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The Latest Breaking News from Wirral

Father who murdered 13-week-old son calls his baby ‘It’ on 999 call

A Wirral couple convicted of murdering their baby boy have been jailed.

The Independent UK

First man jailed under child online safety act for grooming and abusing girl

Karl Davies, 42, a father-of-two from the Wirral, admitted and has been convicted of 17 offences relating to a school girl aged between 13 and 14.

Evening Standard

Wirral to scrap 90-year-old ban on carpet beating and ‘wanton singing’

Those ‘sounding a noisy trumpet’ or ‘inciting a dog to bark’ along part of the Merseyside coast will no longer risk arrest

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Labour-run councils consider legal challenges to asylum hotels

Injunction to remove people from Essex hotel leads to government considering other housing options

The Guardian - UK

Four men deny murder of grandmother

Jacqueline Rutter, 53, was fatally shot in Moreton, Wirral, in 2022.

Evening Standard

Family of murdered Wirral florist want ‘justice’ after conviction quashed

Merseyside Police has appealed for any witnesses to the 1987 attack to come forward.

Evening Standard

Man sentenced for stalking Strictly judge Shirley Ballas

Kyle Shaw, of Birkenhead, Wirral, admitted the charge at an earlier hearing.

Evening Standard

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New workers’ rights plan is anti-business and will harm growth, critics warn

Shadow business minister Lord Hunt of Wirral argued that Labour’s 299-page Employment Rights Bill should be called the Unemployment Bill.

Evening Standard

Nisha Katona’s new show is all about lentils, life lessons – and a lot of alpaca poo

The Mowgli Street Food founder and former Great British Menu judge is back, this time inviting viewers into her Wirral home for a masterclass in low-effort, high-reward cooking. She talks to Ella Walker about dahl, difficult decisions and why she’s never eating her chickens’ eggs

The Independent UK

Three-month-old boy dies after being found unresponsive in home

The boy was rushed to hospital after he was found with injuries at a house in the Wirral, Merseyside

The Independent UK

UK hospital declares major cyber incident, tells non-emergencies to return home

Wirral University Teaching Hospital shut down its IT systems and sent non-emergencies home.

TechRadar

Special school staff member jailed for assaults shown in undercover documentary

Elliott Millar was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison after he pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to assaulting three pupils at Life Wirral.

The Independent UK

Four cleared of assisting Christmas Eve gunman

Elle Edwards, 26, was killed when Connor Chapman opened fire outside the Lighthouse pub in Wirral on December 24, 2022.

Evening Standard

Jury considers verdicts in trial of four accused of helping Christmas Eve gunman

Danielle Dowdall, Roxanne Matthews, David Chambers and Paul Owen are accused of assisting Connor Chapman following the murder of Elle Edwards.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Home Office U-turn grants Wirral ‘legend’ right to live in UK after 46 years

Retired newsagent who fundraised £50,000 for legal battle was due to take case to court in autumn

The Guardian - UK

Girl who died in Wirral school bus crash was wearing seatbelt, inquest hears

Coroner finds Jessica Baker, 15, died from head injury after driver collapsed at wheel on M53

The Independent UK

Girl killed in horror M53 bus crash was one of few on board wearing a seatbelt, inquest told

Jessica Baker, 15, was killed on her way to West Kirby Grammar School in Wirral, Merseyside, whe the coach crashed on the northbound M53

The Guardian - UK

Wirral ‘local legend’ refused indefinite leave to remain by Home Office

Nelson Shardey, 74, has lived in the UK since 1977 and ran a Merseyside newsagent for 31 years

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Tributes paid to ‘kind and empathic’ 15-year-old Wirral bus crash victim

Family and headteacher of Jessica Baker praise teenager’s talent and inspirational dedication to climbing

Daily Mirror

Elle Edwards' dad Tim vows to never mention her killers name in heartbreaking confession

Elle Edwards, 26, was shot dead outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallsey Village, Wirral, on Christmas Eve with her dad Tim giving a heartfelt interview after her killer was sentenced to 48 years in prison

Daily Record

Inside brutal gang war that led to Elle Edwards' murder and year of violence

Innocent beautician Elle Edwards was gunned down with a sub-machine gun outside a pub by drug dealer Connor Chapman.

Liverpool Echo

Inside the brutal gang war that led to a year of violence

The origins of the feud are murky, but the fallout has been vicious and tragic

Liverpool Echo

Paul O'Grady given Wirral's highest honour in tribute to 'one of our best'

There were also calls for Birkenhead Kennels to be moved to a new location to create “a real and lasting legacy" in memory

Daily Record

Savage street attack that sparked deadly chain of events caught on Ring doorbell

Two gang members launched a vicious ambush on a man cycling down a residential street in Wirral on December 23 last year.

The Independent UK

Elle Edwards – live: Connor Chapman jailed for Christmas Eve murder

Twenty-six year-old ‘innocent bystander’ suffered two fatal gun wounds outside pub in Wirral at Christmas

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