News in Heswall

Plans to open a new Wetherspoon pub in Heswall that would be open until 1.30am on weekends have been abandoned.

However, the pub chain still plans to open a new bar at 1-5 The Mount after Wirral Council gave it planning permission in May last year.

Tesco is to hold an extra UK-wide Food Collection in its stores to support children and families this summer.

During the collection, which will take place in large Tesco stores like Heswall's from July 15 to 17, and in Express stores from July 12 to August 28, customers will be urged to donate long-life food to the Trussell Trust and FareShare to help them in their vital work to support families in communities across the UK.

Wirral Leisure plans to relaunch its timetable of more than 50 indoor fitness classes from next week, bringing exercise classes available every week to a total of 120.

Indoor classes will restart from Monday 17 May at West Kirby Leisure Centre, Wirral Tennis Centre at Bidston, and Europa Leisure Centre in Birkenhead. Classes are available to book online from today, Thursday 13 May.

Cancer charity Maggie's Merseyside is encouraging people to walk five kilometres (that's 3.1 miles) on either the 12th or 13th June – in celebration, reflection, or love - to help people with cancer.

Maggie's centre visitor Rob Flett will be walking a 5km route with his sons Jamie and Euan to remember his wife and Euan and Jamie's mum Moira.

Councillors in one part of Merseyside are furious with the government for refusing to allow them to continue online meetings.

Since the start of the pandemic, councils across the country have met virtually through the internet to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19.

Franklyn's Bar and Kitchen on Telegraph Road is keen to hire:

- a chef

Staff at a Heswall care home have celebrated International Nurses Day by holding a special coffee morning for its trained nurses.

The Hazelwell in Oldfield Road organised a socially-distanced get-together with its nurses and presented them with gifts for all their hard work, particularly over the last 14 months during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first set of homes at Wirral Waters will be completed this summer in a major sign of progress for the biggest development in the borough.

Wirral Waters, which is set to provide up to 13,500 homes over the next 25 years and potentially create up to 20,000 jobs, had been criticised for falling behind schedule but it is now moving forward at pace.

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Many thanks to everyone who entered our recent Facebook competition, for which Andrew Collinge donated the prizes, to mark the re-opening of our high streets in general, and the Andrew Collinge salon on Telegraph Road in particular.

In the top security, state of the art Heswall Nub News Digital Development Centre (DDC), we printed off the names of all the entrants, carefully cut them into individual strips with scissors, and then picked 10 winners at random from an old cardboard box.