Capital of Culture update: Race the Beatles

Having managed to screw up much of the rest of the plans for 2008, Liverpool seems to have abandoned any attempt to use the year to announce to the world that there's more to Merseyside culture than The Beatles, and now seem to just be concentrating on shoring up Beatles tourism.

So it is that this year, they've given the half-marathon a Beatles theme.

Presumably if you don't make it all the way through to the end, you'll be termed a Stuart Sutcliffe.