News in Heswall

A year on from leaving Wuhan, one coronavirus evacuee says he has been "robbed" of his life in China.

Matt Raw, 39, who lives in Knutsford, Cheshire, was part of the first group to be flown from Wuhan to the UK, only to end up at Arrowe Park Hospital for a two-week quarantine period starting last January.

Merseyside Police detectives have arrested and charged a local man with drug supply conspiracy offences as part of Operation Venetic.

Yesterday morning, officers attended an address in Barnston and detained a man who was taken to a police station for questioning.

Let's face it, life in lockdown Heswall and district is a bit quiet right now, so a werewolf on the loose would liven things up.

We could load our guns with silver bullets, set torches ablaze, and then, as townsfolk in old horror movies almost always do, gather together and cry, "The creature must be destroyed!"

On-street parking charges as well as those at council car parks and the country parks were suspended at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020.

The charges remained suspended to help local businesses as they came out of lockdown last summer and this continued into the autumn and winter.

The Prime Minister has announced that our schools will remain closed until March 8th at the earliest.

Under pressure to reveal a clear plan and timetable for school re-openings, Boris Johnson laid to rest any hopes among some parents, pressure groups and MPs that youngsters might be back in their classrooms immediately after the February half-term, on February 22nd.

The latest scam email, which attempts to trick people into handing over their bank details, was reported more than 1,000 times in 24 hours. It appears to come from the NHS and asks the recipient to click on a link to accept or decline an invitation to receive the coronavirus vaccine. If they click accept, they are asked to input personal information and their bank card details.

The national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime has previously warned about coronavirus vaccine scams, with many people reporting receiving fake text messages purporting to be from the NHS.

Minister for Media and Data John Whittingdale has praised Nub News for showing there is still a demand for community-focussed local journalism.

The Maldon MP's endorsement follows the expansion of Nub News into 62 towns across the UK in recent months, including the arrival of Heswall Nub News, formerly Heswall Today, in December last year.

The pandemic has taken its toll on holiday firm Hays Travel, which has announced it will shut 89 of its 535 shops.

However, the Heswall branch of Hays, on the Mount, is safe.

Wirral's coronavirus rate remains the lowest in the Liverpool City Region, as cases fall below 2,000.

In the week up to January 21, 1,833 cases were recorded in the borough at a rate of 566 per 100,000.

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has today agreed to freeze the Mayoral Precept and Mersey Tunnel Tolls for the financial year 2021/22.

The Mayoral General Precept is part of the overall council tax paid by residents and used to fund Liverpool City Region-wide services for which the Mayor is responsible.