News in Heswall

Main purpose of job: You will be responsible for completing weekly and monthly payrolls for the various companies within Wirral Chamber group including payroll for the Kickstart scheme.

This will be a hybrid position involving responsibilities across payroll and HR including processing of new starters, contracts, annual leave, recruitment and general HR administration.

In Wirral, in 2011, there were:

319,783 people

COVID infections in Wirral are down, but the pattern is much less clear than it was last week.

In the seven days up to March 12, 138 virus cases were registered in the borough at a rate of 43 per 100,000.

The Wirral Arts Festival should bounce back this year, scheduled to take place between the 2nd and 16th of October - and its organisers, who give so much and ask for so little in return, really deserve our support.

The Festival began life as the Heswall Arts Festival in 2010 but, in 2016, interest from elsewhere on the peninsula persuaded the founders to expand and rebrand as the WAF.

Teams from The Clatterbridge NHS Foundation Trust have been shortlisted three times in a top award for excellent patient care.

Staff from the centre's Palliative Care, Enhanced Supportive Care and Radiotherapy teams have reached the finals of the prestigious HSJ Value Awards 2021 after their projects for redesigning specialist services were picked out of hundreds of entries.

Heswall Lower Village was ahead of the curve back in the spring of 2018.

It was then that the village's old red phone box, thanks to the hard work of the Heswall Society and generous donations of almost £500 made by readers of Heswall hyperlocal news, was formally adopted and given a nice lick of red and gold paint.

The new High Sheriff of Merseyside has been chosen.

Nigel Lanceley, the chairman of two leading Liverpool-based charities, succeeds retired Judge John Roberts in the prestigious role, following his selection by the Queen in her capacity as the Duke of Lancaster.

This Mothering Sunday will be a time for gratitude and reflection for Victoria Evans, known as 'Bunta' to her friends and family, and her daughter Charlie, who were rescued from the mud by Hoylake RNLI volunteers last month.

Bunta, her husband Andy and daughter Charlie from Lower Heswall, were enjoying a walk with their puppy at Thurstaston Beach when Bunta and Charlie got stuck up to their waists in mud at the bottom of a cliff. Although the family had checked the tides before heading out for a coastal walk, unbeknown to the three of them, a recent landslide had made the surrounding area hazardous, and the tide was rising.

This vacancy has just been advertised by Aldi - the role is based in Neston.

The salary is £29,685 per annum.

There are fewer people being treated for COVID in Wirral's hospitals than at any time since September 17 in hugely encouraging news.

The very latest figures, from March 9, show there were 21 virus patients in the borough's hospitals, the lowest figure recorded for almost six months.