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VIDEO production and training firm First Take is planning to expand its services after securing a loan from The Social Enterprise Loan Fund (TSELF).
LIME Pictures says the appointment of Paul Marquess as series producer of flagship soap Hollyoaks will be a "brilliant" move for the show.
Footballers' Wives creator Mr Marquess has succeeded Lucy Allan at the hit show, made at Lime's Childwall base.
MERSEYSIDE'S creative sector will start growing again in 2010 after a year of consolidation - that's the view from some of the industry's key players.
Paul Taylor of Northwest Vision and Media gives his take on 2009 and the year ahead
THE past year was a tough one for business and the creative industries have not escaped this.
THE CREATORS of a £15m high-speed broadband network for creative and technology firms say it will help Merseyside businesses collaborate with other businesses throughout the north.
THE BBC says it wants to team up with digital producers and agencies in Merseyside and beyond to create new digital content for its children's TV websites.
The BBC is moving five departments, including BBC Children's, to MediaCityUK in Salford in 2011.
In the light of today's announcement about @North and the opportunities it could offer to Merseyside creative firms, here's the article I wrote for the September edition of LDP Business magazine about what MediaCity could mean for our region
FROM the 19th floor of one of MediaCityUK's tower blocks, the scale of Peel Holdings' ambition for the Salford Quays site is all too clear.
SNOWMEN Stan and Ollie are the faces of a huge TV Christmas ad campaign by Liverpool-based Shop Direct to promote its online Woolworths.co.uk lines.
The former Littlewoods group bought the Woolies brand earlier this year after the high street store chain collapsed.
TWITTER has barely been out of the headlines recently - here's a few links on the subjct you might find interesting, together with some more stories of interest to the creative world.
RETAILER Matalan has teamed up with Lime Pictures to fund a new Hollyoaks spin-off.
The Hollyoaks Music Show with Matalan.co.uk, now running on Saturdays on Channel 4, is the latest spin-off from the popular teen soap, and features A-List and unsigned bands alongside Hollyoaks stars.
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