Wirral | Archive | 1999 | September
IT'S OFFICIAL! You can not sell a baby by Internet auction! You can't sell your kidney, either, though someone tried. more...
MAY MUMS, DADS & CHILDREN REST in PEACE more...
Going over the top for charity more...
MP voices encouragement for scientists of future more...
A BLOOD donor session is being held next Wednesday (September 22) at Price's Sports and Social Club, Bromborough Pool (10am-12noon and 2pm-4.15pm). more...
PEOPLE power paid off in Birkenhead when residents in the North End blocked off their street to convince the council to help solve their traffic problems. more...
A SUB Post Office assistant faced Wirral magistrates charged with theft amounting to £135,887. more...
Plan ahead to beat traffic chaos more...
A YOUNG single mum who cheated the DSS out of more than £25,000 was jailed for six months. more...
A WOMAN died after the garage courtesy car she was driving crashed because it had four faulty tyres, Wirral Coroner's Court heard. more...
WIRRAL'S first environmental charity shop has been such a success that a second premises is needed to cope with demand. more...
AN exhibition of the history of Liscard Hall will be held on September 15 and 16 at the hall in Central Park. more...
A ROW between unions and Wirral Council may lead to a strike of home-helps, the council has been told. more...
CAMPAIGNERS against the demolition of historic Hooton Hangars are asking pilots of light aircraft to fly down the old runway at Hooton Park on Saturday and Sunday. more...
A MERSEYSIDE police officer appeared before Wirral magistrates on a rape charge. more...
WIRRAL'S benefit claimants are going to come under investigation from the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate (BFI) for a year from this November. more...
THE cupboard is bare at Charing Cross Methodist Church, Birkenhead, says Rev Pat Billsborough. more...
PENSIONER John Griffiths certainly struck a right chord while performing in a concert with the Lever Singers - he returned home to receive news that he had become the latest jackpot winner in the St John's Hospice in Wirral Weekly Lottery! more...
A WIRRAL man who assaulted a pub landlord was jailed for nine months. more...
EURO Wirral Parkgate Horse Trials and Country Fair take place in the grounds of Backwood Hall, off Boathouse Lane, over this weekend, September 18 and 19. Up to 400 riders are expected to compete in this top annual show in the equestrian calendar. more...
DUE to overwhelming demand, Claire House Children's Hospice is to hold another open day on Monday, September 20. more...
CELEBRATIONS will be in the air at the NCH Action For Children shop in Grange Road, Birkenhead, next Wednesday (September 22), when it marks its first year of trading. There will be special events throughout the week, with a tombola stall on the Wednesday. more...
A WALLASEY man whose past finally caught up with him appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday. more...
FRIGATE 'HMS COVENTRY' made a return to the Merseyside at the weekend - not the Birkenhead-built destroyer of the same name, but a frigate. more...
OVAL Ski Club, based at the Oval Sports Centre, Bebington, is back after the Summer with more instructors than ever before. more...
WIRRAL Council is launching after-school sports clubs to encourage kids to get some exercise. more...
THE new 'road-hog' road safety campaign had its Merseyside launch at Woodchurch Road School, Birkenhead. more...
WEST Cheshire College has achieved the best A level passes for five years. GCSE results have exceeded all hopes, improving pass rates in English Language by 16 per cent and Maths by 7 per cent. The English Language pass rate is 69 per cent, 11 per cent above the national average. English and Maths make up over half of the GCSE exams taken, while 54 students of German, French, Italian, Chinese and Spanish have gained 16 A* grades and 20 A grades. more...
MOSTYN HOUSE School has been celebrating its best ever haul of A*-C grades - 81 per cent. more...
AMONG high-achieving girls at Wirral Grammar School are eight whose GCSE grades include eight or more at the top A* grade. They are Claire McCann, Christine Campbell, Christina Eddowes, Charlotte Bailey, Maxine Emmett, Dianne Faragher, Alicia Huntriss and Jennifer Wood. more...
AT West Kirby Grammar School 145 A level candidates achieved a pass rate of 95 per cent (excluding General Studies) with top grades accounting for 49 per cent. Heather Barber was awarded five subjects at grade A, and S grades for outstanding performance in Chemistry and Mathematics. Sarah Putwain gained four Advanced and one Advanced Supplementary level, all at grade A, and a commendation from the examining board as one of the top five Biology students. Jessica Feely, Elizabeth Nolan, Chloe Sheppick and Lucy Smith gained four A grades. more...
LIVERPOOL Women's Hospital NHS Trust is now on-line on the World Wide Web. The new site, which gives easy access to extensive information about the hospital, its services and activities, can be accessed on: www.lwh.org.uk/ more...
WALLASEY Manor Club has a jumble sale at Manor Road, Wallasey, on Saturday afternoon, September 18. more...
CALDAY Grange Grammar School has achieved one of the highest GCSE pass rates in its history. more...
WALLASEY-BASED Daryl Industries presented two local charities with cheques of £2,500 each following 12 months' fund raising. more...
NESTON County High School has GCSE results well above the national average, with 64 per cent of students achieving grades A*-C. The overall pass rate was 99 per cent. more...
AT BIRKENHEAD Sixth Form College over 300 candidates achieved a 91 per cent pass rate in their A level results. more...
WITH 100 per cent GCSE pass rates in most subjects, the number of Bebington High students with 5 or more top grade passes (A-C) has increased by 50 per cent, and overall 86 per cent of students in the entire year achieved 5 or more GCSE passes. more...
STAFF and pupils at Bedford Drive Primary School, Rock Ferry, have been praised for raising standards in their school over the last three years. more...
AT Birkenhead High School 100% of the pupils achieved 5 or more GCSE passes at A*-C grade - 62.3 per cent of all the results were A or A*. more...
BOYS at Wirral Grammar School have an excellent set of results at GCSE level with 98 per cent of pupils gaining at least 5 A*-C grades. The average points per candidates was 6.2 (equivalent to a grade B); 15 per cent of all subject entries were awarded an A* grade, 27 per cent were at grade A, 34 per cent at grade B and 20 per cent at C. Michael Arch, of Raby Mere, and Nathan Jenkins, from Claughton, gained A* in each of the 10 GCSEs they sat. more...
WIRRAL West MP Stephen Hesford, whose constituency covers part of Birkenhead, has welcomed the recently published school admission apppeals code of practice. The code allows for admission appeals committees to be replaced by appeal panels entirely independent from the LEA and school governing bodies. Members will be limited to no more than five and the act allows joint appeal arrangements between LEAs and voluntary aided schools. more...
WIRRAL Council has completed a £50,000 scheme to revamp a children's play area in Prenton Dell, Prenton. more...
GCSE results at Birkenhead School were significantly up on 1998, with overall percentage passes at each grade close to the average over the previous five years. more...
ORGANISERS of West Kirby Football Club car boot sale are warning that parking will be a problem at this Sunday's sale. Parking will be extremely limited in the ground so buyers are being asked to park elsewhere. more...
The new bike is a distinctive red and silver aluminium Royce Union Polt, belonging to 14-year-old Anthony Smith. more...
LOCAL CRICKET ROUND-UP with Andrew Stratton more...
TALENTED Wirral cyclist Julie Forrester broke the British 500 metres record at the World Cup meeting in Columbia, recording a time of 36.2 seconds. more...
WIRRAL angler John Waugh leads the North West Association of Sea Angling Clubs' Personal Members' Championship after six rounds. more...
THIRD Dan Richard Saunders, Wirral TAGB Taekwondo instructor, is celebrating after winning the Scottish Championship in Cumbernauld, Glasgow. more...
CALDAY Grange Grammar School 'A' team won the Harley Trophy in the Hoylake school's organised golf competition, at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. more...
SEVENTEEN-year-old Hoylake golfer Jason Dransfield shot a 69 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club to win his qualifying round of the 1999 Daily Telegraph/Center Parcs Junior Golf Championship. more...
WEST Kirby finished sixth overall in the West Lancashire Yacht Club 24 hour Dinghy Race at Southport. Hoylake were 60th, Wallasey 67th and West Cheshire, 72nd. more...
CARLSBERG West Cheshire League side Poulton Victoria suffered extra time heartbreak as they let slip a 1-0 lead to bow out of the FA Carlsberg Vase at the first hurdle, losing 2-1 to Northern League club Evenswood Town. more...
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THE WIRRAL District FA Amateur Cup first round brought a mixed bag of results for the Houlihan's Birkenhead Sunday League. more...
POULTON Royal still lead the Wallasey & District Sunday League despite dropping a point in a heated 1-1 draw with Old Bank. Veteran Gary Evason equalised an own goal to maintain the unbeaten run. more...
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OLYMPIC junior football club, who play in the Wallasey Sunday Junior League require players for their Under-9s team (school Year 4). Contact Brian on 630-1407. more...
WALLASEY Sunday Junior Football League club Poulton Athletic, of the under-12 division, urgently require sponsors for a new kit. Those who can help, or who need further information, should contact Tony on 691-1924 or Ernie on 638-1174. more...
Steve Hunter reports from Prenton Park more...
CHARLTON Athletic, relegated from the Premier League last season and looking to bounce straight back, visit Prenton Park on Saturday, September 25 in a Nationwide League Division One match - and TWO lucky readers and their guests will see the match free! more...
CELEBRATING his birthday on Friday is Steven Hughes, a member of the Prenton Pups, Tranmere Rovers' official youngsters' club which is sponsored by the Wirral Globe. more...
FOOTBALL chiefs have admitted there is nothing they can do to force Wirral multi-millionaire Peter Johnson to sell his majority controlling interest in Premiership club Everton - for fear of Tranmere Rovers closing down. more...
Morley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8pts, New Brighton . . . . . . . . . 16pts more...
BIRKENHEAD Park powered to victory over Kirby Lonsdale 35-19 after a stuttering first-half in which the visitors looked a very dangerous outfit. more...
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