Wirral | Archive | 1999 | September
WITH the Millennium on the horizon, Peter McAlister of MSoft Software, a company specialising in e-commerce, looks to the future of business in the 21st century. more...
Prime Minister Tony Blair is to issue a wake up call to UK companies about their failure to exploit commercial opportunities offered by the Interet. more...
WALLASEY based Bee Creative is a company which is, quite literally, writing its own success story. more...
AS we head for the Millennium, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is urging people in Wirral to make the most of the Millennium Gift Aid Scheme. more...
OWNERS of classic and vintage cars are also invited to take part in the 2nd Wirral Bus and Tram Show at Pacific Road Transport Museum, near Woodside, on Sunday, October 3. Forms with s.a.e. from Bob Tennant, Transport Manager, Friends of Pacific Road Museum, Birkenhead, CH 41 1LJ. more...
WIRRAL Globe sponsored Touring Car racing driver Paula Cook and the D.C. Cook team have, sadly, decided to pull out of the championship with BTCC coming to Oulton Park in Cheshire over the weekend September, 11 to 12. more...
SO, you think you are a good driver? Well why not prove it at a driving assessment day on Sunday at Sainsbury's, Upton. more...
FORD has announced its exciting Ford Puma ST160 Concept, revealed to universal acclaim as the ultimate Puma at the 1999 Geneva International Motor Show in March, will go into limited production in late 1999, priced at £23,000 on-the-road. more...
CHRYSLER unveiled a small concept car at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany, illustrated above. more...
LOOKERS superb new site at Ellesmere Port is now fully operational and open to view the Vauxhall range just in time for V-registration. more...
Test drive by Robin Bird more...
AFTER two manufacturers' championship wins, one driver's title and seven record-breaking years, Renault UK has decided to withdraw from the Auto Trader British Touring Car Championship at the end of the 1999 season. more...
CONSUMERS are being offered more choice than ever before by Proton Cars, following the introduction of a series of limited edition models that combine excellent specification with real value for money. more...
ROVER has announced enhanced finance packages and higher specification levels for both Rover 200 and 400 ranges, in time for V-registration today. more...
NISSAN driver Laurent Aiello tightened his grip on the British Touring Car Championship after Rounds 21 and 22 at Brands Hatch. Aiello won Round 22 and was runner-up in Round 21 to Rydell in a Volvo. BTCC is coming to Oulton Park in Cheshire over the weekend of September 11-12. At the time of writing, we are just negotiating a deal to go racing with the top Honda works team of James Thompson/Peter Kox in West Surrey/Esso Ultron racing team. Thompson was third in Round 21 and Round 22, while Kox was fourth in Round 22. The next round at Oulton has Aiello heading the championship followed by Leslie, Thompson and Rydell. more...
THE LONDON Motor Show at Earls Court (October 22-31) marks the UK debut of Toyota's new flexible friend, the Yaris Verso. more...
CHESHIRE motor traders are working in pathfinding partnership with Cheshire Trading Standards to help boost business opportunities and protect the industry's image. more...
CHESHIRE Police will shortly take delivery of two unmarked motorcycles to be used by the Force's Traffic Enforcement Unit. more...
ON the evidence of swelling order books for V-registration models, most North-West car buyers are staying loyal to local dealerships and shunning the idea of a gamble on 'grey' or 'personal' import vehicles from abroad. more...
JUNE Spencer is the proud owner of a new V-registration Skoda Octavia from Wirral's Skoda dealer Wallasey Car Centre. more...
DURING Age Concern Week, Age Concern Wirral (AGW) will be celebrating its work for and on behalf of local older people. The message is simple: Age Concern makes a difference to the lives of all older people, whatever their circumstances. more...
DENTURES are frequently the butt of jokes - but they are rarely seen as funny by people who are newly fitted with them. Now a new brochure has been launched which answers many frequently asked questions. more...
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BATTLE of BRITAIN FIGHT ON HANGARS more...
MANY Birkenhead High School girls are celebrating their A Level results as 64 per cent of all the results were A or B grades; 81 per cent were A, B, or C grades. more...
POLICE were yesterday interviewing four men following a fatal stabbing on a normally quiet housing estate during the Bank Holiday. more...
LOCAL people are to be given the opportunity to air their opinions on the progress of Wirral International Business Park in Bromborough. more...
Merseytravel's blast after train cuts more...
AN autistic Wirral girl has been taken out of school by her father because he claims she is not getting the level of education she needs. more...
DONNA was her name . . . She has died as a result of meningitis. Fun-loving young mother Donna Pilcher enjoyed taking her 12-year -old son to theme parks and dancing to Sixties music. more...
TRANMERE Rovers manager John Aldridge calls upon fans to write to the Football Association to ask for their money back, for he believes the referee totally spoilt Bank Holiday Monday's clash with Sheffield United at Prenton Park. more...
LIVERPOOL links with the slave trade have been well documented, writes Robin Bird. more...
MERSEYRAIL'S controversial penalty fares scheme has come under renewed attack, with Merseyside's public transport chief demanding a probe into 'lost' revenue. more...
A BIRKENHEAD man who claimed benefit and failed to declare his wife was working was ordered to serve 80 hours' community work by Wirral magistrates. more...
WIRRAL Magistrates ordered an Eastham man to reside at an Essex address and keep out of the Wirral area when bailing him until September 24. more...
GREEN-FINGERED Beverley Connelly, of Cathcart Street, Birkenhead, is champion gardener in this year's annual garden competition sponsored by Cosmopolitan Housing Association for its Wirral residents. more...
WOULD you like to do something exciting and raise money for ChildLine North West? If so, the ChildLine abseil event - 120 feet off the John Moore's University Tower Building in Byrom Street, Liverpool, on September 25, could be just what you are looking for! more...
CAMPAIGNING and community groups are working together this month to highlight the issue of homes being left empty and falling into disrepair while new houses are built nearby. more...
HARD-WORKING hairstylists from Wirral had their efforts highlighted at a catwalk show in Leasowe Castle, Wallasey. more...
A WIRRAL woman who hit a teenage girl in the eye with a broken bottle has been warned she faces a jail sentence. more...
A MAJOR scheme aimed at solving the problems of resurfacing on the northbound carriageway of the M53 Bidston Moss flyover starting on Monday. more...
THE simple answer is Yes. more...
TWO men have been discharged at the prosecution request at Wirral Magistrates' Court on an allegation of attempting to murder John Allan Ackers at Wallasey in July. more...
A FORMER Wirral community drugs worker is Cheshire's newly appointed Drugs Development Officer. more...
BIRKENHEAD Primary Care Group (PCG) is offering £20,000 to local charities and voluntary organisations. more...
RUMOURS abound that Japanese salvage companies want to get their hands on Birkenhead-built battleship 'HMS Prince of Wales', writes Robin Bird. more...
WORK on a Lidl supermarket starts today (Wednesday) in St Paul's Road heralding a £1.5m Tranmere urban village scheme. more...
BBC Radio Merseyside broadcaster Roger Summerskill made waves at Hoylake Lifeboat Day from the top wing of a stunt bi-plane. Above a crowd, estimated to have reached 30,000 people, Roger from New Brighton, waved to spectators. more...
HRH Princess Royal will visit Upton Hall Convent School, Upton, on Wednesday, September 8, to tour the new £2.4 m science and technology building and help the school celebrate its 150th birthday. She is also attending HM Prison Service chaplaincy conference in Liverpool. more...
AMPHETAMINE and cannabis resin was recovered when police searched the home of a Leasowe man. more...
FIRST Thornton Hough Rainbow Unit and 1st Thornton Hough Brownie Unit have reason to be proud. more...
THIS popular weekly column by welfare rights expert Jim Strang this week looks at how to complain to the Parliamentary Ombudsman, the commissioner for administration. This article also gives a brief guide on who can make a complaint and how. more...
THE wit and wisdom of former Liverpool and England football captain Emlyn Hughes will be on offer at a fund-raising dinner in aid of the North West Cancer Research Fund at Liverpool Football Club on September 23. more...
FURIOUS Tranmere manager John Aldridge is urging Rovers' supporters to write to the Football Association to demand their money back, in the wake of Bank Holiday Monday's 3-1 defeat by Sheffield United at Prenton Park. more...
PREMIER League club Coventry City are heading for Wirral - but without their £6 million star striker, Robbie Keane. more...
TRANMERE Rovers' Supporters Association (TRSA) hold their first annual meeting tomorrow (Thursday, September 2) in Aldo's at the Prentonian Suite, Prenton Park (7.30pm). more...
CELEBRATING his birthday tomorrow (Thursday) is Craig Mitchell, a member of the Prenton Pups, Tranmere Rovers' official youngsters' club which is sponsored by the Wirral Globe. more...
New Brighton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33pts, Doncaster . . . . . . . . . . . . 9pts more...
SAILING by Andrew Stratton more...
THE 5K Liverpool Corporate Cup Race, sponsored by Norweb Communications, takes place on Sunday, September 12 (11am). more...
CALDY secured a holiday weekend double and now head the Bromborough Paints Merseyside Competition Division One table by 25 points from Sutton. more...
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