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  • New Rover ranges

    FOLLOWING the successful launch in April of the new Rover 200 and 400 SEi, iL and iS new derivatives, Rover has revised and simplified both ranges to provide outstanding specification and value for money. The new entry model for the Rover 200 range is

  • WINDSORS ROVER 75 LAUNCH

    THE eagerly awaited Superb new Rover 75 will be arriving at Windsors of Wallasey and Heswall, tomorrow, Thursday, June 17, 1999. For a personal invitation to the launch event at Hillbark, Royden Park, Frankby, please phone Geoff Atherton at Windsors Wallasey

  • New high-performance Proton launch

    PROTON has released the official picture of its new high performance GTi model to coincide with the opening of a £62.5 million vehicle design and development facility at its manufacturing plant in Malaysia. Stunning to look at and with performance to

  • Advertising Feature

    Superb service at Lookers Masterfit LOOKERS Wallasey offer superb quality for sales and service at their new Masterfit operation in Rake Lane. Celebrating their first birthday, Lookers Wallasey have just completed a new refurbishment of the premises,

  • Vauxhall Opel Concept Car

    VAUXHALL'S sister company Opel presented a design study of a new concept leisure vehicle at Geneva Motor Show, and the highly versatile prototype micro car, Concept A, features a particularly environmentally compatible, dual-fuel drive. Concept A has

  • Challenge for motor dealers

    CALLING all motor dealers: 3 Counties are once again inviting you to take part in a charity football seven-a-side competition to raise funds for Claire House Children's Hospice. The Claire House seven-a-side tournament, running for the third year, takes

  • Don't just read about Jeep - try one out!

    JEEP has been very much in the spotlight following the arrival at Cubbin and North of the new Jeep Cherokee range in their showroom in Birkenhead. The all-new luxury 4x4 vehicle, the Jeep Grand Cherokee features a choice of 4.0-litre or 4.7-litre V8 petrol

  • They Think It's All Over video winners.

    CONGRATULATIONS to the following 10 lucky Globe Sport readers who each won a copy of 'The Complete They Think It's All Over' double video, produced by BBC Worldwide. The 10 lucky winners are Mrs S. Gardner of Birkenhead, N. Bullock of Birkenhead, Ms M

  • Going for Gold!

    MEMBERS of the successful Richard Saunders School of Taekwondo were celebrating again after winning 21 trophies at the Welsh closed Championships in Newport, a haul which included nine first place medals, and followed that with more success winning 12

  • Caldy stretch lead at the top.

    by Andrew Stratton. PORT Sunlight lost and the other three local sides drew in close Bromborough Paints Merseyside Cricket Competition matches in Division One. Caldy now lead Sutton by just seven points. In Division Two Birkenhead St Mary's have a two

  • Greasby Methodists lift Cup!

    THE Merseyside Inter-Church 150 Soccer League - so called because the combined ages of all players in a team must not exceed that number of years - is enjoying its fourth season, with seven teams from Wirral and two from Liverpool. Maximum permitted age

  • Anthony's splash for charity

    SWIMMING star Anthony Hughes (pictured above) of Rock Ferry has been making a splash again by raising £110.80p for the BT Blue Peter Swimathon 1999. This is the third successive year, eight-year-old Anthony has raised money for the BT Blue Peter Swimathon

  • Waterfront fete

    THE Rock Ferry/New Ferry waterfront hosts a fete on Saturday, June 19, including hot air balloons and clowns. Admission is free. It is organised by Lairdside, and the balloons will be on site from noon until 4pm. Visiting traffic will be directed down

  • Missing appeal rights can seriously damage your wealth

    THIS popular column by welfare rights expert Jim Strang this week deals with the new system regarding how you appeal against a Social Security decision. The new system is cleverly being introduced at stages during 1999. This article deals with the request

  • FUN ALL SUMMER AT NEW BRIGHTON

    NEW BRIGHTON will be the hive of activity over the next few weeks starting with the Mersey River Festival this weekend. A host of events are being held in the former resort. Sea shanties will be sung down by the river in Victoria Road while there will

  • CHAOS IN PIPELINE

    BUSY Neston Town Centre is to be subject of major road works during July and August. Special traffic arrangements will have to be made when renewal of the water mains is carried out by North West Water. The market town will have road closures including

  • Murder charge

    TWO Moreton men charged with murder have been bailed for another three weeks for committal proceedings by Wirral Magistrates. Serving soldier Paul David Owen, 29, and Gary Lee Young, 26, must reside away from the Wirral - Owen at his Army unit and Young

  • Mum-to-be Rachel's a lottery winner!

    THIS week's £2,000 jackpot win on the St John's Hospice in Wirral Weekly Lottery couldn't have been more perfectly timed for Rachel Green of Heswall . . . For Rachel is expecting her first child on July 11 and, together with husband Michael, has just

  • Walkers' great day down under

    THE Queensway Birkenhead tunnel banned traffic and opened its lanes for the public to enjoy a unique experience on Sunday with the under-river walk in aid of North West Cancer Research. With the Phantom of the Opera resting his sore throat after a triumphant

  • Euro poll gives Labour food for thought

    LABOUR in Wirral will be digesting the Tories' success in the European Elections. The Conservatives made up lost ground in the North West, winning five of the regions' 10 seats for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). As the votes came in, Labour

  • Holiday couple hung just inches from death after crash

    A WIRRAL couple are recovering this week after a bus crash in Turkey left them teetering on the edge of a cliff just inches from a fatal fall. Michael Sullivan, from Meols, and Jane Hughes, of Hoylake, suffered their terrifying ordeal when they were on

  • Boyfriend denies solicitor's murder

    A 47-YEAR-OLD businessman made his first appearance at Liverpool Crown Court last week accused of murdering Wirral solicitor Cheryl Lewis. John Frederick Allan, of Woodbank Park, Oxton, pleaded not guilty to murdering his girlfriend Miss Lewis in Luxor

  • Tony Jardine races at Oulton Park

    IT'S Midsummer at Oulton Park, in Cheshire, this Saturday for the UK Formula 3000 meeting. Backing up the big powerful cars will be Mini Miglias and Mini Se7ens, Champion of Oulton, Protons plus supporting races. Wirral's F1 TV man Tony Jardine will be

  • Fast track Chris

    THE thrills and spills of car racing have helped Chris Owen, pictured below, onto the fast track to success. The 27-year-old from Neston finds the excitement of racing puts him in 'pole position' to tackle his job as senior quantity surveyor with developer

  • Mitchell Mitsubishi supports Pensby Road Runners

    MITCHELL Mitsubishi supported Pensby Road Runners when they provided a four-wheel-drive relay vehicle when the running team competed in the Caenarvon to Cardiff Welsh Castles Relay, and produced a top half placing. Said Managing Director of Mitchell Mitsubishi

  • Frank says Have a 'wash' to help guide dogs

    WIRRAL'S Skoda dealer Frank Brennan at Wallasey Car Centre has a pet charity close to many hearts - Guide Dogs for the Blind. Frank says everyone taking their car in for a car wash at his Liscard premises, on Saturday, between 9am and 5pm, with all the

  • Belt-up

    PUPILS at St. Anselms co-ed prep school in Birkenhead will be told in no uncertain terms to 'Belt up' tomorrow (Thursday). Merseyside Police launch a back-seat belt-up campaign at the school with 40 pupils being put in a big belt to show how many lives

  • Top cue for Wirral snooker team

    RIGHT on cue, that's Eastham Home Guard Snooker team who have won the Merseyside ABA Championship Bowl for the first time in their history, when they defeated Huyton Constitutional Club in the final. The prestigious event dates back to 1957, and the Wirral

  • Sailing round-up

    CRISP racing in a keen westerly wind on Sunday made up for the disappointment of Saturday in Hoylake Sailing Club's two day Regatta. Crews on the opening day had to contend with rain and a fickle breeze. Opera races were won by Peter Stott and Mike Jones

  • Cream of Wirral talent dominate North-West hockey squad.

    WIRRAL players dominated the latest squad picked for the North-West Under-15 representative hockey team. Of the 16 boys selected from the whole of the North West 11 were from Wirral and all of those were from just two schools - Birkenhead and Caldy Grange

  • Happy birthday Prenton Pups

    These members of the Prenton Pups, Tranmere Rovers' official youngsters' club which is sponsored by the Wirral Globe, celebrate birthdays this week:- Friday, June 18th: Emily Little. Sunday, June 20th: Sorcha Settle. Monday, June 21st: Dean Ferns. Converted

  • Tranmere sells as Irons is hot

    Sale of Captain Marvel Irons eases financial 'critical list' Steve Hunter reports from Prenton Park. TRANMERE Rovers' immediate financial future is secure following the sale of influential captain Kenny Irons to fellow Nationwide Division One side Huddersfield

  • library closed

    BEBINGTON Library closed on Monday for one week so that staff could move it to another part of the Bebington Civic Centre while major renovation of the whole building takes place. Converted for the new archive on 13 March 2001. Some images and formatting

  • Wirral Way fears

    WIRRAL WAY walker Mrs Jennifer Jackson, of Willaston, is complaining about the building of a 'mini-motorway' along the country park rambling route between Hooton and West Kirby. She says the Wirral Way Millennium Cycle Path will hurt wildlife and upset

  • Bomb alert on Mersey

    THE River Mersey, off Egremont, was the scene of a major bomb alert last week. A rusty gas bottle was mistaken for an unexploded WWII bomb and a Navy Bomb Disposal Team spent five hours driving from Plymouth to attend. Police and Wirral Council threw

  • Mel's chance to be Emma's Prince Charming

    PYRAMID director Mel Glasby is playing 'Prince Charming' by offering his seat to Wirral Globe charity queen Queen Emma Povall (pictured). Blonde Emma, of Birkenhead, was desperately seeking a throne for her carriage in the Heswall Festival parade on Saturday

  • Fairytale chance to be a star of the stage . . .

    THE search is on for a Snow White to play the title role in Wirral's annual Christmas pantomime staged by the council at the Floral Pavilion, New Brighton. David Lee of Pantoni Productions, the boss of what will be a star-studded Millennium panto, says

  • SAVE OUR HOYLAKE

    RESIDENTS are going about the streets of Hoylake photographing buildings in a bid to get Wirral Council to create a Conservation Area. Spurred into action by the demolition of cornerstone buildings like Stanley Hotel and Broomfield, newly-formed Hoylake

  • Sure cure for holiday blues

    Wirral Council Leader Dave Jackson (Labour) writes exclusively for the Wirral Globe. DO you suffer from post holiday blues? You save up all year, have a fabulous time away. Then you come home to find it's raining, the post is nothing but bills and you've

  • Facts dispute

    SENTENCE on a young Wirral man who slashed another youth has been adjourned because of a dispute over the facts. Anthony Jones, aged 19, of Brooklands, Brook Street, Birkenhead, was due to be sentenced last Friday at Liverpool Crown Court. At an earlier

  • Local worthies recognised in Queen's Birthday List

    A WALLASEY woman has been awarded an OBE for services to special needs education in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Pat Stewart, head teacher at Clatterbridge Special School, Bebington, said: "I'm extremely honoured to get an OBE. It's really a celebration

  • Around the Globe

    LIVINGSTONE Street Play and Community Centre are holding their annual meeting at the centre, St Anne's Street, Birkenhead, tomorrow (Thursday). For more details call Sean on 647-7587. DORIS Davison, who delivered over 900 babies in her time as district

  • Schizophrenic killed girlfriend after halting medication

    A SCHIZOPHRENIC battered his girlfriend to death after he stopped taking his medication and became mentally unwell again, Liverpool Crown Court heard last week. Paul Horrocks launched a frenzied attack on 24-year-old Carol Houghton at his Wirral home