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Fountain Street in £1m Government cash redevelopment Oct 21 2009

AN area of land in Tranmere, left derelict for three years, will receive £1m in government money to start a much-delayed housing development.Read

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Queen Mary 2 draws crowds of onlookers to Egremont Promenade Oct 21 2009

SHIPPING fans lined Egremont Promenade yesterday morning to watch the Queen Mary 2 sail into the maritime town.Read

Len Ellison, chairman of Wirral History and Heritage Forum, Len Riedel, Blue and Gray Education Society, Jerry Williams, Wirral Heritage Champion.

Wirral could attract American Civil War tourists for 150th anniversary Oct 21 2009

WIRRAL is being urged to market itself a major destination for tourists marking the approaching 150th anniversary of the American Civil War.Read

Wirral school pupils visit Auschwitz concentration camp Oct 21 2009

WORK sets you free.Read

NWDA chairman praises Ellesmere Port’s Vauxhall unions Oct 21 2009

ONE of the region’s top business leaders has praised trade union negotiators for their role in securing thousands of jobs at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant.Read

Government no closer to pleural plague asbestos compensation Oct 21 2009

WIRRAL victims of an asbestos-related condition were given fresh hope of compensation – even as the Government was revealed to be in chaos over the issue.Read

It's Our World - what's on Oct 21 2009

The Wirral Branch of the RSPB will be on site giving advice on feeding and looking after the wild birds in your garden. Suitable for all the family. 1am-4pm, Wirral Country Park Visitor Centre, Station Road, Thurstaston. Tel: 0151-648-4371 or email: wirralcountrypark@wirral.gov.uk.Read

It's our World: Help to shape how we use the Irish Sea Oct 21 2009

THE sun has just come up and I’m five miles off the Wirral coast. I’m here to look at one of the many ways we use the Irish Sea, and to look at how that could all change in the years to come.Read

Loose Women star Denise Welsh opens Ronald McDonald house at Arrowe Park hospital Oct 21 2009

LOOSE Women presenter Denise Welch and husband Tim Healy, of Auf Wiedersehen Pet fame visited the new Ronald McDonald House at Arrowe Park hospital – as the first families moved in.Read

Factfile: Wirral and the American Civil War Oct 21 2009

Confederate warship Alabama is widely thought to be the 290th vessel built at Lairds in Birkenhead but Len Ellison says it was actually vessel number 293 because the first three were given letters of the alphabet rather than numbers.Read

Puppy killed after rottweiler dogs escape owner's garden Oct 21 2009

A PUPPY was killed and his owner cornered when two Rottweilers escaped from their Wirral garden.Read

Merseyside Police dogs star in charity calendar Oct 21 2009

A CALENDAR featuring Merseyside Police dogs is raising cash for Guide Dogs for the Blind.Read

Teenagers have their say at special youth conference to discuss perceptions of young people Oct 21 2009

MORE than 100 teenagers from secondary schools across the borough discussed perceptions of young people at a ‘Youth Voice’ conference last week.Read

Wirral Council boss accuses Tory councillors and cuts campaigners of conspiring for Moreton by-election Oct 21 2009

WIRRAL Council leader Cllr Steve Foulkes has waded into the row between Conservatives and cuts campaigners, accusing them of a “co-ordinated approach” to the Moreton by-election.Read

Six people in court over Wirral warehouse drugs swoop Oct 21 2009

OFFICERS busted a Merseyside drugs “wholesalers” allegedly used as a base to supply heroin and cannabis across the UK.Read

United Utilities fined over Liverpool Bay sewage leak Oct 21 2009

UNITED Utilities was fined £29,000 after allowing raw sewage into Liverpool Bay.Read

Birkenhead MP Frank Field pleads with Ridgeway High parents not to block academy plans Oct 21 2009

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

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