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Mersey Estuary Forum - Panel Questions

This year's Mersey Estuary Forum is taking place on Thursday 14th June at Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock. Find out more on our website.

If you're coming to the forum and would like to ask a question during the "Questions to Speakers" session, please feel free to leave one as a comment on this post - we'll collect these and bring them along on the day. Click 'comments' below to add a question.

You'll be welcome to ask further questions at the forum, once you've heard the presentations.

Good experience for your 2CV....

Where are you going on your summer holidays? Perhaps you're worried about reducing your carbon footprint, and have decided to holiday at home, or find slower, more sustainable modes of transport? Well, whatever you're doing, you're unlikely to have gone to the same kinds of lengths as our friends Graeme and Mark from Envirolink Northwest. They're taking part in the London to Mongolia Rally in their 2 CV, but have decided to do it as sustainably as possible...just to give themselves an extra challenge. MBC's blog will be checking in with their progress once the rally gets underway (21st July), but in the meantime, check out their website to see what they're up to........

I shot Liverpool

Last week I shot Liverpool. Yes, it's time to come clean. Myself and 97 others are guilty - we shot Liverpool on Saturday 26th May. But we weren't out in the streets with AK47s or anything like that - no, digital cameras were the order of the day as we took part in Shoot Experience's Shoot Liverpool event, based at the Tate Liverpool.

We set out in teams of 2-4 to follow ten clues on a photographic treasure hunt around the city's waterfront. All the clues were tied in to the (highly appropriate) theme of 'WATER', and each team submitted ten photos as their answers after five hours of creativity, daftness and dressing up.

My team and I did everything from staging a tea-party on the Albert Dock, to making friends with a mannequin at the Mersey Ferries ticket office, and recreating the cover of 'Abbey Road', starring a small pirate who looked suspiciously like my boyfriend.

Here's our best efforts:

The photos from the Liverpool event are being displayed at Liverpool's Open Eye gallery between 5th-9th June 2007. Can't wait to be an exhibited artist!

Jim Court from Stockport Community Cyclists looks forward to the Relay

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Click on the play button above to hear Jim Court from Stockport Community Cyclists talking about taking part in the River Mersey Relay tomorrow........

Ready for the off!

Hi there,

My name's Sammy the Salmon, and I'm about to embark on an exciting adventure. Nope, I'm not swimming upstream to reproduce, and I'm not about to become gourmet cuisine - I'm the star of the River Mersey Relay 2007!

Check me out - aren't I a handsome specimen?

The relay starts tomorrow, Saturday 2nd June, from the beginning of the River Mersey at Ford Street, Stockport. Everyone who's anyone will be turning out to wish me 'bon voyage' as I set off on my epic journey - even the Deputy Mayor of Stockport will be there.

For the first part of my trip, I'll be letting Stockport Community Cyclists take the strain, as they carry me in style from Ford Street to Sale Water Park. I'm a bit nervous about tomorrow afternoon, though, because I'll be taking to the water with some canoeists who'll paddle from the Water Park to Carrington Recreation Ground. Swimming is all very well, but I've never been a huge fan of boats..........

Use the player above to hear Jim Court from Stockport Community Cyclists talking about the relay.

Tune in for the rest of the week, and I'll be letting you know how the journey's going, and how I'm coping with life on the road (chanelling Jack Kerouac, no doubt). John O'Groats to Lands End will have nothing on Ford Street, Stockport to Liverpool's Pier Head.

Have a look at my webpage to see exactly what I'll be up to.

Well, it beats Big Brother any day!

See you tomorrow - if I don't sink....

Sammy x

Get well soon, Dave!

I'm sorry to report that one of our soon-to-be famous Mersey People, Dave the swimmer, has recently been injured in a car crash - we hope you're doing all right, Dave, and that you're up and about again soon!