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  • Open Golf:: Park and ride sites now identified

    KEY park-and-ride sites for July's Open Golf Championship have been identified following talks between golf's ruling body, the Royal and Ancient, and the local authority. Visitors to the championship at the Royal Liverpool golf links have been advised

  • Warship trust is now in liquidation

    By Frances Earlam THE WARSHIP Preservation Trust has been placed into voluntary liquidation despite offers of financial help to keep the trust's collection in Merseyside. In the past week, Wirral Council has made £50,000 available while the Northwest

  • Cannabis 'gardener' jailed for 18 months

    A VIETNAMESE man who agreed to act as gardener for a sophisticated secret cannabis farm has been jailed for 18 months. Liverpool Crown Court heard that 41-year-old Dung Nguyen had taken on the role in return for a free roof over his head. He was arrested

  • Council unites with cops in crime crackdown

    AS part of a crackdown on burglaries, police are reminding readers this week about the importance of keeping their homes secure. An advertising van will be out and about reinforcing the home security message as part of a week-long police and Wirral Council

  • Supermarket shuts

    MORE than 20 jobs will go when Kwik Save in Woodchurch Road Prenton will close on March 29. The store will be the only branch of the budget supermarket in Wirral not to be saved in an acquisition of the brand by new owners BTTF. The entrepreneurial group

  • Cancer check service set for improvements

    WIRRAL women are risking their lives by failing to attend vital breast screening appointments because they are too embarrassed. A survey undertaken to find our why women in Birkenhead and New Ferry missed appointments for routine screening at the Wirral

  • Neston community group's award

    A NESTON community group held a party on Thursday to celebrate its final session of fun for the winter term. The Community Activities in Neston (CAN) Group organised a disco and face painting for Neston families. The group, which was set up by a group

  • Jesus and the golfers!

    By Geoff Barnes GOLFING is seen in parts of the world as a religion in itself. But when a Wirral minister consented to the inclusion of a golfing image as part of a stained-glass window he unleashed a furious backlash from the local community. With the

  • John flies to victory

    Bowls by Dave Gilmore JOHN Jones topped Sunday's Birkenhead Park Open Bowls Flyers with a final 21-14 victory over Mick Andrews. Showing good form throughout the day, Jones coolly fended off competition from Roger Griffiths, Gerry Riley and John Hignett

  • Wirral Table Tennis League

    RESULTS: Week commencing Monday, February 20: Division One: Pinewood 2, NBCC 8; Caldy II 7, ESWA 3. Division Two: Spinners III 5, Pinewood II 5; NBCC III 6, Wallasey Manor 4; Spinners 6, Hoylake 4; Wallasey Manor II 3, Wallasey Manor 7. Division Three

  • New cricket contest

    WIRRAL cricket clubs have set up a 20/20 competition for the coming season. Matches are to be played on weekday evenings and Sunday afternoons. The sides initially making up the league are Oxton, New Brighton, Caldy, Irby, Birkenhead St Mary's and Tranmere

  • Promotion chasers display credentials

    Wirral Badminton League with David Spencer THERE were no matches in the Premier Division this week, but two clubs heading for the top flight re-stated their cases. Both Barnston and Wallasey St James enjoyed 7-1 wins to maintain their 100 per cent records

  • Park to host North of England Schools' Sevens

    BIRKENHEAD Park will again be hosting the popular North of England Schools' Sevens this season (writes Andrew Stratton). The event will be staged on Sunday, March 12 at the Upper Park and at nearby school grounds with competition throughout the day from

  • Light Up A Life reaches new all-time record of £90,000

    By David Williams A COLOSSAL £90,000 was raised by the Globe-backed 'Light Up a Life For a Loved One' appeal at St John's Hospice in Wirral. Delighted hospice officials revealed the final amount this week. It means that for the ninth successive year since

  • Drunk driver nearly backed into police car

    DISTRICT Judge Nick Sanders at the Wirral court told a driver she had been a danger to herself and other road users through taking to the wheel when nearly three times over the legal alcohol level. Freda Rhoda Mills, 58, of Ridgemere Road, Pensby, who

  • Two CABs are axed

    TWO WIRRAL Citizens Advice centres will close following a reduction in funding for staff if proposals are backed by Wirral Council. Heswall and Bebington branches of the advice centres will shut their doors leaving just three centres in Wirral. A process

  • Landlords could face new fines

    By Craig Manning LANDLORDS failing to pay for work when served with improvement notices could be fined as part of new measures proposed by Wirral council. Residents will be consulted on the proposed changes to key housing policies in the borough over

  • Rescued from quicksand

    A NEW Brighton man had to be rescued after finding himself waist deep in quicksand after he tried to rescue his dog - writes Craig Manning. Tom Walker, 28, was walking the dog on the beach at the bottom of Dalmorton Road in New Brighton shortly before

  • Disc zone parking could be scrapped

    By Justin Dunn WIRRAL Council has begun consultation over its plans to scrap free disc zone parking spaces in Birkenhead. In what it describes as "a major exercise" the authority has written to 900 residents and 600 businesses over its plans to change

  • Centre gets a facelift

    A Moreton community centre it getting a facelift after residents joined forces with a housing association. A management committee dedicated to improving the condition of Sandbrook Community Centre was set up by local people who received funding and support

  • OAP says home overrun by mice

    By Craig Manning A SEACOMBE man is demanding local authority action to halt the march of the mice at his Shakespeare Road home. Harry Blanchfield, 71, has caught 18 mice in his home within the last four months. He said: "It's not very nice when you get

  • Major facelift for famous fort

    By Geoff Barnes HISTORIC Fort Perch Rock is in line for a multi-million pound facelift. If plans in the pipeline reach fruition the Mersey stronghold at New Brighton will be boosted as a tourist attraction by the re-installation of a naval gun and cannons

  • Oxton stay on course

    OXTON Hockey Club men's 1st XI maintained their push for National League status with a 4-1 triumph at local rivals Brooklands on Saturday. Ollie Logan gave Oxton the lead after 10 minutes and the visitors went 2-0 up via Trevor Merrick before Brooklands

  • Yacht Club to hold keel boat open day on the Mersey

    by Andrew Stratton ROYAL Mersey Yacht Club is planning a keelboat open day on the River Mersey in May. Etchells, Squibs and Mylnes will be used and it is an ideal opportunity for interested sailors to have a go. Saturday, May 13 is the day. Visitors welcome

  • Wirral squash duo collect titles

    WIRRAL players won both Senior titles at The Merseyside Closed Squash Championships at New Brighton (RUFC). New Brighton players won both Senior titles. Current holder Ian Thomason, who lives in Moreton, defeated his younger brother Keith, of Upton, by

  • Vauxhall pick up vital point in survival battle

    BATTLING against relegation from the Nationwide Conference North, Vauxhall Motors face another two crucial league matches in the next few days against high-ranking clubs with aspirations of their own. On Saturday afternoon, Carl Macauley's men play host

  • Lairds bid for place in FA Vase semi-finals

    by David Williams TREBLE-chasing Cammell Laird - by far the most successful football team in Wirral this season - aim to outgun the galloping giant-killers of Newmarket Town on Saturday to reach the semi-finals of the coveted FA Vase for the first time