News in Heswall

Subscribers to Wirral Council's garden waste collection service, otherwise known as 'brown bin day', will be treated to an extra visit over the festive period.

Usually, the service would take a break of four weeks over Christmas and New Year.

Wirral Council has voted to endorse its leader's response to two damning reports which laid bare the authority's money problems.

The reports, one on finance carried out by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), and another by Ada Burns on governance, gave a damning verdict.

Yesterday Heswall Hall was invaded by human families and dinosaurs as Teach Rex staged the entertaining and informative Velociraptor show with which it tours.

Teach Rex is an educational company formed by two young local primary school teachers, Sam Bryan and Joe Parsonage.

The second major storm of this winter may repeat the chaos of November 26 and 27.

Named Barra by the Irish Met Office, it's predicted to hit much of the UK tomorrow, and our Met Office has issued a Yellow warning that Barra will be accompanied by high winds likely to cause disruption to travel.

Recently we've asked if the local community can do something to save and repurpose the abandoned Heswall police station - and if the very dismal Heswall railway station could also be given a new lease of life by making it possible to travel direct between the town and Liverpool.

Thanks to everyone who responded on social media, where it became plain that a fair few people would like a direct service - and not to hang out in a station that feels like it belongs in a spooky movie about the supernatural.

A study vital to deciding the council's policy on a beach which has been compared to a 'football pitch' or 'quagmire' has been delayed.

Since 2019, when Wirral Council decided to stop all management of Hoylake beach after it was strongly criticised for spraying it with glyphosate, the policy of leaving it to nature has been highly controversial.

Hoylake beach will continue to be left to nature until at least 2023 despite claims it looks like a 'football pitch' or a 'quagmire'.

Since 2019, when Wirral Council decided to stop all management of the beach after it was strongly criticised for spraying it with glyphosate, the policy of leaving it to nature has been highly controversial.

It's hard to understand why youngsters are fascinated by dinosaurs and children as young as two can cope with five syllable words like 'velociraptor' as easily as they say 'juice'.

But if you have a dino obsessed child in your life then Heswall Hall could be the place to go on Sunday.

Storm Arwen brought high winds to parts of the UK including Wirral and Heswall a week ago, and inevitably they took their toll.

This tree came down in the early hours of last Saturday morning to block the A551 just 100 metres from the Devon Doorway roundabout.

Detectives investigating the murder of 12-year-old Ava White in Liverpool city centre on Thursday night have charged a teenager.

Yesterday evening, a 14-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged with murder and possession of a bladed article and has been remanded in custody to appear at court today.