Pat Regan | OTS News - Southport

Ainsdale – Local businesses need our support

GRAYSONS, AINSDALE’S BRILLIANT BAKERY This Station Road bakery shop produces absolutely brilliant and highly original items. Jason Regan is an eager young photographer and the lad got a very pleasant surprise for

27th March 2016

Everyday is fun and games – but that is just how it should be

Everyday is fun and games – but that is just how it should be An open letter of thanks to ‘Zoe Zamora’, the anonymous Facebook troll who always materialises like clockwork, following

25th March 2016

World Down Syndrome Day

Monday 21 March 2016 marks the 11th anniversary of World Down Syndrome Day. One of the tests I had whilst pregnant some years ago, showed that our baby was probably going to

21st March 2016

Ted Hartill Set To Disappear From Local Politics

Amazing truth behind the traditional Tory spin Behind the traditional handshakes and cheesy grins Ainsdale’s troubled Tories are split right down the middle, again. The latest news is that Cllr Ted Hartill will

16th March 2016

Work started at the Brookdale Resource Centre

Work has finally begun today at the Brookdale Resource Centre to upgrade the car park area. Diggers arrived at approximately 8am. Work is expected to take up to one week to complete,

14th March 2016

Abusive Joy rider seen driving this wrecker around Formby Village today

Joy rider seen driving this wrecker around Formby Village today, Friday 11 March 2016. A witness said: “This beaten up Nissan Micra was being driven erratically around formby this afternoon. “The male

11th March 2016

Ainsdale’s Invisible Tories – It’s Official

Suggestions have been tabled that Ainsdale’s Tories are largely invisible to public needs a lot of the time, but is this just opinion or is it fact? We have seen how Cllr

8th March 2016

Is Southport Labour Party Seeking To Rewrite Local History Over Lost Hospital Services For Our Children?

SOUTHPORT LABOUR PARTY is putting out dubious data that mentions residents”bringing up” concerns about the lack of Children’s A&E at Southport Hospital … Well yes, this is nothing new and something that many have

7th March 2016

Ainsdale Conservatives – Reality behind the Spin

Tories rift – proven by their ‘own’ words How Ainsdale’s Tory Councillor, Terry Jones, disclosed his colleague’s desire for “mass publicity”and “self publicity” Woodvale Woodland Project (WWP) volunteers on many occasions had run the group ‘without’ Cllr Ted Hartill (who

2nd March 2016

WATCH: Southport Lifeboat crew save stranded vehicle by the Pier

Photo: Environment Agency vehicle stuck in the mud(3pm) This afternoon the Southport Lifeboat were in action saving an Environment Agency vehicle that was stuck in the mud this afternoon, Monday 29 February 2016. Bad news for the driver,

29th February 2016

UFO Reporter 51 Interviews Southport Author Pat Regan

UFO Reporter 51 Interviews Southport Author Pat Regan. 1. What first inspired you to start writing books? My primary method of self-expression used to be via painting. Later I discovered that the

24th February 2016

Our Airspace – Still Open To Unidentified Attack?

MoD: in 2009 they closed their defensive UFO hotline, meaning lots of potential threats to our airspace failed to ever be properly analysed and recorded. Nick Pope stated at that time: “From

23rd February 2016

Flowers for Brookdale Resource Centre

Above: Cath Regan (left) with some of those receiving flowers on the day at the Brookdale. Brookdale Resource Centre Day care service for older people with Alzheimer’s and Dementia Valentine’s Day may

20th February 2016

St. Valentine’s Day And The Organic Pagan Fertility Origins Behind This Contemporary Celebration

The early Church was highly skilled at transforming the native spiritual loyalties and traditions of the Pagan populace over to the new intolerant monotheistic credo. Elated Pagan spring festivities, relating to love

15th February 2016

Author, Pat Regan, spent a cold but pleasant hour on Southport’s Marine Lake with the camera

Southport’s Marine Lake is a great home to various wild birds such as swans, geese, gulls, coots, etc. Mute swan ‘cobs and pens’ were busy today and the following photos display some

14th February 2016

Woodvale Development Plan Falls Through – So What Next?

The long-awaited Sandbrook Way Development Plan has apparently collapsed, according to Southport press reports. This news has reportedly left both the town’s MP and Council frustrated at the lack of progress. The

12th February 2016

Rufford – Flooded Fields

‘February fill-dyke’ is a rural expression for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fill dykes or ditches. Heavy rain had adversely affected lands around the country. Rufford in Lancashire did not

7th February 2016

Kentucky Fried Giblets?

A Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) customer discovers a bird lung in his meal. Mr Nicholls, from Australia’s Gold Coast, had gone to KFC on his day off and ordered a three-piece box, containing two wings

5th February 2016

WATCH: Southport Author tackles his home grown world hottest chilies

Photo: Pat Regan tucks into the world hottest chilies. I grow chilies myself and speak as I find independently. This video below is of me having a bite at this fascinating variety, the Carolina

18th January 2016

THE CUBESAT PROJECT

By Pat Regan, Southport author and researcher The First satellite for UFO research. We intend to search low-Earth Orbit for any sign of a real UFO, or any space anomaly. Please

12th January 2016

Ainsdale Discovery Centre Car Park Flooded

Cars were having issues at the Ainsdale Discovery Centre as a large part of the car park was flooded out today, Friday January 8 2016. Some drivers tackled the water, yet others

8th January 2016

UFO Over Ainsdale in Southport

I was chatting with my wife whilst drinking tea in our Ainsdale home when we both saw a UFO streaking across the sky. Sadly, I was unable to take a photo or

6th January 2016

Last sunrise of 2015 over Woodvale’s troubled Woodlands

Vivid colours this morning as we see the last rising sun of the year, lighting up the wooded area in Ainsdale Southport. Sadly, the previously well-maintained Woodvale Woodland Project (WWP) outdoor class

31st December 2015

Sunken Craft at Scarisbrick after high winds

Bad news for an unlucky boat owner. Reasons for this sinking have been debated at some length on this Facebook thread by experienced boating enthusiasts. Pat Viner on facebook said: “Unfortunately this

30th December 2015

Sefton’s Scrooge Council leaves Ainsdale residents with over-flowing bins at Christmas

Residents left with no waste collection at Christmas, as promised! Residents in a Sandbrook Road area were dismayed to discover that bins and bottles etc have not been collected as promised

25th December 2015

Yuletide, Xmas, Christmas & The Winter Solstice

Charles Dickens unintentionally marked this merry time of the season exceedingly well in his classic tale, ‘A Christmas Carol’, which oddly enough was published on the ‘same’ day in mid-December that I find

19th December 2015

The ethnic cleansing of Southport – via authoritarian stealth

How they are killing off our Sandgrounder heritage Guns and bullets are not the ‘only’ way to cleanse an area of its native people. There are other, more clandestine, ways to eradicate

12th December 2015

A new Southport Cares site Started

We were there in 2003 when they took our Children’s A&E and Maternity services away from Southport and we are still here today in 2015 This is the latest CARES site, which is currently

6th December 2015

Timorous politicians and hollow promises – what good are they?

Here is a little refresher in case anyone missed the entertainment last time around. This was Sefton Tory Chief’s (Councillor Terry Jones) previous threat against a local family, who were apparently expected

5th December 2015

All over by Xmas Lads – Not on your nelly mate!

Before it kills the mantis likes to pray – sound familiar? Here we go again! So the ‘experts’ we trust to keep us safe have largely decided to wage a new war

3rd December 2015