ROY CASTLE'S Lung Cancer Foundation is to fund the appointment of a specialist lung cancer nurse at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology. The late entertainer is pictured with wife Fiona, from Wallasey, and musician Rick Wakeman at the local launch of the appeal.

CLAIRE House children's hospice has appointed a senior nurse (matron). She is Muriel Barber, who was previously at Arrowe Park Hospital.

NEW FERRY Co-op Funeral Services is sponsoring New Ferry Butterfly Park. Here naturalists dedicate their time transforming derelict land into a butterfly's natural habitat. A cheque for £1,000 was handed over by Regional Director Roy Jonstone and Margaret McGivney to Mel Roberts at New Ferry Butterfly Park

PUBLIC can attend the next meeting of Wirral Community Health Council at St. Catherine's Hospital today (Wednesday) starting at 1 p.m. Nick Morris, of Wirral Health Authority, will give a presentation on mental health day centres and the Mental Health Review.

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