News in Heswall

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.

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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.

Joanne Finnerty Recruitment is seeking a Family Solicitor on behalf of a Wirral based law firm.

Four years ago, on March 25, 2017, Pascal Blasio deliberately blew up his Wirral furniture store.

The resulting explosion at Homes in Style on Bebington Road in New Ferry, injured 81 people and caused devastation to nearby homes and businesses.

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.

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This week we asked what is to become of Heswall police station, and if the community, following in the footsteps of our neighbours in West Kirby and Hoylake, might be able to harness local power to try to make something special happen.

In Hoylake, with substantial support from the government's Coastal Communities Fund, the Victorian former town hall will become the Beacon Arts Village; while in West Kirby, the old Unitarian Church is home to the town's Arts Centre.

Just over 80 years ago, in March 1941, the RAF's 609 fighter squadron had just relocated to Biggin Hill airfield in the London borough of Bromley.

Up until then, it had been based in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, and Warmwell in Dorset, fighting the Battle of Britain.