Liverpool Pub Watch is giving its full backing to a campaign by North West Ambulance Service to highlight that verbal or physical abuse of ambulance staff can result in prosecution.

The Chamber’s Business Crime Direct team has circulated posters warning of the penalties of abusing paramedics throughout pubs and bars in Liverpool city centre and these are supported by banners at prominent city centre locations, such as Concert Square.

In addition, in a move believed to be a first, anyone who is arrested following an incident involving ambulance crew will receive a ban from Liverpool city centre Pub Watch area of between 6-12 months.

Read more about this story on the Liverpool Chamber website.

The Daily Telegraph is looking to do a piece on how businesses are coping with the increasing complexity of employment legislation.

Essentially it will be based on the question: How do you employ someone?

They are looking for two firms in any sector, employing 20-30 people to take part in telephone interview.

The piece will run in the first couple of weeks of the New Year.

If you  would like to be involved contact Nick Dines, British Chamber of Commerce’s Head of Communications on 0207 654 5812 or email: n.dines@britishchambers.org.uk

This time of year just wouldn’t be right without some lists looking back over the past twelve months. So to avoid being left out, here’s a little look at how Liverpool Chamber got on online in 2007:

• Liverpool Chamber’s main website had over 382,200 unique visitors
• Over 1,201,700 page views
• An average of 1,134 visits a day
• An average of 3,565 page views a day
• Our most popular pages were from the Members’ Directory (where all members can be found by potential customers)
• We took over 400 online event bookings and membership applications
• Our fantabulous free e-newsletter is now received by over 7,000 people a week (you can sign up in the box to the right or here on our main site)
• This blog has had over 50,770 visitors
• The blog now contains nearly 700 stories in 47 different categories

2008 promises to be an even more exciting year for Liverpool Chamber. As well as playing an important role in Liverpool’s Capital of Culture celebrations, we will be continuing to improve the range and quality of services we provide our members. We will also be launching a brand new website with lots of new and exciting online functions. These will make it even easier for you to do business with us and your customers.

So a big thanks to everyone who has visited us and supported us this year. We’ll try and do even better in 2008.