NEW board at Wirral Met is promoting Carlett Park College, which the previous board was going to sell off. The open day is Thursday, March 25, when the public can find out about courses available. Students will be preparing meals and snacks, including Easter biscuits and hot cross buns. Free hairdressing and beauty treatments will be available as well as aromatherapy.

ST Patrick's Day celebrations are staged at St. Laurence's Club, Birkenhead, today (Wednesday), when Wirral Irish Group hosts the afternoon.

DUKE of Kent is in Birkenhead tomorrow to visit the born-again Cammell Laird yard, then meet apprentices at the nearby Laird Foundation Centre.

WIRRAL Council is organising a service on Saturday, June 5, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Thetis submarine tragedy. Families and friends of victims wanting to attend this ceremony on June 5 should contact Alan Brown at EuroWirral Director, North Annexe, Brighton Street, Wallasey, L44 8ED, in writing.

NEXT meeting of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust is at Arrowe Park Hospital on Wednesday, March 24, at 2pm. Trust directors will look back on the last year and forward to the Millennium.

WIRRAL Lib Dem leader Coun Phil Gilchrist questions whether the waiting list situation is as 'rosy' as the Heath Service claims in recent figures.

MAYOR of Wirral Margaret Green hosts her charity ball at Wallasey Town Hall on Friday, March 26. Ticket details 691-8527.

ON Friday, March 19, Coun Green is entertained by VIth form pupils at Bebington High School in aid of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

CLAIRE HOUSE Mad March Ball in aid of the children's hospice is at Chester Moat House Hotel this Saturday, March 20.

A MAN faced Wirral Magistrates on Friday for indecent assault on a 50-year-old woman lecturer in a staff room at the Wirral Metropolitan College at Europa Boulevard in Birkenhead two days previously.

John Davies, aged 23, of Hillburn Drive, Birkenhead, pleaded guilty to the early evening incident. Prosecutor Martin Decker said he told police he accepted he must have done it but he said he could not remember as he had been drinking all afternoon.

Davies was said to be in breach of probation for indecency matters and also on prison licence. He was sent to the crown court for sentence and was held in custody. Davies, who was also said to be in breach of bail imposed by Liverpool City magistrates for indecent exposure, was ordered to re-appear at Liverpool this week.

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