News in Heswall

The development is an important investment in local, community based healthcare and will bring many benefits for patients, residents and the wider community, including:

- the relocation of Marine Lake Medical Practice and Estuary Medical Practice

A brand new cycle route is being built in Wirral, as the council tries to make it easier to get around the borough without driving.

The route, which Wirral Council describes as a "dedicated cycle link", is being built along Fender Lane, between Moreton and Bidston.

Such has been the response to the creation of a local drop-off point for essentials for those fleeing the war in Ukraine, it has been obliged to close for a while.

When Nik Ellis and team at marketing company Revolution 4 decided to open up their premises at Whitfield Business Hub on Pensby Road they had little idea that at one point they would see people forming a queue in order to give.

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On Tuesday we reported how Revolution 4, a digital marketing company, had decided to use its premises at Whitfield Business Hub on Pensby Road as a place where locals could deliver much needed supplies of essentials.

A mum whose son broke six bones in his neck when he was hit by a car on his way to school said she still feels awful whenever she drops him off in the morning.

Kelly Louise Newell, 40, said her son, Thomas Willemsen, who was 12, was lucky to be alive after crossing from one side of Spital Road to the other, close to the Three Stags pub, to meet a friend on his way to school when a Ford Fiesta knocked him to the ground.

In January, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published a report into Urgent and Emergency Care and Medical Services at Arrowe Park Hospital.

Inspectors identified one patient had waited 14 hours to be admitted to a ward which was deemed 'unacceptable' and said it should be looked at as a matter of 'urgency'.

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Hays Travel, sited in The Curve on The Mount and Telegraph Road, is seeking someone to fill the position of Assistant Manager and Travel Advisor.

So now we know that, in April, Wirral council tax will rise by 2.99%, and later in the year cuts of £20 million will be effected in order to balance the borough's budget and make it legal.

The cuts will have a significant impact on local leisure services, closing municipal golf courses, libraries (including Pensby), the Europa fun pool in Birkenhead, courts at Wirral Tennis Centre, and Woodchurch Leisure Centre.

Council Tax payers in Wirral will be hit in the pocket from April, after plans for a 2.99% rise were confirmed.

Wirral Council needs to save £20 million in the upcoming financial year, after two government reports slated the authority for failing to take tough decisions.

According to the United Nations, as many as 660,000 people have sought to flee Ukraine following the massive invasion by Russian forces which began just six days ago.

Governments, charities and aid agencies have scrambled to provide food and shelter for the growing number of people looking to escape the war. A couple of days ago, the queue to cross the border between Ukraine and Poland was said to be 25 miles long.