A WIRRAL community radio station could now be on air for seven days a week after being granted a five-year broadcasting licence. It means Seven Waves Radio, based at Leasowe Community Centre in Twickenham Drive, can also train more budding broadcasters
THE creation of a skateboard "wheel park" at Moreton would lead to vandalism, noise and disturbances, nearby householders claim. The scheme, earmarked to be given the go ahead, is centred on a former bowling green in Lingham Park. The proposed development
CHAIRMAN Lorraine Rogers hopes to name Tranmere Rovers' new manager this week, it is claimed. There has been a deafening news silence at Prenton Park over the last few weeks as the search goes on for Brian Little's successor, but Ms Rogers is quoted
WIRRAL bowlers were shocked and saddened by the news of the loss of Tony Vyskocil following a short and tragic illness. Tony was well known on the bowls circuit as a talented young man with many successes and his loss will be mourned by all who knew
CUE king Ronnie O'Sullivan says there are just a few places left in his fantastic 2006 Summer Snooker League. Limited space remains for people to join the 16-team league with a chance for the winners to grab £1,000 cash in the competition held at Rocket
NEWLY-promoted Cammell Lairds, Birkenhead's most successful non-league team ever, have arranged a series of pre-season friendlies' as they prepare for life in the Unibond Northern Premier League Division One. Lairds, whose meteoric rise up the non-league
MORE than 1,500 youngsters will be meeting up with former Liverpool and England legend Phil Neal on Saturday when he launches what is probably the biggest two-day junior football tournament of its kind on Wirral. Not only that, they also be coming face
THE outgoing Bishop of Birkenhead, the Rt Rev David Urquhart, opened Birkenhead School's new Early Years facilities last week. The facilities comprise a nursery that takes babies and toddlers from three months to three years of age, and a new pre-prep
FOOTBALL clubs wishing to take part in a re-formed South Wirral AF League, disbanded at the end of season 2004-05, are being urged to register their interest. The South Wirral is an open age amateur football League which plays on Saturday afternoons.
VAUXHALL Motors have arranged three of their pre-season matches ahead of the new Nationwide Conference North season, though other irons are also in the fire. As things stand, the first confirmed friendly is away to League of Wales club Bangor City on
Come along to Birkenhead Town Hall this June for an Area Forum with a difference. You can help to decide how to allocate approximately £4,000 from the forum's funding by participating in one of the workshops and helping to decide on projects to be delivered
BIRKENHEAD Sixth Form College have completed a unique football double by winning both the Wirral Cup and the NDS Cup. The college first team won the Wirral Cup for the fourth time in the last five years after a hard-fought win over a plucky Mosslands
NEW Brighton player Jon Sewell skippered Cheshire to glory at Twickenham on Monday, when they lifted the County Championship Shield with a 32-17 success against Middlesex. Cheshire dominated for much of the time, denying Middlesex good possession and
THE main entrance to Arrowe Park Hospital will be closed on the evenings of May 30 and 31 for surfacing as part of the ongoing works at Arrowe Park junction improvement scheme. The surfacing work will take place from 8pm and should only run until midnight
BIRKENHEAD St Mary's and Caldy both came a cropper in the Bromborough Paints Merseyside and Southport Alliance, with Parkfield Liscard involved in a tense draw. Birkenhead mustered just 45 at Norley Hall replying to a 168 knock. Shakeel Nawaz tried his
AS part of the Sport England 'Everyday Sport' campaign, there is a series of nationwide 'jogging' events taking place, including a Jogathon at Croxteth Park, Liverpool, on Sunday, June 11. It is open to everyone, of any age and any level of fitness.
WIRRAL Shotokan Karate Club is celebrating its 41st anniversary. When it opened in 1964, it was the first Shotokan Karate Club on Wirral. Sensei Cope was asked to start the club by the one and only Enoeda Sensei. Sensei Cope, who is also an important
WIRRAL golf pro Andrew Ayre is helping to broaden people's technical knowledge of the royal and ancient game by offering free lessons in the weeks leading up to the Open Championship at Hoylake. Thirty-seven-year-old Andrew, a pro at Leasowe Golf Club
IT'S not every day that you are faced with a hostile mob, petrol bombs, and gunfire. But that's exactly what Bebington-born soldier Peter Barnes and his colleagues in 'B' company 1st Battalion of The Cheshire Regiment came up against on a fraught day
THREE members of Wirral Premier Table Tennis Club have been selected to represent England at Under-16 level at the English Schools' International Table Tennis tournament in the Isle of Man in June. And in what must be deemed as a club record, player
A WIRRAL man has admitted stabbing another man to death. Steven Smale pleaded guilty to murdering 26-year-old Guy Howard in a flat above a shop in Pensby Road, Heswall. Police were called to the scene late on Saturday evening, February 11, where they
MEET Flynn's Piece, the young Wirral rockers who have won this year's Wallasey Lions Club's Battle of the Bands' Contest. Last year's runners up returned to pit their musical wits against two other bands in the grand final at Pacific Road Arts Centre
DAVID Knopfler, founder member of legendary Eighties band Dire Straits, makes his Wirral debut tomorrow (Thursday, June 1), when he takes to the stage at Pacific Road Arts Centre, Woodside, as part of an extensive tour of Europe and Canada. With none
YOUR seven-day guide to what's happening in Wirral. To have your event mentioned, call Craig Manning on 906-3050 or e-mail cmanning@wirral-globe.co.uk THURSDAY June 1: Until Saturday: St Alban's Players present Frank Nance's production of William Shakespeare's
MY sincere thanks to Clatterbridge Hospital Oncology Department, especially Dr Sitter and his staff, for the marvellous treatment they gave my husband over the last 10 years. He received every available treatment and because of that he gained an extra
MY neighbour was in a lot of pain and rang for the on-call doctor, who came within the hour, was helpful and contacted Social Services. They in turn contacted me and arranged to have a commode delivered to my neighbour and for someone to come in and
I AM writing with disgust at what my father, young children and myself have just seen at Arrowe Park Hospital! After visiting my mum, we were leaving via the steps towards the orthapaedics building when there in front of us near the door to the maternity
LIKE a lot of other people, I was disillusioned with the care and treatment that people received at Arrowe Park Hospital until I was admitted there after a road traffic accident. Having spent the last eight weeks there four of them in a coma in the
NEW Brighton's marine lake and the model boating lake are being neglected. Rubbish is being dumped in the Marine Lake and the model boating lake is filling with algae, causing the boats to gum up. Are these ploys to say they are not looked after fill
SOMEONE killed my little kitten at about 6pm on May 19 in Overton Way, Oxton. Whoever it was did not even stop to say sorry you must be a very callous, unfeeling person and I hope you have her death on your conscience for a long time. Broken-hearted
I WOULD like to say to the men sat inside a blue Renault Clio the other evening in Pine Walks, Prenton, how disappointed I was to see you throw empty lager cans on to the road. This is hardly the behaviour of responsible citizens and is anti-social.
FURTHER to your headline Cash-strapped council to spend £25,000 on floral decorations' (Globe, May 3), can I point out that the only public toilet in Hoylake is at the bowling green on the promenade? The dilapidated seating at the first bowling green
WITH regard to the letter from George Skelly (Councillors should speak up for us', Mailbox, April 4), I really do have to say, George, that we are elected to lead as well as serve the people who elect us and I would say that I have done that in New Brighton
BECAUSE of wet weather, two grass verges near to my home, which are being used to park cars and vans on, were transformed into two patches of six-inch deep mud. Six weeks ago, I made this known to Street Scene, as we are advised to do. Nothing happened
I STRONGLY disagree with Beverley Kells (Supermarket is a poor choice', Mailbox, May 10). I am a 21-year-old mother with a full-time job and I think that a supermarket is a great idea I am sure many mothers who do not drive will agree that after a hard
I AGREE wholeheartedly with the letter headlined Moreton isolated without bus' (Mailbox, May 17). My husband and I came to live in this area 10 years ago primarily as we required a bungalow, myself being disabled and both of us being elderly. At that
DOES anyone in Wirral area have a relative who died in the First World War who is buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery in the Ypres area of Belgium? I am organising a trip to the Battlefields for 35 of our senior pupils in July this year and we would like to
THE first knife amnesty in ten years has been launched, meaning all bladed instruments can be handed in to police across Wirral without fears of reprisal. Until June 30, people have the chance to bin their knives and avoid prosecution. Every police
