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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.
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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.
New Brighton
Wirral Tourism Awards 2026: 8 Shortlisted, Winners in February
Eight Wirral names are on the 2026 Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards shortlist, from the Floral Pavilion to the Red Fox. The full Wirral list and when winners are named.
Birkenhead
Birkenhead Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Birkenhead
Birkenhead roadworks: Snowdon Road (now, until 30 Oct) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the council's notice linked.
Birkenhead
Birkenhead Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Birkenhead weather today: light drizzle, 15°C by day and 10°C overnight, with a 0% chance of rain and winds up to 9 mph.
Birkenhead
Birkenhead Town of Culture 2028: Have Your Say by 28 Oct
Birkenhead's UK Town of Culture 2028 bid wants residents' ideas: a five-minute survey is open until 28 October. The £3m title is decided by 31 March 2027.
Schools
Birkenhead Park School Makes Educate Awards Final Three
One of three schools shortlisted for Most Inspirational Secondary School in the North West's Educate Awards; the winner is named on 13 November.
Christmas
Winter Wonderland Wirral: Birkenhead Park, 9-13 Dec, £7
Winter Wonderland Wirral is in Birkenhead Park 9 to 13 December: £7 a person with the booking fee, under-1s free, plus a Wednesday quiet session.
Wirral
Paul O'Grady Exhibition, Birkenhead: Free From 11 December
The Paul O'Grady Story opens at the Williamson Art Gallery on 11 December and runs to 31 December 2027. Entry is free; timed tickets are on sale to 31 March.
Transport
Royal Daffodil: When Wirral Can Ride the New Mersey Ferry
The £26m Royal Daffodil, built in Birkenhead, sailed on 22 September. Its first public cruise is Saturday by ballot, with passenger service later this autumn.
Birkenhead
Birkenhead Market: £3.922m Build Contract Signed Off
Wirral Council has awarded Krol Corlett the £3.922m main contract to fit out TJ Hughes as the new Birkenhead Market, with a 25 February 2027 opening and £15,000-a-week late penalties.
Schools
Birkenhead Park School Ofsted: Absence Halved to 16.8%
Persistent absence fell from 41.5% to 16.8% and GCSE passes nearly doubled, in the Ofsted report published 8 September. Three areas graded strong.
Wirral
Wirral Remembrance Sunday 8 Nov: Port Sunlight Parade Times
Port Sunlight's Remembrance parade forms at 10.30am on Sunday 8 November for a 10.45am act of Remembrance. The council's 2026 service list is still to come.
Wirral
Wirral Christmas Markets: Birkenhead 7 Nov and 5 Dec, Free
Birkenhead Market's free craft markets: Saturday 7 November 10am to 4pm, Saturday 5 December 10am to 5pm. Winter Wonderland's alpine market opens 9 December.
Education
Wirral Met's £4m Birkenhead Build Opens in September
A new Maths and English Centre at Wirral Met's Twelve Quays campus is finished and takes students in September. The NEXUS Engineering Hub follows in October.
Birkenhead
Grange Road West: one-way stays, planters and orange road go
Wirral Council will keep the one-way system on Grange Road West in Birkenhead but remove the orange surfacing, planters and benches and bring back parking. Removal starts within a fortnight.