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New proposals continue to come forward for St Johns Beacon as work progresses on the landmark building. Managers say the deadline for submissions has been extended to allow further bids.

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00:00I think it would be lovely as a restaurant again, to be honest.
00:03I think it would be lovely as something that the public would go in
00:06and use for various things or even some kind of a museum.
00:13Revolving Cabaret, how about that?
00:15Whatever it is, I want to see it spin around,
00:17because it used to spin around.
00:19Not like really fast, like a rollercoaster.
00:21I think that would be probably quite insane.
00:24I don't know, but whatever it is, I think it should spin around.
00:27I guess a community radio, something which gives an alternative
00:32to the rather monochrome news output that we get from the established media.
00:40But it's good for tourists, though.
00:42Like, I've been up there, and you can see everywhere, can't you?
00:45I seem to remember the lift is fairly small,
00:47so how practical that would be, I don't know.
00:50But, yeah, that's the best I can come up with.
00:53It's part of Liverpool's skyline.
00:55I think there's some history some time ago about why they created it like it did,
00:59because I think it was largely built similar to that of Berlin,
01:03where you have the big dome,
01:05which was then inspired by the Sputnik Russian spacecraft.
01:11I've just come back from Poland
01:12and describing all the interesting idiosyncratic things.
01:17And Radio City wasn't mentioned, I have to say.
01:20You don't see many buildings like that around at all,
01:24so, yeah, I think it's quite an iconic building in Liverpool,
01:26so nice to keep things that are a bit different, like the rest of us.
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