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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
George Morgan

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Wirral council votes to cut leisure centres libraries golf courses and more | History Defined

Woodchurch Leisure Centre, nine libraries, two golf courses and more are at risk after a crunch Wirral Council meeting tonight.

The full council meeting voted in favour of a £20m cuts plan which will see it pull funding for Brackenwood and Hoylake golf courses on April 1, as well as closing Wirral Tennis Centre for a 12-month period.

The budget will see the council withdraw funding for Woodchurch Leisure Centre and nine of its 24 libraries, after a period of several months in which local groups can bid to take them over on a community asset transfer scheme.

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