00:00From the friendly faces and green spaces to the pub crawlers and independent owners, what
00:07do you love most about Liverpool?
00:09Aimed at bringing communities together over a shared love of our city, the Love Your campaign
00:14seeks to highlight all the things we are rightly proud of in our city.
00:19With that in mind, I'd like to share my own personal love letter to Liverpool.
00:22These are just a few of the reasons why I love our city so much.
00:27And what else makes a place but the people?
00:29Doing my job, I'm lucky enough to be out and about speaking to a diverse group of people
00:34from all walks of life on an almost daily basis.
00:36Our humour and quick-wittedness never makes a dull day.
00:40That's one of the reasons I love what I do so much.
00:43The strength, tenacity and drive of those campaigners, leaders and ordinary men and
00:48women is something to be proud of.
00:50There are over 2,500 acres of park and open spaces in our city, but my personal favourite
00:56park has to be Sefton.
00:57The 200-acre site has a lake, cafes, tennis courts, playgrounds.
01:02I can spend hours here just getting lost in nature, despite how many times I've visited.
01:06The farmhouse nestled in the ground of the park also provides a welcome warming relief
01:11from the cold in the winter and there's just something about being surrounded by that botanic
01:16collection that really gets the air in your lungs.
01:19They say food is a way to a man's heart and to that I say it's also the way to mine.
01:24We have so many great local independent restaurants in the city which deserve recognition from
01:28the food markets, takeaways, everything in between.
01:32Liverpool is home to the longest established Chinese community in Europe.
01:36It's almost 200 years later we can see the impact of this immigration on the city's Chinatown.
01:42We are a city renowned for our historic architecture with film and TV shows being shot here.
01:47Our city is rightly famous for our skyline, dominated by the Three Graces.
01:52My favourite building in the city has to be Liverpool Cathedral.
01:55It's the largest cathedral in the UK, one of the biggest in the world and there's just
01:59something about it's always intimidating gothic presence which I just find captivating.
02:06As part of Love Your, to highlight the reasons why we love Liverpool, we have been on the
02:10streets of the city to ask what your favourite spot is and why you love it.
02:16I love the walk to Watterspool.
02:19It's really nice on a day like this.
02:21It's picturesque.
02:23You can have one or two stopping off points along the way.
02:27It's not that far and it's just, I think, very good for you.
02:34Where I was born and brought up, St Domingo Road, Everton, Everton Brow, the original
02:45Gracie Market.
02:46And I love going down the river and seeing all the yachts.
02:49It's like as though you're abroad.
02:51It really is nice, yes.
02:53The Royal Court is doing a fantastic thing for Sir Ken Dodd.
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