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  • Open auditions for Wirral 'Spotlight on Youth' show

    BUDDING performers across Wirral are invited to audition for a part in this year's Spotlight On Youth show. The annual charity showcase for talented young people will be staged at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton on Sunday, May 17. Its organisers

  • Saddened by Frankby grave vandalism

    TO the person who keeps vandalising my family grave in Frankby Cemetery. I do not know who you are, or why you are profaning consecrated ground. For your own sake you should stop. I hope your relatives will emphasise this to you. W

  • Fix Wirral street lights

    I READ, with interest, the letter in your Opinions page regarding Lights too bright. We also live in Bromborough and have a street light opposite our house, which could double up as a flood light for Tranmere Rovers. I have reported this a

  • Pat can ‘hack it’

    JUST a few positive observations, to pierce the gloom and negativity, regarding leaving the European Union after nearly half a century of membership. A slew of economic data and trusted business confidence supports a promising start for Boris Johnson's

  • Tribute to a film legend

    KIRK Douglas, the actor who brought famous slave, Spartacus, to the big screen has died aged 103. He was born Issur Danielovich Demsky in 1916 to Russian Jewish immigrants to the US. His father was a rag-and-bone man in New York. Douglas

  • "Brexit will not change our way of life one iota"

    WHAT’S all the fuss about leaving Europe? I was born in an age when we had an Empire. Now 82, I am looking forward to paying the revived license fee for the over 70s, to fund some of the dumbed-down drivel which is broadcast today. Also

  • Big ‘thank you’ after fall on Wirral promenade

    I WANT to say a very big 'tnank you' to the youths that came to my aid when my husband fell on the promenade between Meols and Hoylake on the afternoon of Sunday, February 2. They rang for the ambulance and waited with us until it arrived.

  • Controversial football mural may be taken down

    A FOOTBALL mural which divided a Wirral community may have to be taken down. The Tranmere Rovers mural on the side of a building Oxton, Wirral, went up last month without planning permission. Many locals were outraged by the mural – saying

  • Emotional tributes paid to inspirational Wirral teacher

    EMOTIONAL tributes have been paid to an inspirational Wirral teacher who has passed away. Philomena Rough taught English at Upton Hall FCJ girls' school in Upton for many years and was described by pupils as a 'legend'. She will be laid to

  • Music fundraiser in memory of Eugene this weekend

    A WIRRAL man who died from a deadly brain tumour will be remembered with a fundraising music day this weekend. The seventh annual day of music at Stanley’s Cask on Rake Lane, Wallasey on Saturday (February 23) is dedicated to Everton fan Eugene