THE Fuse Disco takes place at The Grosvenor Assembly Rooms on Friday from 6.45pm to 9.45pm. For tickets, call at Liscard Community Centre on Tuesday or Thursday between 3.30 and 4.30pm or call Anne or Tom on 630-6044 For more information call Anne or Tom on 630-6044. more...
A BIRKENHEAD-based optician has been named winner in the 2001 Optician Eye Care Awards. more...
TRANSCO is spending £3m replacing a 5,500 metre length of gas main between Woodchurch and Heswall. more...
A COUPLE married in the thick of World War Two have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary. more...
A world away from compost toilets . . . more...
THE Wild West of Wirral united to raise over £5,800 for the wild animals of Chester Zoo with the help of some generous businesses. more...
Former building boss pleads for inquiry more...
SUMMER Badminton is on offer at Upton Victory Hall on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8pm at £2 per session. For more information call Peter on 677-6560 or Gill on 652-0305. more...
YOUNGSTERS who look after relatives at home are to benefit from a play about to be performed in Birkenhead. more...
A WEST Kirby man who obtained drugs for his friend faced Wirral magistrates. more...
A LOCAL dancing queen secured an incredible four dance trophies at the Crosby Festival of Music and Dancing last month. more...
WIRRAL'S Health Promoting Schools Scheme has received national recognition. more...
A THINGWALL-based church organisation is appealing for help from Wirral business in its bid to improve surroundings for Albanian schoolchildren. more...
LOCAL company First Crosville has added extra buses to its timetable on the X8 service which provides a fast, limited stop link between Liverpool, Birkenhead and Ellesmere Port, Cheshire Oaks, Chester Zoo and Chester. more...
CHURCHES in South Wirral will join together for a World Church celebration at Little Sutton Methodist Church on Sunday at 6.30pm. more...
COMEDY star John Inman's familiar catchphrase, "I'm free" will once again be heard by shoppers who visit their Wirral Barnardo's shop. more...
FIRST Burton In Wirral Scouts are to host an open-air concert in Ness Gardens on Saturday, June 23, opening with Stockport band the 'Casablanca Steps' before the Philharmonic Concert Orchestra takes to the stage at 8pm. more...
FORTY fearless human yo-yos are being sought by Claire House Children's Hospice to raise money for the Wirral charity. more...
ST HILARY'S Church, Wallasey, celebrates Christian Aid this Sunday with a service by Dr Daleep Mukarji, the charity's director, at 10.30am. more...
HOT air balloons will be back on Merseyside next month with the promise of bigger displays and a distinctly European flavour for the three day 'Balloons across the Mersey' Festival in Birkenhead from Friday, June 15, to Sunday, June 17. Details are available on a special festival hotline on 330-1465. more...
PENSBY High School for Boys' summer fair takes place this Saturday from 11am-2.30pm. more...
A SPECIAL 'Business in the Arts' award has been given to a partner of Berry and Read Solicitors in West Kirby. more...
A LOCAL business is encouraging young footballers by sponsoring the team's new green and white kit. more...
WIRRAL West MP Stephen Hesford has intervened to rescue a rejected lottery bid by the local arthritis care group. more...
A NATIONAL charity for lone parents and their children is setting up a group in Wallasey. The first meeting of the local Gingerbread group will be on Sunday, May 13, at Serpentine Road Church, Wallasey, from 2.30pm-4.30pm. Call Val on 513-3681. more...
TWO Wirral health organisations have been rewarded for their commitment to disabled employees. more...
THE RSPCA is appealing to Globe readers to help protect wildlife this Spring by resisting the temptation to intervene and pick up baby wild animals. more...
CORPORAL Robert Alexander of 1123 Hooton Park Squadron, Air Training Corps was selected to play rugby for Merseyside, giving him another Wing Blue. Cpl Alexander was picked to captain the team which finished runners-up in their group. more...
RUNNERS are now signing up for the Mersey Tunnel 10K run on Sunday, May 27 starting from Pall Mall in Liverpool and passing through the Kingsway Tunnel to Fort Perch Rock in New Brighton. more...
ANOTHER secret garden is to be opened for a spring day with the help of the British Red Cross as part of its 'Open Garden 2001' scheme. more...
MORE than 120 sixth form students will gather for a conference organised as part of Wirral Council's EuroWIrral initiative to raise international awareness on Friday. more...
SARAH Wilson has lost two-and-a-half stone despite enjoying holidays and socialising and has been voted as the Miss Slinky 2001 of the Neston Slimming World class. more...
LUFTWAFFE memorabilia from World War Two is on display at Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, alongside exhibits about life on the home front and a 'Then and Now' photographic display. The exhibition aims to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the May blitz on Merseyside call 630-2707 for more details. more...
MAYBE the bus company Arriva should rename itself we-never-arriva. more...
I WRITE regarding the 'improved' Arriva bus service 27 (formerly number six). This is an onbject lesson in how to improve a bus service. more...
AFTER walking through a minefield of beggars in Liverpool City Centre, I was walking home in Moreton after alighting from the 6pm train last Friday when a guy walked up to me and asked if I could possibly give him the price of a gallon of petrol as he had run out of it and was trying to get to West Kirby. more...
ON Easter Sunday at 4.10am, either a police car or ambulance and I would plump for the former travelled along Upton Road at the foot of Ford Hill with its siren blaring. more...
PEOPLE have been saying that nobody celebrated St George's Day on April 23 but Moreton British Legion did with entertainment, flags, hats, plates of sandwiches, music and a great act from Martin Stone. Congratulations go to the new entertainments committee of Eddie, Alan, John and their wives for their work keeping the flag flying for England. more...
WHOSE are all the cars parked in Daryl Road, at the side of Aldi off Pensby Road? They are there all day from the top of the road to the bottom but do not belong to the houses as their cars are in their drives. more...
IN RESPONSE to your article about the anti-homosexual pamphlet, could you publish the following to highlight the insanity of his statements regarding the Old Testament? It's a copy of a reply to Laura Schlessinger, a US radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned in any circumstance . . . more...
WITH reference to the Church blaming gays for the current disasters, this country is not innocent. more...
I WISH there was some legislation under which Ray Borlase could be prosecuted and removed from his position of trust and influence, at least with his own flock. more...
THE protestations of Ray Borlase of 'the Moreton Christian Assembly' would be laughable if they were not so insulting and filled with such intolerance and malice. more...
IT IS a commonly held belief among most, if not all, Christian denominations and Judaism that the God who made the world also governs it and has in times past (as recorded in Scripture) shown his displeasure by allowing disasters and disease to befall a particular nation. more...
I GET the impresion that Ms Dean appears to have missed the point of Pastor Borlase's comments. Rather than address them, she dismisses his comments as 'utter rubbish'. more...
PASTOR Borlase's comments would be easy to dismiss were they not so potentially harmful to lesbians and gay men. more...
WIRRAL Council has thrown a lifeline to small businesses which may have been affected by the foot and mouth crisis. more...
SHE may be just two years old but Ella Williams, from Hoylake, is already keen to follow in her father's footsteps. more...
Legal cheat stole £68,000 from clients more...
FRANTIC cat owners are on their guard after 16 cats have mysteriously disappeared from the roads around Carnoustie Close, Wallasey. more...
A £10 MILLION coastal defence project was completed last week when the final unit of Wallasey's wave wall was laid. more...
AS part of her tour of Wirral, the Duchess of Gloucester officially opened a sensory garden in Heswall last Wednesday. more...
ARE you interested in saving Inheritance, tax when you die? more...
KIDS have just had two weeks off school and the light nights are here. more...
I WOULD like to add a few comments on the subject of the Alderhey Hospital scandal. more...
I READ with interest a letter from M Nielson in the Globe in March. I frequently walk my dogs along the same stretch but am not responsible for the offending mess in fact my dogs leap with ecstacy every time I reach for a plastic bag in the hope that it heralds a walk. more...
I HAD the misfortune of reading the letter titled 'Solve accident and emergency problems before car chaos' (Globe, April 25). more...
A JET skier was left unconscious following an accident at New Brighton Marine Lake on Bank Holiday Monday. more...
'Children are to be protected from their own stupidity' - judge more...
POLICE in Wirral are drawing on a model put into practice by the New York Police Department for a new neighbourhood project. more...
WALLASEY MP Angela Eagle visited Birkenhead's refurbished Ark building on Friday and met Brendan Willis, who has been appointed as the new general manager. more...
A NESTON woman who defrauded the DSS out of more than £13,000 by failing to declare she was working in a supermarket was told last week that she could face jail. more...
Residents tell Wirral Council more...
WIRRAL residents are urged to take up the challenge in a local campaign to promote health in the area. more...
MORE Wirral people are being urged to sign up for this summer's Wirral Bikeathon in aid of Leukaemia Research which will take place on June 10. more...
Amalgamation will save public cash more...
CLATTERBRIDGE Hospital benefited from a double boost this month when two new developments were unveiled. more...
A MAN was quizzed by police while sitting in his car wearing women's clothing, a court heard last Friday. more...
DAVE Watson, the new man in the Prenton Park hot seat, wants to turn Tranmere Rovers' cup form into Nationwide League consistency, persuade out-of-contract players to stay at the club - and win promotion back to Division One in his first season as a manager. more...
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PAUL Rideout committed himself to Tranmere last week by signing a one-year extension to his contract keeping him at Prenton Park until June 2002. more...
THE vote for Tranmere Rovers' Player of the Year is hotting up - with Clint Hill still heading the Prenton Park fans' vote. more...
THERE were mixed emotions at Seacombe-based Avalon Amateur Boxing Club when the Sefton ABC Open Show took place. more...
A GOLF trip of a lifetime awaits amateur Frank Howell and Bromborough PGA Professional Geoff Berry if they continue to conquer. more...
KICKBOXERS from Wirral picked up gold and silver medals at the Welsh Championships. more...
MERSEYSIDE Nighthawks American football team is looking for players for their youth team aged between 15 and 19. Equipment and coaching is provided. more...
PARKFIELD (Wallasey) Cricket Club would like to hear from cricketers of any age who would like to play this season. more...
QUEENS and Dock, of the Houlihan's Birkenhead Sunday Football League, met a re-run of their recent final with Queens winning 4-3. Simon Lewis, Gary Reay and Phil Hayes netted for Dock. more...
MAGNIFICENT Vauxhall can now prepare for life in the Unibond Premier Division, having assured themselves of a second successive promotion, ahead of Saturday's potential decider away to Ashton United, in their final league match. more...
CUP success on Wednesday gave way to league disaster on Saturday as New Brighton RUFC plunged to an unexpected 20-23 defeat at Bedford in National League North Division Two. The result means third spot for the third successive year - not good enough to earn the promotion the Reeds Lane men were striving for. more...
HOYLAKE Sailing Club took a seven points lead over West Kirby in the first leg of the Coronation Salver team event sailed in Operas at Hoylake. more...
CALDY retained the Okell Shield in their annual Sevens at Paton Field on Sunday. They beat St Edward's Old .Boys 20-14 in the final. more...
RESULTS - Wednesday, May 2, Division One: Blacon 1, Shell 0; Cammell Laird 4, Poulton Vics 1; Christleton 1, Maghull 1; Helsby 3, Newton 2; Mond Rgrs 0, Mersey Royal 0; Vauxhall 0, Ashville 1. Division Three: Maghull Res 1, Willaston 1; Mallaby 4, Stork Res 0; Newton Res 0, Aintree Villa Res 7; St Werburgh's 2, Mond Rgrs Res 1; Upton AA Res 1, West Kirby Res 3. more...
RESULTS - Monday, April 30, Robin Hodgson Division: Vanser 3, Hope Farm 0. more...
RESULTS: Wednesday, May 2, Division Two: Pacific 2, Abbotsford Yth 1; Royal Liver 2, Delta 2. more...
RESULTS - Sunday, May 6, Veronica Conway Cup Final: Queen's Park 2, Dock Hotel 2 (Dock win 3-1 on penalties). Cheshire FA Youth Cup: Shaftesbury Boys 4, Christleton 0. Premier Division: Kel 1, Brow 3; Pelican 3, Archer's Soc 2; Royal Sun Alliance 2, Shaftesbury 0; Ship Inn 4, Parkdale 0. Division One: Hornby HBRBL 2, Warwick 2; Parkside 1, Heygarth 1; Swan Hotel 2, Jockey 5; St John's Celtic 2, Stiles 2; Lever Club 2, Halfway Vets 2. Division Two: Graylands Yth 6, Livingstone 0; Neston 6, Graylands Villa 2; Oxton Ath 0, Upton Celtic 6; Port Sunlight RBL 3, Shellbourne Evans 2. Division Three: Civic Way 3, Ridger 2; Wellington 4, Windmill 2; Young Lions 7, AFC Archers 1; Wirral Liberals 1, Rock Villa 4. Division Four: Cavendish 1, Woodhey Ath 0; Crown & Cushion 9, Hotel Victoria 1; Mersey Blades 3, Clipper 5; Railway 4, Bidston Hill 1; Vittoria Vaults 0, Saughall 1. Youth Division: Glenavon 7, Willaston 1; Shore Villa 3, Heswall 2; Upton JFC 2, Poulton Vics 5. more...
RESULTS - Sunday, May 6, Under-16 Division: Shore Villa 1, Shaftesbury YC 3; Hope Farm Hotspurs 2, Heswall 2; Shore Villa 0, Parkdale 2; Princes Villa 3, Willaston Wdrs 1; Vauxhall 1, Hope Farm Hotspurs 0. Under-15 Division: Ashville 7, Heswall 3; Vauxhall 5, Young Lions 3; Shore Villa 8, Eastham Blades 1; Victoria Colts 6, W/Kirby Wasps 2; Neston Nomads 4, Eastham Villa 3; Young Lions 2, Stork 2; Shaftesbury YC 0, Newton Yth 5; Vauxhall 5, Ashville 2; Shore Villa 5, Irby Jnrs 1; Eastham Villa 2, W/Kirby Wasps 5; Eastham Villa 3, Heswall 2; Vauxhall 8, Neston Nomads 0; Eastham Blades 1, Shaftesbury YC 5. Under-14 'A' Division: Castrol Woodlands 2, Vauxhall 1; Heswall 1, Shore Villa 3; Fender Yth 5, Neston Nomads 2; Heswall 3, Ashville 1; Fender Yth 0, Shore Villa 6; Squibb 1, Shaftesbury YC 3. Under-14 'B' Division: W/Kirby Wasps 1, Liscard Panthers 1; Crusaders 8, Rossway Utd 1; Eastham Blades 6, Alliance 0. Under-13 'A' Division: Neston Nomads 2, Young Lions 1; Vauxhall 8, Shaftesbury YC 0; Squibb 5, Heygarth Utd 2; Raby Ath 3, Young Lions 7; Shore Villa 3, Neston Nomads 1; Shaftesbury 0, Vauxhall 6. Under-13 'B' Division: Lion Kings 3, Eastham Blades 8; Liscard Panthers 0, Irby 2; Parkdale 2, Alliance 2; Allport Hawks 8, Parkdale 0; Eastham Blades 6, Ashville 3. Under-12 'A' Division: Parkonians 3, Ashville 0; Ashville 2, Liscard Panthers 6; Shaftesbury YC 2, Shore Villa 2; Vauxhall 2, Fender Yth 2; Shore Villa 2, Parkonians 6; Ashville 0, Shaftesbury YC 2. Under-12 'B' Division: Prenton Ath 0, Newton Yth 8. Under-11 Division: Allport Hawks 2, Rossway Utd 1; Ashville 8, Fender Yth 1; Shore Villa 6, Neston Nomads 1; Heygarth Utd 1, Liscard Panthers 5; Vauxhall 8, Shaftesnury YC 2; Young Lions 1, Squibb 3; Fender Yth 0, Victoria Colts 2; Shaftesbury YC 2, Heygarth Utd 0; Heygarth Utd 1, W/Kirby Wasps 2; Neston Nomads 3, Vauxhall 3; Fender Yth 2, Parkonians 2; Irby Jnrs 6, Liscard Panthers 2; Heswall 2, Squibb 3. more...
THE pupils of Wirral Grammar School for Boys are no strangers to sporting success, as this year's results prove. more...
WIRRAL swimmers have excelled in the World Trial Finals held in the new Commonwealth Games pool in Manchester. more...
A GRAND total of 34 medals were won by four talented swimmers from Wirral at the British National Junior Disabled Swimming Championships. more...
WHEELCHAIR Tennis champion Mark Eccleston had his hopes of claiming the honours in the Florida Open dashed last week. more...
TENNIS players, including beginners, are invited to join North Cheshire TC, near Elleray Park in Wallasey, a long established club in a secluded setting. Low subscriptions and family reductions are available. Call 638-8452 for more details. more...
YOUNG Tom Jones, a pupil at Brackenwood School, Bebington, has become a double national trampolining champion. more...
WINNER of a dream trip for two to New York at the recent Wirral Rugby Academy game against Scotland was Joanne McDaid, a guest of BMW Williams, one of the sponsors of the game. more...
EMMA Bolton, flanker with New Brighton women's rugby team The Bluebirds, was in the North West squad which reached this year's regional final by drawing 5-5 with the North East. They lost 10-15 in the final at Northampton to the South West. more...
A DRUNKEN schoolgirl was deemed lucky to be alive by police this week after taking a drug and collapsing unconscious in the street. more...
A £23 million plan to bulldoze 600 Castlefields flats was finally unveiled this week. more...
VILLAGERS evacuated from Weston after toxic chemicals seeped into their homes had already suffered kidney dysfunction, health chiefs revealed this week. more...
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy has died after a horiffic car crash at the weekend more...
AN empty house was set on fire again this week - putting firefighters at risk. more...
HALTON'S battle against drugs received a cash injection of £102,700 from the Government this week. more...
AS headteacher of Halton's new high school, Bernadette Ardern brings a wealth of experiences and achievements to the role and is looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead. more...
FUNNYMAN Stan Boardman launched a fundraising initiative to help cancer patients this week. more...
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BUDDING Rugby League Stars David Allen and Michael MacDonald are hosting an Abba night to fund their tour to Australia. more...
CONGRATULATIONS to the Widnes Town Team players who got the season off to a great start with a 13-5 frame victory against Crewe on Sunday at the Village. more...
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