Wirral Council is hitting its target on tree planting, despite an officer saying otherwise last week. The authority has set itself the goal of planting over 210,000 trees by 2030.

Wirral Council is set to comprehensively miss its tree planting target for this season. The authority has a target to plant 200,000 trees in 10 years, a rate of 20,000 per year. Article continues ...

THE DEADLINE for schools, sports clubs and community groups in Merseyside to take advantage of the Woodland Trust’s free trees giveaway is approaching. The woodland conservation charity has ...

A council has been fined £100,000 for failures which saw a tree branch fall and strike a pregnant woman, leading to the death of her baby daughter. The branch smashed through the windscreen of ...

A council has been ordered to pay out £150,000 after a tree branch fell on a pregnant drive's car - killing her unborn baby. Wirral Borough Council, in Merseyside, has been slammed for a raft of ...

Wirral Borough Council failed to identify and manage the risks from falling trees and branches, and failed to implement a robust system of inspection of trees despite a similar incident occurring ...