Emergency services - police, fire and ambulance - (24 hours)
Tel: 999.
Merseyside Police (all departments)
Tel: 709-6010.
Merseyside Fire Brigade, (Western Div Wirral) Exmouth St, Birkenhead,
Tel: 647-9555.
Community Patrol:
Tel: 666-5265.
Gas escape (24 hours)
Tel: 0800-111-999.
Electrical emergency (24 hours)
Tel: 608-9911.
Water (emergency or bursts)
Tel: 228-4888.
Wirral Council: Wallasey Town Hall,
Tel: 638-7070; Housing and Environmental Protection
Tel: 647-2320; Social Services
Tel: 647-7000.
Merseytravel: info on public transport:
Tel: 236-7676.
Hospitals: Arrowe Park
Tel: 678-5111; Clatterbridge
Tel: 334-4000; Hoylake Cottage
Tel: 632-3381; VCH
Tel: 678-5111; BUPA Murrayfield
Tel: 648-7000.
The Samaritans:
Tel: 708-8888. Service for the deaf available.
Wirral Brook Advisory Centre: 14 Whetstone Lane, Birkenhead. Info and condoms only, Monday to Friday, noon to 6.30pm. Clinic times with doctor, nurse and counsellor, Mon, Tues and Thursday, 4.30-6.30pm; Saturday, 1-3pm.
Mersey Aidsline: confidential advice for people concerned about HIV/Aids, Mon, Tues, Wed, and Fridays 7-9pm -
Tel: 709-9000; Merseyside Aids Support Group:
Tel: 708-9080. Mersey Body Positive offers social work, support, welfare fund and alternative therapies:
Tel: 707-0606.
Child Death Helpline: free and confidential support -
Tel: 0800-282986.
Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted:
Tel: 652-8877.
Wirral Talking Newspaper for Blind & Partially Sighted:
Tel: 653-4787.
The Stroke Association: Wirral Information Centre, Rehabilitation Unit, Clatterbridge Hospital. Helpline:
Tel: 604-7362.
Alzheimer's Disease Society: 24-hour answering machine,
Tel: 670-0343.
Guillain Barre Syndrome Support Group - Freefone
Tel: 0800-374803.
Wirral Rape Crisis Counselling Service: PO Box 35, Birkenhead L42 4RX.
Tel: 666-1392. Business Line:
Tel: 650-0155.
Carers' Helpline: Advice and support for Wirral's 30,000 carers -
Tel: 630-0005.
Inland Revenue: Enquiry Counter, Birchen House, I Canning Street, Birkenhead, Monday to Friday, 8.30am-4.30pm, or 'phone
Tel: 200-8000, fax 200-9320, Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm.
Energy Advice Centre: Freefone 0800-512-012.
Chester Diocesan Adoption Service: 46 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead.
Tel: 647-4844
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