A NEW vintage store is proving popular with customers after it opened its doors in Birkenhead. The charity shop with a difference, opened by Age UK Wirral, stocks everything from 50s and 60s style dresses, faux fur coats, hats, scarves and beautiful
A SPECIAL memorial to mark the 75th anniversary of the worst peacetime submarine disaster in the history of the Royal Navy will be unveiled on the banks of the Mersey on Sunday. HMS Thetis sank on her sea trials in Liverpool Bay on June 1939 with
THE motorcyclist who died after a road traffic crash in Birkenhead on Wednesday afternoon has been named by police. Iain Michael Long, 35, from Birkenhead, died after his blue Yamaha motorcycle was involved in a collision with a single-decker bus
THE centenary of the Great War has inspired Wirral library staff to host an outdoor celebration in a couple of weeks' time. Seacombe Library will open up its outdoor areas on Saturday June 14 for a street party which will feature a taste of the
THE shadow minister for public health visited Wirral for a HIV test today as part of a campaign to highlight the importance of being tested. Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, was at sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust's
WIRRAL Council was on the brink of Government intervention over the escalation of "a multiplicity of weaknesses" a special report commissioned by the Local Government Association has revealed. The hard-hitting dossier does not gloss over the council's
WIRRAL’S mayor-making ceremony on Monday night is set to be a stormy affair with at least one councillor abandoning the traditional show of cross-party unity by voting against Cllr Steve Foulkes to be the borough’s new civic leader. Outspoken Conservative
A STUDY into the dental health of orangutans at Chester Zoo could play an essential role in protecting their wild counterparts thousands of miles away in Borneo and Sumatra. Keepers at the zoo are gathering new information on the emergence of
A FRENCH hotel worker was found guilty of murdering his friend and burying him under a shed in Ellesmere Port. Sebastian Bendou, 36, of no fixed abode, was found guilty by a jury of murdering Ryanair cabin steward Christophe Borgye in 2009.
