Rotheram announces ferry plan

The Newton-le-Willows developer has sold a 630,000 sq ft industrial portfolio to investor Colombia Threadneedle for £41.9m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.37%.

Ducklings don’t get much uglier than a post-war infill warehouse near Bootle docks with all the attributes – or possibly more accurately, lack of them - that it suggests, writes Dougal Paver, strategic marketing advisor to the Chrysalis Fund.

The Liverpool City Region is catching up again. Despite sustained cuts to public sector funding and jobs, the regional gross value added per head is back above three-quarters of the national average and growing, writes Mark Bousfield of The Chrysalis Fund.

The local authority is to pay Mars Pension Fund £26.6m for the centre, as it looks to bring forward regeneration plans, having previously controlled just 1% of retail stock in the town.

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and West Lancashire Council have published a draft Strategic Housing and Employment Land Market Assessment, a key stage in putting together its Single Spatial Framework to guide development up to 2037.

Mayors and leaders from Liverpool City Region, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority have discussed further the formation of a body that will provide a strong, unified voice for the north.

The train manufacturer has finished its first piece of work at the £40m facility opened in June, a repainted Virgin Trains Pendolino sporting new livery with a 'flowing silk' design.