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17 May 2013

Do you know a 16 or 17 year old who deserves a summer of a lifetime?

If you do, then there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity waiting for them.…It’s called the National Citizen Service and it’s about adventure, independence, excitement and pushing limits.   More....

07 May 2013

New Ferry Butterfly Park all in a flutter and flourishing

A record number of 550 visitors were drawn to New Ferry Butterfly Park’s Open Day on Sunday 5th May which heralded the start of the public open season.  They were greeted by a golden host of 500 to 600 flowering cowslips on the lime grassland.   More....

07 Apr 2013 - Arsonists strike at Port Sunlight River Park

28 Mar 2013 - Port Sunlight River Park website goes live

19 Feb 2013 - Work starts at £2.4million Port Sunlight River Park

25 Jan 2013 - New Puffin crossing to link New Ferry with Port Sunlight

12 Jan 2013 - Ethel Austin closes its New Ferry store for the last time

10 Dec 2012 - Sports2Kids gets little 'uns active

11 Nov 2012 - New Ferry Youth Club facing closure

04 Nov 2012 - Anti-social behaviour in New Ferry to be tackled

01 Nov 2012 - Plant bluebells and help with winter work in New Ferry Butterfly Park

20 Sep 2012 - Community Neighbourhood Funding suspended

05 Sep 2012 - New Womens' Choir starting in New Ferry

01 Aug 2012 - Christmas Lights unlikely to shine in 2012

01 Aug 2012 - New Ferry Regeneration Action Group changes name

04 Jul 2012 - New Ferry Butterfly Park Comma Project - Diary Dates

14 May 2012 - New Ferry Park Sport Pavilion re-opens following makeover

22 Apr 2012 - Deputy Labour Leader Harriet Harman opens Comma Project

26 Mar 2012 - New Ferry District Centre enters race to become a Portas Pilot

26 Mar 2012 - New Ferry Park Sports Pavilion gets a makeover

21 Mar 2012 - Funding confirmed to kickstart Port Sunlight Park

27 Jan 2012 - New Neighbourhood Plans published

09 Jan 2012 - New Ferry Butterfly Park - WInter Workdays

23 Dec 2011 - Health and Fitness special offers from Wirral Borough Council

23 Dec 2011 - Health and Fitness special offers from Wirral Borough Council

22 Dec 2011 - Comments requested on Wirral Council's draft Corporate Plan

30 Nov 2011 - Formal planning application for Bertha Macs to be a public bar has been submitted

21 Nov 2011 - Plans revealed for £35million mixed use development for former Croda Factory Site, Pool Lane, Bromborough Pool

22 Sep 2011 - Donations sought to buy daffodils for New Ferry Park (and support Marie Curie nurses)

18 Aug 2011 - Last call for bids to revitalise New Ferry shopping area

22 Jun 2011 - Consultation on Neighbourhood Plans begins

20 Jun 2011 - Wirral Hotel hours extended - but with conditions

15 May 2011 - Your views sought on proposed NHS changes

20 Apr 2011 - Oak of Hope planted in New Ferry Park

30 Mar 2011 - Proposals announced for New Ferry Park

12 Mar 2011 - New Ferry is counting on you

07 Mar 2011 - Missing Cat

14 Jan 2011 - NHS Community Programme launched to encourage healthier lifestyles

05 Dec 2010 - Environmental expert voices concern about Mersey Barrage proposal at New Ferry

17 Nov 2010 - Residents asked for comments on WMBC's new strategies

02 Nov 2010 - Questionnaire about New Ferry Village Hall launched

20 Sep 2010 - Wartime exhibition planned

20 Sep 2010 - New Ferry library closed as refurb begins

05 Sep 2010 - Bloomin' marvelous!

27 Aug 2010 - Planning application submitted to extend Cleveland Arms Public House

27 Aug 2010 - Free vouchers to help residents save energy and money

14 Aug 2010 - Celebrating Wirral Countryside Volunteers Silver Jubilee

06 Jul 2010 - Housing scheme wins approval but with conditions

28 Jun 2010 - Great Eastern demolished by developer

15 Jun 2010 - Friends of New Ferry Park elect Chair and other members

15 Apr 2010 - Butterfly Park Open Day & Art Trail

14 Apr 2010 - Local History Group starting up

31 Mar 2010 - Great Eastern threatened with demolition again

27 Feb 2010 - Great Eastern threatened with demolition again

22 Jan 2010 - Residents asked to comment on new planning framework

14 Jan 2010 - Public event on the Mersey Coastal Park Strategy announced

07 Jan 2010 - Report the mindless idiots attacking motorists

01 Dec 2009 - Valuable nature reserve threatened with closure

28 Oct 2009 - Bebington Badminton Club seeks new members

09 Oct 2009 - Active Holiday Programme

06 Oct 2009 - New Ferry Park Play Area to be refurbished

03 Oct 2009 - Bromborough Landfill - new park discussed

03 Oct 2009 - Mersey tidal barrage scheme back on the cards

20 Sep 2009 - Mersey Coast development plans announced

30 Jan 2013 - Police set to be given extra powers to tackle nuisance drinking on the streets of New Ferry

30 Jan 2013 - Armed robbers raid New Ferry betting shop

14 Jan 2013 - Cash-strapped Wirral Council bids to sell off free car parks

09 Jan 2013 - Port Sunlight Museum closes for refurbishment work

03 Jan 2013 - Man in hospital after assault near Wirral pub

08 Dec 2012 - Pensioner seriously injured after struck by car in New Ferry

12 Nov 2012 - New Ferry by-pass closed after crane strikes bridge

24 Oct 2012 - New Ferry to receive £10,000 funding to put together regeneration plan for high street

19 Sep 2012 - Brothers involved in Wirral pub fight are jailed

18 Sep 2012 - Multimillion pound plans for former Wirral chemical works set to be approved

07 Aug 2012 - The Dream for Port Sunlight River Park Moves a Step Closer

06 Aug 2012 - Three teenagers helped to shore from fishing boat off New Ferry

23 Jul 2012 - Homes set to replace golf driving range

02 May 2012 - Port Sunlight Diamond Jubilee sundial revives ancient time-telling art

06 Mar 2012 - Plans submitted to make historic Wirral village “more sustainable”

01 Feb 2012 - Alison McGovern: Heritage, art and creativity can help New Ferry beat the economic downturn

26 Dec 2011 - Renovation scheme planned for historic Hesketh Hall

25 Dec 2011 - Wirral charity needs your help for 10th anniversary appeal

04 Oct 2011 - Consultation on Wirral neighbour-hood plans comes to an end

27 Jul 2011 - Plans revealed to aid Wirral’s struggling town centres

17 Aug 2011 - Bebington Youth Centre in New Ferry say ‘we will not be beaten’, after callous thieves raided and even stole their sweets

27 Jul 2011 - Plans revealed to aid Wirral’s struggling town centres

25 Jul 2011 - Merseyside police appeal for witnesses over New Ferry bypass motorcyclist death

30 Jun 2011 - New Ferry Butterfly Park wins legal battle to stay open

23 Jun 2011 - £3.5bn River Mersey tidal power scheme put on hold over costs

16 May 2011 - Wirral Council Liberal Democrat councillor Steve Niblock defects to Labour and urges colleagues to do same

20 Apr 2011 - Wirral park tribute paid to armed forces

19 Jan 2011 - Fresh hopes for Bromborough tip park plan

12 Jan 2011 - Government funding to tackle empty shops problem in New Ferry and Bromborough

12 Jan 2011 - MP aims to get park project back on track

31 Dec 2010 - Retired magistrate Arthur Waller says MBE was "the best Christmas present"

01 Dec 2010 - Peel Mersey Tidal Power project plan open for inspection

01 Oct 2010 - Wirral £2.3million rubbish tip park plans in doubt

18 Aug 2010 - Co-operative invests £200,000 in New Ferry

29 Jun 2010 - Fury as bulldozers end heritage hopes of former Wirral pub

10 Mar 2010 - Campaign launched to save landmark Wirral pub with historic links to Isambard Kingdom Brunel

03 Mar 2010 - New Ferry Butterfly Park volunteer nets environmental award

20 Jan 2010 - Wirral's New Ferry Butterfly Park wins temporary reprieve

21 Jan 2010 - Plans to turn Wirral's Bromborough landfill site into outdoor pleasure park win government funding

20 Jan 2010 - Wirral council approves bid to save New Ferry butterfly park

09 Dec 2009 - Six ambitious projects to transform Wirral’s coastline from Rock Ferry to Eastham unveiled

07 Dec 2009 - New Ferry Butterfly Park followers float survival battle

30 Nov 2009 - Wirral Council would have broken law if libraries had closed

08 Nov 2009 - Wirral school takes penguin under its wing as part of art project

02 Nov 2009 - Solicitor threatens legal action over Wirral libraries report

15 Oct 2009 - Wirral libraries inquiry chairman let town hall lawyer decide who saw her top-secret letter

01 Oct 2009 - Government report on Wirral library closures to be delayed

28 Sep 2009 - Call for rethink on Wirral coastline redevelopment scheme

23 Sep 2009 - Wirral's east coast plans for £10m development project

20 Aug 2008 - New Ferry pub demolition may be scuppered

23 Jul 2008 - Historic Great Eastern pub in New Ferry faces demolition

30 Jun 2008 - Clean-up squads in action at beauty spot

31 Jul 2007 - Welcome to New Ferry structures unveiled