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One of the teachers who helped organise the Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport that was attacked last year has described how she now lives in “constant fear and despair”, despite saving the life of one of the girls who had taken a wrong turn …
The collision is the latest in a run of bad luck for Southport Pier
12:29, 05 Sep 2025Updated 15:48, 05 Sep 2025
The damaged HGV on Marine Drive, near Southport Pier(Image: Eye On Southport)
A lorry has crashed into Southport Pier …
A fatal train crash described as one of Britain’s worst ever rail disasters is set to be memorialised 120 years on.On 27 July 1905, a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway express train from Liverpool to Southport was approaching Hall Road station, Blundell…
The Big Weekend is taking place in Sefton Park in south Liverpool
13:06, 21 May 2025
Sefton Park prepares to host Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival this weekend(Image: Iain Watts/Liverpool Echo)
The Radio 1 Big Weekend[1] is coming to…
Monday 3 Feb 2025
Footage released showing near miss at level crossing in Merseyside
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A safety warning has been issued to pedestrians to take extra care after a …
Latest Merseyrail delays
Chester line:
Due to flooding between Hooton and Capenhurst, train services will be terminated at and started back from Rock Ferry.
A rail replacement bus service is operating between Chester and Hooton, plus Chester and Rock F…
Steven Howarth, 68, was riding his Harley Davidson on the motorway close to junction 5 on September 8 last year, returning home to Haslingden after having a meal with friends in Southport.
He was travelling on the inside lane when the side of his bike …
Gary Toomey
Gary Toomey (Image: Merseyside Police)
A passenger who pulled the hand brake of a car causing a fatal crash on the M62 has been jailed.
Gary Toomey, 37, and his former partner Victoria Bell were travelling down a stretch of the motorway at …
Hampshire police say that two groups of people gathered at Kettering Close close to the end of the M275 motorway on Wednesday evening and some of the protesters attempted to block the northbound carriageway.
Police released some images of people they’…
Sir Keir Starmer has told the police they have ministers’ full backing to take “all necessary action to keep our streets safe” from “thugs” who “sow hate” as violent protests erupted across the UK following the stabbing of three girls in Southport.
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