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  • Lack of liaison is costing US money

    From Angry:- I WOULD like know who was responsible for authorising the recent white lining and marking of parking bays throughout Hoylake's Market Street and surrounding roads during the recent water main repairs. I do feel that the person concerned should

  • From Concerned:-

    AS an Asda shopper, I was greatly disturbed to read of the incident reported in the Globe of (Mailbox, October 14th). What concerned me was the apparent attitude of the security officer who, instead of assessing the situation and dealing with it in a

  • Wallasey Sunday Football League

    RESULTS: Sunday, November 8:- Cheshire Sunday Cup (2nd Round) - The Queens 3, Parkside 1; Thatched Tavern 3, Poulton Royal 0. Premier Division - St Joseph's 3, The Nelson 1; Old Bank 6, Millhouse 3; St Mary's 17, Gorsedale 1. Division One - Parkfield

  • Houlihan's Birkenhead Sunday Football League

    RESULTS: Sunday, November 8:- FA National Sunday Cup - Queens Park 2, Littlewoods Ath 3. Cheshire Sunday Cup - Rock Ferry Soc 3, Medoak 4; Queens Liscard 3, Parkside 1; Christie's 1, Stockports LC 4; Old House at Home 5, Parkdale 3; FC Grosvenor 1, Ship

  • South Wirral Football League

    RESULTS: Saturday, November 7:- Robin Hodgson Division - Charing Cross 6, Halfway Ath 1; Grange Ath 4, Bronze Soc 1; Manor Ath 2, West Kirby 0. Concorde Trophies Division - Bebington Ath 1, Acorn 4; Bebington Hawks 3, BICC Helsby 4; Manor Ath 2, Vanser

  • SAILING CLUB RESULTS

    WEST KIRBY SC: Handicap Dinghy Races: Race 1: 1, Pandemonium (N. Meredith-Jones); 2, RS 200 (R. Robinson); 3, Gramaphone (M. Hartley). Race 2: 1, Black of the Fleet (P. Johnson); 2, Pandemonium; 3, See Dee (J. Carlin). HOYLAKE SC: All three races: 1,

  • Beaten Blues 'title material'

    Stourbridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6pts, New Brighton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3pts EVEN without the cutting edge of Ian Kennedy, injured in a motoring accident, New Brighton had the winning of this Jewsons National League 2 encounter. With the

  • Prenton Pups' birthdays

    CELEBRATING their birthdays this week are the following members of the Prenton Pups, Tranmere Rovers' official youngsters' club which is sponsored by the Wirral Globe. Thursday, November 12 - Mark Roberts. Friday, November 13 - Daniel King. Monday, November

  • HEY! BIG SPENDER!

    Sweet Charity is being performed by Wallasey Operatic Society at the Floral Pavilion, New Brighton, between Wednesday and Saturday, November 25 to 28. Gina Davies takes the title role of Miss Charity Hope Valentine and Gerry Johnston is her main amour

  • lottery

    WIRRAL West MP Stephen Hesford has welcomed news from the National Lotteries Board that the bid he supported for Newton Village Hall has been successful and they are to scoop over £89,000. "This is particularly welcome since the hall's first bid last

  • West Kirby could earn top beach award

    WIRRAL COUNCIL wants to fly the flag for West Kirby Beach at Dee Lane. Leisure and Tourism councillors agree with their director, Andy Worthington, that they apply for a European Blue Flag Award for the quality of its sand and water. The Tidy Britain

  • Church to face the bulldozers

    WALLASEY'S red-bricked Emmanuel Church, in Seabank Road, faces demolition. A new church centre plus two blocks of flats for elderly people will be built, subject to planning permission. Plans can be viewed at the planning department next door to Wallasey

  • Model banker is a star for the day

    SOUTH Wirral business banker Jackie Williams became a model for the day after winning a competition to feature in the latest poster campaign for Barclays Small Business Banking, to appear across the UK until December 1998. Following a nationwide competition

  • UN quiz latest

    SIXTH forms throughout Wirral are brushing up on general knowledge for the next round of the United Nations' Association International Quiz. The results from the first round are as follows: Mosslands, 34, Pensby 18; St Anselms 'B', 41, Mostyn House, 20

  • MBE for local worthy

    LORD-LIEUTENANT of Merseyside, Alan W. Waterworth, has presented an award on behalf of The Queen to a local man for his services to the West Kirby Citizens' Advice Bureau. An MBE was presented to Mr Charles Noel Connor, who has served the CAB for 16 years

  • Wounding allegation

    A MORETON youth appeared at Liverpool Crown Court accused of wounding with intent. Colin Smith, aged 17, of Danger Lane, denied wounding Mathew Edwards with intent and also pleaded not guilty to a lesser alternative charge of wounding him. The incident

  • Alice murder latest

    KEVIN Joseph Morrison, aged 59, was further remanded in custody until November 23 for read-out committal proceedings by Wirral magistrates on Monday. Morrison, from Wettenhall Road, Poole near Nantwich, is charged with murdering Wirral pensioner Alice

  • Around your area

    A WHALE washed up dead on West Kirby beach was probably killed hitting rocks. A post mortem on the 22-foot creature found severe skull fractures. The body was taken to Leahurst veterinary college on the Chester High Road, Neston, for the post mortem.

  • Excavation turmoil enrages residents

    RESIDENTS of the Beaufort Road area of Birkenhead are furious at the problems caused by North West Water's (NWW) 32-week excavation work in the North End. At a meeting held at the construction site, residents expressed anger at the inconvenience caused

  • £23,000 DSS fraud admitted

    AN EASTHAM man has appeared at Liverpool Crown Court accused of DSS fraud. Michael McKnight, aged 54, of Eastham Rake, pleaded guilty to four offences of false accounting and one of obtaining property by deception. The offences span two-and-a-half years

  • Husband and wife convicted of drink-driving

    A HUSBAND and wife faced Wirral Magistrates for drink-driving. Joyce Marjorie Lloyd-Jones, aged 51, of Thornton Crescent, Gayton, was detained outside the Heswall restaurant where they had taken a meal. Ernest William Lloyd-Jones, 51, of the same address

  • Advent Concert

    AN Advent Concert is being presented at St Peter's Church, Lower Heswall, on Saturday, November 28 (7.30pm). Featuring the St Peter's Singers and Orchestra, the concert offers a special programme of English tradition and Italian romanticism. Tickets (

  • Wirral Met College seeks ambassadors

    WIRRAL Met College is looking for friends. Principal Jenny Shackleton hosted a breakfast meeting at the new IBMC in Birkenhead for would-be ambassadors. She told the invited audience: "Wirral Met College this morning launches a campaign which aims to

  • COLLEGE REMARKS TAKE THE BISCUIT

    From A. Robertson:- COUNCILLOR Tom Harney (Mailbox October 28) really takes the biscuit. Is this not the same Tom Harney who has been the Councillor for Eastham during the whole period that Carlett Park has been in decline? Is it not the same Tom Harney

  • PASSENGERS ARE BEING LEFT OUT IN THE POURING RAIN!

    From B.A. Develing:- I KNOW I speak for many people when I wonder why it appears that apparently there is going to be NO bus shelter erected for passengers on the No 5 bus services that utilise the bus stop on Boundary Road, New Ferry? This is a very

  • Eastham Sunday Junior Football League

    RESULTS: Sunday, November 8:- Under-10 Division - Young Lions 0, Ashville 3; Irby Jnrs 3, Stork 4; Fender Yth 4, Shaftesbury YC 3; Neston Nomads 3, Eastham Blades 1; Heygarth Utd 3, Squibb 3; Allport Hawks 1, Liscard Panthers 3; Parkdale 3, Shore Villa

  • Birkenhead & Wirral (Saturday) Football League

    RESULTS: Saturday, November 7:- Wirral Junior Cup (2nd Round) - Hope Farm 3, Gt Eastern 1; King's Arms (Bebington) 2, Rangers Brks 4; Knot Hotel 0, Parkfield BA 9; FC Pensby 3, Ashville 2. Regent Cup (2nd Round) - AC Brookley 2, Admiral 6; The Grange

  • Carlsberg West Cheshire Football League

    RESULTS: Saturday, November 7:- Division One - Heswall 4, Blacon YC 1. Division Two - Ashville Res 0, Christleton Res 1; Moreton 0, Heswall Res 1; Stork Res 1, Cammell Laird Res 8; Upton AA 3, Mersey Royal Res 4; West Kirby 2, Capenhurst Res 1. Division

  • Caldy crash to first defeat

    Local Rugby Round-up with ANDREW STRATTON OLDERSHAW won but Caldy and Birkenhead Park lost in North West One League matches at the weekend. It was a first league reverse for Caldy against a strong Aldwinians side. Ian Cropper managed a penalty and a drop

  • Blues' fire cup broadside

    NEW Brighton make the short journey to north Liverpool on Saturday to take on Waterloo in a much-awaited third round tie of the Tetley Bitter Cup. But the Blundellsands club has been accused of "selfish elitism" by Colin Bentley, New Brighton's outspoken

  • BEBINGTON DARTS LEAGUE

    (Sponsored by The Great Eastern for Banks's Brewery) RESULTS: Tuesday, November 3:- Division One - Abbotsford 5, Little House 'B' 4; Bebington Liberal Club 6, Gt Eastern 3; Bromboro' Pool 3, Eastham Home Guard 6; North Western 4, New Southend 5; RAFA

  • Win pair of tickets for Norwich City match

    GLOBE Sport, in association with Nationwide Building Society, sponsors of the Football League, is offering readers a chance to win a pair of Main Stand tickets to Tranmere Rovers' Division One match against Norwich City at Prenton Park on Saturday, November

  • Manager of the Month Aldo tells of his Irish dream . . .

    NATIONWIDE League Division One Manager of the Month John Aldridge has talked of his ambitions in international football - and reflected on how near he was to quitting Prenton Park. The Tranmere boss received the accolade for the first time in his managerial

  • Scott's return is Taylor-made!

    TRANMERE Rovers' former Bolton striker, Scott Taylor, is looking forward to his first ever Nationwide League Division One game at Wanderers' brand new Reebok Stadium on Saturday (kick-off 3pm). Taylor was offered a new deal at Bolton, but turned it down

  • sheltered

    WIRRAL West MP Stephen Hesford joined Alun Hughes, chief executive of the Wirral Methodist Housing Association on a visit to a new sheltered housing scheme in Woodchurch. Visiting the site of the new Whitefield Close, formerly Houghton Court, Mr Hesford

  • model resident

    WIRRAL council had to tell a model maker that his hobby was getting too big after he sited a 'large wagon container' at the rear of property in Grove Road, Rock Ferry. It was on a chunk of public open land near terraced houses in Grove Road, Mullberry

  • Car raider jailed

    Wirral Magistrates jailed a Wallasey man for thefts from vehicles. Ian Foster, aged 28, of Norwood Road, admitted one offence of taking binoculars, mobile phones and other items total value £625 belonging to James Pemberton at Auburn Road, Wallasey, in

  • Go-between sold gear to undercover police

    A ROCK Ferry man said to have been acting as a go-between appeared before Wirral magistrates. Michael Edward Hunnikin, aged 49, of Riviera Drive, admitted five charges of dishonesty undertaking or assisting in the handling of stolen goods including a

  • Tragedy of priest who feared parish move

    A BIRKENHEAD priest hanged himself with a skipping rope after worrying about taking over a new parish, the Wirral Coroner heard. Father Michael Thomas Raiswell was found hanging in a bedroom at St Joseph's Presbytery, Birkenhead, on August 14 this year

  • Post thief fails to return to court

    A WARRANT for the arrest of a Birkenhead man who stole mail while working as a temporary postman was issued by Liverpool Crown Court. Carl Powell, aged 20, of Challis Street, was due to be sentenced but he failed to attend court. Powell pleaded guilty

  • Busy Elaine scoops the jackpot

    A HECTIC day at the office made busier by staff shortages had a silver lining, on Friday, for mother-of-three Elaine Cooke - for in the middle of her work she received a telephone call to say she was this week's 2,000 pounds jackpot winner on the St John's

  • People flock to 'Light Up a Life for a Loved One'

    STAFF at St John's Hospice in Wirral are overwhelmed at the instant response to the launch, in last week's Globe, of this year's 'Light Up a Light for a Loved One' - a simple, yet deeply moving and immensely personal method by which members of the public

  • The Wirral Globe Interview: Stephen Hesford MP Wirral West

    Ex-lawyer explains brief as MP . . . . . .Working for what the community wants GLOBE reporter STEVE HUNTER talks one-to-one with Stephen Hesford, MP for Wirral West, in this second half of an in-depth interview. He talks candidly about Liverpool links

  • Dawn light revealed body of tragic soldier

    THE WIRRAL Coroner heard that marital problems may have caused a soldier to hang himself in the back garden of his army quarters. Andrew Martin Lee, whose wife is from Moreton, was found dead at his home in Gremendorf, Germany, on June 25 of this year

  • Christmas Fairs

    VARIOUS items, including Christmas cards in aid of St John's Hospice in Wirral, will be on sale at a fair being held on Friday (November 13) at Westbourne Hall, West Kirby (10am-2pm). Also present will be Allan Stewart, Manager of the St John's Hospice

  • Wirral backs Euro anti-drugs campaign

    WIRRAL is to play its part in European Drug Prevention Week, which starts on Monday (November 16). Highlight of the drive to increase awareness of the help and support available locally is a conference at Birkenhead Town Hall. Various local organisations

  • Couple's diamond celebration

    CELEBRATING their Diamond Wedding Anniversary this week are Harold and Elsie Osterman, of Western Avenue, Bromborough. It was 60 years ago tomorrow, on November 12, 1938, when Harold and Elsie married at Christ Church, Claughton, after a 10 year courtship

  • why cricket club was bowled out

    PLANNING committee chairman John Cocker often finds himself on the receiving end of council debate regarding controversial planning decisions. The Labour councillor for Liscard, a retired town planner, knows his stuff and weighs pros and cons. Often he

  • Foulkes resigns over police controversy

    WIRRAL councillor Stephen Foulkes (pictured) has resigned from Merseyside Police Authority following the controversy surrounding the appointment of Merseyside's new Chief Constable, Norman Bettison. The Labour councillor was not a member of the appointment

  • WIN A CALOR GAS MOBILE HEATER

    IT might be chilly, but you can be warm and cosy inside, wherever you are, thanks to Calor Gas dealer Wirral Bottle Gas, on New Chester Road, Birkenhead. Wirral Bottle Gas has teamed up with the Wirral Globe to offer three readers the chance to win a

  • Around Bebington

    BEBINGTON councillor Brian Cummings is campaigning on road safety in Stanton Road, Bebington. He is concerned about traffic conditions and a 'nasty bend' near Stanton Road playing fields. Double-decker buses use Stanton Road and Coun Cummings has written

  • POPPY DAY PARADE DRAMA: DRIVER IS CHARGED

    WAR veterans, elderly people and families scattered for safety as a Metro car drove towards a Remembrance Day parade at the Rake in Bromborough. A police spokesman said fortunately no one was hurt. Now the Metro driver, from the New Chester Road area

  • Imagine he's John Lennon

    ARMISTICE DAY. At 11am today (Wednesday) there will be two minutes' silence for those who died in World War One, 'the war to end all wars'. Few survivors remain now, 80 years after the Great War's Amistice. It is hard to imagine the carnage. Imagine therefore

  • MOTHER IN BONE MARROW APPEAL

    WORRIED MUM Karin Greaves, of Upton, this week makes a desperate appeal for a bone marrow donor for her married daughter Caroline, a 34-year-old mother of two young daughters under 10 years of age. Caroline has a life-threatening disease, an illness that

  • POIGNANT FUNERAL OF WWI HERO AT 11. 11. 11.

    TWO minutes' silence today, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, marking Armistice Day when the guns fell silent 80 years ago on the Western Front. At Landican Cemetery there will be a particularly poignant moment when a piper and drummer