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  • Firefighters rescue trapped puppy in Birkenhead

    FIREFIGHTERS rescued a trapped puppy from a house in Birkenhead. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service were called at around 11.25am today (Wednesday) to Sandalwood Drive after receiving reports a puppy was stuck behind a sink. One crew rescued

  • Wirral Iceland store reopens after £500,000 makeover

    BIRKENHEAD'S Iceland store will welcome shoppers tomorrow (Thursday) with a new layout after a £500,000 makeover. The rejuvenated Grange Road shop will boast a new fascia and frontage, digital signage and improved in-store navigation. There

  • CHESTER & WIRRAL LEAGUE: Goals galore!

    DIVISION One leaders Clubbies AFC faced Division Two counterparts Ellesmere Port FC Reserves in Roodee Web Designs TGMT Trophy's first round on Saturday. It was the side from the Port who progress after securing a brilliant 4-0. Fellow Ellesmere

  • RUGBY: Lymm too strong for Birkenhead Park

    Lymm 40, Birkenhead Park 0 NORTH Premier league leaders Lymm proved too strong for Birkenhead Park in the Cheshire derby at Crouchley Lane. Park made a promising opening but, as has often been the case this season, were unable to turn the pressure

  • Thank you

    I WOULD like to thank the person who handed in my handbag at the Asda store in Arrowe Park on Friday, October 6. I had foolishly left the bag hanging from from trolley. It not only had my purse with various cards but my diary which contains

  • Disasters sum up Tory Party

    THERESA May's disastrous, accident-prone speech to the Tory Party conference in Manchester is easily explained. In the midst of the meltdown of capitalism in Britain (and all over the world), and attendant rampant, rising social inequality, the

  • Camper vans doing no harm

    WE all enjoy freedoms to go about our lives and enjoy the amenities that are around us. Imagine if we all were to call for the ban of things we did not approve of or did not participate in and how poorer our society would be. We have won our

  • Irony of park summit

    WIRRAL is set for a worldwide audience as the World Urban Parks Congress comes to the Floral Pavilion next month. Now we know Wirral Council is one of the best in the country if it goes by their remuneration packages, and it is so innovative in

  • Join the Christmas tree petition

    HERE in Wirral we have what is regarded as a world-famous park, but it does not have the little-known but world-famous Christian Christmas tree. Christmas is just around the corner and once again we will be told it is a pagan festival and the usual

  • 50mph limit gets my vote

    AS a frequent user of Brimstage Road I am completely in agreement with Peter Mason's campaign to reduce the speed limit of 50mph and wrote to the council last year asking them to review it – I didn't get a reply. All the members of the cross-party

  • Shaming them is nothing new

    I SUPPOSE we should thank Frank Field for attempting to get action from the police on petty crime and antisocial behaviour. However, as usual, Frank cannot resist pushing populist remedies which have been tried and have failed. Frank's memory

  • I never asked for Wirral View

    SO it's that time again. The postman delivers a neatly-folded Wirral View with the rest of my post. This is really so infuriating. I never asked for this political newspaper, I never wanted it. And to add insult to injury it is my council

  • Man rescued after injuring knee on beach in New Brighton

    A MAN was rescued by the Coastguard after injuring his knee on a beach in New Brighton. North West Ambulance Service called for assistance of Wirral's Coastguard Rescue Team at around 12.10pm yesterday (Tuesday) to an area of beach near to Derby

  • Wirral among top ten happiest places to live in Britain

    WIRRAL is third in a top ten list of the happiest places to live in Britain, according to the results of a survey published today. Harrogate, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Epsom also feature in the annual 'happy at home' index compiled by Rightmove

  • GRANTY'S INFERNO: If it ain’t broke, don’t try fixing it

    THE '60s singer-songwriter Donovan - disillusioned with the pressures of fame and fortune - once made an album about his own carefree childhood. It was a musical love letter for lost innocence. His close pals The Beatles did it, too, in their