TRAMS linking rail and ferry services with people’s homes could soon return to Merseyside, with support for the project having been reignited in a notice of motion by local councillors. Plans for Streetcars – said to be like trams but lighter,
A LEADING Wirral GP is fighting for the survival of his closure threatened walk-in and minor injuries centre. Dr Abhi Mantgani is spearheading a people-power campaign to save the much-used unit. He seems locked on a collision course with bosses
The Apprentice's candidates are tasked with designing, creating and pitching an augmented reality (AR) comic book in this week's demanding challenge. Wirral IT analyst Alex Finn, 21 remains in the race to win £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar
A TEENAGER from Port Sunlight will represent youngsters from across Merseyside and Cheshire as part of National Citizen Service (NCS). Cleo Parker, 17, has been appointed to the national NCS board to help shape the programme for participants in
A WIRRAL resident and artistic director of a Liverpool-based dance development organisation is stepping down after 24 years. Karen Gallagher MBE joined Merseyside Dance Initiative in 1994 and produces LEAP Dance Festival, which takes place this
POLICE were called to a Wallasey bridge following a concern for the safety of a woman this morning. Emergency services were called at around 6.35am today (Wednesday, October 10) to Mill Lane after reports of a woman on the bridge over the Wallasey
A rogue trader has been slapped with a suspended sentence and ordered to pay £9,000 following a Trading Standards fraud investigation. Michael Wood, 30, formerly of Empress Road, Wallasey appeared at Wirral Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, October
JOYOUS, poignant, lively and very funny. I never thought I'd use all those adjectives about a Jane Austen adaptation on stage. But Theatre6, currently on a UK tour, have brought their stylish production to Liverpool with all these admirable
MORE people in the North West are being urged to sign up as blood stem cell donors to save lives. Figures from charity DKMS suggest that there are 49,265 people who have registered as donors in the region however experts are warning that this figure
A FIVE-mile walk in aid of Wirral Hospice St John’s takes place this Friday. Now in its third year, Glow with the flow will follow a circular route around West Kirby and Hoylake, starting and ending at Tanskey’s Bistro at Coronation Gardens.
TO celebrate one hundred years since the Grand National returned to Liverpool, the Weights Lunch will be coming home to the city's waterfront next year. The stage is set at the Cunard Building on the city's famous waterfront for the Grand National
CRIME Commissioner Jane Kennedy will argue for more funding to reverse the 'perilous financial position' facing Merseyside Police during a meeting in Parliament later today. Ms Kennedy is set to give evidence on the 'devastating' impact of budget
CAN somebody please advise me and many other local residents of what is going on at Tam O'Shanter urban farm? Recently I took my grandchildren to the farm only to be told it was closed for a very vague reason, my friend later took her grandchild
THE Boundary Commission has published its proposals for changes to the number of Parliamentary constituencies. The number of MPs in Wirral would reduce from from four to three. I believe that the proposals have been developed on flawed principles
LETTERS often appear in the Globe, critical of Wirral Borough Council. However, I recently made a request through WBC environmental standards department for help in cutting back overgrown ivy and vegetation surrounding Eastham Parish Church boundary
HOPE for Green Belt as new figures emerge headlines in the Globe have begun to expose the truth of Wirral Council's threats to concrete over our Green Belt. According to European law, the public consultation on the "Local Plan" is a process to
THE council's new "close to 500" houses per annum and hence a 7,500 houses, 15-year plan target, down from the Government's obsolete target of 800 houses per annum. This was roughly correct, based on population projections released in May 2018.
THERE has been some concern raised by residents and in the local media that the walk-in centres and minor injury/illness units in Wirral will be closing. What we are proposing is to replace the walk-in facilities for adults with urgent GP or nurse
THE number of summer wildfires in Merseyside almost tripled this year, as the Fire Brigade Union warned its staff are under-funded and ill-equipped to deal with such an increase. Between May and July, the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service tackled
THEY came .. we saw .. they conquered. The Giants have put Wirral on the tourist destination map. More than 1.3 million excited people came to watch, openmouthed, the Royal de Luxe French giants who enchanted even the most hardened cynics over
