It is an offence to not pick up your dog’s poo in the streets. So surely, horse owners should abide by the same rules – right? If you are caught failing to clean up after your dog you can be handed a fine of up to £80, and refusal to pay could
JAMMIE Dodgers and Wagon Wheels maker Burton's has sold its chocolate factory in Moreton as part of a wider supply deal with Swiss chocolate giant Barry Callebaut. Zurich-headquartered Barry Callebaut - the world's biggest chocolate supplier - has
IT'S official - a Wirral man has broken his own Guinness Record for being the world's oldest scuba diver. Ray Woolley held onto the title after diving down to the sunken wreck of the Zenobia ferry in Larnaca to a maximum depth of 40.5 metres for
POLICE are appealing to trace a missing teenager from Wallasey. Tulley Jones, 18, also known as Smithurst, was last seen on Saturday, September 1 at his home address in Seaview Road. It is believed he had left home on his green Viper SK 125
A ROAD in Wallasey is closed due to a fallen tree. Seabank Road from Kings Parade to Seel Street is currently closed due to the tree. Wirral Council have been advised of the incident by Merseyside Police and will be on scene shortly. Drivers
AN application for outline permission to build homes on the site of a former garden nursery in Saughall Massie has been rejected after a long-running campaign. Local residents and councillors wrote to the Planning Inspectorate objecting to the proposal
RAIL passengers on the West Kirby line are facing cancellations due to a fallen tree on the tracks. Merseyrail are warning commuters to expect delays and possible cancellations due to a tree on the track in Leasowe. Services will be suspended
A FUN day in aid of the 'truly incredible' hospital staff who helped a Wirral woman through traumatic treatment for an aggressive tumour takes place next week. In March last year Bethany Eason, from Bebington was told the devastating news that
AS Storm Ali strikes the North West today forecasters have issued another weather warning for this weekend. The Met Office have issued a severe weather warning for wind between 9am on Sunday, September 23 to 9am on Monday, September 24. Due
WHILE LFC were playing at Anfield in the Champions League, Justin Moorhouse was playing a blinder at the Unity Theatre. His Northern Joker show, fresh from critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe, is a master class in stand-up comedy. Support
A DERELICT site in Wirral has been brought back to life and now features a development entirely made up of affordable housing. Families in Bromborough are moving into the ten homes on a site off New Chester Road after a £1.65m development funded
FLAT Pack Music will finish the tour of their successful and five-star rated production of Puccini's La Boheme at Hope Church in Hoylake on Saturday, October 6 with the Festival Orchestra as part of the Wirral Arts Festival. Full of comedy, friendship
POLICE are appealing for information after designer handbags and jewellery were stolen from a Caldy house. Merseyside Police were called at around 10pm on Sunday, September 16 to a home on Kings Drive following reports of a break-in. The homeowners
SATURDAY, September 8, marked International Literacy Day - an important day which underscores the significant role literacy plays in our upbringing and highlights the challenges that children who struggle with reading and wider literacy skills face
Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Karen Howell writes for the Globe... This week I want to reach out to the 18,000* people in Wirral that have been diagnosed with diabetes and those who also have pre-diabetes. Diabetes is
I AM getting increasingly fed-up with all the bleating about central Government cuts being to blame for all the failings of this Labour-run council. We all know Labour have no clue how to manage money anyway, but this council has loaned out £57m
WHEN it comes to rhetoric, Boris Johnson is right up there with the best. He certainly knows how to use colourful language to make people sit up and listen, though, of course, they don't all agree with his strident views. His Theresa May "suicide
I AM researching the former Scottish international and Everton footballer John Bell, who passed away in Leasowe in 1956. His son Jack Bell, possibly known by his middle name Graham, lived in Crosby and, later Thursaston - he died in 1991 in Birkenhead
WHILE one must never condone threatening behaviour towards another, it's only fair to point out that Mr Frank Field (Death Threats Shock For Field, September 5) is the architect of his own situation by insisting he won't call a by-election. Whether
POLICE are hunting a man with links across Merseyside after he failed to appear at court in relation to a knife crime offence. Ryan Jones, 22, was arrested in April on suspicion of possessing a lock knife after a stop-search in Simons Croft, Netherton
TOM Houghton's article on Wirral's "motorway divide" made interesting reading, but I couldn't quite work out whether it was a positive or negative view of Wirral. Generally, but not exclusively, it is correct the west benefits from a higher level
HILLSBOROUGH - the very word still stops me in my tracks. I wasn't there on April 15, 1989, but I remember where I was and how I felt as the news of the disaster trickled in. As a newspaper reporter, I later spent time working on the aftermath
