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EASTHAM SUNDAY JUNIOR SOCCER LEAGUE
RESULTS: Sunday, December 7:- Under-10 Division - Heygarth United 0, Shore Villa 4; Ashville 2, Heswall 2; Squibb 1, West Kirby Wasps 3; Young Lions 7, Neston Nomads 3; Birkenhead Boys Club 4, Liscard Panthers 2; Irby Juniors 3, Fender Youth 5. Under-
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HOULIHAN'S BIRKENHEAD SUNDAY SOCCER LEAGUE
QUEENS Park aim for more national glory on Sunday, when they travel across the Mersey to face much fancied Liverpool side Salerno in the National Sunday Cup third round at Ault Park (kick-off 2pm). Wirral's sole representatives in the National Cup, the
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BIRKENHEAD SATURDAY SOCCER LEAGUE
OLD ENEMIES Nue Ave squared up against Houlihan's in what was the battle of the day in Division One. With old scores to settle, both sides went hammer and tongs at it. Nue Ave eventually sealed the points with Ian Knowles, Glen Norman and Steve Cotgrave
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Park, Oldershaw find hope in defeat . . .
BIRKENHEAD Park found unbeaten Whitchurch, from Midlands One League, too strong but an experimental side did well and only folded in the last quarter. Dominic Ford secured a try converted by Tom Mapp, who also kicked a penalty. Oldershaw lost 41-22 to
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County call-ups give starlets another chance
NEW Brighton entertain Midlands Division One contenders Whitchurch at Reeds Lane on Saturday. With 13 players unavailable due to county calls, this promises to be a tough challenge for New Brighton. New Brighton's county caps are Mark and Steve Dorrington
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Bebington Darts League
RESULTS: Tuesday, December 2:- Division One - Bebington Liberals 4, Merseybus 5; Cleveland Arms 4, Archers 5; Eastham Home Guard 8, Lairds Veterans 1; Great Eastern 9, Queens 0; Quest 4, Stork Social Club 5. Division Two - Abbotsford 6, Victoria Lodge
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NO TEAM, NO CASH, NO LUCK!
BELEAGURED Tranmere Rovers Player-manager John Aldridge is facing possibly the sternest test yet of his managerial career. With half his first team out injured, the 39-year-old scoring legend looks set to bring himself out of semi-retirement for Saturday's
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Reduced earnings allowance update
This week the topic interrupts the current series of industrial injuries and industrial diseases, to include an important update about reduced earnings allowance, or REA for short. This week the topic interrupts the current series of industrial injuries
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USEFUL NUMBERS
Emergency services - police, fire and ambulance - (24 hours) 999. Merseyside Police (all departments) 709-6010. Merseyside Fire Brigade, (Western Div Wirral) Exmouth St, Birkenhead, 647-9555. Community Patrol: 666-5265. Gas escape (24 hours) 0800-111-
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CHEMISTS' ROTA
These chemists will be on duty on Sunday (December 14):- Birkenhead:- ABC Ltd, 88-90 Argyle Street (12.30pm-7.30pm); Woodchurch:- Chanins Pharmacy, 98 Hoole Road (10am-12noon); Bebington:- Chanins Pharmacy, 16 Cross Lane (11am-1pm); Irby:- R.A Davies,
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WIN BOOK ON THETIS
THETIS, The Admiralty Regrets, a Bebington publisher's re-print account of the sinking of the Birkenhead-built sub, is back in the shops for Christmas after a quick sell out at launch. It has helped re-new public interest in the disaster. Bebington based
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Sunday school honours for sisters
TWO Wallasey sisters have won top honours in the St Nicholas Church Sunday School Awards. Catherine Boyce, aged 13, and sister Clare, eight, are pictured with vicar, the Rev John Bently, following the presentations. Catherine, a pupil of Upton Convent
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Reader delivers warning to kids
A WARNING to paper boys and girls to be careful in the morning has been issued by a Meols motorist, who drives to work at 7am. Roy Rodger has just moved jobs but is alarmed, on these dark mornings, by the number of youngsters riding bikes without lights
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Pre-Budget report good news says Neston MP
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown's Pre-Budget Report is good news for the people of Ellesmere Port and Neston, says local MP Andrew Miller. "It shows the Government is carrying out its promises and is building long term prosperity through measures to help people
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Tragic chase witness appeal
THE grieving girlfriend of a Wallasey man who died of hypothermia after a late-night chase through the streets of Liverpool has asked for witnesses to come forward. Tina Oasgood, who had shared a home with 20-year-old Kenneth Keating in Rice Lane for
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Gala occasion
HOYLAKE Gala Day is Saturday, December 13, staged by Hoylake Chamber of Trade. There will be a contest to count the number of lights on Hoylake town Christmas Tree, plus a prize for children who have had their photograph taken with the parrot in the smuggler's
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Defendant in custody 'for his own protection'
A SOLICITOR asked for his client to be remanded in custody when he re-appeared before Wirral magistrates. Ian Malcolm Wass, aged 47, from Bromborough, and who had been staying in Skipton, North Yorkshire, faces ten charges of theft of a total of £214,648
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Calday head thanks parents and students
HEADMASTER Nigel Briers thanked everyone who is helping build a new school during improvements at Calday Grange Grammar School. Said Mr Briers: "We still have some way to go to go to ensure that we can provide a quality environment in all areas of life
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Don't have one for the road
BEER drinker MP Ben Chapman sets a festive example by having a drink but leaving his car at home. The Wirral South MP was in his Heswall local to support a charity night in aid of Claire House children's hospice appeal. Speaking in support of the Christmas
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Get a smoke alarm!
FIRE officers are again advising householders to fit smoke alarms, after a terrified family had to escape a blazing home by breaking double glazed windows upstairs. Neighbours helped them get out while mother of two, Mel Spillets, was carried unconscious
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Wallasey & District Sunday Soccer League
POULTON Royal Dale still share top spot in the Premier Division after their 4-0 defeat of The Queens, with Justin Broadbent, 2, Gary Beattie and Mark Hayes on target. Level with them are Millhouse, who beat Windsor 3-2 with goals from Gary Edwards, Jimmy
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WIRRAL SUNDAY LEAGUE
RESULTS: Sunday, December 7:- Division One - Halfway Prenton 3, Lancelyn 1; R/Street Social 1, Harp Liverpool S&R 3; Southdale 1, Red Cat 0; Stirrup 0, Old House at Home 3. Division Two - ADS Graphics 5, Pollards Inn 6; Rockvilla 3, Wirral Ath 2;
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South Wirral Soccer League
RESULTS: Saturday, December 6:- Robin Hodgson Division - Moreton 4, Grange Ath 5; Newton 2, Bromborough RBL 1; New Brighton 3, Rangers Brks 2; Bronze Soc 0, Charing Cross 3; BICC Helsby 1, FC Pensby 2; Mallaby 3, Runcorn Town 2; Bridge Ath 5, Manor Ath
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VICS BOUNCE BACK AFTER CUP SHOCK
WEST Cheshire League club Poulton Victoria suffered heartbreak in the defence of their Carlsberg Pub Cup title, when they lost at home 1-2 to Chester side Centurion, who scored their winner in the dying seconds. Ian Doran curled home a superb free-kick
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EARLY PENALTY SPURS NEW BRIGHTON
New Brighton 44pts, Blackburn 6pts WITH eight first team regulars on Cheshire County duty, Blackburn presented the Blues with a serious challenge - and when Westhead scored a penalty after just five minutes things looked dour for a young looking New Brighton
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Wirral AC runners do well
FINAL match of the SMC Computers National Junior League was held at Grimsby, with both Wirral AC's Junior Men's and Junior Women's teams making the long journey. The Junior Women's team, in a close fought match, finished a creditable fourth with 256 points
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Win tickets to Rovers' games
GLOBE SPORT has two pairs of tickets to be won for each of Tranmere Rovers' two next Nationwide League Division One home matches - against Oxford United on Saturday, December 20 and against Bury on Boxing Day (December 26). We have teamed up with Nationwide
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Rovers pay heavy price for equaliser
Tranmere Rovers 1, Ipswich Town 1 Attendance: 5,720 OUT of sorts Tranmere rescued a late point, but had a heavy price to pay when Lee Jones was stretchered off with knee ligament damage sustained in scoring the equaliser (writes Steve Hunter). Rovers
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Branch 'won't play for Rovers' first team again'
WINGER Graham Branch's days at Prenton Park look numbered. Player-boss John Aldridge has declared that Branch - he was transfer listed at the start of the season after turning down the offer of a new contract - will not play in the first team again. Second
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Jail for transsexual who 'drove like a nutter' at policeman
A TRANSSEXUAL who drove at a police officer on the New Ferry by-pass following a dispute with his wife was jailed for 12 months and banned from driving for two years. Two weeks after this offence, Neville Shaw, who prefers to be known as Beverley Shaw
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Man jailed after golf club raid
A MAN who burgled Port Sunlight Golf Club and stole £16,000 worth of property has been jailed for 15 months. Liverpool Crown Court heard that Gary Beck already has a conviction for burgling another golf club. He and three men, who have not been caught
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Station in 'appalling state' says council
NESTON Station is in an 'appalling state', Ellesmere Port and Neston Council has told Railtrack and North West Trains. It's a view shared by Wrexham and Birkenhead Rail Users' Association, which held its annual meeting in Neston Town Hall. Chairman Tom
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THERE was celebration in the air at Birkenhead Market when Beryl's Plaice became an official retaile
Alan and Beryl Greer established the business 17 years ago, and three years later opened Prenton Fish just two doors away! It's something of a double celebration as Prenton Fish, managed by son Alan, received the Official Retailer award last year. The
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Shoppers show they CAN help!
SHOPPERS at a Bromborough store had a chance last Saturday to contribute to food parcels for local needy people. Members of The Rotary Club of Bebington were at the ASDA store, Croft Estate, Bromborough, to invite members of the public to purchase on
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AUTHOR CHARTS LAST VOYAGE IN 1941 WITH HMS REPULSE CREW
THIS Day, December 10, 1941, one of Birkenhead's most famous warships - and one of Britain's most powerful and modern battleships - was sunk by Japanese aircraft. Battleship Prince of Wales, with Battlecruiser Repulse, went to the bottom of the South
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There's pirates in Eastham Country Park!
A GROUP of young people from the Prince's Trust spent the past three weeks creating log play sculptures in the children's play area at Eastham Country Park, and created a 30-foot long log pirate ship. A nautical theme was chosen for the design as the
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ATC remembers ex-cadet killed in action
CADETS and staff from 1123 (Bebington) Squadron have worked hard to honour the memory of a former cadet who was killed during World War II. Flt Sgt George Roberts died on March 27, 1944, aged just 21. His family now live far and wide, so his brother Eric
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Tranmere man made nuisance phone calls
MALICIOUS phone calls made by a Tranmere man on occasions led to an ambulance, paramedics and the fire brigade attending at a Birkenhead address, Wirral magistrates were told by prosecutor Neil Tyrell. Arthur Andrew Williams, 39, of Seymour Street, Tranmere
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Workman wins £5,400 damages from council
A WALLASEY labourer on whom a ceiling fell while he was working in Birkenhead Town Hall won £5,400 in damages from his former employers Wirral Council last week. During a three-day trial, Liverpool County Court heard that the town hall was undergoing
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10,000-name petition saves Fender Farm
FENDER Farm is in the Greenbelt as the Planning Committee ruled against housing firm Redrow Homes building houses on the land, securing the future of the West Wirral Riding School. A petition of 10,000 names against the proposals were presented to the
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Question your children says mother
A BIRKENHEAD mother has asked parents to question their children coming home with unexplained property. Susan Scott's son Sean, aged 17, had his £600 Carrera Maxima bike stolen from their garage in Holmlands Drive, Prenton, between 7.30am and 8.30am on
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Labour labelled 'political bigots' in road battle
A POLITICAL row has erupted after ruling Labour councillors refused to consider a pedestrian crossing on Banks Road, West Kirby, as a means to help elderly and disabled residents and other pedestrians crossing the busy shopping thoroughfare. John Hale
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Save our coast guard S.o.S.
HOYLAKE Sailing Club is launching a campaign to save HM Coastguard, Liverpool. They have written to the Hoylake born Government Minister reponsible for the proposed closure. Besides letters of protest to Transport Minister Glenda Jackson, the Sailing
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Christmas joy as Hospice Lottery launch nears . . .
A STAGGERING £15,000 has been raised by this year's 'Light Up a Life for a Loved One' appeal at St John's Hospice in Wirral. And more than £5,000 of that came from Globe readers who returned our special coupon. More than 1,000 people attended last Thursday
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Dunn-It! Sid gets victory under his belt
COUNCILLOR Sid Dunn, Conservative member for Thurstaston, is crying victory in Battle Royle. The planning committee, on which he sits, has decided to include in the Green Belt a plot of land in Irby. Residents were at loggerheads with landowner Arthur
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Murder unsolved one year later
ONE year ago today, December 10, pensioner Alice Rye was murdered at her detached home in Poulton Road, Spital and found by neighbours next morning, Wednesday December 11. The crime remains unsolved despite a full scale murder inquiry and it being on
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Christmas without Kerry
"KERRY was squeaky clean. An innocent victim of this terrible crash. We knew that all along. Today's inquest confirms how our daughter died. She had only drunk orange juice, there was no question of drugs or alcohol with her," say the heartbroken parents
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Christmas wish for garden
FIVE-year-old Steven Wassell, fatally injured on a busy road near his home, would have loved a garden to play in say his parents as they prepare to face a bleak Christmas in a first floor flat at Trafalgar Road, Wallasey. However, cards of sympathy from
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Plan to demolish demolished cottage
PLANNING officers will have to explain to councillors on Thursday, a retrospective planning application to demolish a Listed Building in Birkenhead. For waterfront Bath Cottages, 2 to 3 Esplanade, in Rock Ferry Conservation Area, have already been demolished
