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Redundancy offer made to council workers so authority can save £108m

EVERY council employee in Wirral is being asked to consider leaving their job to help the authority balance its books.Read

Merseyside police

Merseyside travel agents in £25,000 knife raid terror

THREE terrified travel agent staff were held at knife point as a pair of robbers stole £25,000 in foreign currency and travellers cheques.Read

Service marks launch of Hoylake lifeboat memorial fund

A MOVING service at Hoylake Lifeboat Station paid tribute to eight courageous lifeboatmen who lost their lives in the 19th century.Read

Hillsborough memorial

Work to start on the restoration of Port Sunlight’s vandalised Hillsborough memorial after Christmas

PORT Sunlight’s Hillsborough Memorial will be re-built after Christmas after a fund-raising appeal raised £23,000.Read

Flying start for Wirral's Calday Grange Grammar School’s £3.75m charity fundraiser

AN AMBITIOUS bid by a Merseyside school to raise £3.75m for charity is off to a flying start.Read

Andy Burnham M.P. Secretary of State for Health speaks to the staff at the newly opened Victoria Central Health centre, Mill Lane, Wallasey

Health secretary Andy Burnham opens Wirral's £14m Victoria Central health centre in Wallasey

HEALTH Secretary Andy Burnham visited Merseyside yesterday to open a £14m health centre.Read

Frank Field

Birkenhead MP Frank Field urges support for academies shake-up as parents express concerns about falling standards

BIRKENHEAD MP Frank Field last night appealed to parents of pupils at Ridgeway High School not to block plans to replace it with an academy school.Read

Education secretary Ed Balls visits Neston high school

EDUCATION secretary Ed Balls MP was in Cheshire yesterday to meet staff and students at Neston high school.Read

First photograph of Everton FC legend Dixie Dean in football kit to be auctioned

A PHOTOGRAPH thought to be the first showing goalscoring legend Dixie Dean in a football kit is to be auctioned in London next month.Read

Cannons fired at Fort Perch Rock in New Brighton mark 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War

IT WAS 11.10am on September 3, 1939, when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made a radio broadcast announcing Britain was at war with Germany.Read

Fort Perch Rock cannon

World War Two 70th anniversary cannon fired at Fort Perch Rock

FORT Perch Rock in Wirral marked 70 years since the Second World War was declared today by firing seven shots from a cannon.Read

Curtain falls on Wirral’s last Arts Council after 37 years

THE last surviving arts council in Wirral has been forced to close. Wallasey Arts Council has spent almost four decades pioneering arts in the community and bringing musicians like Julian Lloyd Webber to appreciative audiences at the Grosvenor Ballroom, in Liscard.Read

Wirral Council facing £20k legal bill for two-day libraries inquiry

WIRRAL council is facing a £20,000 bill for hiring a barrister to represent it at a two- day public inquiry into its decision to close 11 libraries.Read

Wirral councillor who defected from Labour to the Conservatives defends his switch in letter to voters

FORMER Wirral Labour councillor Denis Knowles has told voters a “burden has been “removed from my shoulders” after his decision to defect to the Conservatives last week.Read

Wirral Coastal Walk

Thousands of people take part in rainy Wirral Coastal Walk

AROUND 4,500 people joined a wet and windy Wirral Coastal Walk yesterday, raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity.Read

Wirral Coastal Walk

Thousands join Wirral Coastal Walk

AROUND 4,500 people joined a wet and windy Wirral Coastal Walk today, raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity.Read

New Brighton rescue

Two men rescued from New Brighton waters after getting into difficulty

TWO men were rescued after getting into difficulty while diving in choppy waters off New Brighton.Read

Fire sweeps through Wallasey primary school

POLICE were investigating today after fire swept through a Merseyside school.Read

Man’s body found on sea wall at Blackpool believed to be missing Skelmersdale man

A POST mortem will be carried out this morning on a body found in the sea off Blackpool.Read

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