All local authorities in England have duties regarding local air quality management and must regularly review and assess air quality to determine whether objectives are likely to be achieved.

The Cool Wirral Climate Awards were staged at Start Yard, Birkenhead last Thursday, honouring inspiring climate action across the borough.

Your Local Recycling Centres at Bidston, Clatterbridge and West Kirby are now operating on their winter opening hours.

Wirral Council is working closely in partnership with other councils across the Liverpool City Region (LCR), as well as Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority (MRWA), to introduce new weekly food waste collections to much of the region.

The legal consultation process for repealing little-known local byelaws on one of the borough’s most-loved coastal paths, is coming to an end shortly.

Students from a Wirral secondary school have provided artwork for an eye-catching exhibition in Liverpool that closes this weekend.

‘Tree City of the World’ status is global recognition from an organisation called the Arbor Day Foundation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations given to cities and areas around the world that are demonstrating leadership in managing their urban trees.

The Grange/Conway Street multi storey car park will be closed temporarily while works are carried out to improve the entrance.

No fewer than 37 Green Flag awards were awarded to Wirral parks this year – more than any other authority in the North West.

Since June, more than 7,000 households across the borough have been supporting the council and waste management partners in trialling a new collection method which aims to recycle a range of soft plastic packaging items that aren’t able to be collected under the current recycling method.

The process to extend the scheme follows a successful implementation of ANPR technology at Greenleas in Wallasey – which was, coincidentally, the very first School Streets scheme in Wirral.

Smoke controls will now be implemented in the only areas of the borough that weren’t previously subject to restrictions. This includes areas such as Brimstage, Storeton, Thornton Hough and Raby.