in the summer offering a menu bursting with tempting tapas, craft ales and gin.

The Oven Pizzeria is the latest new restaurant to open in Prescot town centre.

If you’re a member of any library in the City Region, you’ll soon be able to use them all, using just your current library card. 

Visitors from across the borough will be able to get along to this year’s Knowsley Flower Show on one of its free shuttle bus services.

Knowsley is gearing up for a year of exciting events and activity when it becomes the Liverpool City Region’s Borough of Culture in 2022.

Special events providing mums with expert advice on breastfeeding are taking place in Knowsley during Breastfeeding Celebration Week.

Clean Air Day is Thursday, 20 June and provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the important issue of air pollution, as well as the steps you can take to improve air quality both in your local area as well as your home.

Over the past year, pupils in Knowsley have been taking part in a brilliant challenge to encourage them to walk to school.

Knowsley will be filled with music and song when the borough joins in with an international festival marking the Summer Solstice on June 21.

The LCR Pride Foundation, which Knowsley is part of, has revealed the theme to its inaugural programme of events, cultural and community activities – Come As You Are!

Free courses to help pregnant women and new mums in Knowsley to be active and healthy during pregnancy and the early stages of motherhood are to be offered in Knowsley.

We meet Kirkby Market’s Trader of the month for April, who says the market’s busy location and helpful managers make it the ideal location for her business.

Local leaders, including Cllr Graham Morgan from Knowsley, have launched the LCR Pride Foundation to make our region the most LGBT+ friendly in the UK.

Schoolchildren and community groups will be pledging to ‘go green’ to help the environment as Knowsley officially launches its 2019 Year of the Environment activities across the borough.

National reading charity, Beanstalk, is urging people to consider becoming a reading helper in 2019, as they aim to support more than fifteen thousand children across the country to become confident readers.

Residents in Stockbridge Village have been working on an important project to understand how social isolation can be tackled in their community.

It’s a brand new year and Knowsley’s libraries have a collection of brand new books for you to get stuck into.

Congratulations to this well-loved Knowsley bakery, who’ve just scooped one of the oldest trophies in baking!

Knowsley’s Rebound Dance and Health CIC have received funding from the Knowsley Better Together fund to expand their range of…

A project introduced by Knowsley Council’s Town Centres team at Kirkby Market has been showcased as an example of innovative best practice by the National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA).

Golfers will be teeing off on Bowring Park Golf Course once again after Knowsley Council stepped in to keep the course open.

More than £35,000 is to be spent delivering activities and making improvements in the borough’s parks and green spaces. 

There’s one more chance to visit Foodie Friday this year. Enjoy tempting food and drink as well as great family entertainment.

We all lead busy lives, but making small changes now can improve our health right away and boost our chances of staying healthy as we get older.  Healthy Knowsley is here to help.  It’s never too late or too early to start making changes.

Willowbrook Hospice has recently opened a charity shop in Prescot to raise funds for their hospice which provides care for patients with life-limiting diseases in Knowsley and the surrounding areas.

A stunning new show village has been formerly unveiled in Huyton at Countryside’s Wilson Chase development, where a surge in sales has seen 38 homes sold off plan in just four months.

The Stedy Chefs Learning Centre runs monthly cookery workshops that give adults with disabilities the opportunity to gain great life and employment skills.

Introducing Kirkby Market’s Trader of the Month for August 2018!

Discover the whole new range of books available from your local library this month.

Controlling money, always criticising and being purposely isolated from friends and family are just some of the examples being highlighted…

It’s Love Parks Week – 13 – 22 July – and there’s never been a better time to get out and about and explore Knowsley’s great green spaces.

Introducing this month’s Trader of the Month, Jenny Wolfendale at Jen’s Wool & Haberdashery.

Find your perfect summer read in Knowsley’s libraries.

New releases you can find in your local library this June.

Meet Kirkby Market’s Trader of the Month for June 2018 – Jason at Jay’s Menswear!

Receive free support and advice on losing weight, and improving your health and wellbeing, with the Changes weight management programme.

Knowsley Safari’s latest attraction – a £1.4m new home for two rare Amur Tigers – is opening to the public in time for the Bank Holiday weekend. 

A one stop shop of information to help you look after your own health and stay well in Knowsley.

In need of inspiration for things to do, places to go, events to enjoy? Here’s our roundup of what’s on in Knowsley.

Take a good look at our Kirkby Market Trader of the Month for May…

Staff at QVC UK’s Kirkby and London sites have raised over £125,000 for charity thanks to their fundraising efforts and generosity.

Over 100 artists showed off their work at the Knowsley Open Art Exhibition 2017, and were all in the chance of winning a prize for their brilliant talent and creativity. Find out who really impressed!

It will be a case of ‘Shakespeare in Love’ when Prescot’s new micropub opens this Wednesday, 14 February.

Lose the couch potato lifestyle and improve your fitness levels with the Couch to 5k programme!

There’s some amazing brand new releases available in libraries in Knowsley this month. There’s mysteries, historical fictions, romance novels and…

Knowsley Leisure and Culture Park’s gym is being refurbished from 5 to 7 December 2017. Find out the details.

The Archive Resource for Knowsley (ARK) has achieved National Accreditation, the highest possible quality rating, from the National Archives.

Are you starting to think of ways you can get more fit and healthy now that it’s nearly the new year? Have you considered taking up cycling? Pedal Away organises cycle rides for everyone regardless of ability of experience.

Over 100 people gathered in Huyton to cycle around Knowsley to take part in Pedal Away’s third Great Pedal Away event.

Revellers enjoyed a fantastic weekend of family fun, packed with plenty of ‘flower power’ at the Knowsley Flower Show and Feelgood Festival this weekend.

August’s Trader of the Month, Dave Taylor, tell us about his business, how he started and his available offers.

Kirkby Market’s Trader of the Month tells us how his business started about as the result of a chance encounter in the street…

Build you eBook collection with Knowsley libraries free eBook service.

This month, two lucky people will win £50 to spend on their favourite stalls at Kirkby Market!

Looking for a great read this Spring? Take a look at these nine new releases, available in Knowsley’s libraries now.

How would you like to take up a new hobby and make new friends? Stockbridge Village Golf Society are appealing for new members and may just interest you.

Do you love to draw? Or do you want to get started? These adult drawing workshops in Kirkby are perfect for you, whatever your ability.

A solo exhibition of new paintings by the artist Cherie Grist, who grew up in Stockbridge Village, opens at Huyton Gallery this month.

Fancy giving yourself a little challenge this year? Every Saturday, Stadt Moers Park hosts the Knowsley parkrun and you can get involved by either running in it or volunteering.

Dame Judi Dench has written about her passion for Shakespeare and her support for the exciting new Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot.

As autumn officially turns to winter, we have a real treat for you with some gorgeous photos of the season taken in the borough’s parks and open spaces.

Why not give your body a break this January and sign up to a month off the booze?

St Modwen has this week agreed a deal with Reel Cinemas to operate a new six-screen cinema proposed as part of…

Library visitors of all ages shared their favourite book as part of the #LovetoRead selfie weekend in Knowsley’s Libraries. Were you one of them?

Find out what book has been named ‘Book of the Month’.

Wanting to get started on planning the later stages of your life? Or just want to see what is available? This Planning for Later Life event may help you.

Make Time is a campaign promoting different activities you can do to improve your mental wellbeing. Find out what you can do to boost your mood instantly!

The stunning photographs which have scooped prizes in this year’s Spaces 2 Photography Competition are revealed… which one is YOUR favourite?

Knowsley’s children’s centres are recruiting volunteers now – and it could offer you a life changing experience. Find out how…

If you’re looking to get active and fit but not sure what to do or where to go, help is available in Knowsley.

if you would like to learn a new skill or brush up on old ones, now is the time to sign up for adult education courses starting in September in Knowsley.

Were you among the thousands of people who enjoyed this year’s Knowsley Feelgood Festival?

A sell out crowd enjoyed an open-air production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at Knowsley Hall, performed by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.

Don’t weigh your suitcase down with books when you head off on holiday – borrow free e-books from Knowsley’s Libraries and never be short of a good read!

The sun shone as crowds gathered to enjoy Knowsley’s annual Flower Show at Court Hey Park and the National Wildflower Centre in Huyton on Sunday.

With so many of you tweeting from Knowsley Flower Show on Sunday 7 August, it was soon one of the top trending topics for the region. Here’s what you shared…

With even more e-books being added to Knowsley Library Service’s catalogue, there are more free downloadable books to enjoy than ever.

Do you, or does someone you know enjoy reading but have trouble getting to and from your local library? The council’s Home Delivery Service could help.

Were you one of the super sleuths who helped crack the mysteries and solve a fictional crime during Knowsley libraries’ recent Crime Reading Festival?

Now that summer’s here, it’s the perfect time to get outdoors and get fit by trying out the new ‘Work Out’ green gyms in parks across Knowsley.

Borrowing an e-Book from Knowsley’s libraries has never been so easy now that you can join the e:library by email.

If you’re aged over 16 and live, work or study in Knowsley, you can sign up for FREE cycling activities.

Read part of the winning entries in this year’s Knowsley Writing Competition.

Talented writers aged 13 to 54 were recognised in this year’s Knowsley Writing Competition, with pieces inspired by favourite songs.

Find out how our young people are reaping the benefits of taking part in Forest School sessions run by the borough’s Green Space Rangers.

The experienced Knowsley Flower Show judge shares his top tips for growing prize winning blooms.

Young and old alike had fun in Knowsley’s libraries taking their own Shakespeare Selfies to mark the Bard’s 400th anniversary celebrations over the weekend.

Don’t let a sight problem stop you, or someone you know, from enjoying a good book – Knowsley’s libraries have a large range of both talking and large print titles.

After plans for a Shakespeare North theatre in Prescot were given the go ahead yesterday, the development is the talk of the region! But what will it be like?

This week’s Flashback takes us back just two years, to the first day of trading on Kirkby’s new market in 2014. Will you spot yourself in the photos?

Now you don’t even need to call into the library to take your pick from the best new releases – simply log on and download your choice of eBook!

Do something different and test out your bushcraft skills in a session led by Knowsley’s Green Space Rangers.

With newborn lambs, goats and chicks to see, now is a great time to visit Acorn Farm in Kirkby.

People visiting Kirkby Town Centre have been going crazy for ‘selfies’ on the town’s new thrones.

This week’s Flashback Friday takes us back to 1 April 2014, and the launch of Knowsley Youth Mutual (KYM).