News in Heswall

Above: a gallery of pictures of Heswall vs Mallaby by Bob Shaw

A Heswall woman is raising money to help pay for the evacuation and resettlement of a family in Afghanistan.

Rebecca Mortby met a relative of the family at university 12 years ago, and they have been friends ever since.

More roads in Wirral are set to have their speed limits reduced to 20mph, after a meeting last night pushed for plans to be developed more quickly.

In March, Wirral Council's Environment and Transport Committee voted for a motion which said speed limits in "all areas that are predominantly residential, retail, or educational" could be reduced to 20mph.

Standardised charges for parking in council-operated public car parks and parking spaces come into effect from this week.

The changes mean that from today, Monday 6th September, the same tariff will apply to all council-run car parks and on-street parking spaces right across the borough. Previously rates differed from location to location.

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by a user of the former Neston Post Office has highlighted worrying Post Office Limited figures.

The FOI detail forwarded to Parkgate resident John Edwards revealed that a total of 1,183 UK branches had been shut for a month or more since March 2020, but 260 had not reopened by June 30 this year.

As we enjoy the last embers of summer, a sunny Saturday afternoon in Heswall brought local rivals Poulton Vics Reserves to face our resurgent Reserve team in the West Cheshire League, while our First Team travelled to Face Chester and Wirral League team Hoole Rovers in the prestigious Cheshire Amateur Cup.

Our quest to go one better than we did two years ago when we were cruelly denied the chance to compete in the final, started with a resounding victory for the Firsts as we ran out 5 – 1 winners with goals from last season's top marksman Joe Ford, Matty Morris who hit a brace and has started the season with a flurry of goals, an own goal, and a strike from young Shay Roberts who has made a seamless step into first division football.

A councillor has called for an inquiry into a ditched development agreement, which recently cost his local authority hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Cllr Tom Anderson, leader of the Conservative group in Wirral Council, wants the authority's Audit and Risk Management Committee to look into the handling of the Hoylake Golf Resort project.

Wirral Council has agreed to take in Afghans who worked with the UK during its time in the country, the Local Democracy Reporting Service understands.

Under ARAP (Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy), the UK is taking in Afghan interpreters and other personnel who collaborated with British forces in Afghanistan who are assessed to be under serious threat to life.

Wirral recorded more than 1,000 Covid-19 cases in the most recent week, with a massive difference in the prevalence of the virus across the borough.

In the week up to August 31, there were 1,004 coronavirus cases in Wirral, at a rate of 310 per 100,000.

On August 27 we reported that a large, limping cat, possibly a puma, had been spotted in the dead of night on a Heswall residential street.

Now Puma Watch North Wales, which runs a big cat reporting platform, has revealed that another local sighting has taken place - on Heswall's Whitfield Common.