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The local weekly newspaper is the Wirral Globe and the online-only news website is Birkenhead News. The local radio station Heart Wirral is based in offices at the Pacific Road Arts Centre. In addition, there are five other local radio stations that transmit to Birkenhead: BBC Radio Merseyside , Radio City 96.7 , Greatest Hits Liverpool ...
Birkenhead News (Merseyside & Chester) [32] Wirral Globe; Wirral News (editions for Wallasey, Birkenhead, Hoylake & West Kirby, Heswall, Bromborough) (Defunct) Wisbech. Wisbech Standard; Wokingham. The Wokingham Paper; Wolverhampton Express and Star (covering the whole of the Black Country, this is the biggest-selling regional evening newspaper ...
HMS. Birkenhead. (1845) HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or Steam Frigate Birkenhead, [ 3] was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy. [ 4] She was designed as a steam frigate, but was converted to a troopship before being commissioned. [ 1]
Birkenhead Central Library [2] is one of twenty-four libraries (as of March 2011) forming the Wirral Library Service in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. [3] The library is located on Borough Road, Birkenhead .
Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd was a House of Lords case in English defamation law concerning qualified privilege for publication of defamatory statements in the public interest. The case provided the Reynolds defence , which could be raised where it was clear that the journalist had a duty to publish an allegation even if it turned out to be ...
The Mercurius Aulicus newspaper originated during the English Civil War from a suggestion by George Digby, a key advisor to King Charles I, that the Royalist faction needed a method for promoting their views in Parliament-held London. [ 1] As a result, the publication was established in January 1643 - it is variously termed either a newspaper ...
Birkenhead is a suburb of Auckland, in northern New Zealand. It is located on the North Shore of the Waitematā Harbour, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northwest of the Auckland City Centre. The area has been settled by Tāmaki Māori since at least the 14th century, and is the location of Te Matarae ō Mana, a fortified pā for Te Kawerau ā Maki that ...
Birkenhead was enfranchised in 1861 by the Appropriation of Seats (Sudbury and Saint Alban's) Act 1861 [6] as a single-member Parliamentary Borough.It was first contested at the 1865 general election and continued as a single-seat constituency until it was split between Birkenhead East and Birkenhead West under the terms of the Representation of the People Act 1918 which took effect for the ...