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Hoylake Cafe Going Green

Hoylake Cafe Going Green

Vegetarian-friendly coffee shop, Ground, in Hoylake is ditching plastic and working to cut its food waste. Having officially made the switch in April last year, Ground coffee shop in Hoylake has recently increased their efforts to ditch plastic, recycle and cut food and water wastage by half. Wirral activist

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West Kirby Women's Institute officially launches

West Kirby Women's Institute officially launches

Almost 100 women packed into the St Bridget's Centre last night to celebrate the official launch of the West Kirby Women's Institute. The Women's Institute (WI) was formed in 1915 to revitalise rural communities and encourage women to become more involved in producing food

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Meet West Kirby's sweetest Cupid

Meet West Kirby's sweetest Cupid

West Kirby schoolboy Riley Stephens has made a very sweet, Valentine's Day gesture by baking heart shaped biscuits for his entire school. The 9-year-old, who is a pupil at West Kirby Primary School, decided he wanted to share the love with all his class mates this

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Hoylake Golf Resort developer speaks out

Hoylake Golf Resort developer speaks out

The developer behind Hoylake Golf Resort has launched a passionate defence of the controversial scheme - insisting it is a win-win for the local community which will deliver significant benefits for Wirral. The proposal, first announced in 2015, would see two new championship golf courses – including the only Jack Nicklaus

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Passenger lifts being installed at Meols station

Passenger lifts being installed at Meols station

Work is starting installing passenger lifts at Meols railway station, in a long-awaited £2.2 million project to improve accessibility. Currently, passengers with mobility issues or pushchairs who wish to alight or board a West Kirby bound train at Meols have to change at either Hoylake or Leasowe and

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Hoylake railway station scoops Best Kept Station award

Hoylake railway station scoops Best Kept Station award

Hoylake railway station has scooped the Wirral Award at the 16th Cheshire Best Kept Stations Awards Evening. The awards were presented before 160 guests at The Grange Theatre, Hartford, Northwich byProfessor Garfield Southall, Dean of Science and Engineering at the University of Chester and Chair of North Cheshire Community Rail

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Your questions answered: Patients of TG Medical Centre

Your questions answered: Patients of TG Medical Centre

Following the announcement that the current GP contract for TG Medical Centre, in West Kirby, will not being renewed, we've been contacted by many concerned patients. Here are some answers to your questions (but let us know if there is anything we have missed). Is the surgery closing?

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Local musicians join city's biggest-ever open air ukulele jam

Local musicians join city's biggest-ever open air ukulele jam

The founders of Hoylake's Summer Strum ukulele festival are taking part in a mass singalong of the classic lullaby ‘You Are My Sunshine’, to celebrate World Ukulele Day today. Musicians from ten Merseyside ukulele bands, including Wirral band Broken Strings, will join together for the biggest open air

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Gang steal bike from teenage boy in Hoylake

Gang steal bike from teenage boy in Hoylake

Detectives are appealing for information after a teenage boy had his bike stolen by a gang in Hoylake. It happened on North Parade on Thursday, 17 January, at around 6.15pm - but details have only just been released. The 14-year-old victim was with friends near to the Lifeboat

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Caldy 3-27 Plymouth Albion

Caldy 3-27 Plymouth Albion

Caldy succumbed to a professional Plymouth Albion performance who ran in three tries despite playing the second half with 14 men after Paul Davis was sent off for a stamp in the scrum on Caldy's Derek Salisbury moments before the half time break. Caldy are still missing a

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Charges to be introduced for public toilets

Charges to be introduced for public toilets

People using public toilets in West Kirby and Hoylake will have to pay 30 pence from this March. Wirral Council is introducing a charge to help pay for the management, maintenance and operating of the facilities. The local authority says the fee will assist in meeting its commitment to keeping

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Santander in West Kirby is one of 140 branches across the UK to close

Santander in West Kirby is one of 140 branches across the UK to close

Santander has announced plans today to close 140 branches across the UK including West Kirby. The bank, on Grange Road, will close on June 20 this year meaning Santander customers will have to travel to Heswall or Birkenhead for their nearest branch. The bank said the closures came as more

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Ice-bomb causes chaos in West Kirby

Ice-bomb causes chaos in West Kirby

A heavy hailstone shower left some roads around West Kirby like an ice rink, with cars abandoned as motorists were unable to complete their journeys. Both sides of Grange Hill proved impassable for some drivers, who chose to leave their vehicles and finish their journeys on foot following the downpour,

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Local artist celebrates ten year anniversary in "St Ives of the North"

Local artist celebrates ten year anniversary in "St Ives of the North"

Local artist and therapist Jo Smith is celebrating ten years since opening her renowned Seagrass Studio Gallery. The popular gallery and workshop is based in Acacia Grove, in West Kirby, but originally started out life in Hoylake, where Jo is originally from. Jo is well known for her stunning paintings

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Shock as West Kirby doctors' surgery announces closure

Shock as West Kirby doctors' surgery announces closure

West Kirby's TG Medical Centre has announced it will be closing in April after NHS England failed to renew its contract to provide services. Patients at the Grange Road practice, which is one of the top performing for patient care in the region, have received a letter in

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