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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

Quick acting officers stepped in to stop an 80 year-old Southport man becoming a victim of a fraud. The vulnerable pensioner received a letter in the post, claiming to be from his

Over the last week, following the use of a dispersal order in the town centre from Friday to Sunday of the Bank Holiday weekend, Police Officers and PCSO’s continued conducting patrols in

Officers from the Local Policing Team at Southport Police Station have now matched up 10 stolen bikes to recent shed burglaries. These ten bikes have either been returned to the owners are

A woman from Formby has been landed with a £12,000 fine after she denied the existence of Coronavirus. Julie Saunderson, who runs a beauty salon in Bootle, was found guilty of aiding

Merseyside’s new Police Commissioner has joined calls for greater protection for shopworkers across England as she met retail staff to listen to their concerns today. New laws came into force in Scotland

A Southport paedophile will face sentencing next week. Jamie Martin, a 34-year-old Eastbank Street man, was due to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court earlier this week for amassing a huge and

This week (Tuesday 10th August) officers from the Regional Prison Intelligence Unit at the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU) have arrested a 30-year-old woman on suspicion of misconduct in a

Police have arrested a man and seized suspected drugs following an incident in Southport town centre last night, Thursday 12 August. At around 7.15pm, officers on patrol on Stanley Street witnessed a