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Arrowe Park Hospital to cut midwife numbers

A MERSEYSIDE hospital is cutting the number of midwives it employs – despite investing more than £11m in a new women and children’s wing.Read

Warning over road closures in Wirral

ONE of Wirral’s major roads will be closed to allow works on the final stages of a roundabout.Read

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£3.9 million boost to major Wirral development scheme

A MAJOR redevelopment of a Wirral seaside town was given a boost by a £3.9m grant from the North West Regional Development Agency (NWDA).Read

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Tinchy Stryder to headline Wirral music festival

RAPPER Tinchy Stryder is to headline the first major music festival due to be held in Wirral during the late May bank holidayRead

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Woodland characters help Birkenhead’s Woodlands primary school tackle internet safety

A MERSEYSIDE school has proved its woodlands by name woodlands by nature after using forest dwellers to tackle internet safety.Read

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Legal challenge to Wirral’s care home plan

WIRRAL’S care home owners are preparing a legal challenge to plans by the council to freeze their fees and force them to re-tender for placements.Read

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Wirral tip site marked for ski slope

A NEW ski slope could be built in Merseyside on the site of a former rubbish tip.Read

Mersey Tunnel tolls remain frozen for another year

TUNNEL tolls will stay at the same levels after Merseytravel agreed to continue the freeze for another year.Read

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Warning on road closures in Wirral

ONE of Wirral’s major roads will be closed to allow works on the final stages of a roundabout.Read

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Tranmere man has appeared at Liverpool crown court charged with murdering dad Lee Willingham

A MAN has made his first appearance at crown court charged with murdering a dad-of-two.Read

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Gas works to close major road in Prenton in Wirral

THE south-bound carriageway of Storeton Road in Prenton, Wirral, will be closed for two weeks to allow essential gas mains replacement works.Read

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Wirral schools bring in pregnancy tests for pupils

GIRLS are set to be offered pregnancy tests in every Wirral high school as part of a teenage health drive.Read

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Wirral Conservatives in bid to cut tunnels tolls

WIRRAL’S Conservative group will be seeking to cut the costs for motorists using the tunnels when the ruling authority meets today.Read

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Liverpool, Wirral, Halton and Cheshire councils named and shamed in filing apprenticeships league

TOWN halls were “named and shamed” yesterday for failing to rescue young people from the dole queues by signing them up as apprentices.Read

Merseyside police

Tributes to a Wirral woman who was hit by a car

TRIBUTES were today paid to a woman who died after being hit by a car in Wirral.Read

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North West Ambulance Service bans novelty socks

MERSEYSIDE paramedics are to be banned from wearing novelty socks.Read

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Plans for a Boutique hotel in former Wirral nursing home

A FORMER nursing home with grandstand views over the Royal Liverpool Golf Club could become Wirral’s latest boutique hotel.Read

Wirral praised for healthy school status

EVERY child in Wirral now attends a “healthy school”, after the borough became the first in the North-West where all schools have achieved National Healthy School Status.Read

Wirral doorman spared prison over headbutt attack

A CLUB bouncer who headbutted a reveller was spared prison after the court heard he had behaved “totally out of character”.Read

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Woman dies after Birkenhead road accident

A WOMAN died in hospital this afternoon after being knocked down by a car.Read

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