Wirral

British  

/ ˈwɪrəl /

noun

1. a peninsula in NW England between the estuaries of the Rivers Mersey and Dee

2. a unitary authority in NW England, in Merseyside. Pop: 313 800 (2003 est). Area: 158 sq km (61 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

But mother-of-five Sue Peacock, from Wirral, on Merseyside, said she was left worried for her life after becoming seriously unwell.

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Olly, who is the fifth generation of his family to farm on the site, said after the closure of a fertiliser factory in nearby Wirral about three years ago he had become "completely at the mercy of imported fertiliser just to grow crops".

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Liam Phelan, head of operations at Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, said the Royal Iris is estimated to have carried more than 17 million people since 1960 between Liverpool and Wirral.

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Peter Sullivan spent 38 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing florist Diane Sindall, 21, in Wirral, Merseyside, in 1986.

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Nelson Shardey, from Wallasey in Wirral, has lived in Britain since arriving as a student from Ghana in 1977, but in 2019 he was told he had no right to live in the UK.

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