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One of the city’s most popular events, the Liverpool Food and Drink Festival, will no longer run.

For the past 11 years, the festival has been one of the largest food and drink festivals in the North West and has attracted around 40,000 visitors to Sefton Park for the weekend-long celebration of Liverpool's food scene.

Both the September event and the Liverpool Spring Food and Drink Festival, which runs in April, have been cancelled. The company who runs the event claimed they have cancelled it due to high running costs.

Founder Denise Harris, from SKEvents, today told the ECHO: "Due to the extremely high increase of costs required to put on the Liverpool Food & Drink Festival, the festival is no longer sustainable."

(Image: Liverpool Echo)

A notice on Companies House has revealed SKEvents went into voluntary liquidation in January and an extraordinary winding up resolution was passed on February 1.

The Liverpool Food and Drink Festival was originally free to attend, but became a ticketed event as it grew in size. The Spring festival was introduced in 2016.

Over the years it has brought some of the biggest celebrity chefs to the city including Gino D’ACampo, Simon Rimmer, Raymond Blanc and David Myers and Si King, also known as the Hairy Bikers.

The festival has also helped launch local restaurants and provided independent eateries with a platform to get into the industry.

Liverpool Food and Drink Festival also had a dedicated area for kids with a mini-farm, fairground rides and children’s activities.