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Christmas Day on the Wirral from £57.99 at the Kings Arms to £125 at Thornton Hall: 11 pubs and restaurants with 2026 prices, deposits and booking rules.
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West Kirby
West Kirby Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near West Kirby
West Kirby roadworks: Grange Old Road (notice of 28 Oct) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the council's notice linked.
Family
Days Out Near Wirral With Children, Checked October 2026
Eureka! from £16.95, Port Sunlight Museum £5.50 a child, Ness Gardens £4.50, free farm and priory: 12 days out on and near the Wirral, with winter hours.
Youth Justice
Wirral Youth Justice Service Wins North West IMPACT Award
Wirral's Youth Justice Service has won a North West IMPACT Award for its Child First work. Fewer Wirral children enter the system than across Merseyside.
Food & Drink
Wirral Cafes and Coffee Shops: Where to Go
Caffe Cream, Benty Farm, Claremont Farm and Port Sunlight's Tudor Rose lead 12 Wirral cafes, with hours, dog rules and hygiene ratings checked October 2026.
Food & Drink
Brunch in Wirral: The Best Breakfast and Brunch Spots
Brunch on the Wirral at Aubergine, Hickory's, Beau's Kitchen and Klais: 8 menus with prices, serving times, dog rules and hygiene ratings, checked October 2026.
Food & Drink
Afternoon Tea in Wirral: Where to Book, Checked October 2026
Afternoon tea on the Wirral from £16.95 in Wallasey Village to Hillbark and Thornton Hall: 7 places with prices, times, booking rules and hygiene ratings.
Family
Soft Play and Rainy-Day Places on the Wirral
Bubbles in New Brighton £8.50 off-peak, Bidston's soft play £4 on weekdays, Jumpin Josephs £5 tots: Wirral soft play and five rainy-day trips, with hours.
Parks
Wirral Playgrounds and Parks for Children
Birkenhead Park, Arrowe Park's £113,000 rebuild and Central Park's pump track lead 18 Wirral playgrounds, with cafes, toilets and parking checked October 2026.
Walks
Walks Near Wirral: Circular Routes, Parks and Riversides
Hilbre at low tide, the 12-mile Wirral Way and Bidston Hill lead 11 Wirral walks, with tide rules, parking, toilets and cafes checked October 2026.
Food & Drink
Sunday Roast in Wirral: Where to Book, Checked October 2026
Sunday roast on the Wirral from £14.99 at the Magazine to £60 a head at Hillbark: 10 menus with prices, serving times and dog rules, checked October 2026.
Planning
Wirral Planning Call-Ins End 31 Oct as Council Protests
Wirral Council voted unanimously on 28 October to protest the end of planning call-ins on 31 October, and asked for HMO rules to be reviewed. What changes.
Wallasey
Wirral Bin Lorries Named Scrappy Happy and Binny McBinface
Weatherhead High School in Wallasey won the contest to name Wirral's 15 new food waste lorries. All 15 names, and what happens to your food scraps.
Wirral is one of the few places round here where the council’s name and the name people use are the same word. It is a peninsula with the Mersey on one side and the Dee on the other, and residents say they are from Wirral rather than from the borough or the county.
The two coasts are not alike. West Kirby, Hoylake, Meols, Caldy, Heswall and Thurstaston look across the Dee to Wales. Birkenhead, Wallasey, New Brighton, Bebington, Bromborough and Port Sunlight face Liverpool and the docks. One council decides planning, bins, parking and licensing for all of it, and publishes the evidence where hardly anyone reads it. We read it and report what is in it, linking to the document each time.
Every fact carries a link to the document it came from.