News in Heswall

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

Beauty salon Positive Touch on Grange Road in West Kirby has shut up shop for good, and its owner, who once ran a sister salon on Telegraph Road in Heswall, has described how the pandemic took its toll.

Laura Weston, who launched Positive Touch two decades ago, and opened the Heswall salon back in early 2016, has explained the reasons for the demise of her business on the company's website.

The Met Office's first of its kind warning will stay in place until the end of Thursday when temperatures are expected to peak.

It follows a weekend when all four UK nations recorded their hottest days of the year.

A 28 year-old Heswall man has become the latest offender on Merseyside to be jailed as part of Operation Venetic – an international operation targeting criminals who used a mobile encryption service to try to evade detection.

Adam Plant, of Downfield Close, West Derby Village, but formerly from Heswall, was identified after sharing an image on his encro device of cannabis in the palm of his hand.

Hard on the heels of our Puddydale Wildflower project story, some more colourful horticultural news...

Four local retailers based in Castle Buildings on Telegraph Road are on the receiving end of gratitude and praise - and brand new watering cans - having agreed to lend a hand watering flower beds outside their premises planted by Heswall in Bloom.

'Freedom Day' has dawned, but not in the way we had hoped for.

For some it is symbolic that three of the most powerful politicians in the country have been obliged to curtail their liberty and cut themselves off from human contact.

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Directors of Public Health across Merseyside and Cheshire have issued a joint message to residents and businesses in their areas to continue to take COVID-19 safety precautions even after the legal restrictions are lifted from Monday 19th July.

They cite high and increasing case numbers in the region, the risk to those who have yet to be vaccinated and the potential disruption to services and businesses due to high numbers of people having to self-isolate as reasons for a careful approach to living with COVID-19 from next week.

In the small hours of this morning West Kirby RNLI was requested by the Coastguard to aid two people in difficulties trying to retrieve a stranded jet ski from Thurstaston beach mud flats.

West Kirby RNLI gave details of the operation:

Wirral Council has been recognised for being involved in the very first British effort to contain Covid-19.

In January last year, long before the first lockdown began, 83 British citizens were quarantined at Arrowe Park Hospital in an attempt to prevent the virus spreading into the community.