Residents are being urged to take care when heating wheat bags after firefighters were called out to a flat in Birkenhead. Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service was called out to Park Road East just before 6.30pm on Monday after a wheat bag overheated
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FORGIVE me if this is wrong, but I understand each of us may have to pay £10 each month for an NHS GP. This would prove a great struggle for some of us, especially those with large families. It might be a better idea if GPs fine these people
HAVING just had a young child pull out of a side road directly across my path (without looking in either direction), I am writing to plead with parents everywhere to take responsibility to make sure their children are safe on the roads. Don't leave
ON Saturday last fire broke out on the ground floor of 13 Riversdale Road, West Kirby. This house is made up of three individual flats, and at the time six of us were in occupation when the fire broke out in the electric board. The emergency
TO all the staff on Wards 33 and the Cardiac Care Unit at Arrowe Park Hospital. My husband has just spent the last five weeks of his life in the hospital – mainly in the heart wards – and, as you know, finally went to be with the Lord on Wednesday
I HAVE just returned from my weekly hour-and-a-half walk, a walk that takes in panoramic views stretching from North Wales and then across the Irish Sea towards Ireland while taking in the sights of Liverpool and New Brighton. Yes, I have been
IT comes as no surprise that Wirral Council has once again been caught frivolously spending taxpayers' money on over-inflated consultancy fees as a recent Freedom of Information request by Cllr Ian Lewis has revealed (Wirral Globe, May 14). The
CHESHIRE West and Chester Council has declared war on illegal money lending within the borough with a pioneering new campaign. Loan sharks create misery for hundreds of families by offering unaffordable high-cost credit - often accompanied by threats
WHEN are the police going to do something and get cyclists off our pavements or are they waiting until someone gets knocked down and injured? Have they forgotten that it’s an offence with an on-the-spot fine of £30 as a penalty? I don't know
FROM personal participation, the 2014 Wirral Walking Festival continues to exceed expectations, not least when we went to find the 'Bats in Brotherton Park', Bromborough. A good crowd gathered in Dibbinsdale Local Nature Reserve visitor centre,
A MEOLS mother who dedicated more than 20 years of her life to fighting crime has opened up about the highs and lows of frontline policing. Handcuffs, Truncheon and A Primark Thong tells the story of Gina Kirkham’s alter ego, Mavis Upton – a thirty-something
IT is brave to adapt any television classic for the stage. Comparisons will always be made. So well done to any company that takes on such a dramatic, creative challenge. The Wallasey-based Claremount Players 'cunningly' brought back to
VOLUNTEERS are being sought to support a new police scheme being introduced in Wirral that will see victims meet face-to-face with the criminals who targeted them. Neighbourhood Justice Schemes will give offenders the chance to apologise to their
UKIP's showing in the Wirral local elections has been described as a “massive leap” forward by the party's Wirral chairman. The party, who fielded a candidate in each of the 22 wards, came second in nine of them and third in 12 others. Phil
TRANMERE Rovers have appointed former Welsh international Rob Edwards as their new manager. Edwards, 41, recently left Exeter City and has turned down a job at a Premier League club to take charge at Prenton Park. The former Preston defender
