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  • Wirral community volunteers retire after 19 years

    TWO Wirral community volunteers have retired after 19 year's service. Wirral's Police Commander Chief Superintendent Jon Ward presented Fred and Alison Westcott with a retirement gift, thanked them for all their hard work over the years and

  • Chester Zoo curries favour with new baby penguins!

    CHESTER Zoo’s latest arrival is real hot stuff. Weighing just 85g the baby chick is the first Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humoldti) to arrive this year. Arriving after a 40 day incubation period, the little chick will remain in the nest for the next

  • Guns? What guns ?

    The sport of shooting is, as sports go, the most controlled of all by legislation and regulation, and this is before we even get to the rules of the sport itself. Now, the Home Office have just published the figures for Firearm certificates

  • Death of Alderman Gordon Williams MBE

    ALDERMAN Gordon Williams MBE died peacefully at home last week after a short illness. Mr Williams was born in 1921 and later attended Birkenhead Institute. In his youth he played rugby with Old Instonians and Birkenhead Park. During