How can we take pride in the area if the council can't do the basics?

RESIDENTS AND COUNCILLORS ANGRY AND DISMAYED AT OVERGROWN ALLEYS

- By EDWARD BARNES

A WOMAN fears the overgrown weeds in the alleyway behind her home could attract rats.

Alison Buckley has been trying to get Wirral Council to clear the entry, with no luck so far.

At a full council meeting on October 13, Oxton councillor Allan Brame raised concerns about the council's weed control contract. He said alleyways in the borough were supposed to be cleared three times a year but "it seems to me there has been no attempt to deal with weeds in several alleyways in Oxton".

He said he'd reported alleyways off Gorsefield Road, Singleton Avenue, Woodchurch Road, Enfield Terrace, Balfour Road, and Bentley Road at least once already this year and asked for answers about why nothing had been done.