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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Thu 4th Mar 2010
The long battle to secure a temporary town centre home for Southport Library has been won. At this morning's meeting of the cabinet Birkdale Councillor Iain Brodie Browne moved that the temporary Library should go ahead in the ground floor of the Visiter Office in Tulketh Street.
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Tue 2nd Feb 2010
Vince Cable, Treasury Spokesman and Deputy Leader of the Liberal
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Fri 13th Nov 2009
• Southport's town centre Library will have to shut for nearly 3 years from early 2010 while much-needed refurbishment work is undertaken on the Arts Centre and Library complex (the £15 million "Southport Cultural Centre" project).
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Thu 12th Nov 2009
Sefton Council's ruling Cabinet has thrown out throw a proposal to relocate Southport's town centre library to the currently vacant space at the rear of Southport Market Hall during the 3 years of work on the Arts Centre and Library buildings.
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Tue 10th Nov 2009
Southport's Liberal Democrat councillors, who hold two-thirds of Southport's 21 council seats, have expressed their unanimous support for the idea of temporarily relocating the town's library into the rear of Southport Market Hall.
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Thu 29th Oct 2009
Michael Braham has kindly given us his permission to put his history of Southport Liberals on our website. The book was first published in 1985 and has been hard to get hold of for some years. You can now access the online version of the book via the button on the left.
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Wed 7th Oct 2009
Responding to the news that Crosby Labour MP Claire Curtis-Thomas is standing down at the next election, the prospective Liberal Democrat MP for Sefton Central Richard Clein said:
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Fri 2nd Oct 2009
Councillor Simon Shaw has condemned a proposal from Sefton Council's Standards Committee which could prevent councillors from telling the public how they voted on controversial issues.
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Fri 18th Sep 2009
Lib Dems have been pressing for full information about the situation at Art Centre, Art Gallery and Library in the town centre to be made public. This has now been done and can be seen by following the link below.
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Fri 18th Sep 2009
It has been a busy time on the blog. There are stories about the Arts Centre, the identification of building land in Birkdale, the Southport Beer Festival, various fundraising activities, student loans, allotments, the consultation on the elected Mayor and much more besides
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Sun 13th Sep 2009
Students face loans chaos
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Fri 4th Sep 2009
It is time to take action over the so called cultural centre in Southport-that is the Art Gallery, Library and Arts Centre. The dire state of the buildings has been revealed to councillors. Failure to act now could lead to the complex being closed and boarded up. A minimum of £8m is needed to keep the buildings open. If we are to spend that sort of money then we can lever in significantly more cash to do a proper job. The full report is in the download section of the website and there is a link at the foot of this article. More information-including photos will follow
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Tue 1st Sep 2009
Cllr. Tony Robertson the Lib Dem Leader on Sefton Council says that he hopes that the Council will agree to relax the presently rigid mobile mast moratorium when it debates the matter on Thursday of this week.
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Sun 30th Aug 2009
Birkdale Councillor Simon Shaw is a newly appointed member of the Merseyside Police Authority (MPA) and has been working hard with Southport's Lib Dem MP John Pugh to get a fair deal over Police Community Support Officers (PCSO) numbers locally.
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Sat 22nd Aug 2009
Lots of photos and videos about the Flower Show on the blog this week, including a story about the good work done by the Birkdale Youth Centre which has been show cased at the show
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Sat 22nd Aug 2009
The Atkinson Library and Arts Centre along with the Arts Centre make up the Southport Cultural Centre. Councillors have learned about the poor state of repair of these building after a detailed condition study was carried out. It is clear that action must be taken swiftly if we are to keep this very important Town Centre Asset.
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Fri 10th Jul 2009
John Gibson, Lib Dem, Manor Ward, has been campaigning for improved allotment provision in sefton. The demand for allotments has risen dramatically and even the Queen has opened one at Buckingham Palace.
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Fri 10th Jul 2009
At last night's full council I asked a question of the Leader of the Council:
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Mon 18th May 2009
The Liberal Democrat Euro Member of Parliament, Chris Davies made a visit to Southport last Tuesday morning on his European election campaign around the North West Constituency. Chris Davies and the Liberal Democrats in this election, are taking the fight to those who want to take Britain away from co-operating with our European allies on vital issues like tackling climate change, managing globalisation and confronting cross-border crime and terrorism.
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Fri 15th May 2009
There will be a FAIR TRADE COFFEE MORNING on Saturday 16th May, 2009.
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