James Cave

A decision to grant planning permission to a contested housing development on Bankfield Lane has been deferred. Council planning officers had recommended that permission be granted to construct houses at the base

Sefton Council have moved to save their controversial town centre cycle lanes, as OTS News can exclusively reveal that the legal orders used to enable them expired over four months ago. Cycle

Demolition of the former Homebase unit on Kew Retail Park will begin next month, after years of legal challenges against a new Sainsbury’s ended unsuccessfully. Demolition of the Homebase unit, and construction

Network Rail and over a dozen rail operators are set to walk out on strike next week, which will see some services from Southport cancelled. Northern, who operate services to Manchester from

Former Southport MP John Pugh says that councillors have received “a flurry of complaints” regarding delays in distributing new or renewed taxi licences in Sefton. He says that “many taxi drivers have

The rate of recorded new coronavirus cases in Southport has sunk to its lowest point in 12 months. 50 to 60 patients a week are now being diagnosed with Covid-19 in the

Sefton Council has asked other local councils for assistance in dealing with a backlog of green bin collections. Internal paperwork issued by Halton Borough Council, and seen by OTS News, says that

Southport MP Damien Moore has published his strongest condemnation yet of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but again stopped short of directly calling for new leadership of the Conservatives. It was confirmed this

Damien Moore has said that he has expressed the “total disapproval of my constituents and I” to Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding social gatherings that occurred in 10 Downing Street during coronavirus

Killer Mitchell Quy, who murdered his partner Lynsey in 1998, has been denied parole for the third time. Following his recent parole hearing, the Parole Board has decided that there will be

Two Sefton councillors have left the Conservative Group this morning. Ainsdale’s Terry Jones and Cambridge’s Sinclair D’Albuquerque will form what they are calling “The Southport Councillor Group”. OTS News contacted both Cllr

Children’s services supplied by Sefton Council have been rated ‘inadequate’ in a scathing review published by Ofsted today, with the report finding: “both serious and widespread failures in core areas”. The assessment,

Following a sometimes dramatic but ultimately anti-climactic evening at Dunes Leisure Centre on Thursday, not a single Southport Sefton Council seat changed hands. Each one of the seven Southport seats up for

Ticket holders for planned UB40 and Comedy in the Park events this summer have been told they will not receive their money back, after the promoter announced it had closed down due

Trish Armstrong-Child, the chief executive of Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, is stepping down having accepted the role of chief executive at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The HSJ, a