News in Heswall

A new survey aimed asking how we can make the streets of Wirral feel safer for women and girls has been launched today by the region's Police Commissioner.

The public consultation has been announced by Emily Spurrell to better understand the concerns of women across the region.

A woman who poured boiling water over her husband while he slept has been convicted of his murder.

Corinna Smith, of Highfield Road in Neston, mixed the liquid with three bags of sugar leaving Michael Baines with 36 per cent burns to his body.

Charges for car parks in towns including New Brighton, West Kirby and Bromborough, which are currently free, are set to be introduced after a crunch meeting last night.

The move was voted through at New Brighton's Floral Pavilion, after a passionate debate within Wirral Council's Environment and Transport Committee.

Residents are being invited to have their say on what it means to be active in Wirral, to help shape the council's leisure services in the future.

For the next six weeks, local people are being asked to tell Wirral Leisure what services and activities they would like to see available across the borough. Questions will also ask about what stops people from being active, including access issues and what support could be offered to help them get involved.

People beavering away at all hours during the last few days have given popular Porcelli's cafe in Heswall Lower Village a pleasing makeover.

A new name and new look will be revealed to customers tomorrow when the eatery's working week begins.

One of two kayakers who got into serious difficulties on Saturday afternoon in the Dee Estuary off the Caldy coast has died.

The RNLI described how, "West Kirby RNLI was tasked by HM Coastguard at 3:33pm...to reports of two kayakers in difficulty in the estuary.

It's not much of a surprise given many recent scientific warnings and government notes of caution, but the majority of COVID-19 rules will remain in place in England for another four weeks beyond the hoped for 21 June unlocking date set out in the government's 'roadmap to freedom'.

Senior ministers backed the decision to push back the tearing up of all legal restrictions on social contact.

The Conservatives could be in line to gain another seat in our region amid major changes to the political map.

Currently, Labour has all but one of the seats in Merseyside, with Damien Moore the Conservatives' sole representative in Southport.

Fears that the historic Wallasey Town Hall may never again be used for Wirral Council's meetings led to a passionate debate last night.

Wirral Council's Policy and Resources Committee, which replaced the cabinet last year and is the council's most important committee, discussed where its future businesses will be based at a meeting conducted at the Floral Pavilion.

At around 11pm last night a swathe of Wirral was plunged into darkness as a power outage struck the west of the peninsula in particular.

Supplies in Heswall, Thornton Hough, Neston, Irby, Bromborough and West Kirby were among those affected.