News in Heswall

SNAP! Above: a gallery of images of Heswall's new gym

With restrictions hopefully further relaxed again on June 21, we are all looking forward to getting together again by staging events and taking part in them.

If you are organising a future local event, small or large, for lockdowners starved of entertainment, fun and socialising, we want to help by promoting them.

• People can meet outdoors in groups of up to 30 people

• Indoors, groups of six or a larger group of two households can meet

Cheshire & Merseyside Cancer Alliance (CMCA) has launched a new-look website which gives the public and healthcare professionals the latest information about cancer services across the region.

The website also highlights how CMCA is working to improve cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment and aftercare for people across Cheshire and Merseyside by creating better cancer services, better cancer care and better cancer outcomes.

The upcoming local elections could massively change Wirral Council.

On a good night for Labour, it will retake the majority control of the council it lost in 2019.

COVID-19 cases have continued to fall in Wirral - more positive news on the eve of the next step of the roadmap out of lockdown.

In the week up to April 6, there were 41 cases in Wirral at a rate of 13 per 100,000, down from a rate of 21 per 100,000 registered last week.

Today, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced £18m for cycle training across the country to ensure children and their families have the confidence to choose active travel, as the Government encourages everyone to walk or cycle where possible.

The funding, which is managed by The Bikeability Trust charity, will go toward delivering high-quality, practical, on-road cycle training as a modern day equivalent of the 'Cycling Proficiency' scheme many parents will themselves have undertaken during their school days.

A meteor at least 10 metres in diameter has crashed into marshland between Heswall and Parkgate.

In the early hours of this morning the object blazed a trail across the night sky before its impact just 200 metres from a path popular with walkers.

The Blind Pig bars in Heswall and West Kirby have become the first in the North West to pay their staff the real Living Wage.

The commitment means every staff member over 18 working for Scofflaw & Harding, the company which operates the two venues on Telegraph Road, and Banks Road in West Kirby, will receive a minimum £9.50 hourly wage. The rate is higher than the government minimum for over 25s, which currently stands at £8.72 per hour. From 1st April, the national minimum wage will rise to £8.91.

The old red phone box in Heswall Lower Village is finally to be given a new purpose in life.

The Heswall Society, supported by generous donations of almost £500 made by readers of Heswall Today - now Heswall Nub News - has decided the nice K6 kiosk will become, in common with many other community kiosks across the country, a book exchange.