A senior Wirral councillor has spoken passionately about the fight she faced to allow her dying father out of hospital. Labour councillor Julie McManus said when her father eventually came home, he arrived “wrapped up in a blanket, in an ambulance
CLAIRE House is urging our readers to join their team of runners for this year's Liverpool Santa Dash. The organisation has announced as the official charity partner for the festive 5k run event, highly regarded as the city’s kick-start to Christmas
THREE people have been arrested, drugs seized and a knife has been discovered as part of a day of action in Rock Ferry. Bebington's local policing team held the day of action on Wednesday, November 13 to make the community a safer place to be.
THERE is less than month to go until this year's Light Up A Life switch-on for Wirral Hospice St John. Ten thousand lights will be switched on during the emotional Globe-backed ceremony in the hospice gardens on Sunday, December 8 which starts
CHRISTMAS is supposed to be a time of peace and goodwill to all - and that should include animals. Sadly, millions of turkeys are slaughtered for food in the UK, many of whom are killed for Christmas dinners. Each of these animals was an individual
COULD someone in Wirral Council’s highways department please, please take a look at the phasing of the traffic lights at St James’s Church roundabout? The way things are set up is causing chaos at the moment. The roundabout worked perfectly
AS Christmas draws ever nearer, why not get the little ones excited for the big day with a Letter from Santa? It’s a great way to bring joy to your own family, whilst knowing you’re making a positive difference to the lives of children who may
ON Monday, November 4, while trying to cross Victoria Road in New Brighton. I fell and banged my head I would like to thank all the people who came to help me, Matthew with the ice pack, Emily from the RNLI and Tracy who gave me a coat for my head
I SAW an article in the Wirral Globe headlined 20mph speed limit. It was for most of Chester’s city centre roads it was the latest phase of the Cheshire West & Chester Council's mission to curb driver speeds. This needs to be looked at by Wirral
COUNCILLOR Gardner's support for the continued spraying and raking of Hoylake’s beaches is, at best, misguided. I attended the meeting on July 15 this year at which council members unanimously declared a climate emergency. Can Cllr Gardner
A 95-year-old woman has been without her “lifeline” for a fortnight, as problems continue to affect landlines in Wirral. At least a dozen people are thought to be affected, with some lines going down completely and others experiencing complications
The decision to adopt EU road safety rules after Brexit and make it mandatory for new cars to be fitted with breathalysers and voluntary speed limiters by 2022 in the UK has been given the thumbs-up by IAM RoadSmart. A proposal for this idea and
CAMMELL Laird have taken on 20 new apprentices as part of its plans 'to grow a new workforce for the future'. Among those launching their careers at the Birkenhead shipyard after a rigorous recruitment process are seven welders, five mechanical
INFORMATION centres will be stationed across Wirral all next week as pat of a county-wide drive to protect adults from abuse and neglect. The pop-ups will mark National Safeguarding Adults Week which gets underway on Monday, November 18. They
Detectives investigating a cannabis farm found in Wallasey earlier this week have charged a man with cannabis production. At 10.30am on Monday, November 11, officers carried out a search warrant at an address on Mount Pleasant Road and detained
POLICE are looking for witnesses to come forward after a man died on the A55 near Chester. Emergency services were called at around 6.25am on Tuesday, November 12 following reports that a silver Land Rover had collided with a lorry which had been
THIS week is the last chance to see the world-renowned installation Museum of the Moon at Birkenhead Town Hall. Museum of the Moon first wowed Mersey crowds when it landed in Liverpool Cathedral last year but has now brought the spectacle to the
TALENTED singers from a Wirral youth hub will perform alongside top artists such as John Newman, The Script and Ms Banks at the OnSide Youth Zones Awards. The Hive Youth Zone's Edge of Seventeen senior vocal group and rapper Sens.A will take to
'EVERY act of kindness is a little bit of love we leave behind us', wrote Paul Williams - the Oscar winning composer who produced the music for Bugsy Malone and so many hits for The Carpenters and The Muppets. His heart-felt words would be an apt
