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Miss W M Wirral Focus? All models courtesy of Frame Modelling and Casting Agency.
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Welcome Back Wirral! Hi Wirral, Feeling festive? Think it’s too far away? It’s never to early to plan those great nights out with friends and family! Our new dedicated Food and Drink section will give you plenty of choices for places to eat out in Wirral. Check it out! We are also very happy to announce our first Miss Wirral Focus competition held in partnership with Modelling and Casting Agency Frame. We know that Wirral is full of amazing candidates so please enter this great competition - and don’t forget to download our beauty vouchers to get yourselves ready for the sign up day on 27th October! Gill Stock - Editor
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FEATURES Could you be our next Miss Wirral Focus? 2 Enter our fantastic competition with Modelling and Casting Agency Frame.
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Spotlight on a Business - Olive Grove
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Recipe from Focus
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Mouth watering flavours from Focus.
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Mallory's body was subsequently found in 1999, but Irvine's body has never been found.
On the 8th June 1924 expedition member Noel Odell reported seeing them at 12:50 pm ascending one of the major “steps” on the ridge and “going strongly for the top”. The pair were sighted only a few hundred metres from the summit. That was the last time they were seen alive.
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