
Jamie Lopez
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✍️ Editor, The Southport Lead
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https://open.substack.com/pub/thelancashirelead 18-04-2008 19:13:50
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Today's Southport The Lead | theleaduk.substack.com: 🏥 £3m given for Southport Hospital repairs ⛳ Plan to expand golf course onto public land moves forward 🚓 Why were police called to a peaceful social services protest? 🗓️ Andrew Brown (Stand Up For Southport)'s What's On guide to the week ahead southport.thelead.uk/p/southport-ho…

Plans to open a residential children's home were greeted by fears of crime and falling house values. If we treat kids in care as something to be afraid of who should be kept away from the rest of the society, how will they ever get a chance? The Lead | theleaduk.substack.com southport.thelead.uk/p/residential-…

Magnificent writing from Patrick Maguire - a man who knows all there is to know about Westminster but more importantly understands the significance of what happens elsewhere (and just happens to be a Southport lad) thetimes.com/comment/column…

Couples hoping to use IVF to conceive are currently offered up to three rounds funded by the NHS - that could soon be reduced to just one The Lead | theleaduk.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/thesouthpo…

Sefton Council is considering bringing in new rules which would ban new takeaways from opening in "walking distance" of schools The Lead | theleaduk.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/thesouthpo…




The 25-year-old PNE striker was caught on the A6 and A59 breaking the 30mph speed limit multiple times including doing nearly 50mph in one of the offences. Jamie Lopez report from Preston Magistrates' Court as his punishment was decided. #pnefc blogpreston.co.uk/2025/06/presto…

Well done to these fantastic four members of staff from Sainsbury's in #Blackpool who walked to #Southport to raise money for Elsie Dot's Story. 32 miles in 12 hours 40 minutes, aching muscles and blisters aside they were happy Sainsbury's Andrew Brown (Stand Up For Southport)


A landlord conspired to have his tenant's power supply cut off, leaving him with no heating or lighting in sub-zero temperatures. Well done to Sefton Council Council for ensuring he was prosecuted | The Lead | theleaduk.substack.com southport.thelead.uk/p/landlord-lef…