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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Edward Barnes

Concerns over wellbeing of people living in one part of Merseyside

The health and wellbeing of people in Wirral hasn’t improved in ten years according to one councillor as she criticised a lack of progress by the local authority.

Councillors said there had been little progress from Wirral Council in tackling health inequalities in the area with another saying that if he went back in a Tardis to his childhood, he would see similar conditions in some neighbourhoods to today.

Conservative Cllr Cherry Povall, who represents Clatterbridge, praised a report on the council’s new health and wellbeing strategy as “in-depth” but added she found “it all a bit depressing.”

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