Wirral, England News

Ss Peter and Paul's church is Grade II listed and became known as the "Dome of Home", because it is visible to sailors in Liverpool Bay as they return to port.

SINGER/songwriter Ralph McTell will perform at the International Guitar Festival in Wirral.

The mother of a three-year-old boy who was struck 11 times with a metal bar by a boy of the same age has won the right to compensation, despite authorities twice refusing to pay out on the grounds the perpetrator was too young to have known what he was doing.

A SON was jailed after attacking his loving parents and threatening to kill them with a saw.

Olivia Battye from Thornton Hough, who was diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year and is doing a video diary on the internet about her experience _300 A TEENAGE cancer sufferer is recording her experience by creating a video diary on the internet.

A FAMILY pet bolted from a caravan park during a fireworks display. Dougal, an eight-year-old male springer spaniel with a liver and white body, a brown head and a dock tail, ran from his owner on Friday night.

A group of IT workers and a couple from South Wales become the UK's biggest ever Lottery winners, after scooping A 91m between them.

MERSEYSIDE united to pay respects to our fallen war dead yesterday. Services were held across the region to mark Remembrance Sunday 70 years on from the start of World War II.

THE devastated parents of a Merseyside soldier gunned down by a rogue policeman insist they do not want British troops to pull out of Afghanistan.

A POLICE community support officer who groomed a 15-year-old girl hoping to get her into bed has been jailed for 15 months.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a member of the Territorial Army from Wirral who was killed while on duty in Afghanistan.

A CONTROVERSIAL vote over plans for two new academies in Wirral will not be re-run, it appeared last night.

Dramatic new evidence could free the businessman convicted of the 'beauty in the bath' murder, it was claimed last night.

A DRAMATIC new twist in the notorious a oeBeauty in the Batha killing will see a fresh attempt made to overturn the conviction of the man found guilty of murder.

ONE OF Wirral's leading chocolatiers is closing his business because of the recession.

PEEL Holdings is on the verge of submitting the largest planning application in the country as the next phase of the 4.5bn Wirral Waters project.

IT'S not every day you find yourself writing a song with a former Beatle. But Wirral singer/songwriter Dean Johnson found himself doing just that when he was asked to complete a fragment of a song originally written by George Harrison at the height of Beatlemania.

OLD girl died after being hit by a car in a low-speed collision, an inquest heard.

KNOWN Wirral businessman died in Florida after a suspected drink-driver smashed into a mini-van carrying a group of friends.

A SEX offender was cleared of ignoring an order banning him from contact with young people.