The Anthony Nolan Trust is calling on the people of Liverpool, aged 18 - 40, to help save lives and join the Anthony Nolan bone marrow register on 3 September at a special clinic hosted by the Liverpool Echo.

The recruitment drive will be filmed for Noel Edmond’s new show ‘Noel’s HQ’, which launches on SKY1 on 14 September. A celebrity face will be drumming up support in Liverpool city centre throughout the day, encouraging people to come to the clinic which will be held between 4pm - 7pm.

Noel Edmonds hopes that the clinic will help children like Ella & Sam Wright, 7 & 4, brother and sister from Southport, who both have a rare genetic condition and desperately need a bone marrow donor to survive.

Their mum, Sally, said:

“Words can’t describe how happy we would be to find a suitable match for Ella and Sam. Our children are so young; they don’t really know what’s going on. All we do is hope that people hearing our story will step forward to help not only Ella and Sam, but also the thousands of other people who are waiting in hope. Every single person who joins the Anthony Nolan Trust’s register has the potential to save a life. It could be you.”

Noel Edmonds was inspired to help raise awareness of the need for more donors, by 26 year old Adrian Sudbury, who recently lost his battle with leukaemia. Adrian, a former University of Liverpool student, bravely campaigned to boost the number of donors on The Anthony Nolan bone marrow register.

For the 16,000 people worldwide desperately in need of a bone marrow transplant, including Ella & Sam, a bone marrow donor whose tissue type matches their own could mean the difference between life and death. This is a real call to action for people in Liverpool - we need as many healthy people aged between 18-40 to come forward and join the register.

The clinic takes place in the Atrium at Liverpool Echo, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L69 3EB from 4-7pm

Ubiquity creating an email including selected content

For those of you who have made the switch to superior web browser Firefox, and are using its most up to date version, a new super-duper extension has been released full of innovative ideas.

Ubiquity is an add-on that could make using the web much, much easier. Once installed, Ubiquity lets you:

• select copy and images from a web page and pop them in a new email (if using GMail) straight from that web page
• find and insert maps into emails, rather than sending just a link
• translate foreign text directly in the page you are looking at
• edit a web page’s content
• delete HTML elements from a page
• search a plethora of seach engines and Wikipedia for highlighted text from a web page
• tons more stuff we haven’t discovered yet.

It’s still in Alpha release, so expect bugs, but after playing around with it we can report it’s well worth investigating and has great potential.

Learn more and intsall Ubiquity here.

Read the user tutorial to see some of what it can do.

If you give it a whirl, why not let us know what you think in our comments?

*According to our online survey

Following on from the outrage generated by the Policy Exchange think tank’s suggestion that the North was beyond saving and we should all move to Cambridge, we asked for your opinions in our quick poll on our main website.

We asked ‘Has regeneration failed in the North?’ Over two weeks 646 of you voted and an overwhelming 91.95% agreed. So perhaps the policy think tank wasn’t so wrong after all! Now, this was only a simple yes / no question about a much more complex subject. But is this really representative of our visitors’ views?

Let us know what you think by leaving a comment here.

This week we are asking - following the successful Mathew Street Festival, should the local authority fund public entertainment or should the city’s business community do more to financially support the festival? Visit the Chamber’s main home page to cast your vote, or share your ideas on this blog.