Here’s a photographic record of the saddest moment of the summer.

Our very own Lambanana, ‘First Past The Post’ (otherwise known as Lamby) was taken away today and transported to a mystery location lambing shed in preperation for the auction of all the superlambananas on 9 September.

Lamby was painted by artist and Liverpool Chamber staff member Pamela Holstein.

He represented the Grand National Races, a highlight in the sport and one of our most popular corporate entertaining venues.

We’ll all be sad to see the little fellas go. They certainly added a touch of colour and humour to the old place.

The credit crunch. Everybody’s talking about it, but how is it really effecting you?

Liverpool Chamber want to know if and how the economic downturn is affecting your business so that we can assess how we may be able to help you.

We have teamed up with Liverpool-based fund manager, Alliance Fund Managers to help us devise a survey around this topic.  AFM manage the MSIF Group of Funds and can provide loans and equity packages from £3k to £4m to new and growing businesses throughout the region.

The funds managed by AFM are not affected by the credit crunch and may be able to help you with a variety of funding requirements including: start up, expansion, MBOs/MBIs, mergers, acquisitions and turnaround.

Our survey will only take a minute to complete and will help us build a better picture of how businesses in the region are feeling the effects of the economic downturn.

Take the credit crunch survey here.