Two days of hell in Southport

"Communities like mine will have to pick up the pieces and that’s what we’ll do here"

Hello and welcome to today’s The Lancashire Lead. I’ll start with an apology and explanation from the start that this isn’t a normal issue and focuses instead on one location on the edge of the county. But what happened in Southport has dominated the news agenda and is also deeply personal to me.

I was born and raised in the town and on Monday spent hour…