Wirral | Archive | 2001 | April
WEST Kirby Light Opera Society promises 'The Best of all Possible Shows' with it's next production. more...
LOCAL group, Gaz & The Groovers, are to play dates throughout Wirral this month. The group, who play a mix of soul, funk and rhythm & blues, will be at: more...
A MAGICAL stage adaption of popular novel 'The Hobbit' is coming to the Liverpool Empire. more...
BUDDING Byrons and Wordsworths have the chance to share their talent with the nation thanks to an annual poetry competition. more...
THE 2001 Cheshire County Show is the latest victim of the foot & mouth epidemic. more...
A WIRRAL solicitor has called for the Government to widen the number of patients who can be compensated for Hepatitis C infection through blood transfusions. more...
THE genetic heritage of Wirral people is to be traced by BBC2 with the University College London and the University of Nottingham. more...
ANNE PAYNE, of Oxton, is off to the Isle of Man courtesy of the recent Wirral Globe competition organised in conjunction with Manx Airlines. more...
TV SOAP stars will be putting their football skills to the test in a charity match. more...
PARKING restrictions will now be imposed at Arrowe Park Hospital at the end of May following discussions with Wirral Council. more...
UNILEVER UK has confirmed its commitment to Wirral. more...
HESWALL Library has extended its Easter closure from Monday, April 9, to April 19, for re-decoration, refurbishment and completion of a council 'One-Stop-Shop'. more...
BANDS are being recruited to take part in Wirral TUC's Merseyside May Day event on May 7. As well as the traditional May Day march and rally, there'll be a festival in Wallasey's Central Park. more...
BROOKSIDE star, Louis Emerick, is helping launch a new Barnardo's video aimed at giving the chance of a new life to disabled children in Wirral. more...
This column is written by Andrew Newton, a partner at Maxwell Entwistle & Byrne solicitors, who is a member of the Law Society's specialist Personal Injury Panel and is based at the practice's West Kirby office:- more...
A NEW 'Friends of Hilbre' group has been launched following a public meeting attended by some 80 people. more...
MORE than five per cent of the new cars in the UK are now supplied through Motability, the charity which helps disabled people become mobile. more...
A WIRRAL sailor is back home in the UK following a six months trip on board the Royal Navy warship HMS Cumberland, which included four months in the Gulf. more...
ACROSS the country, Age Concern is helping older people put an extra £50 million in their pockets with Age Concern Wirral contributing £500,000 to this figure in 1999. more...
BIRKENHEAD-based Action MultiMedia, ICT and internet specialist, is celebrating a major success after boosting its turnover by 302 per cent. The company achieved eighth position out of the top 50 companies in the North and is the fastest growing technology company in the Merseyside/Cheshire/North Wales region. more...
DID you know that 35 per cent of the heat in your home is lost through the walls and that 25 per cent is lost through the roof? more...
EVENTS at Ness Botanic Gardens during April are: Saturday, April 7, 9am-11am, Spring Garden Walk, cost £7 (non season ticket), £3.50 (season ticket), includes tea/coffee and pastries; Sunday, April 29, 2pm, Lecture: The Rhododendron Story by Mr Ken Hulme OBE. more...
A BRIMSTAGE nurse has been appointed Professional Development Co-ordinator to the region's leading nursing agency. Dawn Tunnicliffe will be responsible for the training and professional development of more than 1,000 nurses and care assistants working for the Jane Lewis Nursing Agency. more...
A WIRRAL project has benefited from a boost for the arts and cultural industries that includes major backing from the region's Objective One programme. Wirral CVS Community Arts Sector Development has received a ERDF grant of £10,000. They are one of five Merseyside organisations to get grants to help local people set up new businesses. The Wirral CVS project is a one-year pilot scheme. more...
LOCAL off-licence chain Bargain Booze has begun its own 'Don't Drink and Drive' campaign. more...
A CHARITY evening is being held at Parkview Social Club in aid of four-year-old Jake Scarlett, who suffers from Leach-Nyham Syndrome, a condition symptomatic of cerebral palsy. more...
A PAIR of Wirral chefs are cooking up a storm in the catering world. more...
THE BT North West Athletic Championships will take place at The Oval Sports Centre in Bebington on Saturday, May 19. more...
AN Upton primary school has hit a double top with two special awards for their education achievements. more...
WIRRAL residents were able to get a real drink at the Crown Hotel in Conway Street, Birkenhead, on Saturday. more...
NEW Ferry Youth Club is celebrating its revamped look following a refurbishment including a new computer room. more...
NEW Ferry Youth Club is celebrating its revamped look following a refurbishment including a new computer room. more...
HOYLAKE Inner Wheel Club's recent charity concert was a complete sell-out with music from Wirral Community Wind Band and the 3rd Wallasey Boys' Brigade Caribbean Sound Band. And a total of £700 was raised for local charities and the Club thanks all those who supported the event. more...
HESWALL Film Society presents its 2001 Cheese, Wine and Film Evening at Heswall Hall on Wednesday, April 25, at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm for the showing of 'East is East' Tickets are priced £6.50 from any committee member. Ring 342 4725 for further details. more...
A LOCAL cricket club is appealing for former players. firends and opponents to step forward to help it celebrate its centenary later this spring. more...
A COMMUNITY centre-run scheme is offering registered childcare over the Easter holidays. more...
ALWAYS take the weather with you is the advice from pupils of Greenleas Primary School, Wallasey. more...
ELLESMERE Port and Neston Romanian Appeal is starting its annual cream egg collection for Romanian children. more...
A HOST of local dignitaries and ten youngsters threw their dignity, along with themselves, from the top of a fire training tower on Saturday. more...
A SERVICE at Wirral and West Cheshire Community NHS Trust has been awarded a coveted Charter Mark - the second time the Women's and Sexual Health service has been recognised. more...
A FULL-time employee and mother with more than 30 years' voluntary experience is the latest 'heart of gold' whose name has been put forward for this year's Wirral Volunteer of The Year Award. more...
A MAJOR disability charity is looking for walkers to help raise sponsorship for the annual Wirral Coastal Walk. The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign funds research into cures for the disabling and life threatening muscle waste condition - and they need you to walk for cash to fund the vital research. more...
ARTHRITIS Care (West Wirral) present a concert by the Castle Singers at Heswall Hall next Wednesday (April 11). It starts at 7.45pm. Tickets, £4 including refreshments, available from Christophers Kitchens, Telegraph Road, Heswall, or by ringing 625-5056, 625-2215 or 342-4226. more...
AN open meeting is to be held in St Laurence's Parish Centre in Claughton Road, Birkenhead, on Wednesday, April 18, starting at 7.30pm. more...
WINNERS of the Hoylake Cottage Hospital 150 Club draw for March are: 1st No 14 winning £150; 2nd No 75, £50; 3rd No 55, £25. more...
A FLAG day held in Wirral raised over £1,700 for Barnados. more...
WIRRAL'S Labour-controlled council has raised council tax well above the rate of inflation for many years. With the large increases we have been paying, the public of Wirral should have seen vast improvements. more...
LIKE many other people in Wallasey, I have recently received the latest demand for Council Tax from Wirral Borough Council. more...
WHAT is so important about horses? Do they pay more rates than we two-legged animals? more...
WOULD any readers be able to help me with my family history research? I am trying to trace relatives or friends of Nancy Snow and Nellie Carter who lived in New Brighton and were my Great Aunts. Also, my great grandmother, Annie Maud Murray (sometimes Godwin), who ran a guest house in Elmswood Road, Egremont. more...
WHILE I do not condone the rudeness displayed by some users of the cycle path at Harrison Drive, New Brighton (Globe, March 21), presumably the path was built for the sole use of cyclists. If walkers kept to the walkway directly parallel to the sea wall and cyclists to the cycle path then presumably everybody will be happy. more...
IDIOTS have completely wrecked some of the new bus shelters just erected in the Maryland Lane/Millhouse Lane area of Wallasey. Maybe the only solution for such mindless idiots is to remove the shelters completely, so that everyone, including them, are left out in the cold. more...
I WOULD like to thank all the people who came to my aid after a nasty accident outside Sainsbury's Woodchurch Road store on Tuesday, March 20, particularly the 19-year-old girl from Moreton whose name I didn't get. more...
WELL Citizen, it seems you've figured me out. I seem to fit neatly into the category where you have placed me. I am stereotyped, standardised, characterised, classified, grouped and always typical. Unfortunately, I can never figure you out . . . more...
THIS letter is directed to the Chief Executive of Merseyrail Electrics. I have recently started using the Wirral Line on a regular basis and have been very disappointed with the number of cancellations of West Kirby trains, as well as delays to this service. more...
A READER came up with a solution to Arrowe Park Hospital's parking problem (Globe, March 28). Well done! more...
RE: 'Grass Verge Parking' on Townmeadow, Moreton (Globe, March 21). Wirral Council has come up with some ideas for not parking. May I make a suggestion? more...
I WRITE on behalf of the Thetis Families Association. more...
THE Wirral Globe is calling on the people of the borough to sign up to save a life today... more...
A LOCAL MP has slammed a magazine for publishing an article about a drug which killed a Wirral man two years ago. more...
WIRRAL Globe website thisiswirral has almost doubled its traffic over the last month with more than 84,000 hits. more...
CAMPAIGNERS continued to battle for public access to the Twelve Quays' development with a demonstration on the Mersey waterfront last Saturday. more...
BROOKSIDE star, Louis Emerick, is helping launch a new Barnardo's video aimed at giving the chance of a new life to disabled children in Wirral. more...
A PLANNING committee decision on whether a housing development at Carlett Park should go ahead has been deferred after residents objected. more...
A STORE assistant who allowed shoppers through the check-out without paying claimed he had been threatened with violence if he did not co-operate. more...
THE House of Commons was told last week about the concerns of Wirral residents over the possible downgrading of Heswall and West Kirby fire stations. more...
CAMPAIGNERS are fighting plans to build more houses on a stretch of Wirral Green Belt land. more...
CAR dealers are failing to make the most of the sales opportunities offered by the web, with one in four of them still not having a website. more...
A STUDY has revealed that nearly a third of North West drivers have not had an eye test for 10 years. more...
WITH regard to the story 'It's not good enough' (Globe, March 14), it is right to ask who awards the charter mark. I would imagine not one member of the public is asked their opinion. When you phone the DSS, you are told you are 10th in the queue. After listening to the Trumpet Voluntary for 40 minutes, you are then connected to a person. more...
I DO not believe that the vast majority of my constituents, some of whom wrote to me, have been best served by the way the latest council tax rise was arrived at. more...
A WOMAN found driving a stolen car claimed she had bought it for £250 from a man outside the car auctions in Ellesmere Port. She also claimed to have bought a tax disc from a different vehicle from the same person for £10, Wirral magistrates heard. more...
A GENEROUS donation of £500 has been made to St John's Hospice in Wirral. more...
CHARITABLE bikers gathered on Sunday to deliver Easter treats to needy children... and may have broken a British record along the way. more...
SIX times world snooker champion Steve Davis is to launch this year's EuroWirral Fit For Business challenge. more...
TAKE Five mascot Fiver! will be handing out free portions of fruit and vegetables to ferry passengers on the River Mersey on Friday (April 6). more...
A WIRRAL garden is open to the public this Sunday as part of the National Gardens Scheme. Briarfield Gardens, Rake Lane, Burton, will be helping to raise money for charities including MacMillan Cancer Relief and Claire House. more...
THE Pyramids Shopping Centre now has its very own life-saving equipment to 'buy time' until paramedic help arrives. more...
THE Accident and Emergency Department at Arrowe Park Hospital is to receive a major £1.2 million facelift in time for its 20th anniversary. The eight month project, to upgrade more than half of the Department, starts shortly and is scheduled for completion before Christmas. more...
OFF to sunny Spain is the Wirral Globe/HSA Mum in a Million award winner Tina Smith, from Liscard. more...
GOLFERS are being urged to support North West Cancer Research Fund's Charity Golf Day at Wallasey Golf Club on Sunday, April, 29. For more details and to enter, call 630-5887. more...
SOME might accuse Kevin Sheedy of masochism when he tells you that, despite Tranmere Rovers peering dangerously into the Nationwide League Division One relegation abyss, he's enjoying the hot seat. more...
Tranmere Rovers . . . . . . . . .1, Fulham . . . . . . . . . 4 more...
Arsenal Ladies . . . . 3, Tranmere Rovers Ladies . . . . . 0 more...
IF you want to vote for your favourite Tranmere Player of the Season, you can now do so by calling our special phoneline or on-line at our website. more...
FORMER Tranmere Rovers skipper Jim Harvey and current Prenton Park coach Ray Mathias feature in the leading names of who the fans want to see succeed John Aldridge as boss. more...
EASTHAM Lodge Golf Club's new Captains will be Roy Walker and Kath Griffin. more...
RESULTS - Wednesday, March 28, Division One: Ashville 3, Poulton Vics 3; Christleton 1, Blacon YC 0; Heswall 4, Capenhurst Villa 1; Mond Rgrs 0, Gen Chemicals 2; Vauxhall 1, Helsby 0. Division Two: Cammell Laird 0, West Kirby 0; Upton AA 2, Castrol Social 3. more...
RESULTS: Saturday, March 31, RMNJ Cup (1st Rd) - Archers 0, Abbotsford 11; Delta 0, North Star 6; Pacific 6, The Hornblower 4; Parkfield BA 3, OVFC 3 (OVFC win 4-2 on pens); Parkfield BA Res 1, Abbotsford Yth 5; Royal Liver 7, The Exmouth 9; Seven Stiles Yth 4, Clipper Moreton 3. Division Two - FC Coburg 2, Shillings Cafe Bar 3; Old Rockferrians 2, BASF Yth 2. Division Three - 27 Club Wallasey 2, Kelma 3; AC Brookley 4, Albion Hotel 0; Malt Shovel 2, Upton Villa 2. more...
RESULTS: Saturday, March 31, South Wirral Challenge Cup (1st Rd):- Mersey Ferries 2, Hope Farm 3. Robin Hodgson Division: Vanser FC 4, Tricorn 3; Grange Ath 2, Bronze Soc 1; Manor Ath 1, Rangers Breaks 0; Merebrook Soc 3, Avon Ath 3. Concorde Trophies Division - Bebington Ath 4, Manor Ath 1; Bebington Hawks 0, Dray Ath 6; Bronze Soc 2, Wirral Nomads 3; Gen Chems 8, Black Horse Hornets 0. more...
RESULTS - Wirral Premier Cup: Archers Soc 2, De Cordova Octel 2 (Octel win 4-2 on pens); Pelican 1, Ship Inn 0; Dingwall 0, Queen's Park 3. Premier Division: Kel 1, Royal Sun Alliance 0; Shaftesbury 1, Rock Ferry Soc 7; Brow 0, Dock Hotel 1; Parkdale 0, Pacific 7. Division One: Heygarth Utd 0, St John's Celtic 1; Parkside 1, Rangers Breaks 1; Jockey 2, Swan Hotel 2; Stiles 4, Warwick 0; Shaftesbury Snrs 1, Hornby HBRBL 3. Division Two: Tranmere Vics 1, Upton Celtic 1; Graylands Ath 4, Houlihan's VC 4; Neston 1, Oxton Ath 2; Port Sunlight RBL 1, Argyll 3; Graylands Villa 1, Shellbourne Evans 3. Division Three: Windmill 5, Wirral Libs 2; Wellington 7, AFC Archers 1; Corsair Ath 4, Ridger 3; Rockville 2, Young Lions 3; Club Octel 0, Black Horse 11. Division Four: Woodhey Ath 3, Cavendish 2; Hotel Victoria 1, Clipper 5; Railway 7, Windsor Castle 2; Lord Napier 1, Saughall 5; Crown & Cushion 8, Bidston Hill 1. Youth Division: Young Lions 1, Glenavon 14; Poulton 9, Shaftesbury Yth 2; Ashville 1, Christleton 1; Wirral Yth 2, Heswall 4; Upton JFC 0, Shore Villa 4. more...
RESULTS - Sunday, April 1: Challenge Cup (2nd Rd): Fairfield 4, Wirral Ath 1; Farmers Arms 2, Halfway Prenton 5; Hoylake 2, Cat 4. Challenge Cup (3rd Rd): Nova 2, Stirrup 4; Port Sunlight 2, Lancelyn 6. Division One: Prenton Dell 2, Ship 3; Old House at Home 1, PSI 3. Division Two: Pollards Inn 5, Tranmere Supporters 1; Premier Soc 2, Wellington 6; Royal Oak 3, Old Brown Cow 3. Division Three: Allport 3, Halfway House 1; Punch Bowl 2, Ship Ath 4; Wirral Health 1, Riverside Town 2. more...
RESULTS - Sunday, April 1, Under 16: Vauxhall 3, W/Kirby Wasps 1; Heygarth Utd 0, Hope Farm Hotspurs 7; Shore Villa 7, Princes Villa 1; Heswall 1, Ashville 3; Heswall 0, Parkdale 3; Shore Villa 8, W/Kirby Wasps 2; Vauxhall 4, Princes Villa 1; Shaftesbury YC 8, Heygarth Utd 2. Under-15: W/Kirby Wasps 8, Irby Jnrs 2; Young Lions 8, Eastham Blades 1; Ashville 2, Victoria Colts 1; Irby Jnrs 1, Vauxhall 7; Young Lions 8, Neston Nomads 1; W/Kirby Wasps 1, Ashville 7; Victoria Colts 8, Eastham Blades 3; Stork 0, Shore Villa 1; Eastham Villa 0, Shaftesbury YC 5; Neston Nomads 0, Vauxhall 8; Shore Villa 1, Newton Yth 3; Ashville 5, Eastham Blades 0; Vauxhall 4, Newton Yth 2; Shaftesbury YC 4, Shore Villa 7. Under-14 'A': Neston Nomads 1, Shaftesbury YC 5; Ashville 2, Vauxhall 2. Under-14 'B': Willaston Wndrs 1, Young Lions 5; Alliance 3, Rossway Utd 4; Liscard Panthers 1, Crusaders 3; Eastham Blades 2, Allport Hawks 3; W/Kirby Wasps 0, Heygarth Utd 3; Crusaders 1, W/Kirby Wasps 7. Under-13 'A': Squibb 3, Raby Ath 8; Neston Nomads 6, Shaftesbury YC 1; Heswall 1, Young Lions 2; Raby Ath 4, Vauxhall 4. Under-13 'B': Irby Jnrs 1, W/Kirby JFC 3; Allport Hawks 2, FC Phoenix 3; Eastham Blades 1, Lion Kings JFC 2; Irby Jnrs 0, FC Phoenix 6; Liscard Panthers 4, Allport Hawks 6; Ashville 8, Parkdale 1. Under 12 'A': Parkonians 1, Shore Villa 6; Vauxhall 8, Ashville 0; Shaftesbury YC 3, Stork 1; W/Kirby Wasps 0, Heswall 5; Shore Villa 4, Ashville 0; W/Kirby Wasps 2, Parkonians 4. Under-12 'B': Allport Hawks 8, Prenton Ath 1; Irby Jnrs 4, Eastham Blades 2; Newton Yth 2, Young Lions 0; Squibb 1, Victoria Colts 2. Under-11: Ashville 6, Allport Hawks 2; Shore Villa 8, Irby Jnrs 0; Liscard Panthers 8, Rossway Utd 3; Victoria Colts 0, Parkonians 1; Vauxhall 7, Young Lions 5; Shaftesbury YC 1, Squibb 4; Heygarth Utd 3, Heswall 5; W/Kirby Wasps 1, Stork 6; W/Kirby Wasps 8, Heygarth Utd 0; Parkonians 1, Squibb 2; Shore Villa 1, Liscard Panthers 1; Irby Jnrs 4, Rossway Utd 2; Heswall 4, Victoria Colts 2; Neston Nomads 1, Stork 2; Vauxhall 2, Ashville 6; Rossway Utd 1, Allport Hawks 2; Neston Nomads 3, Shore Villa 3; Irby Jnrs 0, Stork 7; Heswall 4, Parkonians 4; Shaftesbury YC 3, Vauxhall 6; Squibb 4, Young Lions 1. more...
RESULTS - Sunday, April 1: Under 11: N/Brighton Saints Rvrs 4, B'head YC 0; Glenavon 2, Greenleas Celtic 1; Greenleas 9, Wirral Scorpions 0; Parkfield 0, Victoria Colts 8; Wallasey Wndrs 2, Olympic 2; Ridgeview 4, Upton FC 4. Under-11 Knock-Out Cup Final: Wirral Panthers 2, N/Brighton Saints Rgrs 3. Under-12: B'hd YC 4, Olympic 6; Glenavon 2, Hearts FC 0; Upton FC 1, N/B'ton Saints 5; Poulton Ath 4, Parkgate 7; Pensby Falcons 3, Wirral Panthers 3; Wirral Scorpions 4, Wallasey Wndrs 7. Under-12 Knock-Out Cup Final: Ridgeview 0, Greenleas 3. Under-13 'A': Mersey Park 1, Glenavon 5; N/B'ton Saints 9, Gt Float 0; Greenleas 8, Wallasey Wndrs 2; Hearts 1, Saughall Ath 3; Upton FC 8, Ridgeview 2. Under-13 'B': Woodward Boys 4, B'hd YC 3; Parkgate FC 8, Pensby Falcons 1; Victoria Colts 0, Wasps 4. Under-14 'A': Glenavon Hawks 1, Glenavon Eagles 0; Wirral Scorpions 4, Poulton Ath 5; Wasps 1, Victoria Colts 8. Under-14 'B': Hearts 7, Olympic 1; Upton FC 0, N/B'ton Saints 8; Wallasey Wndrs 3, Parkgate FC 3; Wirral Panthers 12, Pensby Falcons 0. Under-15: Bebington Rovers 1, Upton FC 9; B'hd YC 1, Parkgate 2; Glenavon 0, Poulton Ath 2; N/B'ton Saints 1, Greenleas 2; Overchurch 0, N/B'ton AFC 2; St John's Colts 4, Olympic 3; Upton Manor 2, Wirral Scorpions 2. Under-16: Victoria Colts 2, B'hd YC 1; Upton FC 3, Greenleas 3; Glenavon Hawks 4, Glenavon Eagles 3; N/B'ton Saints 7, Poulton Ath 3; Wasps 0, Olympic 4. more...
New Brighton . . . . . . . . . . . 37 pts, Nuneaton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 pts more...
BIRKENHEAD Park were far from happy after their South Lancashire/Cheshire match at Birchfield was called off less than hour before kick-off. more...
WILL Thompson in his Dart El Loco won twice as Dee Sailing Club completed their first ever Winter Series on the Dee Estuary. more...
JAMES Douglas, in Bogtrotter II, and Alistair Davidson in Just Deeserts, both chalked up hat-tricks when Dee Sailing Club opened their new season with warm-up events on the Dee Estuary at the weekend. more...
ALAN Burns in Skukusa led the Channel One Handicap in Liverpool Yacht Club racing on the Mersey on Sunday, with John Gleeson second in Salena. more...
ASHVILLE paid the price on Saturday for fielding a weakened side at Cammell Laird, who remain unbeaten on course for the Division One title thanks to a 5-1 success. more...
A CUP tie that produces 16 goals is either a total annihilation or a thriller - and the clash between Royal Liver and Exmouth in the Birkenhead Saturday Football League Robert Moore, Nicolas, Jones Cup was most definitely a nail-biter! more...
THE Carlsberg West Cheshire Football League is looking for a results service provider. more...
QUEENS Park, of the Houlihan's Birkenhead Sunday Football League, booked their place in the Wirral Cup semi-finals with a 3-0 triumph at Dingwall. John Thompson hit a brace of goals, Phillip Hughes the other. more...
MATT Haddrell's first goal for Vauxhall Motors proved to be enough to bring his side all three points against determined Kendal Town at Rivacre Road on Saturday. more...
SECOND-half goals by Anthony Fry and Gary Brown saw Wallasey & District Sunday Football League side The Queens deservedly through to the Wirral FA Premier Cup quarter-finals against ADS Graphics. more...
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