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  • PREVIEW: Playwright Ian's making up for lost time

    Globe theatre critic Peter Grant meets prolific writer Ian Salmon who has two plays on two different Merseyside stages. AUTHOR, playwright and former record store worker Ian Salmon says he now has the 'greatest job on the planet.' The Bootle-born

  • REVIEW: What really goes on at Bongo's Bingo

    The Globe were invited to pop over the water to see what really goes on at a night hosted by Jonny 'Bongo' Lacey and his team. IT wasn't the first time I had stepped foot inside Bongo's Bingo and it certainly won't be my last. The shows take

  • Wirral's cabinet asked to back community bank plans

    WIRRAL Council plans for a high street bank that aims to help tackle 'financial exclusion' will be considered for approval by cabinet later this month. Councillors will be asked to agree initial investment for the new community bank when it meets

  • Scrap new test

    NEXT June the Government will require all nine-year-olds to sit a new test to prove their knowledge of times tables. While being able to recall tables does help with more complicated maths problems, schools already teach and assess this ability

  • Stuck in binary mindset over Brexit

    THE letter from P Griffiths in last week's Globe illustrates for me one of the major problems we have in dealing with Brexit. So many people, and politicians (the latter mainly for their power-seeking ends), seem to be stuck in the binary mindset

  • No benefits to leaving the EU

    I RESPOND to the letter from P Griffiths of Oxton. I would be grateful if the writer and other Leave supporters would set out for me the benefits for Wirral businesses and residents of leaving the EU. It seems to me that major industry is at

  • Come on Wirral Council, what’s going on?

    LIKE many Wirralians I am acutely aware of the fight that is on going to protect Wirral's green belt from property development by our totally inept land grabbing incompetently run council. One of the major issues is the "Hoylake Golf Resort" scheme

  • 'The reality is everywhere else had to be neglected'

    WIRRAL Council tarting up the roads to make out we are a nice, tidy place in the light of the cycle race. The reality is everywhere else had to be neglected. The waste paper bins have been overflowing for about a week now. I assume workers

  • Thief who stole cash from vulnerable Wirral man is jailed

    A THIEF who targeted a vulnerable man in his own home and blatantly stole cash from his wallet has been jailed. Sentencing 39-year-old Adam Savage a judge told him: "You are no stranger to the courts - that's an understatement. "You've been

  • GRANTY'S INFERNO: 'Open heart surgery of the literary kind'

    AT last he has emerged from his super shed ... to shed light on his life in frontline politics and the aftermath of a mis-calculated decision that still haunts him. It's pretty scary for each and everyone one of us, too. While David Cameron

  • Banks stunner rescues point against Posh for Tranmere

    An early goal of the season contender from Ollie Banks earned Tranmere a point against Peterborough in a thrilling 2-2 draw at Prenton Park. Mo Eisa gave Posh the lead in the 54th minute before Ivan Toney doubled their advantage two minutes later