Wirral's independent local news website At some point between 12.15-12.30am on Sunday it was reported that a man aged in his 50s had been punched and kicked to the head in NYX Sports and Grill Bar The victim self-presented at hospital and was treated for a fracture to the right side of his temple and a serious eye injury enquiries have been ongoing to locate the suspect and police are now releasing CCTV images of a man who could have information “This was a nasty and unprovoked assault on a man who suffered serious head injuries as a result of the attack “We hope the man pictured in these CCTV images can come forward to assist with our enquiries or that others may recognise him and provide this information to the police We believe he could hold information that could be vital to our continuing enquiries “We also encourage people to come forward if you know anything about the incident which will help with our investigation.” you can contact Merseyside Police on social media @MerPolCC or call 101 quoting reference number 25000249206 You can also anonymously contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 class=”has-medium-font-size”> Email us at news@birkenhead.news It was reported a house on Quarry Road East was broken into at some point between Tuesday The victim was on holiday at the time when valuable jewellery was stolen In particular a bespoke solid silver bangle featuring gold If you have any information about this incident or you are aware of jewellery of this description being sold Detective Inspector Kevin O’Rourke of Merseyside Police’s burglary team “Being a victim of burglary can have a massive impact on victims People have every right to feel safe in their own home and for this person who was on holiday to arrive back to having that feeling of safety shattered in this way is an awful experience to go through “We are determined to keep reducing offences and the harm this causes across Merseyside which has been helping reduce burglary offences in our region since its launch in 2019 burglary offences decreased by more than 22% in Merseyside compared to 2023 and we encourage people to keep reporting burglaries to us because it allows us to focus our resources in the right areas “By reporting offences and information and if possible supplying CCTV footage we can continue to pursue offenders and put them before the courts “We encourage people to come forward if you know anything about suspected burglary and the sale of stolen goods where you are “We will continue to work proactively with communities and our partners to keep this progress going.” You can pass information via the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 Elton John“ – harking back to their huge international hit of Summer ’76 the divine Ms Dee is into her 62nd year as a top-flight performer 2025 started well for her as she and musical partner have been invited to open for Motown legend Smokey Robinson on his UK tour this Summer Kiki herself dipped a toe into the Motown milieu way back recording an album at the legendary Detroit studio in 1970 they make a welcome return to Wirral at Heswall Royal British Legion The Heswall audience will get tracks from the recent album The Long Ride Home along with a sprinkling of songs by Kate Bush “We go all over the place musically”—and she means it including all those much-loved Kiki hits are in there too—songs that two generations grew up with Kiki is still winning over audiences – after one recent gig a well-known music journalist wrote “…it’s time to recognise the lovely Kiki as a national treasure and seek her out at the earliest opportunity.” Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri will be at Heswall Royal British Legion on Sunday, 4 May. Tickets: https://www.kikiandcarmelo.com/ The 17-year-old man was discovered outside the Harry Beswick pub on Telegraph Road in Heswall and taken to hospital for treatment for a serious injury which is not thought to be life threatening it is believed two men then ran off towards the Devon Doorway pub Merseyside Police has now begun an investigation with CCTV and forensic enquiries being carried out in the surrounding area Detective Inspector Peter Rexwinkel said: “We are in the early stages of the investigation to establish the circumstances of what has taken place "I would appeal to anyone who was in the vicinity of the Harry Beswick pub and Marks & Spencer on Telegraph Road and had seen or heard anything "I also urge people in the area to check your CCTV and dashcam footage to see if it has captured any footage as any information may help with the investigation.” Anyone with information is asked to DM @MerPolCC or @CrimestoppersUK on 0800 555 111 quoting reference 24001081798 Wirral: Residents call their heath ‘the dales’ I wonder what my great grandma would have seen A lifetime of high rainfall and acid conditions had forged a soil ideal for the habitat I sought: heathland I was visiting a habitat of some rarity and sensitivity Heswall residents call their heath “the dales” My mother’s tales of “crossing the dales” with her siblings always hinted romantically of exciting derring-do late-summer day could I be walking in great-grandma’s footsteps from a century ago Would she have witnessed a twin landscape to that laid out before me She could not have known how heathlands would succumb to the challenges of urbanisation afforestation and agricultural intensification Many of the houses now bordering this landscape did not exist in her day ‘Could I be walking in great grandma’s footsteps from a century ago?’ Photograph: Jennifer JonesBirch leaves drifted on the path I paused to look beyond the heath’s boundary to the nearby River Dee and beyond to Wales Trees wafted gently and rhythmically: arboreal respiration Birdlife was surprisingly quiet apart from a robin practising its newly acquired autumnal voice The climate crisis, with its potential for higher temperatures and more frequent droughts, will leave the dales prone to fires. The Friends of Heswall Dales care for the site Time’s arrow touched my visit: the deep time of soil development Country diary is on Twitter/X at @gdncountrydiary Under the Changing Skies: The Best of the Guardian’s Country Diary, 2018-2024 (Guardian Faber) is published on 26 September; pre-order now at the guardianbookshop.com and get a 20% discount insight and opinion from the world of restaurants 08-Jan-2025 Last updated on 08-Jan-2025 at 17:14 GMT In a post on X the chef and restaurateur said the restaurant was now closed as the 10-year lease had come to an end and he wasn’t going to renew it but the honest truth is that I’ve never been able to make it work here,” Usher says in a video post “I’ve been honest about how difficult the Government have made it over the last few years but ultimately I’ve never been able to make it work here so the best business decision for us is to close.” Usher says that all the restaurant’s bills have been paid rent and VAT and that people who have unused vouchers can either redeem them at Elite Bistros’ other venues A number of staff have been made redundant as a result of the closure “It feels like it has been tied up as well as a restaurant business can be,” he says Burnt Truffle was the first restaurant in the UK to be funded by a non-investment crowdfund and created a blueprint for Usher to open a number of other venues within his Elite Bistros company “We still love Burnt Truffle,” he said. “If it’s not to be it’s not to be and we will never give up, but if people don’t come it obviously doesn’t work. “Appreciate this looks desperate and perhaps a bit needy, but we just aren’t getting enough people in to cover the costs of being open. Discussing the closure, Usher adds: “It’s a sad day, it really is. “What does it mean for the business going forward? We carry on. We keep trying and we keep innovating to get through these tough times, and that’s it really. “We’ve loved being is Heswall, we’ve loved being in Burnt Truffe, but that’s the end.” Sticky Walnut has gone from an unknown Chester bistro to a northern sensation in a couple of years with a string of accolades under its belt. On the eve of the opening of a second site, Burnt Truffle, owner Gary Usher talks to Restaurant magazine's... 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there were few women and this award celebrates all their achievements too Lady Arden of Heswall became a Justice of the Supreme Court in October 2018 she read law at Girton College and then went onto study at Harvard Law School she became a Queen's Counsel in 1986 and served as Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1991 and 1993 She served on the Court of Appeal of England and Wales from 2000 to 2018 Her judicial career began in 1993 when she was appointed to the High Court of Justice of England and Wales as the first woman judge assigned to the Chancery Division Lady Arden has written extensively on how the law keeps pace with social change Her two-volume book Shaping Tomorrow's Law was published in 2015 It drew strongly on her knowledge of law reform which she began to develop while serving as Chairman of the Law Commission of England and Wales from 1996 to 1999 Head of International Judicial Relations for England and Wales She organised bilateral exchanges between the senior Judiciary of the UK and the judiciaries of leading national and supranational courts overseas She became a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in 2011 and is an ad hoc UK judge of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg Shedkm worked closely with The Parish of Heswall to replace the old church and parish hall on Telegraph Road creating a fresh connection with the surroundings and reflecting the church’s welcoming spirit The space is designed to host various events Its new design incorporates a straightforward pitched structure influenced by traditional ecclesiastical forms with a central worship area lit by clerestory windows Shedkm Associate Darren Jones—project architect on Lighthouse Church—featured on BBC Merseyside speaking about the project “We are absolutely thrilled that Lighthouse Church has been shortlisted for a RIBA North West Award “This is a really special project and one that grew out of detailed conversations with church members—experiencing first-hand their ethos of hospitality and community service hearing their vision of being at the heart of the community and translating that into a building which engages with the high street and invites people in it has been a delight to see the transformational impact the building has had on the church and the wider community already.” RIBA North West Jury Chair Dominic Wilkinson Principal Lecturer Liverpool John Moores University “This year’s shortlist demonstrates the region’s ongoing ambition to create high-quality architecture with a strong selection of projects across a range of scales Public buildings are well represented with a commitment to excellence which offers hope for the civic realm “From small houses to large events venues and from new builds to creative adaptation of historic structures the shortlisted projects highlight a serious commitment to minimising carbon footprints and reducing the environmental impact of the construction sector displaying the positive role architecture plays for both clients and the wider community.” The RIBA North West Awards celebrate outstanding architectural achievements in the region with the 2025 shortlist featuring seven projects All projects shortlisted for RIBA Awards will be visited by a regional jury and the winning projects will be announced later this spring The winners will then be considered for several RIBA Special Awards including the RIBA Sustainability Award and RIBA Building of the Year before being considered for a highly coveted RIBA National Award This shortlisting follows the project’s earlier accolade of ‘Best New Build Project’ at the 2023 Merseyside Civic Design Awards An image of the phallic representations was first shared on a community Facebook group for Heswall earlier this week The LDRS was able to geolocate the image to Castle Drive near its junction with Feather Lane some people have found the drawings to be amusing  – comparing them to the famous Cerne Abbas Giant One commenter compared the graffiti to the work of ‘W**ksy’ a professional artist and surveyor who launched a campaign against potholes in Manchester by drawing images of male appendages around them others defended the drawings and those behind them I’m sure all lads did the same […] it’s bloody stupid Being a kid is way more amusing than being an adult They probably had a laugh doing it and have gone home.” I’d have been furious with them and incredibly disappointed that they were so lacking in awareness.” which manages the 737 miles of road in Wirral It will also remove racist or offensive graffiti from most private property as well as most graffiti if it can be seen from the road The local authority was approached by the LDRS for comment who directed it towards its graffiti reporting page “We will aim to remove racist or offensive graffiti within 24 hours of it being reported (Monday to Friday) If the graffiti cannot be removed straight away we will try to cover it until it can be removed “We will aim to remove all other graffiti within 15 working days.” Information on graffiti removal can be found here Image: GOOGLE  and closer to the River Dee than the Mersey the Lighthouse Church can be found on Telegraph Road in the heart of Heswall Sat between a kebab-pizza shop and a micro-brewery pub the site of the previous church – the Church of the Good Shepherd – and Parish Hall both of which were demolished in November 2021 to make way for their replacement the original church was suffering from a number of expensive structural problems while the older Parish Hall was also falling into disrepair and becoming less suitable for the church’s programming needs The new Lighthouse Church is defined by an extensively glazed façade part of an attempt to improve the church’s street presence being a more visually porous than its predecessor and alluding to the church’s wide range of outreach and community events that take place inside pitched volume and occupying the whole plot eventually backing onto the road behind (Pye Road) The building’s form is intentionally simplistic geared to be easily adaptable and able to accommodate the broad range of activities carried out by the Church Worship takes place at the heart of the building open volume being naturally lit by clerestory glazing with these spaces being delineated by objects containing flexible meeting spaces that can be opened up if necessary to extend either area these smaller spaces serve as thresholds to the main place of worship at the centre of the building allowing the Telegraph Road-facing façade to broadcast is to ‘de-cellularise’ a conventional layout of church rooms served by corridors and provide a more flexible and efficient ‘without walls’ arrangement of spaces that flow seamlessly within and provide flexibility to host a diverse range of different activities and groups “At the heart of our design approach was an emphasis on embracing the church’s established ethos of welcome and hospitality but making this much more visible,” said Darren Jones “The name and branding of Lighthouse Church reflect the church’s ethos and the idea of the building as a physical and metaphorical beacon in the community highlighted by the glowing outward-facing elevations that contrast with the previous impermeable walls.” © Built Environment and Architecture Media Ltd 2025 We use cookies and other tracking technologies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website analyse your use of our products and services assist with our promotional and marketing efforts These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies but some parts of the site may not work then These cookies allow the provision of enhance functionality and personalisation They may be set by us or by 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security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page by | Tuesday, 26 November, 2024 | Pubs and Bars News The pub has been awarded the Heswall Society Outstanding Building Award The award recognises the brewery’s commitment to preserving and revitalising a historic building that has been an integral part of Heswall for generations The Harry Beswick is named after its local architect known for his Edwardian designs of public buildings The award celebrates outstanding achievements in sensitive architectural design and preservation of heritage sites in the Heswall area “The Harry Beswick is a shining example of how heritage sites can evolve to meet contemporary needs while respecting their original features,” said Dr Steve Anderson “This award serves as a reminder of the importance of safeguarding historic structures and encouraging their transformation into vibrant spaces that continue to serve the community projects like this inspire future generations to engage with and cherish the architectural heritage around them.” said: “The Harry Beswick was our first new opening for five years and it has most definitely been worth the wait and the investment “We set out to deliver a memorable experience for customers with a quality and feel that is aligned to its former life as a police station combined with a premium dining and drinking offering To receive this accolade for our work with the building shows our commitment to the local communities we are a part of.” Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below The 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