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Are plans for the future of Wirral transport 'demonising' car owners?

By Mark Gorton

13th Jun 2021 | Local News

Grand plans for new walking and cycling routes in Wirral have led some drivers to ask what the future looks like for them.

A new cycling route between Birkenhead and New Brighton, proposed by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA), has led to a backlash from some, amid claims it would create problems for car parking and driving in general.

COMPETITION TIME: start getting fit for the future with three great prizes from Snap Fitness Heswall!

By Mark Gorton

1st Jun 2021 | Local News

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

To celebrate its arrival and the further relaxing of restrictions in June - fingers crossed - which will return gyms and elsewhere to something like normal, Snap has kindly agreed to offer some excellent prizes.

Please spare a few minutes to be part of Heswall Nub Voice

By Mark Gorton

25th May 2021 | Local Features

Heswall and district - at the crossroads?

As you know, Heswall Nub News is a new 'hyperlocal' service which aims to deliver engaging news and views of the town and its district.

We also wish to be a forum for discussion about the present and future of this part of the world, and to enable this we've created Heswall Nub Voice.

Got an event coming up? Spread the word with our What's On section...

By Mark Gorton

24th May 2021 | Local News

Easily add your event to our What's On pages - just Nub It!

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.

Village People: In praise of Heswall Lower Village

By Mark Gorton

23rd May 2021 | Local Features

Above: a gallery of images from Village Road, Lower Heswall

It's not as if the shop is ailing - more the case that making it a success, especially over the past year and a bit, has proved to be a challenge which can now be accepted by younger entrepreneurs who, unlike Caroline, don't have a dodgy hip that's a bit on the sore side.

The rules have changed. Here's a reminder that from today...

By Mark Gorton

17th May 2021 | Local News

Pubs without beer gardens like the Black Horse in Lower Heswall will get their chance to woo customers

People can meet outdoors in groups of up to 30 people

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

Every picture tells a story: the landmark murder inquiry of 1948

By Mark Gorton

15th May 2021 | Local Features

Blackburn police officers with some of the 46,000 fingerprints that were taken

Marjorie Gorton, who lives in Lower Heswall and is now 98 years old, was a young WPC of Blackburn Borough Police back in 1948 when this photograph was taken.

Marjorie is the officer on the far right, and was then WPC Whitlock, one of six officers around a table covered in boxes of fingerprints.

Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance launches new updated website

By Mark Gorton

10th May 2021 | Local News

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.

May 6th elections: the parties set out their stalls and share their visions of Wirral's future

By Mark Gorton

17th Apr 2021 | Local News

Wallasey Town Hall - the seat of local power

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 stats update as restrictions are relaxed

By Mark Gorton

11th Apr 2021 | Local News

Vaccination and restrictions are suppressing the coronvirus

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.

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

Above: a gallery of images from Village Road, Lower Heswall

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