This coupled with the news that Cammel Laird has a new future ahead of it and that there is hope for Rolls Royce is excellent for the city and region.



The container development at the Port of Liverpool is as big a development in terms of wealth for the local economy as Grosvenor.

Liverpool city centre is rightly becoming a major tourist and retail destination but in my view manufacturing and heavy industry are still integral to this city's future as they were to its past. I believe the daily, and weekly drip drip of closures of heavy industry in Merseyside that you would hear in the past, during the decline years is now over. Whilst there will be losses at the fringes Merseyside's manufacturing and industrial future is bright.