Just been told by my Son that "The Taj mahal" is well alight on King street...... Any one get a pic or is near there???

I've just been told about this too. They've closed King Street I'm told.

just been there, its the flat above the restaurant, police and fire there closed road off, i was told it was a explosion

Don't sound good, anyone local who can get some photos? Yep, im a nosey sod lol. But wiki is lightyears ahead of the proper news agencies when it comes to breaking news lol.

i can get pics but every pic i up load just shows up black

Gutted, cheers anyway, tis the thought that counts lol

the traffic is getting routed well away , but from Church St , you can see that the premises above , they are completely gutted . I really hope no one was in at the time because you would fear for their safety if you saw the state of the place.

Someone had been smoking in the flat upstairs, didnt put it out properly and it caught fire.

My nephew has just walked past and said the flat is charcoaled, its a right mess.

asked him if he had taken a pic on his phone by any chance, but he said he didnt as it could have been insensitive if somebody had died.

Wanted to get a pic myself but the road was blocked so there was too many cars being diverted and couldnt really stop. Dont think anyone has died tho as far as i know.

I was about and saw it - road totally closed but cba getting any pics.

i live down the road but my cameras memory card is broke and phone is incapable of photos in anything other than bright daylight

This is why the reporting of news should be left to the professionals. I know they (the media) are not perfect, but for a member of the public, who has possibly heard something fourth hand, to then publish it without it being backed up by ANY FACTS is dangerous at the very least.

This is not a personal dig at anyone in particular - I am just voicing my opinion.

I know someone who works there and that is what i was told.

It's simple you know, leave the comments to peeps that are grateful for are reports, and you go and buy the sun or somthink..

Sorry Jase, I agree with Bushnut. I thought Wiki didn't agree with posting gossip on the news page?

As it has been said many, many times before we are on street level were we get the news and photos well before any news paper so we leve it for a few days for it to come out in the news, if it don't then we remove it or edit it

Half the time, the media take their stories from rumours grown in someone's head, Chinese whispers, or even just plain fiction thought up by the article writer; it's certainly not unknown for a bystander to over-hear or be told directly, the story as to what happened and how it happened, and that it actually turns out to be true. Sometimes, the people on the ground know more than the police or the general media (take the Rhys Jones murderers for instance, people knew who they were, it had filtered through the local community before the plod had got to the lowlife ...-bags - and I'm not suggesting that names should have been posted in that instance as it could have led to unfounded revenge attacks etc, I'm merely using it as an example for the locals sometimes knowing more than the official channels).

Whilst there has to be a level of sensitivity applied, this has to be kept in context, and the internet (and wiki) are a place for open discussion, opinions and to a degree, a rumour-mill - without this, wiki would struggle to survive.

Firefighters tackle blaze above Indian restaurant in Wallasey



FIREFIGHTERS fought a blaze above an Indian restaurant.

Crews from Birkenhead and Wallasey were called to the scene of a fire in King Street, Wallasey, just after 6pm yesterday.

The fire began in a first-floor flat above the Tandoori Mahal restaurant.

Three crews managed to extinguish it before it spread through the building.

Firefighters remained at the scene last night as building inspectors were called in to see what could be salvaged.

King Street remained closed between Union Street and Tobin Street late into the evening


THE WIRRAL NEWS