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Stories for 20 June 2001

Birkenhead News

Pair banned from directorships

GRAHAM Stuart MacTaggart and Elizabeth Mary MacTaggart, of Storeton Lane, Barnston, are to be disqualified from acting as company directors for five years and three years respectively by The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.   more...

Gospel tent returns with good news

THE Lancashire Gospel Tent is returning to Bromborough at the end of this month for a four-week stay.  more...

Looking forward to a life on the ocean waves . . .

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Troubled shipyard's future - decision 'within weeks'

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Visually impaired to benefit from new 'marriage'

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Hospital spends £40,000 skin money

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Strawberry tea

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Animated success

A BUDDING writer from Hoylake travelled to London to watch one of his stories come to life with the help of Disney animators after winning a competition.  more...

IT'S GOOD TO TALK . . . and new telephone service will enable Wirral deaf people to do so

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Bike racing thrills on New Brighton seafront

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Pupils trade places

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VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR CATHERINE . . . A STORY OF TRUE COURAGE

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CVS appeals for more volunteers

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Silver date

A REUNION is being planned for all past pupils and staff at Heswall Primary School to mark 25 years at its present site in Whitfield Lane.  more...

Right on the button

Cash windfall for computer centres  more...

ADULTS in Wirral are being given the chance to learn something new through 'Bite Size' courses.

The programme offers free one to two-hour courses in Wirral from June 25 to July 21 and covers everything from writing a CV and surfing the net to interior design and flower arranging.  more...

RATS!

Building delays turn estate into 'bombsite' - claim  more...

Care worker loses damages claim

A RESIDENTIAL care worker who sued Wirral Council after an extremely violent 11-year-old boy attacked him has lost his damages claim.  more...

Log on to the world wide Globe

THE Wirral Globe website at www.thisiswirral.co.uk is Wirral's most-read news site - with thousands more readers each week than any competitors.  more...

Top Guide honour for battler Sarah

THE rarest and highest of all the Guide Association's awards has been given to a Wirral guide who has shown the rarest courage.  more...

Defective lorry crushed woman to death

Office worker was due to marry this month  more...

Community Noticeboard

BEGINNERS' salsa classes are held on Thursday nights at Grosvenor Assembly Rooms, Wallasey, 7pm-8pm, followed by the improvers' class, 8pm-9pm. All are welcome.  more...

Pupils stumped by poem mix-up

School not told of syllabus change  more...

Panto dwarf branded a sex pervert

A DWARF who repeatedly sexually abused three young boys has been jailed for 14 years and ordered to sign on the Sex Offenders' Register for life.  more...

PUPILS LAUNCH 'COMPLAIN AND PERSUADE' CAMPAIGN

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Schools can help with repairs

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Why we really want to go to Oaklands

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Lottery solution

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Closure plan is 'despicable'

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How to solve lack of entertainment

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Vandals and dog muck . . .

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Improve our parks!

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Park symptom of Wirral woes

I WOULD like to add to the complaints about the sadly neglected state of Arrowe Park.  more...

Pension 'tax' mimics pyramid con

I WAS astonished to read the letters in a previous issue of the Globe in support of the 'cash pyramid'. On the one hand it seems extraordinary that they are not illegal, though your excellent piece (June 6) points out why they are not.  more...

So much for friendship!

HAVING followed correspondence in the Globe about various 'pyramid' schemes, I was not surprised to read that they have crashed.  more...

High praise for census staff

I am rather surprised and disappointed that you decided to publish let alone award 'the letter of the week' award to a letter that was totally inaccurate and factually wrong.  more...

Belief in God not gauged by church attendance

THE Ten Commandments have largely been ignored, I agree, but not completely forgotten by many people.  more...

Shipmates call

HMS Saintes Association is looking for long-lost shipmates. The group is open to all members of any commission. Contact John Harris, Hamoaze, Beeleigh Link, Chelmer Village, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6PH, 01245-252569.  more...

Searching for Sunny . . .

I read in last week's edition how you were able to unite someone after a break of 50 years.  more...

Pension split rules change is causing confusion

LOCAL solicitors are reporting confusion over how pensions are treated when marriages break down - six months after a new law came into force.  more...

Keep up to date with a Globe website

THESE days it is hard for any organisation to function without its own web site.  more...

Restrictions lifted on four Wirral farms

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Footlights await . . .

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Gardening radio experts to visit Heswall

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Claire House in plea for aid

WIRRAL'S Claire House, which offers care and support for 130 children with life-threatening illnesses and their families, is appealing for help.  more...

Miss Wirral Globe back healthy eating campaign

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ILDLIFE crime in Wirral and across Merseyside

WILDLIFE crime in Wirral and across Merseyside is to be tackled by a new partnership.  more...

World Jamboree hopefuls

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Jolly good fellow

GRAHAM Stonehouse, a probate and personal injury specialist with local solicitors Maxwell Entwistle & Byrne, has become a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.   more...

Tots take on Prom charity challenge

TODDLING tots stretched their legs for what was to them a monster sponsored walk for the children's charity Barnardo's.  more...

Couple deny manslaughter of baby son

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Birkenhead Sport

Basketball club's appeal

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Enter beach soccer festival at New Brighton

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BLUES' PRE-SEASON STARTS A WEEK EARLY

THE FEAST of Summer rugby continues with the Lions' winning adventure in Australia, France in South Africa and touring squads from England and Wales playing in America and Japan. On the home front, New Brighton are preparing to return for pre-season training with the squad being called back to Reeds Lane next Monday (June 25).  more...

Nick steals the international boxing limelight

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DANNY AND MATTY'S NIGHT OF BOXING GLORY

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North End cyclists sweep the board

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Wheelers to stage tribute road race

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Wirral to host Merseyside Youth Games

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Cricketers to stage charity fun day

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NO JOY FOR IRBY CRICKETERS

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League's annual meeting

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Club seeks manager

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Nighthawks still in promotion hunt

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Line up with Victoria Colts!

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Young players wanted

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Rally on New Brighton seafront

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Park Rangers' five-a-side football tournament

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WATSON TO FACE ROVERS' SEASON TICKET HOLDERS

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Rugby players celebrate

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Wirral Corporate Cup winners

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Tranmere yachts in Isle of Man race 'double'

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Hoylake Regatta date

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Winner Mike relishes Wirral Regatta conditions

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Ex-footballer's call to local starlets

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Fancy a soccer trial?

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Soccer league has vacancies for new season

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