Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the centre of Liverpool, England, where a system of intertwining waterways and docks is now being developed for mainly residential and leisure use.

On 16 April 1963, an astonishing game at Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and Denis Law score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4 – 3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the First Division and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to keep out Liverpool as Leicester beat them 1 – 0 in the FA Cup semi-final despite being completely outplayed all game.

New canals were hastily built in the aim of replicating the commercial success of the Bridgewater Canal, the most notable being the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the Thames and Severn Canal which opened in 1774 and 1789 respectively.

Scientists at Liverpool University in England performed genetic tests on three eggs that collapsed after being moved to an incubator, and verified that Flora had never been in physical contact with a male dragon.

Most slave ships that transported slaves from Calabar were English, and around 85 % of these ships being from Bristol and Liverpool merchants.

Despite the failure it was purchased by the Liverpool & Manchester, where it served for two years before being leased to the Bolton and Leigh Railway.

One of his earliest childhood memories was being made to stand on a table and say " Ladies and gentlemen " to the assembled audience, probably at a gathering to promote the election of George Canning as MP for Liverpool in 1812.

* July 3 – The Toxteth riots in Liverpool, UK start after a mob saves a youth from being arrested.

Even up till her last moments, she was being reported on by a man named Stephen Lushington, who conveyed his insights to the King's loyal supporter, the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.

At the date of his death, Pertwee was regularly being seen at the tail end of an enigmatic UK TV commercial for mobile phone operator Vodafone: dressed somewhat in his flamboyant ' Doctor ' manner, his character walked wordlessly across an alleyway in sight of a Liverpool landmark, and entered a garage evidently containing some kind of ' time machine '.

London, Brighton, Liverpool, and Manchester being the largest and the cities with the biggest gay populations ( Liverpool's LGBT population being 94, 000 by mid-2009 according to the North West Regional Development Agency.

The tragedy resulted in all English football clubs being placed under an indefinite ban by UEFA from all European competitions ( lifted in 1990 – 91 ), with Liverpool being excluded for an additional year and fourteen Liverpool fans found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and each sentenced to three years ' imprisonment.

Trouble occurred at the previous season's European Cup final, with several Liverpool fans being attacked by fans of Roma both before and after the match.

Although Liverpool had a larger fan base, Nottingham Forest was allocated the larger area, the reason being to avoid the approach routes of rival fans intersecting.

Liverpool fans desperately try to climb the fence onto the safety of the pitch while being stopped by the police.

At the time that Rocket was being designed and built at the Forth Banks Works, he was living in Liverpool overseeing the building of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

In October 2004, a Spectator editorial suggested that the death of the hostage Kenneth Bigley was being over-sentimentalized by the people of Liverpool, accusing them of indulging in a " vicarious victimhood " and of possessing a " deeply unattractive psyche ".’ Johnson had not written the leader but, as editor, took full responsibility for it.

After a gap of around 30 years, new high-rise flats are once again being built in Belfast, Birmingham ( some are for wealthy people, e. g. The Mailbox, others are student accommodation ), Cardiff, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Newcastle upon Tyne ; but this time sometimes for wealthy professionals, rather than the ` lower classes `.

Despite finding RADA " straight-laced ", and being told by his tutor that he could never aspire to do more than playing villains in Z-Cars, when he graduated he joined the Everyman Theatre Liverpool Company, eventually becoming the theatre's Artistic Director.

The opening of the Sankey Canal in 1757, followed by the Bridgewater Canal in 1761, which halved the price of coal in Liverpool and Manchester England, respectively, triggered a period of " canal mania " in Britain so that between 1760 and 1820 over one hundred canals were built.

The largest Irish communities are located predominantly in the cities and towns across Britain: in London, in particular Kilburn ( which has one of the largest Irish-born communities outside Ireland ) out to the west and north west of the city, in the large port cities such as Liverpool ( which elected the first Irish Nationalist Members of Parliament ), Glasgow, Bristol and Portsmouth.

His years at Liverpool were among the club's most successful periods, as he won six Football League First Divisions, two FA Cups, four League Cups, seven FA Charity Shields, three European Cups and one UEFA Super Cup.

At 39, he was one of the oldest players ever to play for Liverpool.

Liverpool is one of the best supported clubs in the world, with one of the highest average home attendances in Europe.

Kinnock attacked Militant and their conduct in Liverpool in one of the best remembered passages of any post-war British political speech:

At the Liverpool Biennial in 2004, Yoko flooded the city with banners, bags, stickers, postcards, flyers, posters and badges, with two images: one of a woman's naked breast, the other of the same woman's vulva.

** The Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies in European football, claims the life of 96 Liverpool supporters.

At one stage the trade was the monopoly of the Royal Africa Company, operating out of London, but following the loss of the company's monopoly in 1689, Bristol and Liverpool merchants became increasingly involved in the trade.

By the late 17th century, one out of every four ships that left Liverpool harbour was a slave trading ship.

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway in the United Kingdom was one such.

Approximately one hour before the Juventus-Liverpool final was due to kick off, a large group of Liverpool fans breached a fence separating them from a " neutral area " which contained Juventus fans.

Three special trains transported Liverpool supporters to Sheffield for a match fixture in 1988, whereas only one train ran in 1989.

When Margaret hears Charles is in Liverpool, trying one last time to piece together his lost years, she rushes to him.

After completing their 42-game season, QPR sat at the top of the league, one point ahead of Liverpool who went on to defeat Wolverhampton Wanderers to clinch the title.

The blasts occurred almost simultaneously at 08: 50 BST, one between Liverpool Street and Aldgate and the other at Edgware Road.

Columbiana County is the sole county in the East Liverpool-Salem, OH μSA ( Micropolitan Statistical Area ) and one of four counties in the Youngstown-Warren-East Liverpool, OH-PA CSA ( Combined Statistical Area ) as defined by United States Census Bureau.

Built in 1851, it is now a Category B men's prison, and is the largest prison in London and one of the largest in western Europe, with similar capacity to Liverpool Prison.

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday a liner from one of the three firms departed Liverpool with the mail for New York.

His views on slavery in the 19th century were not known but his statements regarding Fredrick Douglass's segregated passage arranged by a Cunard Agent in Liverpool on one of his ocean liners in 1845 strongly suggests he was against any form of racial prejudice.

" No one can regret more than I do the unpleasant circumstances surrounding Mr. Douglass's passage from Liverpool, but I can assure you that nothing of the kind will again take place on the steamships in which I am connected.

Many whole terraces are listed including much of Liverpool Road ( one side of which is in Barnsbury ) and Islington High Street / Upper Street.

With over 55 million passenger entries and exits between April 2010 and March 2011, Liverpool Street is one of the busiest railway stations in the United Kingdom and is the third busiest in London after Waterloo and Victoria.