A council plans to spend £1.5m upgrading a historic park which inspired other urban green spaces including New York's famous Central Park. Wirral Council hopes the revamp of Birkenhead Park will ...

Birkenhead's Park’s fire-damaged Swiss Bridge has reopened after a £20,000 project to restore it to its former glory. The bridge - a Grade II listed structure and an original feature of the park since ...

Plans are in motion for Wirral to become Liverpool’s Left Bank - like the bohemian Paris area - and at the same time Birkenhead Park is lined up to twin with Central Park in New York. Wirral’s ...

TWO parks in Wirral have installed wheelchair-accessible swings for the first time. The swings, at Birkenhead Park and Central Park in Liscard, were officially opened on May 29 by the Mayor of Wirral, ...

A brand new night time spectacular featuring fire, pyrotechnics and live performance will be coming to Birkenhead Park next month. The Witching Hour has been created by renowned theatre company ...

A giant globe is on display in a Wirral park. The artwork, known as Gaia, created by UK artist Luke Jerram, is on show at Birkenhead Park for three days. Measuring seven metres in diameter (23ft) it ...

Also this week: world-class music in schools, and making space for culture. By Tony Hall “The future is Birkenhead” was the slogan on a T-shirt for sale at Future Yard, an energising, enterprising ...