Blaze at Woodside Hotel, Birkenhead
FIRE crews were battling a blaze at the empty Woodside Hotel in Birkenhead this afternoon.
The alarm was raised at 1.40pm.
A spokesman for Merseyside Fire and Rescue service said: "The first floor is well alight and there will be substantial damage".
In June tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused in a fire at the hotel which was being treated as suspicious.
The site is a key element in a proposed multi-million pound regeneration of the Wirral waterfront area.
