I HAVE recently been to Landican Cemetery and I was amazed to see dozens of windmills stuck into the graves. There appeared to be little bells and streamers in various graves. Is this something specific to Landican? I can't recall seeing it anywhere else
From Don Dawson:- AS an independent production company, Dawson Entertainments are looking for people who are willing to come before a live audience and tell their stories, however bizarre or strange they may be. Those with unusual hobbies or jobs, or
From Concerned Grandfather:- I WOULD like to draw attention to the 'chain letters' that are currently circulating the Wallasey area. The children continue the chain believing the letters to be true in their claims to be linked to Blue Peter and The Guinness
THE Finals Night of the Pensby Pairs (sponsored by Thingwall Village Stores, Barnston) was played in torrential rain. At the end of a long wet night Alan Hill and Gary Cooper beat Mike Riley 21-13 to win the WH Watters Memorial Cup. Mr John Crowther presented
GOALKEEPER and players are wanted for an amateur Division One Football team. Any players interested contact Rob or Lee on 643-8101 or 643-9589. Converted for the new archive on 13 March 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion
RED NOSES Cricket Club's 50th anniversary match, originally posponed due to bad weather, now takes place on Sunday at Capenhurst Cricket Club (September 20, 1.30pm start). Any Red Noses old boys who fancy a game, contact Ronnie Rigg on 632-4745. Converted
LOCAL clubs met with mixed fortunes on the opening day of the Rugby Union League programme. Birkenhead Park were happy with a 17-12 scoreline at Kirby Lonsdale in North West One. Richard Farrall kicked a penalty and added the goal points to tries by Jason
GLOBE Sport has a pair of tickets to be won for Tranmere Rovers Nationwide League Division One match against Swindon Town at Prenton Park on Friday, September 25 (kick-off 7.45pm). We have teamed up with Nationwide Building Society, sponsors of the Football
NEW Brighton continued its impressive start to the National League with a brilliant nail biting last gap victory over a strong Kendal side, and once again Marcus Coast starred with a dramatic last gasp winning try. This was always going to be a tough
UNDER PRESSURE TRANMERE Manager John Aldridge admits to being under pressure with his side languishing at the bottom of the league. On this day September 16, 1885, the name Tranmere Rovers was born replacing Belmont FC, and since then the club has had
NESTON bookmakers, Ladbroke's, have topped a poll of 430 outlets in the company to win the title of Best Store in the North of England. Manager Dave Miller said he and his staff were delighted with the achievement, which has earned them all £500 worth
A DONATION of £220 has been made to the Adult Learning Centre in Neston as part of a 60th birthday present to Eric Palmer, whose brother Edward attends the centre during the day. Sandra Pattinson, Day Service Officer, said that the surprise gift was exactly
STUDENT nurse Angela Hoey, on Ward 38, saw a man walking his dog collapse in the grounds of Arrowe Park Hospital. By the time she reached him, Nurses Pippa Ryan and Pauline Johnston, from Ward 18, were resuscitating Arthur Mouncey, from Moreton. Now recovering
Wirral's youngest female football referee is Lisa Parr of Tranmere, who celebrates her 17th birthday on Sunday. Lisa, who is an Everton supporter, has high ambitions and would like to officiate in the Premiership eventually. A referee in the Eastham &
A UNIVERSITY student was caught on closed circuit television kicking and smashing a shop window at 3am. The operator contacted the police who detained him, Wirral magistrates heard. Lee Spencer Davies, aged 22, of Hillview Road, Irby, admitted causing
JOIN the big balloon race and help to open Claire House children's hospice. Tickets are just £1 and the winner of the furthest distance covered gets £100-worth of Marks and Spencer vouchers - so does the finder! The big balloon lift-off is on September
A NANTWICH man made another brief appearance before Wirral magistrates yesterday charged with the murder of Wirral pensioner Alice Rye. Kevin Joseph Morrison, aged 59, living at a caravan site in Wettenhall Lane, Poole, was further remanded in custody
AN undischarged bankrupt helped manage three Merseyside holiday companies, all of which collapsed with debts totalling more than £260,000, a court has heard. Liverpool Crown Court was told that John Ridgway was the subject of a suspended jail term when
FOUR houses west of 19 Fenderside Road, Beechwood, three more east of 7 Fenderside Road, 24 in the area of Newdales Close, all Beechwood Estate, are among latest planning applications for Birkenhead. Fearnley Hall, YMCA building in the Woodlands, is earmarked
Pat Weaver is Neston Slimming World's Woman of the Year for the second year running - she lost more weight for her Silver wedding anniversary. The class meets every Monday at the Methodist Hall. Details from Diane Griffith, 336 4889. Converted for the
FORWARD-LOOKING Wirral-based organisation, Women in Business, is marking the success of its European grant bid with a seminar on September 30. The grant is enabling the organisation to employ its first non-voluntary staff and build upon the work it has
NEXT meeting of Thornton Hough WI, on Tuesday, October 6, will hear a talk on the history of tea from Jon Chantry. The group heard alll about the Royal jewels from Pamela Turner at its September meeting.Thornton WI September meeting had a talk on Royal
MARK LILLIOTT, aged 37, of Hadlow Gardens, Tranmere, was sent for Crown Court trial by Wirral magistrates charged with raping a woman aged 23 at Wallasey in July. He was remanded in custody and will appear for plea and direction on October 8 at the higher
FURTHER traffic changes to the Hamilton Square area are planned at the junctions of Market Street, Hamilton Street and Chester Street, to discourage drivers using Duncan Street. Market Street is having to take much of the traffic diverted around the newly
CHIP PANS are a big cause of household fires - lack of a smoke alarm is a big killer. Merseyside Fire Brigade will be getting these messages across at B and Q, Bidston, on Monday and Tuesday, September 29 and 30, as part of Fire & Safety Awareness
THE step-father of one of the first soldiers on the scene of the Omagh bombing has been jailed - for making a hoax bomb call. John Smyth rang his former employees, engineering firm John Mowlem & Co., in Bromborough, because of a grievance over his
A LEASOWE man convicted of harassment in June has had his appeal against conviction and sentence allowed. Neal Robert Halsall, aged 30, of Ross Avenue, had denied an offence of harassing his ex-wife at Wirral magistrates' court but was found guilty. As
From Jancis Mander (nee Dodd):- IT is 55 years since my school friends, our teacher Ms Mounsey and I saw Bobby and Ronnie Law. They were evacuees from Liverpool who came to the Wrekin area of Shropshire and went to Leighton School. They returned to Liverpool
From W. Atkins:- AS a daily commuter between Parkgate and Sandycroft (Deeside). Up until a few months ago I used the Bidston-Wrexham service run by North Western Trains. I used my bike to travel from home to Neston station and on to work from Shotton
From L. Walker:- WHY oh why can't the Education Department get it right? School buses were instructed to start operating on September 3rd, when many schools, my son's included started on the 2nd. Consequently many, many boys were late for school on their
WEST Kirby Sailing Club stage a two day open tidal meeting for Fireflies this coming weekend. Last weekend the club finished seventh in the West Lancashire 24 hour race in which 65 teams took part. Blackpool and Fleetwood retained their title. Lake racing
DON'T forget the first meeting of the Prenton Pups for the new season is tomorrow evening (Thursday, September 17), in the Tranmere Suite at Prenton Park between 7pm and 8.30pm. There will be a quiz night with star Tranmere players in attendance and a
HOULIHAN'S Birkenhead Sunday Football League Division 3 side, Upton Celtic, have started the 1998/99 season with new sponsors, Appliance Express of Eastham. Upton Celtic is a new name to the League this season, with the club having played as Penketh Old
TEAMS were going goal crazy in the Birkenhead & Wirral Saturday Soccer League last week, especially in the Third Division. Highlights included Seven Stiles Youth beat Great Eastern 20-1, FC Pensby Reserves beat The Park 10-0, Scorpio Bar beat AC Brookley
PENSBY High School pupils, cycling stars Mark Baker, Michael Garner and Chris Byrne took the Schools' Team award in the National Juvenile 10 mile Cycle Championships in Hampshire. The school followed that on Sunday, when Steve Cummins, Wirral's Male Sports
THE Bromborough Paints Merseyside Competition title rests between Caldy and Wavertree as they go into their last matches this coming Saturday. Rain wrecked the weekend programme but Caldy managed to collect eight bonus points from their clash at Port
THIS popular weekly column by Jim Strang deals with welfare rights issues of interest to people living in Wirral.This week the topic is once again about the new drive by the DSS to remove people from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and I make no apology
VANDALS have ripped apart a garden that had taken its owner six years to grow. The front garden of David Hall's house in Mill Park Drive, Eastham, was wrecked by vandals in the early hours. Mr Hall said he estimated that £1000 of damage had been caused
BUPA Murrayfield, Thingwall, had a helicopter medical emergency team land in the grounds of the private hospital grounds to promote the Hyperbaric Medical Unit, a special recompression facility available to emergency services in the North West. The open
NEW BRIGHTON Dome, a space astrophysics research centre at 12 Quays, plus a £2.35m facelift for Liscard shopping centre are cornerstones for the New Wallasey regeneration programme to improve the town. An economic regeneration sub committee of Wirral
LISCARD ALIVE! The noise, people, and litter have gone. Organisers claim the free pop show 'B*Witched' up to 50,000 people in Central Park, Liscard. The non-stop pop concert gave local youngsters the chance to see top stars B*Witched, STEPS, Alexia, Ideal
Wirral Council Leader Dave Jackson (Labour) writes exclusively for the Wirral Globe. IT'S not every day you get a chance to talk to world champions, so I was delighted to meet Gareth Owen and Chris Delves, two Wirral yachtsman who won a cluster of gold
MOTOR CYCLE rider Gary Sinclair died after crashing his 500cc machine on the Rock Ferry by-pass, an inquest heard. Coroner Christopher Johnson recorded a verdict of accidental death. The coroner recorded an open verdict on the death of a driver who crashed
"IT'S absolutely wonderful," exclaimed Nellie McCann of Eastham, the latest winner of the St John's Hospice in Wirral Weekly Lottery. Nellie couldn't quite believe it when the telephone rang at 2.15pm on Friday to say she had scooped this week's £2,000
EURO WIRRAL Parkgate Horse Trials take place this weekend (September 19 and 21) at Backwood Hall, off Boathouse Lane, Parkgate. The cross country course winds through the picturesque ground of Backwood Hall, which overlooks the Dee to North Wales. Around
BRIDE Janette Hunt married hours after losing her job. Other redundant workers at the Co-op print depot in Cleveland Street saw her marry Simon Branscombe at Christ Church, Port Sunlight. Janette, from Tranmere, enjoyed her special day in spite of the
THEANNA, a music group from Pensby, has produced a CD in aid of Claire House with studio costs paid for by local firms. It is now on sale at Woolworths, Heswall, with a competition prize to design the next EP cover for Theanna. WIRRAL Toy Library and
WIRRAL Challenge Awards are launched this week in the Wirral Globe as a way of recognising individuals and organisations which make a positive contribution to the lives of disabled people. The competition is being run by disability organisations Wirral
Murder accused - other charges TWO teenagers appear before Wirral magistrates tomorrow (Thursday) charged with the murder of 30-year-old twin Simon Dawson at Bromborough. Carl James Harrison, 19, of Hillfoot Close, Beechwood, Birkenhead and a 16-year-old
