liverpool city - trial will work? we've agreed to work with liverpool city council| trial will work? the university of liverpool on producing a series of events, in the instance of our cinema, it's an open air cinema so we will be putting on three nights of open—air cinema on the waterfront in liverpool and it really, as far as we understand, it will be the chance to return to full capacity and for the government to actually analyse the data of how these events can run in a safe way with people back to before covid levels. anything we can do to support the level of live events in this country, we are passionate about and we are proud to be part of this. i about and we are proud to be part of this. ~' ., _, , this. i think the whole country will be watching _ this. i think the whole country will be watching this _ this. i think the whole country will be watching this experiment - this. i think the whole country will be watching this experiment and i be watching this experiment and really hoping it goes very well. how many people can you take there at luna? ~ ., , ., many people can yo

the aim is very much that we'll be running these events in partnership with liverpool city council andm in a way which will be allowing people not to think about social distancing for just those few hours when they come to the event, it will be back to pre—covid restriction levels where people will be able to sit next to each other and enjoy a film on the big screen and we are all hoping that the data that comes out of these test events is what will facilitate the return to normal live events this coming summer. from our side, we are delighted to be a part of it and everything we can do to facilitate the return of live events at full capacity, we are happy to support. the dates i believe are the 23rd to the 25th of april, correct? that's correct. do you have enough time to get everything ready for those dates? we're hopeful. we have been producing open—air cinema events for the last 12 years, we're very experienced. i get the sense that everyone the government are working with to put these test events on are at the top of their game at have done this for years. we understand what the p

notwithstanding the help and support we've had off the government and certainly off the liverpool city council their support and messages of encouragement. have you been able to do sort of takeaways in the last few months or have you been completely shut? we've been completely shut. so we opened lastjuly and we got to october, because the pubs in liverpool got closed in october before anybody else. and so then we had six weeks where we could operate doing some take—out, which we did. we were then allowed to open for december, which was brilliant, and we were all looking forward to new year's eve and we got closed again then. and then from january onwards, pubs haven't been allowed to do any takeaway services at all. so what have you got lined up for tomorrow? just big smiles. big happy smiles, that's literally it. loads of those. big happy smiles, and we've got outside quite a small garden. it seats about 30—3a, but the council have us some seats outside, so we have an additional 2a seats outside of the walls, which is really helpful. what's the weather forecast like for liverpool tomorrow? su

liverpool and involves the outdoor luna cinema. a short time ago, i spoke to their managing director george wood, who said they are working with the city council in the instance of the luna cinema, it is open air. we are putting on three nights of open air cinema in the waterfront in liverpool and it really is as we understand it a chance to return to full capacity and for the government to actually analyse the data of how these events can run in a safe way with people back to pre—covid levels of capacity. from our side, anything we can do to support the return of live events in this country, we all feel passionate about. we are proud to be a part of it. yes, i think the whole country is going to be watching this experiment and really hoping it goes very well. how many people can you take there at the cinema? without social distancing and that is the whole aim of this we are looking at a capacity of 1000 people per night. we run these events, we have been running open air cinema for 12 years and it was last year we moved to a socially distanced layout where there was two metres between each visiting group and it worked perfectly well and it wa

we have a close working relationship with i a close working relationship with liverpool city council, you are an outdoor cinema. how do you envisage _ involved. you are an outdoor cinema. how do you envisage this _ involved. you are an outdoor cinema. how do you envisage this actually - how do you envisage this actually working in practice?— working in practice? that's right. we are an _ working in practice? that's right. we are an outdoor— working in practice? that's right. we are an outdoor cinema, - working in practice? that's right. we are an outdoor cinema, we i working in practice? that's right. - we are an outdoor cinema, we moved to dry than in the last year because of the pandemic but our bread and butter is outdoor cinema and running these events come at last year, in 2020, was challenging because the imposition of social distancing rules affects us just in the same way it would affect a comedy event or live music or theatre, you require the audience to be in a certain degree of proximity and in a certain degree of proximity and in a certain number in orderfor the atmosphere

big city regions like greater manchester, west midlands, liverpool, and for the first time the west yorkshire region around leeds. and those are, to be clear, distinct from local mayors who are councilon, we were talking about turn out essentially and in some years when it is not a general election, like this time, you could be looking at turnout of around 30%, yet when you think what a huge role local or devolved regional administrations play in all our lives, is it a bit dispiriting that turnout can be around that sort of figure? i turnout can be around that sort of firure? ~ , turnout can be around that sort of firure? ~' , , figure? i think in this country we have rot figure? i think in this country we have got used — figure? i think in this country we have got used to _ figure? i think in this country we have got used to relatively - have got used to relatively disappointing turnout levels. when you compare it to some other countries in europe and elsewhere, even our general election turnout is nothing to be proud of. when it comes to the local and mayoral elections next month, i think between a quarter and a third of the electorate coming out to vote is what we would expect. p