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Spookport Film Festival helps launch Southport's new Cinema

HEADS up, Southport has a new Cinema opening on Saturday, 19 October 2019. Sadly tickets are sold out for the opening night, but we can announce that we they are holding a series of events for Spookport this year. The Spookport Film Festival at the Southport Bijou Cinema, on Post Office Ave, will be showing 35 spooky films from kids current favourites, such as:- The Goonies and Coco to all out classic hardcore horror, like Audition.

Plus from 11am to 12pm, on 31 October 2019, their will be a story reading session by the very talented Tony Higinson. For all this and to check out the full listings of film titles, dates and times below, please visit the cinema's website If there's a title you like, be sure to book your seat now! Plus keep an eye on here for some more exciting news in the next few weeks!

Letters to the Editor:- "Flooding due to blocked road drains"

"HOW many people have seen Sefton Council out cleaning drains? When I was a kid, we could see them doing drain cleaning throughout the year. Pumping each small grate drain covered, at the edge of our local roads, opening them up and removing letter and leaves, but now this is a very seldom sight. Sadly this now rarely seen activity is leading to growing problems and causing concern. For example the drains on my road in Formby have not been cleaned in ages. I can only remove the leaves and litter on the top of the drain, but not the build up of silt and other detritus that has fallen in to it. Keeping road drains and gullies clean and maintained them not only helps to prevent flooding, but also keeps costs down in the long run. I pay my Council Tax, so why should I cleaning leaves from the drains in front of my house? I'm told that Sefton aims aim to clean these drainage systems on an annual basis in problem areas. How long will it be before our area becomes a problem area due to the drainage provisions not being professionally cleaned? I agree that problems can happen, even when drains are clean and well maintained. But regular clearing of our local road grids will allow the water to flow and prevent local flooding. It will also help reduce bigger bills in the end, when we get carriageway collapses and flooded homes and businesses. Not only that, but we see all over Sefton missing manhole covers. Please start clearing and pumping the grids to allow the water to flow and prevent local flooding along with blockages that lead to carriageway collapses." Nicky, from Formby.

Editors Reply:- "Thanks for your email. Sefton has had problems meeting it's 10 day target response time responding to issues with enquiries and complaints, due to 'operational issues.' But they have an out of hours emergency incident response respond to immediate risks to health and safety, such as:- missing gulley cover, missing manhole cover, carriageway collapse or roadway collision damage. You can access this service via calling Sefton Council on:- 0151 922 6107. We would love to hear your views on this issue about any blocked drains or flooding on roads that are causing you concern. Please email us to:- News24@SouthportReporter.Com or send us a Tweet to @SouthportReport or @FormbyReport "

Ask the Local Expert - Southport's Felicity Hat Hire Owner Takes The Hot Seat!

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WE have had a fantastic response to our new "Ask the Local Expert" section and can reveal that Megafauna, on Wesley Street, will be the next to be featured. They will be looking at Southport's Cafe Culture and also ideas for vegetarians and vegans. More in next weeks issue about that! Sadly, we had hoped to bring you the but we have had so many questions it has overwhelmed us! We did not think we would have got so many, so we are very sorry, but we are not running the replies this week! To give Helen time to answer as many of the questions she can and also as we are still getting questions in, we are going to run it next week. Helen and ourselves have agreed to extending the time to send them in, until 12 noon, on 16 October 2019. Please also note that you can see examples of the questions that will be picked via clicking on here to see the feature within the previous weeks edition. If you have a question for Helen, please email it over to us via:- News24@SouthportReporter.Com and it might be selected for next weeks edition! Also, if you have a business you think would be interesting to feature, please get in contact for more information. To find out more about Southport's Felicity Hat Hire please visit their website.

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