HAVE you got any brilliant ideas on how to improve Wirral? If so, we want to hear from you. The Globe has teamed up with Merseyside Waste Management to create a vision for the future of Wirral. To do this, we are asking children between the ages of five
A SECONDARY school in Wallasey has launched a massive fundraising drive to help update its sports facilities. St Mary's College needs to raise £60,000 to pay for new tennis and netball courts, a long-jump pit and cricket net within its grounds in Wallasey
TORY councillor has been accused of using "bullying and intimidation" against a female member of a committee on social care and health. Conservative Chris Blakeley allegedly "threatened and physically intimidated" Labour's Iris Coates. As a result, Labour
REGENERATION staff are pulling out all the stops to rescue Wirral's closure-threatened warships museum. Last week's surprise announcement that the East Float-based Warship Preservation Trust planned to place the operation into voluntary liquidation sent
A HOYLAKE businessman was among three neighbours who frantically tried to rescue a 71-year-old Wirral woman from her burning home. Keith Henson was in bed at his house in Proctor Road, Hoylake, when wife Debbie woke him to say there was a fire at Mrs
A RESPECTED Wirral charity worker died after being struck by a car as he crossed a street in Romania. Wirral Coroner's Court was told that David Hughes, a father-of-four from Moreton was hit by a Fiat Bravo minutes after leaving a restaurant in the Transylvanian
AN ESCAPADE on foreign soil, drinking cider and travelling on foot until they found a place to stay for the night may not sound an unusual way to spend the summer holiday for a group of young friends - but in 1912 it was not 'the done thing.' Today's
WIRRAL has lost out on more than £1million worth of investment - all because of an over-zealous traffic warden. So says the owner of a company who was looking to relocate his business to Birkenhead but changed his mind after receiving a £30 ticket for
New Brighton . . . 15pts Darlington . . . 34pts by Doug Thorpe ALTHOUGH the scoreline would suggest a fairly easy win for Darlington, it is arguable that the failure to convert pressure into points in the first quarter probably lost this National League
A BUS operator has come to the rescue of a Bebington children's club that ran into transport difficulties. The Bebington Life Church's Kidz Klub was having difficulty transporting all the children on a Sunday afternoon relying on two small minibuses making
ROMANCE will be blossoming at Chester Zoo for those looking for something a little different this Valentine's Day. From Tuesday, February 14, to Thursday, February 23, the Zoo will be hosting its annual Orchid Festival giving plant lovers the chance to
THERE is still time to buy tickets for a special concert taking place in aid of the Globe-backed Jellybean Appeal next month. Wirral musicians Ragamuffin, Marc Kenny, The Tin Pixies, Tracer, The Foundry and Insanity Beach are giving up their time to take
A PURPOSE-BUILT £2.4m sports complex opens at Pensby High School for Boys and Girls next month. State-of-the-art facilities include a floodlit Astroturf pitch, four illuminated tennis/netball courts and a multi-sports hall and gymnasium. It opens to the
A POSTER campaign highlighting the importance of keeping your neighbourhood clean and tidy is now on in Bidston. Lamp-posts in the area have been decorated with colourful signs, giving tips on keeping the community clean. The signs also advise the public
REJECTION of the £75m New Brighton revival plan will see the resort degenerate into a ghost town, trading chief Ron Jones has warned. Mr Jones, president of the local trade and business association, claims that New Brighton, as a resort, is breathing
PROTESTORS living near a Liscard church have won the latest round of a battle to have a controversial phone mast removed. Engineers from mobile phone giant Orange turned up at Manor Church on Thursday morning to work on the aerial - which is hidden in
AN allotment shed has been burned to the ground by arsonists during a 'mindless' act of vandalism at a Wirral allotment. Five allotment sheds were also broken into when raiders struck at King's Lane allotment in Bebington last Wednesday night, causing
FOUR WIRRAL schools have appeared in a list of the highest achieving schools at national GCSE and equivalent level. Clare Mount School in Moreton was ranked seventh, Upton Hall School, 77th, Wirral Grammar School for Girls, 165th and Pensby High School
A FORMER soldier who killed a woman with a meat cleaver and dismembered her body was today (Wednesday) jailed for life and will have to serve at least 21 years. The body of the victim, Chantel Taylor, a mother-of-three, has never been found and her killer
Caldy . . . 25pts Birkenhead Park . . . 26pts Colin Free and Peter Greville report on Saturday's crucial 'derby' outcome BIRKENHEAD Park won an enthralling Powergen League North One derby at Caldy by the narrowest of margins with the result in the balance
VAUXHALL'S hopes of securing their fourth straight Nationwide Conference North victory since the turn of the year came to a grinding halt at Redditch United on Saturday in a vital relegation battle. The lame-looking Motormen lost 3-0 against a side that
by Ray Steele CAMMELL Laird have been given an excellent chance of reaching the last four of this season's FA Vase - the top national tournament for non-league clubs. Laird, who reached the last 16 on Saturday with a magnificent 2-1 victory at Surrey
