Local Features | News (Page 1)

Books: how two of America’s greatest writers spent time in Liverpool and Southport 166 years ago (and one of them, briefly, in Wirral)

By Mark Gorton

22nd Nov 2022 | Local Features

Herman Melville arrived in Liverpool just after midday on Saturday the 8th of November 1856.

Remembrance: the last post - poignant letters from the Battle of the Somme written by a relative of a Heswall man and reimagined for the social media age

By Mark Gorton

6th Nov 2022 | Local Features

The film, called tWWItter, brings the events of more than a century ago vividly into the 21st century.

For Halloween - Heswall and an urban legend: the Curse of the Crying Boy

By Mark Gorton

30th Oct 2022 | Local Features

The popular portraits of a crying boy became the subject of stories claiming a malign spirit was trapped within them.

Heswall: Every picture tells a story

By Mark Gorton

16th Oct 2022 | Local Features

Let us go back in time to Heswall's past when - hopefully - life often felt more straightforward than it does today.

Sustainable options for funerals – how to consider the environment even when you’ve departed this earth

By The Editor

3rd Oct 2022 | Local Features

The Co-op’s Adam Costello, Samantha Hartland, Deborah Zaher, Carolyn Foster and Rhona Cossy at Grosvenor Park.

People are beginning to consider the environmental impact of funerals and how it can be limited.

What the pluck? Television, turkeys and Google

By Mark Gorton

2nd Oct 2022 | Local Features

Howard the Duck - Credit: Universal Pictures.

In the movie and television industries, a very poor film or TV show is often described as ‘a turkey’. .

The Lancashire witch trial of 1612: a longer read anticipating Halloween and November 5th

By Mark Gorton

25th Sep 2022 | Local Features

A 17th century woodcut of an execution of witches

The Lancashire witch trial of 1612 heard bizarre evidence of feuds between warring families of witches, of souls sold to the Devil and supernatural murders.

Ex-Tranmere Rovers player takes on 26 miles for The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity

By Rachel Heslin

12th Sep 2022 | Local Features

40-year-old Alex, who will run in support of Clatterbridge Cancer Charity, grew up in Rock Ferry.

New exhibit at the Williamson gallery prompts the story of how Wirral launched the world's first powered submarine

By Mark Gorton

6th Sep 2022 | Local Features

The model of Resurgam now at the Williamson

At a cost of £1,538 the submarine was constructed in 1879 by Birkenhead shipwright J.T. Cochran.

As the launch of NASA's Artemis rocket is postponed, cast your mind back to when Britain ruled the space waves - from Formby...

By Mark Gorton

29th Aug 2022 | Local Features

He was the distilled essence of the British fighter ace – courageous, quick thinking, honourable, a knight of the skies – and his name was Daniel McGregor Dare.

Heswall Nub News

More ...

News in Heswall

Sign-up to the Heswall Nub News weekly newsletter