Orange sellers and a dodgy ski slope

5 cultural things to do this week: Friday 10 July to Thursday 16 July

It doesn’t take much to send me down a rabbit hole of research so when I heard that the Royal Court’s new play is based on the true life story of plans to build a ski slope in Kirkby, I couldn’t resist digging into the British Newspaper Archive. This tale has been one of my favourite stories about Merseyside since I first heard about it as a young repor…