£10m Southport Hospital grant to bring heat pumps and energy efficiency improvements

Plus: Couple begin 215 mile pilgrimage with no money or internet access

Hello and welcome to the midweek edition of The Southport Lead.

Hospitals are incredibly expensive to run and incredibly expensive to maintain. Southport Hospital in particular is an old site in need of various repairs and upgrades but thanks to newly confirmed government funding, an eight-figure sum is about to help with that.

Today’s main story focuses…