MESSAGES are to float across Liverpool's skyline as Morse Code dots and dashes in a novel lighting scheme. Powerful beams of light will link buildings, using specially-installed beacons as part of the River of Light programme. The beams, to be installed later this year, will switch from red to blue when the morse code dots and dashes are transmitted. The two cathedrals, the Three Graces and some of Liverpool's architectural gems are expected to sign up to the 'Morse Code' project. Many of Merseyside's most important buildings are now bathed in light as part of the City of Light and River of Light programmes. Last week Liverpool Vision, the city centre regeneration company won a special award at the Daily Post-sponsored Property Awards presentations. The award was given for Vision's work on lighting up Liverpool. Heather Sewell of the Mersey Partnership said: "The River of Light will encompass the whole of the city's waterfront area and even farther-reaching places." Eventually 64 major buildings will be illuminated, including the Mersey Tunnel ventilation shaft and St John's Beacon, joining the cathedral, Cultural Quarter and Town Hall as floodlit buildings. Many of the buildings will be fitted with the light beacons that will project the beams for up to three kilometres. Using Morse Code, messages will be sent from building to building to celebrate important events and to transmit messages from visitors to the River of Light website. Principal Lighting Designer Clare Grindey said: "The beacons will be a linking across the entire Mersey Waterfront area. They'll stretch across four key areas - Halton,, Wirral, Sefton and Liverpool." Each beacon will be able to send messages in Morse format either flowing along the chain in a sequence, or simultaneously. Control of the messages and lights will be web-based and anyone with access to the internet can send a message. Miss Grindey added: "Webcams at key locations will enable people from say, Runcorn, to see what is happening in Southport. "The beacons can also generate the same message at the same time, for example if they wanted to unite to celebrate a particular event." The scheme will be up and running within six months. | 
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