Wirral | Archive | 2001 | April
WEST Kirby Light Opera Society presents Leonard Bernstein's 'Candide' at the Floral Pavilion, New Brighton, from April 25 to 28. more...
THE Crescent Players promise 'a cornucopia of comic confusion' when they celebrate their Golden Jubilee this year with their 97th production. more...
A WALLASEY musician hopes to bring the sound of 1950s skiffle to a 21st century audience. more...
JOE Brown appears at the Liverpool Neptune Theatre on Thursday May 3. more...
THE comedy king of Knotty Ash, Ken Dodd, returns to the Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, with his Happiness Show on Saturday, May 5. Tickets are available from the box office on 639 4360. more...
ARE you a budding female singer eager to develop your hidden talents? more...
A PAEDOPHILE who sexually abused four young boys over a 26 year period was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court for four-and-a-half years. more...
UPTON Evening Townswomen's Guild's Paradise Park was voted the best play at a drama showcase performed by Wirral Federation of Townswomen's Guilds at the Floral Pavilion, New Brighton. more...
BIRKENHEAD plumbing merchants Plumb Centre have given a £100 boost to Shaftesbury Youth Club's under-10 football team. more...
PUFFINS are coming to Wirral's roads - in the form of new crossings. more...
WIRRAL holds its Europe Day celebrations over May Bank Holiday weekend, May 5 & 6, and this year should be the biggest and best ever, organisers say. more...
BRAVE fundraisers will be taking the plunge when they abseil in aid of Landican Cemetery's baby memorial garden on Saturday. more...
ONE of Wirral's busiest junctions is being closed for two nights to complete a scheme already praised for reducing traffic congestion. more...
THE RSPCA is appealing to the public to help save thousands of fledglings, fox cubs and other baby animals from unnecessary handling by humans this Spring and Summer. more...
HESWALL Library is the venue for the fifth One Stop Shop in Wirral. more...
POWERTOUR is heading for Oulton Park for the Mayday Bank Holiday weekend of Sunday and Monday, May 6 and 7 - and the Globe has tickets to give away. more...
A MYSTERY tour raised £150 for Claire House. Travelcare West Kirby and Alfa coaches organised the fund-raiser which saw Lyndsay Dumbill escort 48 passengers to Skipton Market. Alfa charged only £50 for the coach and passengers paid £4 each, raising £142. Travelcare staff boosted the total to £150. more...
A CASH aid pledge to farmers hit by foot and mouth has come from Thurstaston licensees Carl and Paula Starkey. more...
A SCULPTOR from Wallasey will be taking his work across the Mersey when he exhibits at Liverpool's Hanover Galleries next month. more...
CHILDREN from Marymount Convent School came out winners during this year's Bromborough Festival of Performing Arts, Speech and Drama. more...
WHILE his girlfriend was in prison a Wirral man cashed orders belonging to her without her permission, Wirral magistrates heard. more...
A PRENTON student is hoping to go on an expedition to Costa Rica - but needs your help. more...
WIRRAL has its very own disco diva who set the dance floor alight at the British Isles Dance Festival this month. more...
HISTORICAL author Steve Harding will give three talks on Wirral Vikings: Wednesday, May 2 - Wirral's Forgotten Vikings, Lingham's Bookshop, Heswall, 6.30pm. Tickets £3.50 from the bookshop on 342-7290; Tuesday, May 8 - Viking Wirral!, Birkenhead Town Hall (Wirral Museum), Hamilton Square, 7.30pm, tickets £2 from all Wirral Libraries and Museum (call 652-6106 ext 7); Thursday, May 10 - Wirral's Forgotten Vikings, Ellesmere Port Library, 7pm, 357-4686. more...
A SPECIAL party has been held to salute an army of volunteers at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology (CCO). more...
VOLUNTEERS are being recruited to work with vulnerable members of the community. more...
THE biggest charity walk in the North West takes place on Wirral next month - and you can be part of it. more...
A-LEVELS may be just around the corner, but a group of Wallasey sixth form students already have something to celebrate. more...
WIRRAL Heart Beat's collection at Sainsbury's Upton store on April 5 raised £220, which will help support the work of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit at St Catherine's Hospital in Birkenhead. more...
IF only choices in life - like deciding on a job and a career - were as easy for teenagers as they are portrayed in the movies . . . more...
EVERY two years the Carlton Players donate the first-night proceeds of their spring production to a charity nominated by Bebington Rotary Club. more...
A £1,000 donation has been made to Liverpool baby hospice Zoe's Place by local MFI stores, including Wallasey. more...
YOU have recently published letters about new development which has spoilt a section of the Wirral Way at Caldy. This building in fields and large gardens alongside the country park has been going on for many years. more...
I WOULD like to assure readers that despite the bad publicity a lot of youngsters receive these days there are still some lovely children about.. more...
IT WAS interesting to see Mr Frank Burns, Chief Executive of Arrowe Park Hospital writing in you columns on the subject of parking at the hospital. more...
I WOULD like to say a special thank you to Alison from Alison Clayton School of Dance for the wonderful stage festivals at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton at the end of March. more...
A GOOD while ago, after having a coronation party photo printed in the Globe, I received a letter from a Mrs Sheldon asking me if I had any information about her husband's family who lived in Milner Road, Heswall (where the party was held). more...
by Alison Klabacher more...
FOLLOWING the announcement that 150 jobs are to go at its Birkenhead yard, the hunt is on to find a buyer for Cammell Laird. more...
Changes 'brought God's displeasure' more...
HESWALL resident Sir Richard Foster drank a bottle of whisky before weighing himself down with sand and walking into the sea to his death. more...
BRAVE Stephanie Forrester is back home after having a metal frame removed from her hand over Easter. more...
POLICE are taking action over the problem of constant false alarms from businesses. more...
GOODS valued at £4,500 were taken during a burglary at a Heswall jeweller's shop. more...
A BATS and birds evening stroll takes place at Burton's Inner Marsh Farm on Saturday, April 28. The walk starts at 6.30pm and finishes with cheese and wine. Tickets are £5 for RSPB members and £6 for non members. Details from 336-7681. more...
HUNDREDS of cyclists are preparing to take part in this Summer's Wirral Bikeathon to raise vital money for Leukaemia Research. more...
A WIRRAL company has been celebrating after being crowned with the Queen's Award for Enterprise. more...
MERSEYSIDE discount retailers TJ Hughes, which has a store in Birkenhead, has announced a 24.5 per cent increase in turnover for the year. Profit before tax was £4.2 million. more...
TO the mindless vandals who wantonly destroyed and damaged many sites at the Harris Allotments on Thursday night, April 12: more...
I HAVE found myself wondering what all the fuss is about, with regards to having to pay to park at Arrowe Park Hospital! more...
REGARDING the anger expressed over the rise in council tax (the rate of increase has been well over the rate of inflation for years now), readers might be interested in an examination of the accounts contained in the booklet accompanying the demand notice. more...
I RANG to enquire about goods at my local catalogue shop. No need to go all the way into town, a quick phone call should sort it out! How naive! The dreaded answer phone sucked me into a labyrinth of finger-tapping, multi-choice options! She put up a good fight, that answering machine! She didn't succumb easily to my persistence and determination to actually reach a human being. I was given so many choices that I almost forgot why I rang, never mind which option I wanted! But eventually she had to transfer me to a customer advisor. And lo and behold - it was engaged! How long had I been there? Probably a bit longer than it would have taken me to run into town and back! more...
THE new bus routes 430, 432, 433 and N31 from New Brighton to Liverpool have no direct route to either of the main transport terminals in Liverpool Lime Street for the main line trains and Norton Street for the national buses, nor for the Liverpool Royal Hospital. Why? more...
I READ with great interest the reply to L. Wilkinson's letter which gave a realistic view of bus passengers just trying to get to work. D. Anderson's reply (Globe, March 28) clearly showed everyone who was to blame except, it seems, Arriva. more...
FOR the benefit of posterity, as well as in the interest of accuracy, let us insist on our correct addresses - i.e. UPTON - being on census forms, not the distorted versions wished on us by the Post Office. more...
IT is very nice to see the tram car travelling along Shore Road in Birkenhead. more...
D-DAY for nominations for this year's Wirral Volunteer of The Year Award is Friday (April 27). And the organisers of the prestigious Award, designed to recognise the contribution of Wirral's selfless army of golden-hearted people, are delighted with the response so far. more...
CYCLISTS are being urged by the council not to ride on pavements in a bid to improve safety for pedestrians. more...
THE spoils from this year's annual Egg Run were handed out by members of Wirral Motorcycle Runs to their four nominated charities. A committee made up of representatives from local motorcyling clubs descended on the playroom at Arrowe Park Hospital to give Easter Eggs to the children along with an incredible total of more than £8,500. more...
FOUR-year-old Leah Masters has won second place in the under sevens class for poetry speaking at this year's Bromborough Festival of Speech and Drama at South Wirral High School. more...
PLANS have been submitted to build a three storey residential development on land in Heswall. more...
HAVE you just returned from a holiday blighted by building work? Was the food dreadful? Was the accommodation awful? And did the holiday rep do anything to help? more...
THE Iron Door Club - anti-alcohol and anti-drug dance nights run by the Tranmere Alliance - is proving a great success, with young people from all over Wirral flocking to the music. more...
A BROMBOROUGH man was brought before Wirral magistrates last week to face a murder allegation. more...
SPEAKER Betty Heath's exploits as a land girl in WW2 entertained members of Poulton Lancelyn Women's Institute. more...
THE next meeting of Burton & Puddington Women's Institute will be on May 2 in Burton Village Hall. more...
by Steve Hallmark more...
by Andrew Stratton more...
TRANMERE went down 2-1 to Burnley at Turf Moor on Tuesday night in what was a 'dead rubber' for the relegated Wirral club. more...
IRBY were denied victory by the narrowest of margins as the new Murray Smith Cheshire County League cricket season got under way on Saturday. more...
RESULTS: Wednesday, April 18, Division One: Christleton 0, Heswall 0; Gen Chemicals 1, Cammell Laird 3; Mersey Royal 0, Blacon YC 0; Newton 0, Mond Rgrs 3. Division Two: Capenhurst Villa Res 0, Manweb 2; Castrol Social 3, Upton AA 3; Christleton Res 0, Cammell Laird Res 2; Poulton Vics Res 0, Mersey Royal Res 1; Shell Res 1, Ashville Res 2. Division Three: Pensby 2, Manor Ath 3; New Brighton Res 0, Mallaby 7; St Werburgh's 3, Helsby Res 3. more...
RESULTS: Wednesday, April 18, Robin Hodgson Division: Charing Cross 2, Manor Athletic 0; Grange Ath 3, Rangers Breaks 0; Bronze Social 8, Hope Farm 1. more...
RESULTS Sunday, April 22, Cheshire FA Sunday Cup Final: Queen's Park 1, Offerton 1 (Queen's Park win 3-2 on penalties). Wirral Amateur Cup: Livingstone 3, King's Arms 1. Premier Division: Dock Hotel 3, Pelican 3; Shaftesbury 2, Parkldale 0; Royal Sun Alliance 0, Brow 3; Pacific 3, Ship Inn 3; Kel 2, Archer's Social 3. Division One: Heygarth Utd 1, Rangers Breaks 0; Hornby HBRBL 2, Parkside 1; Jockey 6, Lever Club 4. Division Two: Argyll 2, Neston 2; Houlihan's VC 4, Graylands Villa 2; Port Sunlight RBL 3, Graylands Yth 5; Shellbourne Evans 2, Tranmere Victoria 0. Division Three: Corsair Ath 1, Rockville 4; Wirral Liberals 0, Wellington 5; Windmill 7, AFC Archers 0. Division Four: Bidston Hill 5, Lord Napier 2; Clipper 1, Saughall 2; Railway 3, Crown & Cushion 2; Woodhey Ath 0, Windsor Castle 2; Cavendish 3, Mersey Blades 2. Youth Division: Ashville Colts 4, Christleton 3; Heswall 6, Young Lions 2; Shaftesbury Boys 1, Glenavon 0; Upton JFC 3, Willaston 5; Ashville Yth 3, Shore Villa 0. more...
RESULTS - Friday, April 20, Division One: ADS Graphics 0, Nova 3; Dingwall 0, Stirrup 3; PSI 1, Prenton Dell 4. Division Two: Cat 3, Farmers Arms 4; Old Brown Cow m1, Premier Social 3; Pollards Inn 2, Wirral Ath 1. Division Three: Port Sunlight 2, Ship Ath 2; Riverside Town 4, Halfway House 2. Challenge Cup (Rd 3): Halfway Prenton 1, Fairfield 0. more...
RESULTS - Sunday, April 22, Under-16 Division: Princes Villa 2, W/Kirby Wasps 3; Parkdale 1, Hope Farm 3; Shaftesbury YC 3, Shore Villa 3; Vauxhall 8, Willaston Wndrs 0; W/Kirby Wasps 1, Shore Villa 5. Under-15 Division: Heswall 2, Shaftesbury YC 5; Eastham Villa 2, Young Lions 8; Victoria Colts 1, Vauxhall 6; Irby Jnrs 1, Newton Yth 6; Eastham Blades 1, Stork 8; Eastham Villa 0, Shore Villa 8; Neston Nomads 0, Shaftesbury YC 8; Young Lions 8, Irby Jnrs 0; Young Lions 8, Irby Jnrs 2; Ashville 1, Newton Yth 6. Cheshire Cup Final: Shore Villa 2, General Chemicals 1. Under-14 'A' Division: Ashville 4, Squibb 2; Shaftesbury YC 1, Heswall 1; Squibb 0, Vauxhall 3; Neston Nomads 3, Heswall 0. Wirral Minor Cup: Castrol Woodlands 4, Shore Villa 1. Under-14 'B' Division: Young Lions 6, Rossway Utd 0; W/Kirby Wasps 0, Eastham Blades 2; Crusaders 5, Alliance 2; Liscard Panthers 1, Heygarth Utd 4; Willaston 0, Allport Hawks 8; Liscard Panthers 5, Rossway Utd 3; Crusaders 3, Willaston Wndrs 2. Under-13 'A' Division: Vauxhall 0, Neston Nomads 3; Heswall 1, Raby Ath 4; Raby Ath 8, Heygarth Utd 1. Under-13 'B' Division: Ashville 6, Irby Jnrs 1; FC Phoenix 8, Lion Kings JFC 0; Allport Hawks 2, W/Kirby JFC 5; Liscard Panthers 1, Fender Yth 5; Eastham Blades 8, Parkdale 2; Irby Jnrs 8, Lion Kings JFC 0. Under-12 'A' Division: Stork 3, Parkonians 1; Shaftesbury YC 0, Heswall 3; Fender Yth 8, Parkonians 1.Wirral Minor Cup: Vauxhall 6, Fender Yth 1. Under-12 'B' Division: Allport Hawks 6, Squibb 1. Under-11 Division: Allport Hawks 3, Victoria Colts 3; Liscard Panthers 2, Ashville 2; Shore Villa 8, Rossway Utd 0; Fender Yth 2, Irby Jnrs 8; Stork 8, Shaftesbury YC 3; Parkonians 3, Heygarth Utd 3; Vauxhall 1, Squibb 3; Young Lions 8, Heswall 0; Fender Yth 1, Neston Nomads 7; Allport Hawks 5, Heygarth Utd 2; Ashville 4, Heswall 2; Shore Villa 6, Shaftesbury YC 3; Irby Jnrs 0, Squibb 6; Young Lions 2, Neston Nomads 3; Fender Yth 1, Vauxhall 2; Rossway Utd 5, Victoria Colts 5; Liscard Panthers 0, Stork 5. more...
RESULTS - Sunday, April 22, Under-11 Division: Greenleas Celtic 5, B'head YC 1; Glenavon 5, Wirral Scorpions 0; Victoria Colts 0, New Brighton Saints Rgrs 4; New Brighton Saints Rovers 5, Upton FC 0; Ridgeview 3, Olympic 3; Wirral Panthers 5, Parkfield 0. Under-12 Division: B'head YC 1, Ridgeview 3; Poulton Ath 3, Delta Colts 3; Pensby Falcons 2, Glenavon 4; Greenleas 5, Parkgate FC 0; Hearts 4, Olympic 9; Wirral Scorpions 5, New Brighton Saints 3; Wirral Panthers 5, Upton FC 2. Under-13 'A' Division: Ridgeview 0, New Brighton Saints 4. Under-13 'B' Division: Parkgate FC 1, B'head YC Colts 2; Pensby Falcons 1, Wasps 6; Victoria Colts 2, Woodward Boys 2. Under-14 Wirral Cup (Semi-final): Glenavon Hawks 3, Greenleas 1. Under-14 'A' Division: Glenavon Eagles 5, Wirral Scorpions 0. Under-14 'B' Division: Parkgate FC 7, New Brighton Saints 2; Wirral Panthers 6, Wallasey Wndrs 1. Under-15 Division: Upton Manor 2, Bebington Rovers 3; St John's Colts 4, Glenavon 4; New Brighton AFC 4, Olympic 1; Parkgate FC 4, Poulton Ath 1; Wirral Scorpions 0, New Brighton Saints 5. Under-16 Division: B'head YC 5, Poulton Ath 0; Glenavon Eagles 4, New Brighton Saints 2; Victoria Colts 5, Wasps 0; Olympic 3, Upton FC 2.Greenleas 5, New Brighton Saints 3. more...
Stockport . . . . 0 pts, New Brighton . . . . 10 pts more...
by Colin Bentley more...
IT was celebration time for Birkenhead Park and Anselmians at the weekend Park crushed Leigh by a massive 80-3 to make absolutely certain of the South Lancashire/Cheshire One league title and Anselmians secured a terrific 23-19 win at Runcorn to win the Division Three championship. more...
THERE was a miserable wet start to the local tidal sailing programme. Hoylake staged two races for the Operas over an inshore course and Gavin Melling won each time in Silvana. On the Mersey, Dave Lee's Wavesweeper won the Channel Handicap Division One, with Division Two going to Doug McArvie in Argo. more...
MERSEY Royal emerged 5-3 victors over local adversaries Stork in a dramatic Wirral Senior Cup semi-final, last Tuesday. There was little sign of Royal's ultimate success when they went 2-0 down after 10 minutes through goals by Paul Wiggans and Paul McDonald. more...
GRANGE Athletic need just one point to clinch the South Wirral Football League Concorde Trophies Division title. more...
A GOAL nine minutes from time won the Birkenhead & Wirral Saturday Football League Victory Cup for Abbotsford, runners-up for the last three years. more...
POULTON Vics will meet holders Vauxhall in the Carlsberg West Cheshire League Pyke Challenge Cup Final. more...
A GOAL in extra-time by Gary Brabender won the Birkenhead & Wirral (Saturday) Football League's Joe Shields Cup for Kelma after a rollercoaster final against Exmouth. more...
SHAFTESBURY Boys, of the Houlihan's Birkenhead Sunday Football League, are through to the Cheshire Youth Cup Final after a convincing 7-1 victory over Witton Albion Youth, of Northwich. more...
GOALS by Lee Patterson and Andy Bolton gave Birkenhead & Wirral (Saturday) Football League club The Star a 2-0 win over Abbotsford in the Wirral Junior Cup Final. more...
ASHVILLE Youth, of the Houlihan's Birkenhead Sunday Football League, beat Leasowe Castle 5-0 in the Wirral Junior Cup quarter-final. Lee Sample scored twice with Eddie Jebb, Paul Rowland and Andy Wood grabbing a goal each. Christleton Youth also reached the semi-final, beating The Railway 3-2. more...
TEAMS wishing to join the South Wirral Football League for next season can obtain application forms from League Secretary Alf Roberts (Tel: 644-9954). more...
TEAMS wishing to join the South Wirral Football League for next season can obtain application forms from League Secretary Alf Roberts (Tel: 644-9954). more...
WIRRAL Scorpions junior football team need a manager. Those interested should contact Dave on 652-5832. more...
Carl Bowen is hoping to reclaim his former titles by fighting abroad in May, but needs to raise £5/6,000 in sponsorship by May 5. more...
THE Domestic Violence Task Group are busy gearing themselves up for the launch of their campaign to raise awareness about domestic violence in the borough. more...
FIDDLERS Ferry, one of Britain's largest power stations, has been put up for sale by Edison Mission Energy, putting 300 jobs at risk. more...
CONTENTIOUS plans to turn a furniture store into a nightclub were rejected by Halton Council last week - after residents protested. more...
I'M SITTING on a railway station, got a ticket for my destination ......... more...
A WOMAN said a big thank-you to the World this week - for saving her house! more...
A TEENAGE schoolgirl, critically injured in a cliff fall, is on the road to recovery, doctors announced this week. more...
A PIONEERING partnership could save lives, it was claimed this week. more...
A NEW chemical company was celebrating this week after winning a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise and Innovation. more...
TWO RUNCORN company's pioneering project's have been boosted after receiving £45,000 grants. more...
PLANS to build a waste combustion unit in Widnes were deferred for the second time this week by Halton Council. more...
Widnes Vikings 28 more...
BOXING world champion Robin Reid will step into the ring next month in a bid to bowl over South African rival Soon Botes. more...
FIXTURES and fittings from Runcorn Football Club's Canal Street Ground will be put under the hammer following its decision to sell up and change venues next season. more...
West Bank u11 10 more...
West Houghton u8 12 more...
Leigh u15 12 more...
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