Wirral | Archive | 1999 | June
JEEP has been very much in the spotlight following the arrival at Cubbin and North of the new Jeep Cherokee range in their showroom in Birkenhead. more...
PUPILS at St. Anselms co-ed prep school in Birkenhead will be told in no uncertain terms to 'Belt up' tomorrow (Thursday). more...
CALLING all motor dealers: 3 Counties are once again inviting you to take part in a charity football seven-a-side competition to raise funds for Claire House Children's Hospice. more...
VAUXHALL'S sister company Opel presented a design study of a new concept leisure vehicle at Geneva Motor Show, and the highly versatile prototype micro car, Concept A, features a particularly environmentally compatible, dual-fuel drive. more...
WIRRAL'S Skoda dealer Frank Brennan at Wallasey Car Centre has a pet charity close to many hearts - Guide Dogs for the Blind. more...
Superb service at Lookers Masterfit more...
MITCHELL Mitsubishi supported Pensby Road Runners when they provided a four-wheel-drive relay vehicle when the running team competed in the Caenarvon to Cardiff Welsh Castles Relay, and produced a top half placing. more...
PROTON has released the official picture of its new high performance GTi model to coincide with the opening of a £62.5 million vehicle design and development facility at its manufacturing plant in Malaysia. more...
THE eagerly awaited Superb new Rover 75 will be arriving at Windsors of Wallasey and Heswall, tomorrow, Thursday, June 17, 1999. more...
FOLLOWING the successful launch in April of the new Rover 200 and 400 SEi, iL and iS new derivatives, Rover has revised and simplified both ranges to provide outstanding specification and value for money. more...
THE thrills and spills of car racing have helped Chris Owen, pictured below, onto the fast track to success. more...
IT'S Midsummer at Oulton Park, in Cheshire, this Saturday for the UK Formula 3000 meeting. more...
THE success of the Volvo S40 and V40 is all set to increase with the arrival of numerous new features for the model year 2000. more...
A SCHIZOPHRENIC battered his girlfriend to death after he stopped taking his medication and became mentally unwell again, Liverpool Crown Court heard last week. more...
A 47-YEAR-OLD businessman made his first appearance at Liverpool Crown Court last week accused of murdering Wirral solicitor Cheryl Lewis. more...
A WIRRAL couple are recovering this week after a bus crash in Turkey left them teetering on the edge of a cliff just inches from a fatal fall. more...
LABOUR in Wirral will be digesting the Tories' success in the European Elections. more...
THE Queensway Birkenhead tunnel banned traffic and opened its lanes for the public to enjoy a unique experience on Sunday with the under-river walk in aid of North West Cancer Research. more...
LIVINGSTONE Street Play and Community Centre are holding their annual meeting at the centre, St Anne's Street, Birkenhead, tomorrow (Thursday). For more details call Sean on 647-7587. more...
A WALLASEY woman has been awarded an OBE for services to special needs education in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. more...
SENTENCE on a young Wirral man who slashed another youth has been adjourned because of a dispute over the facts. more...
Wirral Council Leader Dave Jackson (Labour) writes exclusively for the Wirral Globe. more...
THIS week's £2,000 jackpot win on the St John's Hospice in Wirral Weekly Lottery couldn't have been more perfectly timed for Rachel Green of Heswall . . . more...
TWO Moreton men charged with murder have been bailed for another three weeks for committal proceedings by Wirral Magistrates. more...
BUSY Neston Town Centre is to be subject of major road works during July and August. Special traffic arrangements will have to be made when renewal of the water mains is carried out by North West Water. more...
NEW BRIGHTON will be the hive of activity over the next few weeks starting with the Mersey River Festival this weekend. more...
THIS popular column by welfare rights expert Jim Strang this week deals with the new system regarding how you appeal against a Social Security decision. The new system is cleverly being introduced at stages during 1999. This article deals with the request for a revision and how one decision may supersede another. more...
RESIDENTS are going about the streets of Hoylake photographing buildings in a bid to get Wirral Council to create a Conservation Area. Spurred into action by the demolition of cornerstone buildings like Stanley Hotel and Broomfield, newly-formed Hoylake Heritage Group is creating a dossier of snaps on property they think should be protected and conserved. more...
THE search is on for a Snow White to play the title role in Wirral's annual Christmas pantomime staged by the council at the Floral Pavilion, New Brighton. more...
PYRAMID director Mel Glasby is playing 'Prince Charming' by offering his seat to Wirral Globe charity queen Queen Emma Povall (pictured). more...
THE River Mersey, off Egremont, was the scene of a major bomb alert last week. A rusty gas bottle was mistaken for an unexploded WWII bomb and a Navy Bomb Disposal Team spent five hours driving from Plymouth to attend. more...
THE Rock Ferry/New Ferry waterfront hosts a fete on Saturday, June 19, including hot air balloons and clowns. Admission is free. more...
WIRRAL WAY walker Mrs Jennifer Jackson, of Willaston, is complaining about the building of a 'mini-motorway' along the country park rambling route between Hooton and West Kirby. more...
BEBINGTON Library closed on Monday for one week so that staff could move it to another part of the Bebington Civic Centre while major renovation of the whole building takes place. more...
Sale of Captain Marvel Irons eases financial 'critical list' more...
These members of the Prenton Pups, Tranmere Rovers' official youngsters' club which is sponsored by the Wirral Globe, celebrate birthdays this week:- more...
Former heavyweight star Shavers, who lives in Wirral, paid a visit to Wallasey ABC to give advice to aspiring boxers, and is pictured, above left, with popular Wallasey boxer Kenny Rainford and rising star boxer Mark Drew, with youngsters (front, left to right) Ryan Kay and Chris Arlow. more...
SWIMMING star Anthony Hughes (pictured above) of Rock Ferry has been making a splash again by raising £110.80p for the BT Blue Peter Swimathon 1999. more...
THE Merseyside Inter-Church 150 Soccer League - so called because the combined ages of all players in a team must not exceed that number of years - is enjoying its fourth season, with seven teams from Wirral and two from Liverpool. Maximum permitted age is 16. more...
by Andrew Stratton. more...
The Wirral cyclist won the Birkenhead North End 10 mile event in a time of 21 minutes, and Rachel Steal took third place in the Women's National Road Race Championships, and took first lady in the Anfield Bank Holiday 100 mile race in a time of five hours. more...
WIRRAL players dominated the latest squad picked for the North-West Under-15 representative hockey team. more...
CRISP racing in a keen westerly wind on Sunday made up for the disappointment of Saturday in Hoylake Sailing Club's two day Regatta. more...
RIGHT on cue, that's Eastham Home Guard Snooker team who have won the Merseyside ABA Championship Bowl for the first time in their history, when they defeated Huyton Constitutional Club in the final. more...
MEMBERS of the successful Richard Saunders School of Taekwondo were celebrating again after winning 21 trophies at the Welsh closed Championships in Newport, a haul which included nine first place medals, and followed that with more success winning 12 trophies at the Welsh Championships. more...
CONGRATULATIONS to the following 10 lucky Globe Sport readers who each won a copy of 'The Complete They Think It's All Over' double video, produced by BBC Worldwide. more...
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