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People in the Wirral area are being offered a cash boost to help them save more as part of a new credit union initiative in partnership with Stop…

FOUR more family hubs will be opening in Wirral this month.

Fifty local community groups will be supporting families with food and essentials over Christmas and beyond after receiving a share of more than…

Wallasey Town Hall, where Wirral Council meets in normal times Labour is battling to take back control of Wirral Council, but one seat could stop the party in its tracks. In 2019, Labour lost seats to the Conservatives and the Green Party and saw its majority on Wirral Council disappear. The Labour Party currently has 32 of Wirral’s 66 councillors, meaning two gains would see the party regain its majority on the council. However, to do this it will need to hold on to a number of margi...

More organisations join Wirral’s emergency food hub AN emergency food hubs efforts to ensure vulnerable people across Wirral are not going hungry during lockdown have been bolstered by support from organisations who have joined to help out. Within days of the latest national lockdown being announced, Wirral Council and Wirral Foodbank joined forces to get the borough’s Emergency Food Hub up-and-running again, with more than 350 food boxes delivered to local people in need i...

Primary School halls are being used in Wirral to hold stocks of food hampers that are being distributed across the borough. Photo: Wirral Council More than 8,000 hampers of food and 9,000 activity packs are being delivered to families in need of support across Wirral. The community backed effort, is being made possible after Wirral Council secured more than £1.2 million from the Government’s Covid Winter Grant Scheme. More than £385,000 is being dedicated to helping support families a...