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The PCC is today marking bringing £4m of new funding into the region to help cut crime and provide greater support for vulnerable victims. Emily Spurrell has secured all the additional investment

A train driver who was using WhatsApp less than thirty seconds before he crashed his train at nearly three times the speed limit has been convicted, following a British Transport Police investigation.

Police are welcoming the sentencing of a teenager following a stabbing in Southport in August 2021. On Monday 23 August at around 1.40am, police received a report of an altercation on Scarisbrick

Rumours are swirling on social media that two thieves wielding a ‘pickaxe’ broke into a town centre Petrol station overnight. Detectives have confirmed that the Morrisons Petrol station adjacent to Rotten Row

A furious father is appealing for help to convict a group of thugs who assaulted his son. Richard Hamilton said his son was hurt by a group of four youths at Southport

Following the tragic deaths of two women in Liverpool, Merseyside’s Police Commissioner Emily Spurrell has said “It is absolutely devastating to hear the news this morning of two lives lost in our

A man has been arrested and a vehicle following a car theft in Southport today. At around 12.30am on Friday 12 November, Merseyside Police received a report that a man was acting

Forensics units have been called to a Southport hotel following an alleged sexual assault involving a child. Two teams of specialist scientific forensics officers from Merseyside Police, along with detectives, were called

A 34 year old Southport man was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday 26th October, by Officers on patrol in Birkdale. He was arrested on suspicion of vehicle interference, after a

Officers from Merseyside Rural, wildlife and heritage team have rescued 25 dogs from a house in Southport over the weekend. At around 11am on 3pm on Friday 22nd October officers carried out

Police have today welcomed the sentencing of a Formby man for sex offences. Paul Shields, 45, of Beechwood Drive, Formby, was jailed today at Liverpool Crown Court for 21 years after being

A Southport man has been arrested by Welsh police during a crackdown on ‘pop-up’ brothels in the south of the country. Stephen Norton, 51, from Southport appeared before Blackpool Magistrates Court on

Officers investigating a sexual assault on board a train from Liverpool Lime Street to Blackpool are today releasing this CCTV image in connection. On 29 August at around 7.30pm, a woman was

A lung cancer patient enjoying an evening out in Southport Town Centre became the victim of a mugging. Linda Johnson says her son, who has not been named, would like to publicly

Police have introduced a Dispersal Zone in Formby today (Friday 24 September) in response to continued reports of anti-social behaviour in the area. The order runs from today at 4pm until 3.59pm

Two men have been arrested in Southport after police saw a small package of suspected Class A drugs tossed from a car in the town centre. The arrests were made after police

Detectives in Sefton are welcoming the sentencing of further members of a Southport Organised Crime Group (OCG) as part of a long-running operation, which takes the total sentences handed out to more

Detectives in Sefton are welcoming the sentencing of further members of a Southport Organised Crime Group (OCG) as part of a long-running operation, which takes the total sentences handed out to more

Police have charged a man with murder following the murder of Rose-Marie Tinton on Folkestone Road in January. 54-year-old Andrew Tinton, the son of Rose-Marie, will appear in court next month to

Merseyside Police have issued an update on the recent spate of bicycle thefts throughout Southport. Southport Local policing Inspector Graham Fisher said: “We have deployed extra uniformed patrols and plain clothes officers