Wirral | Archive | 2001 | January
A RETIRED youth worker who put her heart and soul into her community has been included in the New Year's Honours List. more...
A HARD hitting campaign aimed at highlighting the dangers of smoking is being backed by Wirral health services. more...
A WIRRAL woman who just a year ago was confined to a wheelchair has marked the first anniversary of a lifesaving double-lung transplant. more...
HOUSING Benefit backlogs may soon be a thing of ther past after months of uncertainty. more...
NESS Botanic Gardens are offering a chipping service to people who wish to dispose of Christmas trees in an environmentally friendly way. more...
A WIRRAL wide campaign to cut the number of deaths from cancer and coronary heart disease by encouraging people to eat more fruit and vegetables will get under way this month.. more...
A WALLASEY school has been commended in a recent Offsted inspection report. more...
NEW critical facilities for adults and children will help Arrowe Park Hospital manage the extra casualties expected during the winter. more...
I WRITE following a reader's letter regarding private hire car drivers (Readers' Mail, December 20). more...
THE War Research Society is run mainly by retired and serving police officers and ex-servicemen as a charitable hobby. more...
THANK you for the article in the Globe on December 13 headed 'Schools face lollipop crisis'. Subsequent to the article quite a few people contacted the council and their applications are now being considered. more...
OVER many years now I have seen big companies take over others and immediately create redundancies in the interest of further increasing already large profits. more...
I WISH to comment on yet another example of politically correct 'lunacy' over last week's Tunnel Authority decision to spend thousands of pounds changing the overhead signs to read staffed instead of manned. more...
I WAS recently approached with what I am told will be the challenge of a lifetime to get myself fit and over to Peru to trek across the spectacular Andean landscape raising vital funds for the NSPCC. more...
THE Scouts and Guides of Wirral have completed their 19th successive year of the Charity Christmas Post thanks to the help and co-operation of 300 shops and supermarkets which allowed the selling of stamps and collection bins on their premises. more...
I WONDER if you would print a thank you letter to my former colleagues working in the Social Services adult and elderly home care division. more...
I FEAR your correspondent who thinks saving for old age was a big mistake could not be more mistaken. more...
LIKE most Wirral residents of the time, the people of Wallasey didn't have to join up to experience the horrors of war . . . more...
WITH car crime a huge problem for road-users across the country it is surprising that the vast majority of incidents go unreported. more...
THE Globe has decided that every mum and dad nominated in our HSA 'Mum in a Million' competition is a parent in a million to someone - so they are all winners. more...
A 25-YEAR old man who treated his two young children in an 'utterly irresponsible and cruel way' has been jailed for 30 months. more...
WIRRAL Wildlife will host an illustrated talk entitled 'More About Butterflies' by Roger Ainley in the hall of the Methodist Church, Heswall, on Wednesday, January 24, at 7.30pm. Admission £2. Visitors welcome. more...
WIRRAL people are being urged to get involved in a bit of post-Christmas recycling. more...
A WIRRAL woman has won her way to the final of a prestige national engineering award. more...
LOCAL fundraiser the Big Chance Lottery has donnated £4,000 to Lyndale Primary School in Eastham for an outside playground. more...
WIRRAL did better than many parts of the country in dealing with the heavy snowfalls last week as rapid action was taken to keep the borough's roads clear. more...
A COMMUNITY 'Give & Take Day' organised by Wirral Local Agenda 21 where locals were to encouraged to take along along unwanted household items, furniture and plants and give them away to anyone who wanted them was a huge success, organisers say. more...
A GROUP of Wirral teenagers enjoyed glad tidings over the festive season as they stocked up on skills. more...
A HOYLAKE shop owner has complained to the Globe after her shop window was smashed on Christmas Eve for the fifth time. more...
ANDY Parkinson gave Tranmere a magical New Year lift after the Christmas defeats against Wimbledon and Huddersfield. more...
AFTER falling to Fulham, Tranmere had the misfortune to run into a Wimbledon side in a terrific run of away form. more...
IT was a blue Christmas for Tranmere as they lost another game by a big margin over the long weekend. more...
HIGH flying New Brighton are looking for a winning start to 2001 this weekend with a home tie against lowly Walsall on Saturday. more...
THE first woman in the UK to achieve a black belt first dan in Applied Karate is from Wirral. more...
BELEAGURED officials of the Houlihan's Birkenhead Sunday Football league are considering drastic action to get the season back on track. more...
IT was all smiles at Reeds Lane over Christmas after New Brighton romped to a convincing 32-13 victory over league new boys Dudley Kingswinford. more...
WIRRAL's Tom Price has been short-listed for one of the 10 categories in the British Nautical Awards 2000. more...
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