News in Heswall

A huge vote on plans to bring in new parking charges in Wirral has been pushed back despite an incredibly long council meeting.

The meeting was set up after Wirral Council's Environment and Transport Committee voted to bring in new parking charges at off-street car parks last month, including sites in Bromborough, Bebington, Irby, Hoylake and New Brighton.

Residents on low incomes in Wirral can now get to their local COVID-19 vaccination centre more easily after a bus voucher was made available to help with travel costs.

Wirral Council and NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group have teamed up with Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to offer free bus vouchers to encourage vaccine uptake.

The boss of Hays Travel, the UK travel agency with local branches in Heswall and West Kirby, has just returned from a fact finding mission to the Costa del Sol to allay customers' fears about holidaying in Spain.

According to Don Bircham and his wife, Ruth, they had a "brilliant time".

A watersports centre in New Brighton has been vandalised just weeks after it opened.

Wild Shore, based at the town's Marine Lake, opened on June 26 and features an aqua park, open water swimming, stand up paddle boards and rentable kayaks and pedalos.

Sue Porter, owner of Linghams on Telegraph Road, believes in the power of the written word, and in the power of the UK's children's champion, Marcus Rashford.

Marcus, whose support of FairShare enabled the charity to distribute more than 21 million free meals to children and families much in need of them, has also created a Book Club bearing his name, a club which aims to encourage and nurture a love of reading amongst youngsters.

High ropes, climbing and other sports could be part of Wirral Council's plans to keep its municipal golf courses going.

Wirral Council is putting together a proposal to secure the futures of the four public golf courses it runs while reducing the £270,000 it subsidises them by each year.

Above: a gallery of pictures

Above: a gallery of pictures

The flag cracking heatwave is set to come to an end and be replaced by thunderstorms and very heavy showers.

The yellow warning for large swathes of England and Scotland includes our part of the world, and it lasts from 09.00 tomorrow morning, to 06.00 on Wednesday morning.

Merseyside Police has arrested a man after a cyclist was seriously injured in a collision in Barnston on Friday night (23 July).

At about 6.05pm, it was reported a blue Hyundai was in collision with the bike on Barnston Road. The cyclist was taken to hospital where he is being treated for a serious spinal injury.