Sitemap - 2025 - The Southport Lead
The Southport Lead's review of 2025 - and what's to come next
£1.1m cost of repairing dangerous gravestones
A Christmas message to Southport
Begging and street drinking ban coming to entire Southport town centre
Unprovoked campaign of abuse left pizza shop owner and family terrified
Yoga studio plan for historic pumping station overlooking Kings Gardens
Street drinking clampdown and train interceptions: The plan for a safer Southport Christmas
Council-owned lodges at cemeteries, parks and schools to be sold at auction
Northern Rail says sorry for shoddy Southport services
End of two-child benefit cap will help Southport's "huge pockets of deprivation"
The 79th Group completed £1m investment months after police raid and weeks before collapse
Decade-long failures at scrapyard at risk of causing pollution
One in three Southport children living in poverty
Tragedy of Hesketh Centre demolition plan one year after fire
Huge debt trail of care agency which received sorry CQC ratings
"Something had faded, now Southport's best days lie ahead"
Pleas for help from parents of SEND children being “squeezed out of society”
Collapsed investment firm 79th Group never owned Loch Ness and Anglesey development sites
The day the far-right came back to Southport
New owners to take over landmark Waterfront Hotel
From the ashes of The Kingsway, inevitably, comes housing
“It’s about empowering people” - the new project giving back control of the town's fortunes
Drive-through Starbucks planned for historic site in Scarisbrick
£450k spent on keeping Toad Hall standing - now it's coming down
Missing pensioner found dead on Southport beach
Lancs councillor planning legal action against Sefton Council in forced resignation claim
Radicalised far-right 'waiting for a spark'
The show must go on: Sefton Council defiant over events centre construction troubles
£10m Southport Hospital grant to bring heat pumps and energy efficiency improvements
Southport Inquiry witnesses will not have their evidence used against them
'Comfort and confidence': the group helping autistic adults socialise and thrive
Toad Hall demolition and Pontins replacement in new Ainsdale ambitions
MP wants 'working class Northerner' as Angela Rayner's successor
Council warned over high rates of drug use among Sefton's children
Southport Pier funding promise after fire hits structure
Hotel purchase planned as council faces unprecedented homelessness
Irish Sea windfarm plan could see underground cables routed through Southport
Sefton's first Reform councillor accused of sharing racist posts
Golf expansion plans approved in time for next year’s Open Championship despite strong opposition
Birkdale Common golf 'land grab' set for approval
Overgrown and under-maintained: The cycle lane problem
War memorial could be removed as safety fears spark bitter row
Riot organiser who said "all mosques must burn" loses appeal
'One year on, we are with them every step of the way'
Death, dancing and dereliction: the iconic nightclub set for demolition
Police investigating murder of farmer Thomas Olverson ask CPS to consider charges
Unsafe, dirty and understaffed: Care home placed in special measures
Collapsed firm owes £200m as administrators find flawed accounting
Southport and the Orange Lodge parades
"Disappointing" effort to withdraw Sefton Council's support for trans community
Increased police patrols coming to Southport town centre
Children's A&E could return to Southport within five years
Landlord left man in sub-zero flat after illegally cutting off power
Southport MP Patrick Hurley joins rebellion against welfare reforms
At last, good news for social care in Sefton
Sefton Council to crackdown on takeaways opening near schools
IVF options slashed for couples in £1.3m money-saving plan
Residential home objections fuel stigma against children in care
Southport Hospital to receive £3m fund for maintenance backlog
Murder suspect still on bail 10 months after arrest
'Disobedient' PC banned for life over online raffle business
Channel 4 'sorry' for use of Southport killer in Facebook ads
"Lives to be transformed" by Marine Lake Events Centre and Southport regeneration
Council plots land giveaway after EU funding loss halts Southport Business Park development
Patrick Hurley MP: Why I won't support assisted dying bill
"No single issue" led to Southport riot, police review finds
What Reform's net zero fight could mean for Southport
Reform target Sefton Council control in first all-out vote in more than two decades
Administrators called in after police raid Southport asset firm
Who can design the future of Southport and net £150k for doing so?
More will die without law change to keep unsafe drivers off the roads
Teen suffers broken cheekbone as two knocked out by football yobs
The Southport Lead story so far and what your support brings
Southport riots, two-tier policing claims rejected and an information vacuum
Spotlight on Britannia's Southport legacy as firm makes big profits again
The Southport Inquiry: What it means and who will speak
'No-one read the manual': How Merseyrail ground to a halt in icy weather
Tory peer slammed after blaming Southport riots on Guardian editors
Foul Lane to reopen and major Kew roundabout redesign
First full-size 3G football pitch to be built in Southport
Will Southport 'tourism tax' fund needed services or put off investors?
Pitiful Northern Rail slammed by MP as improvements demanded
Year-long car park closure to begin at National Trust Formby
£1.5m losses at Sefton Hospitality Operations cast doubt on council-owned hospitality firm
'Thirty years later, they stood with us again': How Southport rallied around its mosque
Southport "large enough" to host children's A&E department
Southport to join the Bee Network's public transport revolution
The club helping to create the next Luke Littler - and much more than that
The changing face of Southport
Golf bosses planning land grab as The Open returns to Southport
Demolition threat shows battle facing town's churches
Pet crematorium and new housing plans spark outrage
Three months after Hesketh Centre fire, no-one held accountable
Death, promises and near misses - but still no plan to make level crossing safer
After two years of nothing, historic pub The George faces demolition
Victims' strength is awe-inspiring amid coward killer's final insult
Southport won't be defined by evil attacks - nor will it forget them
Hope at last for Southport's former BHS building
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