News in Heswall

Plans to close much-loved services in Wirral have left people feeling "devastated".

On Friday, Wirral Council published proposals which could see two public golf courses, Woodchurch Leisure Centre and several libraries closed down.

On Friday just gone, Wirral Council revealed its proposals to save £27 million pounds and thus balance the borough's books as it is legally required to do.

You can find more detail of the suggested cuts by clicking or tapping here.

Construction of the new Wetherspoon pub is underway at 1-5 The Mount in Heswall, extending and refurbishing the site formerly occupied by the ill-fated Exchange Bar.

For pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon, the new branch represents a potential two million pound investment, and the company says it will create 50 jobs.

Looking for something to do this weekend? Check out these events happening in and around Heswall, plus a must-see movie in Liverpool - and some must-watch TV shows if you fancy staying in as temperatures drop.

Saturday

Parents across Wirral are reminded that applications for admission into primary schools next autumn must be made by Saturday 15 January 2022.

All parents of children born between 1 September 2017 and 31 August 2018 should have received a leaflet from their child's preschool telling them how to apply.

News that the price of using the Mersey Tunnels is set to go up could be the final push that takes our 'Direct train between Heswall and Liverpool' petition beyond the 1,000 signatures mark.

The Liverpool City Region's Combined Authority has mooted a 20p increase to the tolls of the Kingsway and Queensway tunnels.

Two months after a damning report into its finances, Wirral Council is set to make cuts to bring its budget under control.

At the start of November last year, two reports, one on finance carried out by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), and another on governance by Ada Burns, gave damning verdicts.

Wirral Council's Local Plan, which could see around 12,000 homes built over the next 15 years, is set to block plans for green belt land.

The authority said the vital document will not include any "green belt allocations" and that major housing plans will be focused on the east of the borough.

Wirral has been successful with a second bid for funding from the Urban Tree Challenge Fund - which will see nearly 1,000 new trees planted across the borough.

A total of £367,645 has been secured from the fund, which will allow 959 new standard trees in Wirral by the end of March 2023.

Lord Field, 79, who represented Birkenhead in parliament from 1979 to 2019, will become a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, joining the likes of Sir Elton John, JK Rowling and Sir Paul McCartney.

Lord Field, now a crossbench peer, has been a huge figure in national politics for more than four decades.