A WIRRAL chemical factory is to close later this year with the loss of 115 jobs. Shocked staff at Croda International learned that the chemical giant intends to close its site in Bromborough Pool, as part of an ongoing restructuring programme
Wirral people are being invited to Moreton Cross to hear more about work United Utilities is carrying out to improve their water supply. The company is bringing its mobile visitors' centre to the Sacred Heart Church car park in Moreton Cross between
A CHAIRMAN has this morning been appointed to lead the local inquiry into Wirral Council's controversial proposals to close 11 of the borough's libraries. Sue Charteris, a public policy consultant specialising in local government and public
TRANMERE secured themselves a final-day shoot-out with Scunthorpe United for the sixth and final place in the Coca Cola League One play-offs, but only after surviving an almighty scare against Yeovil Town on Saturday. Rovers had looked down
Caldy, Parkfield Liscard and Birkenhead St Mary’s all lost on the second day of the Bromborough Paints Merseyside and Southport Alliance cricket season. Caldy fell by 61 runs at home to Prescot & Odyssey. Danny Hargreaves 48 and Rich Battersby 4-60 did
Top teams from Britain and abroad will be competing on West Kirby Marine Lake this weekend in the 60th running of the ever popular West Kirby Sailing Club Wilson Team Racing Trophy event. The competition actually starts at 8am on Friday and will continue
Boston United 1-0 Cammell Laird Cammell Laird FC had secured a Unibond Premier League final placing outside of the relegation zone courtesy of other results going their way earlier in midweek but they clearly wanted to finish with a flourish as they
The North Wirral Pairs League got off to a good start last week starting with a fine win by the Grange Pair J McLoughlin and H Sedgewick which helped see their side go straight to the top of the league. There was a major upset in the preliminary round
The Wirral Badminton League held their annual KO Finals at Birkenhead School last weekend, and were treated to a thrilling evening’s badminton with three matches that fully deserved their final status. The Birkenhead Cup, for the Advertiser Trophy, was
Tranmere Ladies beat Crewe Alexandra Ladies at Cammell Laird Football Ground in New Ferry on Sunday to win the Concorde Cheshire FA Ladies Challenge Cup Final. Tranmere took the lead through Rachel Rigby but Crewe levelled the score in the
Caldy stage their Annual Seven-A-side Tournament on Sunday as the rugby union season comes to a close. There will be action throughout the day from around 11am. It is the 66th running of the popular event. Local sides will be backed
Division 1: Congratulations goes out again to all at Claughton Hotel as they add the division 1 title to the previously won Wirral Junior Cup. Claughton managed to seal the Championship after seeing out a 1-1 draw against closest rivals Future F.C.
ALONG with rugby balls, corner flags and pints of beer, club captain Shaun Woof is a regular fixture at the Caldy Sevens - held this year on Sunday, May 3. Now 32, the popular centre first turned out when he was 18 and has done so every year since to
A WIRRAL schoolboy has been congratulated by Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, after winning a prize at a national science competition. Bromborough student Mathew Smith from Wirral Grammar school won the Shell UK Special Award for Science for
New Ferry Wirral Hotel are now one victory away from creating history in the Wirral Sunday League's Premier Division. Thwey could become the first side ever to win the title three years in succession, since the league's inception in 1969. Sunday's 6
Hull Ionians 27 Caldy 29 CALDY finished their highly impressive season on the high their players and backroom staff deserved with this hard-fought victory over a strong Hull Ionians side, a game that could have gone either way right down to the
VAUXHALL MOTORS 1 KING’S LYNN – 3 King’s Lynn grabbed all 3 points against injury hit Vauxhall Motors in this typical end of season encounter. The away side put up a spirited performance in the wake of the midweek news that they will be demoted
A WIRRAL schoolboy has been congratulated by Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, after winning a prize at a national science competition. Bromborough student Mathew Smith from Wirral Grammar school won the Shell UK Special Award for Science for
Prenton High School teacher Chris Harper celebrated her retirement with a party with a difference this week. Joined by family, friends and colleagues for a special quiz night at the school, more than £705 was raised for Claire House Hospice
Wallasey Gymnastic Club blitzed the opposition on Sunday by winning more Gold Medals than any other club. They were at an event in Robin Park, Wigan, where over 300 gymnasts from all over the North West competed to gain a place to represent the Northwest
THE poor old council are on a hiding to nothing at present, and now someone is taking them to task for keeping the pavements free from weeds! Some years ago a section of our road developed a weed problem which in my opinion and I would imagine that
WIRRAL Council seems in desperate need of regaining at least one shred of credibility after its recent spectacular run of public relations disasters. I refer of course to The Sail hotel project in West Kirby (deferred), The Crescent pedestrianisation
CAN I just express my disappointment in the lack of display of flags around Wallasey on Thursday, April 23 - St George’s Day? I had a very busy day around Wallasey that day, appointments etc... I proudly drove to them with my flag on my car.
THERE is much mention in your pages about the fate of libraries under the council’s strategic asset review (SAR) and rightly so. Please can I draw your attention to the fate of Heswall Hall under the SAR, too? Heswall Hall is a unique and attractive
A MONTH ago the Globe reported that Wirral Council took 45 actions under the Regulation of Investigatroy Powers Act, RIPA, last year. This week you reported that even the government was worried about gross misuse of RIPA by councils. You also
Have readers ever heard of Wirral Excellence in Healthcare Systems WEHS? It is a programme “intended over a period of five years to completely change the way that healthcare is delivered” (their words) at our local hospitals. How did I find
I am writing in response to a letter in the Globe regarding the idea “Street football should be banned”. I sympathise with the reader who wrote this letter as youths playing in the streets of Merseyside is a problem and causes damage. Three
Well, the worst time of year is approaching again... the kids’ summer holidays! Sorry to sound like an old fogey, but my peace and quiet of the winter months is now a thing of the past. All we get around the top end of Millhouse Lane
Re: “Street football should be banned.” I was glad to see this letter in the Globe on April 22. I was starting to think I was the only one bothered by the anti-social behaviour on the streets of Wallasey. I totally agree with everything
I whole-heartedly agree with the writer of last week’s letter (Street football should be banned). I bought my home in an idyllic cul-de-sac in West Kirby within three minutes’ walk of Ashton Park, the beach and the Wirral Way. The house which backs
POLICE have launched a murder investigation after the body of a four-year-old girl was found at her Wallasey home in the early hours of this morning. At around 1.40am officers were called to an address in Oakdale Avenue, Poulton, by a family
