Submit News Contact us with your community, business or sport news.
Email: ots@otsnews.co.uk
Breaking local news as it happens, searchable archives with photographs, the ability to instantly comment on news articles – there are so many advantages to OTS (Onthespot) News.
If you want your news read locally online then send it to ots@otsnews.co.uk– relying only on the newspaper is to restrict yourself to an ever reducing audience.
Have you ever wanted to sail or charter a boat abroad but don’t know where to start? Then set a course to Greenbank High School on Hastings Road in Southport this September
Zoe Fubara Merseyside Police are appealing for information to help trace a missing 10-year-old girl from the Liverpool city centre area. Zoe Fubara was last seen at around 7am today, Thursday, 30
One child in every primary school class has been sent a sexual image by an adult, major NSPCC study finds. One in 25 children aged seven to 11 told researchers an adult
Popular Southport BID Ambassador is Unversity Bound Southport BID Ambassador Max has decided to go back to University this September and will no longer be part of the team. The BID directors
Can you help find Adam Seaton – missing from his home in Southport for over 3 weeks? Merseyside Police are continuing to appeal for help in tracing 20 year-old Adam Seaton who
Angry Southport shoppers hit back at another town centre business meltdown. Angry shoppers have hit out at Sefton Council after finding out Thornton’s is to close on Chapel Street. Sefton’s high rates
Police have closed off part of Duke Street near to the George Pub after a collision this evening. Fire crews and paramedics were called to the junction of Duke Street and Cemetery
Residents fed up of complaints about potholes and sink holes say they should go back to the good old days and fill them with rubbish. One scooter driving nostalgic Southport resident told
SOUTHPORT residents urged to act on neighbours’ smoke alarms Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service (MFRS) is encouraging local residents to take action if they hear a neighbour’s smoke alarm and call 999
Works are due to start to remove two dying trees from Chapel Lane in Formby. The unavoidable works are to be carried out in order to ensure public safety as both trees
Petition to STOP council from removing formby trees Sefton Council wish to remove 2 mature Horse Chestnut trees from Formby Village. Formby Parish Council commissioned a tree survey by an expert Aboriculturalist
It was good to read about how Merseyside police arrested 250 people for drink and drug driving offences during a summer crackdown. Thank you Chief Inspector Diane Pown- all for highlighting these
Officers from the Southport Local Policing Team have responded to graffiti found in Hesketh Park and at two bus stops on Roe Lane that OTS News reported over the weekend. The graffiti
Ince Bundell Village Hall Hosts FREE Family Fun Day For Macmillan A free family fun day with live music, barbecue and classic cars will be held at Ince Blundell Village Hall this
Do you have a question for Southport FC director Phil Hodgkinson? On Saturday evening after the Spennymoor Town home fixture, Director Phil Hodgkinson will give an update via an interview to supporters
Sefton Council is inviting residents and groups to share their favourite places to promote positive mental wellbeing as part of its 30 Days of Sefton in Mind campaign. We want to know
‘A new chapter’ as Southport’s Jack Rodwell looks to kickstart his career By Rich Sharpe @richsharpe89 Rovers Reporter For someone who has played just three competitive matches in 15 months, there has been
Popular & Creative Jobs In London 2018 Are you tired of working the same, boring, menial, and just plain bad jobs? Do you hate being stuck at a desk all day long
Union bosses have added three more strike days on Northern Rail over the long-running dispute over the plans to bring in driver-only trains, which means there will be disruption for travellers for
Asian community shocked by Hesketh Park hate messages. Horrific racist graffiti has been strewn across trees and bins in Hesketh Park. On the eve of the parks 150th anniversary racist slurs were
Horse Chestnut Trees to be chopped in Formby Village and Parish Councillor says it is simply an act of public vandalism! Sefton Council wish to remove two mature Horse Chestnut trees from Formby Village.
Safety improvements to a busy Formby junction have been given the go-ahead after a campaign from Labour councillors and the town’s MP. Cllrs Nina Killen and Catie Page, and MP Bill Esterson,
A cancer charity was bowled over when a sports club helped raise £800. Southport Flat Green Bowling Club member, Derek Maxwell, from Marshside, organised the fundraiser, which was open to members and
Excitement grows for Sefton’s 2018 Allotment Excitement is growing for Green Sefton’s Allotment Fortnight celebrations 2018! For the second year running Green Sefton, the Local Authority’s team who look after parks, greenspaces
PREVIEW | Alfreton Town V Southport The games come thick and fast for Southport this Bank Holiday with Alfreton Town being the next test as the club look for their second win
A volunteer from southport has raised more than £300 for charitu by completing a 100 mile cycle – for the second time! Martyn Eggleton took on the Prudential Ride London-Surrey 100 cycling
Merseyside police appeal to locate Wanted man Merseyside Police is appealing for the public’s help to trace a 31-year-old man from Slovakia who is wanted on a European Arrest Warrant. Marek Horvath
Police are appealing for information following a road traffic collision in Southport on 17th August, the Friday of the Southport Flower Show. At around 11:45am, a call was received of a collision
Cruel electric shock collars for pets to be banned Cruel electronic training collars which are used for dogs and cats are to be banned under new legislation, the Government has announced today.