A WIRRAL maintenance engineer who had to have part of his skull removed after suffering a traumatic brain injury at work has received significant compensation from his former employer. Tom Williams fell into a coma after suffering the life-changing
THE family of a man who died from lung disease helped organise a Big Breakfast fundraising event for the British Lung Foundation. Firefighter Roy Stewart organised the event with family members Sherina Conway and Mandy Green, whose father, Prem
A BOY born in Wirral today can expect to live for just under 78 years – four years less than a girl, official figures show. Life expectancy at birth for males in the borough has increased from 76.6 years in 2007 to 2009 to 77.8 years in 2011 to
FUNDRAISING supremo's and founders of Wirral WITCHES (Women in Touch with Claire House) have helped to raise more than £45,000 to fund a sunshine coach for the children's charity. WITCHES Mandy Molby and Jane Kirkham hosted their eighth annual
A WIRRAL pensioner died after a lamp shade caught fire in his Eastham home. Bernard Lewis died over the weekend following the blaze at his Tudor-style cottage on Stanley Lane last Wednesday. The 82-year-old and his wife had to be rescued from
THE family of a Heswall great granddad with a "heart of gold" who died after he was knocked down by a car in Wirral have paid tribute to the man they say lived life to the full. Mervyn Bruce Taylor - known as "Merv" to his family and friends -
STUDENTS from St Anselm's College in Oxton have joined the fight against Ebola by sending essential medical supplies to their twinned school in Makeni, Sierra Leone. It is all thanks to Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, who
THE mother of a Wirral security guard found dead at home has paid tribute to a 'true gentleman with a great sense of humour' following an inquest into his death today. Michael Sheldon was found by girlfriend Jenny Hardie at the home they shared
Meet Eddie! Eddie is a three-year-old Jack Russell Terrier and lives with his mum, Gill, in Lower Bebington. Gill said: "Eddie loves hot weather as he can play in his pool. Getting him out of it is a big problem, especially when we're running
FLASKS of dangerous toxic chemical "Phostoxin" have been found in Bebington Cemetery after they were stolen in an overnight raid. The deadly chemicals were contained in a safe taken from the offices of Prokill pest controllers in Bromborough by
THERE are just over three weeks to go until this year's Light Up A Life switch-on for Wirral Hospice St John's. An estimated 10,000 bulbs will be switched on in memory of loved ones during the ceremony in the hospice gardens on Sunday, December
WHY are we waiting? A recent survey has shown that we spend 45 to 60 minutes a day waiting. Which means that if we live to be 70 - three years of our mortal toil will have been used up. Waiting is a tedious part of our daily lives - waiting
GLOBE reader Jay Che sent us this reflective of the view from New Brighton beach. You can send your pictures to us as email attachments to paul.heaps@wirral-globe.co.uk. You can also share them with us on our Facebook page facebook.com/wirralglobe
I AM trying to find people who worked at – or who have knowledge of – Wallasey Power Station in the years following the second World War. My dad, Patrick O’Dwyer, worked at Wallasey Power Station between 1947 and 1952. He died two years ago of
I HAVE to disagree with Peter Grant in last week's Inferno regarding the celebrities taking part in the television quiz shows. I enjoy the programmes when celebs take part and they’re not in the ones that I watch, very often. Apart from that
AS his chances of becoming Prime Minister diminish by the day, Ed Miliband has now received an oath of loyalty from his party's candidate for Wirral West. In her letter, also signed by Labour candidates from elsewhere in the country and published
AFTER months of rumour and speculation, residents of Greasby were finally confronted with the prospect of a new fire station complex to be located on the green in the village centre. Without clear details of the proposal, its impact and potential
FRACKING for shale gas becomes a worrying reality. We read in the press of the energy security that this un-tried mining will bring to the country, and that the associated seismic disturbances will not threaten more than the natural, day to day
SHAME on the Wirral Globe for continuing to devote so much space to Frank Field's empty blustering about Birkenhead being the new Beirut. This meaningless comparison is unhelpful and is nothing more than the usual pre-election sabre-rattling.
THE week beginning October 27 has been an exciting week for a family having their mother discharged from Arrowe Park Hospital. Mum has been a patient in Arrowe Park for 22 months, actually would have been two years this Boxing Day. I would
FOLLOWING the recent letter complaining about the number of traffic lights between Upton and Birkenhead, a view I support, cannot the timing of lights, especially after, say 8pm, be better phased to take account of the traffic flow, or lack of it?
NICE to hear Frank Field calling Birkenhead Beirut. Last time he said Birkenhead is like the Wild West on speed. What I have never heard him say is Birkenhead is great, come and invest, bring us jobs and prosperity. The guy has lived off
A PENSIONER is in a critical condition in hospital after her car hit a metal gate in Heswall. Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which took place in Brimstage Road, Heswall on Tuesday afternoon. Officers from the Matrix Serious
‘Every time we get a call about a demolition, it’s Twayyel, Twayyel, Twayyel’. A member of the Palestinian National TV team based in Nablus said this to me as we stood next to a recently demolished house in Twayyel. The small village of Twayyel
