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I HAVE just one question for Mark Dowd, chair of Merseytravel (Mailbox, April 6). If there is an outstanding tunnel debt, how could there possibly be any surplus to spend on anything else? Name and address supplied

THANKS again to the Globe for covering the opposition to Tunnels Tolls (Globe, April 6). You reported that a Merseytravel spokesman said that they stopped our protest because we were going to hang a banner from the bridge railings. This would have been

OH how I agree with your reader (Mailbox, April 6)! Taxi drivers think they're above the law, and hurl abuse at anyone who questions them. Roundabouts are my big issue. All traffic must give way to vehicles approaching from the right, so why have I had

THE fire service is urging people to fit smoke alarms after a 52-year-old Wirral woman died during a blaze in her ground-floor flat. The woman, whose name has not yet been released, was feared trapped in the flat in Sefton Road, New Ferry, just before

A Wirral school club has received the Ofsted seal of approval after making a difference to the lives of many local families. The CATS club, based at Cathcart Street Primary School in Birkenhead, has a breakfast and after school club as well as opening

THE finishing touches are being added to a £1bn revamp scheme for the former Cammell Laird shipyard. Business consortium Reddington Finance claim they have the backing of Middle East investors from Dubai for the transformation of a dour industrial site

WOMEN were able to get specialised advice at an information day in Birkenhead organised by Wirral Community Safety Team. Several organisations met at the St James Centre, Laird Street, last week to ensure women were aware of the support available to them

A UNIVERSITY vet from Wirral has developed a new food to help relieve the pain of a strain of arthritis suffered by dogs. Professor John Innes, from the University's Department of Veterinary Clinical Science, has been working with colleagues at the University

WIRRAL has been named as an official American Civil War Heritage Site. The borough is only the second district in the world outside the USA to be awarded the status. Wirral was jointly awarded with Liverpool by the Whitehouse-sponsored Civil War Preservation

Hundreds of dogs and cats are fighting for the prestigious title of Pet Idol 2005, with rabbits and horses also determined to make it to the winner's enclosure. Applications are being encouraged from snakes, monkeys, rats and spiders as they are currently

WIRRAL councillor Oliver Adam has dropped a political bombshell by switching allegiance from Liberal Democrat to Conservative. The 32-year-old former freelance journalist has crossed the floor of Wirral Council because of growing disillusionment with

A PORT SUNLIGHT action group is calling on villagers to make their voices heard on plans for a massive housing development. Save Port Sunlight hopes people will put pen to paper and demonstrate their strength of feeling to a public inquiry which is being

MAJOR development companies are waiting in the wings to grab a lucrative slice of New Brighton's regeneration process, according to heritage campaigners - writes Geoff Barnes. Wirral Council disclosed this week that approaches had been received from two

A WIRRAL archaeologist has un-earthed a bridge believed to be from the Viking era. The discovery was originally made last summer when engineers began construction on the new by-pass at Saughall Massie. Since then independent landscape archaeologist Jenny

PAT Butterworth's experience of disposal of syringes is not unique ('Diabetic Mum gets the needle of NHS', Globe, April 6). I too have shared her concerns. Why does it take a call from the Globe to the Primary Care Trust to resolve the issue? Matt Carter

DAVE Louden asks who had ever suggested that tunnel tolls should be financed from the Council Tax. Well, I guess that would be me. He's right that no one has suggested such a move so far in this debate, but I mentioned it for two reasons. Firstly, the

TAXIS? Great, aren't they? Even sitting in the taxi office is dangerous, what with the stench of cigarette smoke forcing you to get a taxi you then have to suffer with an unsociable, ungrateful idiot who has spent the last half hour sounding his horn

FIVE years ago Captain Dennis Titherington was all at sea when it came to golf. Now he's one of the game's most enthusiastic supporters - which is why colleagues at Mersey Ferries bought their Operations Manager a set of clubs on his retirement. Dennis

A CAR crash which led to the death of a friend would live with the driver throughout his life, Wirral Magistrates' Court was told. James Scott Andrews, 24, of Waterloo Warehouse, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to driving his Peugeot car carelessly in Pump

A RESIDENTIAL tower block that houses three communications masts is being investigated by health chiefs concerned about the number of cancer cases among residents.. In the last 18 months, seven residents of Liscard House, Wallasey, have died from cancer

RADIO City presenter Pete Price is calling on Globe readers to buy a wristband and support Claire House's latest campaign. Pete popped into Claire House last week to launch the trendy new 'Smile - it's a new day' wristbands. The blue bands are available

TWO West Kirby teenagers are trying to attract sponsorship to help them get to Thailand to spend a month working with disabled orphans - writes Justin Dunn. Marcel Deer, 18, and girlfriend Lauren Avery, 16, need help to pay for flights and accommodation

NEW "dedicated" police teams will be assigned to each area of Wirral depending on localised crime rates, Home Office minister Hazel Blears said last week. The teams would be made up of full police officers and community support officers - the numbers

ENTHUSIASTS fighting for a skateboard park in West Kirby are holding a fund-raising bag-packing session this weekend. A determined group of campaigners - parents and youngsters - will pack bags for customers at Morrison's in Dee Lane, West Kirby between

STUDENTS and parents have joined forces with householders and former pupils to step up the fight to save their local school. Labour MPs Frank Field and Ben Chapman pledged their support for the campaign at a special meeting at the Dell Primary School.

HUNDREDS of fashion followers watched the Hollyoaks girls take to the catwalk dressed in Hoylake boutique Cello's finest wares on Thursday. Organised by Cello's Louisa Kelly and Laura Ward the fashion show at the Firehouse on Albert Road raised £3,000

HIS name is Craig - Daniel Craig. And the Wirral actor is hotly tipped to replace Pierce Brosnan as big screen MI6 super-agent, James Bond. Studio bosses are so far refusing to be shaken or stirred by national press reports that 37-year-old Daniel, a

WEEKLY one-bin-takes-all collections throughout Wirral will be scrapped if new rubbish disposal plans get the go-ahead. A shake-up in the way the borough disposes of its garbage has been called for because Wirral has one of the worst records in the country

IT IS well known that the league table results do not compare like-for-like year 6 SAT averages from school to school on a local or national level. My children are of varying abilities. One has been special needs, the need resolved, and is now doing exceptionally

I HAVE recently retired as a taxi driver after running a cab on Wirral for 16 years. I moved here with my wife (who was born on Wirral) from Pickering, North Yorkshire, and bought a car for taxi driving. I have been astounded at the many firms I drove

I AM unfortunately unable to drive any longer and use taxis every day. Why is it that at least 70 per cent of them are uncouth, horrible individuals who seemingly have not got the intelligence to even open up a conversation? All I get is Neanderthal grunts

I AM a private hire driver and have been for nine years. What I think I am is hard-working and underpaid for starters, as well as having to put up with mindless idiots in my car, or people who just stroll drunk all over the road. Or what about the people