Fears have been raised that plans to repair and re-open Southport Pier could be "mothballed". The once-popular pier was closed in December 2022 on the advice of engineers after a period of extreme ...

Southport Pier: Councillor demands authorities 'dig in their pockets' and fund repairs after years of closure Posted: 13 March 2025 | Last updated: 13 March 2025 Sefton Council has been urged to ...

Marion Atkinson told a Sefton Council meeting on Thursday that the authority had made an expression of interest to the funding body for £10m to fix Southport Pier, but had been "politely" told it ...

From the back, there is a view of Southport Pier stretching into the sea. In May 2020, the Scarisbrick stopped accepting bookings. The street-level windows were covered with black sheeting ...

Failure to share basic facts about the Southport killer led to "dangerous fictions" which helped spark rioting, an independent watchdog has said. Jonathan Hall KC, the UK's independent reviewer of ...

These included the killing of the three girls at a dance class in Southport last year, the murder of James Bulger and several American high school massacres. Hours before the attack he watched a ...

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A police officer who escorted the bodies of two girls killed during the Southport stabbings to the morgue was brutally attacked by rioters just hours later. Sergeant Phillip Sinclair had been ...

Terror watchdog Jonathan Hall KC said the disinformation could have been ‘far more’ prejudicial to Axel Rudakubana’s trial than the true facts. The authorities ...