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  • "Just say thanks"

    ON Saturday, June 27, at 7.20pm I got on a train at Bromborough Rake. On a seat in the next carriage were two full bags, but no-one was sitting there. I was thinking "they shouldn’t be there". When the train stopped at Spital, I called

  • "Failing miserably over grass cutting"

    DURING the Covid-19 crisis the trains and buses have managed to maintain a good service. Unfortunately, Wirral Council has not followed suit. The contractors employed to keep the verges and road grasscutting standards up-to-date have failed

  • No further coronavirus deaths in Wirral hospitals

    There have been no coronavirus deaths recorded in Wirral hospitals today, NHS England has confirmed. It means that the total number of patients who have died with Covid-19 at Wirral University Teaching Hospital remains at 238. Earlier today

  • "You're missing the point JI"

    IN response to J I (Hoylake)'s letter in last week's Globe ... He suggests (and I assume it is a white male writing, who does not experience prejudicial attitudes from his skin colour every day of his breathing life) "Taking the knee” is simply

  • Call for parking charge suspension until Cabinet is scrapped

    Wirral’s local Conservative Councillors have dismissed the plan for four weeks free parking as ‘pathetic and out of touch’ for the borough’s struggling high street retailers. And the West Kirby Councillor, who is leading a campaign to scrap the

  • 'No surprise over Kingsmead closure'

    THE news that Kingsmead School in Hoylake is to close at the end of term will come as no surprise to many people - another private school bites the dust. However, few people will realise that Kingsmead was not a school for “rich kids” - it was

  • Youth court slaps injunction on unruly Wirral teenager

    Wirral Council’s Anti-Social Behaviour Team and Merseyside Police have successfully obtained an Anti-Social Behaviour Injunction against a 15-year-old Birkenhead girl. The injunction was granted at Liverpool Youth Court on Monday July 6 and followed

  • Wirral remembers Srebrenica: 25th anniversary commemorations

    Wirral will today mark 25 years since the Bosnian genocide in Srebrenica - bringing together partners from local organisations to commemorate the tragedy and remember its victims. The Srebrenica massacre saw more than 8,000 people murdered on the