MERSEY Ferries have launched an investigation after the Royal Daffodil was involved in a near-miss with an oil tanker today. The two vessels came within 60 metres of one another on the River Mersey at 2.50pm and were forced to take evasive action. The
An APPEAL has been launched to buy a state-of the-art £150,000 eye surgery simulator for Arrowe Park Hospital's Eye Team. Traditionally, trainee eye surgeons practised on pigs’ eyes before moving on to real patients. Now they have the opportunity
An Asbo has been made against a New Ferry man after he called a sports centre receptionist a "cow" and a "witch." Action was taken against Karl Brady of New Chester Road, following an incident in September when he attended the Oval Sports Centre
The entrepreneur behind a plan for a sponsored boys-only academy in Wirral has accused a leading councillor of causing "considerable damage" to the scheme. The pair have locked horns in email correspondence after former Liberal Democrat group
AGE Concern Wirral has received £260,000 to fund an advocacy service for people over 50 with early onset dementia. The cash, from the Nationwide Foundation will enable the organisation to help 450 people suffering the effects of early onset
Plans to create a £20m centre of higher education at the heart of a new Wirral Learning Zone have moved a step closer. A proposal submitted by the University of Chester has been given the green light to move onto the second stage in the process.
MORNING-AFTER DRIVE BAN A motorist questioned by police after he parked on zig-zag lines at 9.30am was found to be well over the legal alcohol limit, Wirral Magistrates heard. Tessa Hinder for 47-year-old Kevin Stephen Walsh of Poulton Road
A Birkenhead man must maintain a nightly curfew for six weeks for the theft of a sandwich. Wirral Magistrates made the daily order from 10pm to 7am against 43-year-old Philip Gregor Banks of Moorland Road, Birkenhead. He admitted stealing
