Today, there were hourly buses between Buxton and Stockport, New Mills and Piccadilly, Barrow and Piccadilly, Southport, Wigan and Piccadilly. |
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Rock-bottom Hyde, whose want-away star striker Simon Yeo appears set to turn down a move to Southport, face a difficult trip to Gateshead. |
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The animals at Southport Zoo deserve a better life in specialist sanctuaries, not to be on display for public amusement. |
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Among the exhibits at the rally will be a steam-driven threshing and baling set demonstrated by Johnson's of Banks, near Southport. |
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He loved trips to Southport to pick shells and often presented her with bouquets of flowers, picked from neighbouring gardens. |
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These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Southport Underground. |
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My forebears on my mother's side were farmers and fishermen at Marshside near Southport. |
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A touch of the seaside was even brought to the show with a debut appearance from the Southport donkeys. |
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Red Rum was out of a lunatic mare, and trained from the back of a car showroom in Southport. |
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Southport played the role of the seasonal turkeys as they were given a festive stuffing by the Shrimps on Boxing Day. |
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Lytham is dead posh, with lovely seaside cottages and a wide grassy prom facing the Southport straits. |
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She decided to enter a national singing competition organised by a theme park in Southport. |
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Trains between Southport, Wigan Wallgate and Piccadilly will be diverted and re-timed and will not call at Westhoughton and Bolton tonight and tomorrow. |
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Two direct hits for run-outs put Southport on the back foot. |
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Southport brought their right-winger into play again, and he equalised from a short corner routine, before the late carry-on which saw the two red cards brandished. |
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Meanwhile commiserations to four former City players who appeared for Southport in their 1-0 FA Trophy defeat to Cheltenham Town at Wembley on Sunday. |
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Glutamyl peptidase activity has been detected in leaves, roots, and bulbs of growing onions, but not in dormant bulbs of variety Southport White Globe. |
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The posters depicted rolling stock, landscapes and other scenes including Blackpool, the Garrick Theatre in Southport and Brixham harbour in south Devon. |
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The main argument against Southport Zoo was the location, so surely the beautiful surroundings of the centre would be a more fitting environment for the animals to be homed. |
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An investigation into how the boys managed to wander off from carers following the day trip to the Pleasureland theme park in Southport has now been launched. |
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The central part of Westhoughton was early astir this morning on the occasion of a great walk which had been arranged to take place from Westhoughton to Southport. |
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Southport Model Railway Village is situated in Kings Gardens opposite the Royal Clifton Hotel and near the Marine Lake Bridge. |
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Due to its position by the coast, Southport is a linear settlement and as such can only be approached in a limited number of directions by road. |
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The Liverpool line was originally built by the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway in 1848, to a terminus at Eastbank Street. |
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Southport Central was closed to passengers and it became a goods depot eventually amalgamating with Chapel Street depot. |
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Southport is also home to a rugby union team, Southport Rugby Football Club, who play at the Recreational Ground on Waterloo Road, Birkdale. |
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The junior section of Southport RFC is known as the Southport Sharks, which has sides that range from 6 years old upwards. |
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The lake is home to the West Lancashire Yacht Club and Southport Sailing Club, both of which organise dinghy racing. |
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In June 2008, Cycling England announced Southport as one of the 11 new cycling towns. |
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There are now many cycle lanes in Southport and more are planned, to encourage cycling in the town. |
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Southport is also covered by several local and regional magazines, like Lancashire Life. |
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Bottom club Southport Trinity failed to build on their morale boosting win over St Helens Recs as they lost to Newton le Willows by six wickets. |
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David Harkness was only doing his job when he tried to send off Joseph Rimmer for verbally abusing him during a game in Southport in February. |
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The 18-year-old from Southport was trapped for more than an hour after the door to the empty lift shaft shut behind him. |
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A 20-year-old man from Southport was treated for burns at the town's infirmary after falling into a lime pit. |
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One of the two topiaries, currently positioned at Lime Street Station, was moved to Southport Station yesterday, before Championships tee off. |
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One area, the county borough of Southport, was added to Merseyside in the Bill, at the local council's request. |
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Preston once had lines to Southport and Longridge which closed to passengers in 1965 and 1930 respectively. |
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Two days after the purchase while trotting the horse on Southport beach, McCain noticed that Red Rum appeared lame. |
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They gained Clacton from UKIP and Southport from the Liberal Democrats in addition to the six gains from Labour. |
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Following the creation of Merseyside, Merseytravel expanded to take in St Helens and Southport. |
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Southport lies on the Irish Sea coast and is fringed to the north by the Ribble estuary. |
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The rapid growth of Southport largely coincided with the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era. |
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There have been settlements in the area now comprising Southport since the Domesday Book, and some parts of the town have names of Viking origin. |
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In fact Southport had a head start compared to all the other places on the Lancashire coast because it had easy access to the canal system. |
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On the night of 9 December 1886, the worst lifeboat disaster in the history of the UK occurred off the shores of Southport. |
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There is also a memorial inside the Lifeboat house, now operated by the Southport Offshore Rescue Trust. |
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In 1925, the RNLI abandoned the station at Southport and left the town with no lifeboat. |
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The lifeboat, operated by the Southport Offshore Rescue Trust, is completely independent from the RNLI and receives no money from them. |
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Politically, the constituency of Southport has been a key battleground between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. |
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Support for this has been seen amongst Liberal Democrat councillors, and also within the Southport Conservative Party. |
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The commission suggested the use of area committees for the various parts of the borough and also that Southport could become a civil parish. |
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Historically the population of Southport began to rapidly increase during the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era. |
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As a seaside town Southport has a long history of leisure and recreation and is still heavily dependent on tourism. |
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Part of the resort's progress is a result of the money invested in Southport over recent years. |
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While Southport has a dependence on tourism the town is also home to many businesses both in the private and public sector. |
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The single-deckers will run on the number 15 Huyton to Liverpool route and also on the Southport number 49 service. |
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Unipart Dorman make LED traffic lights near Meols Cop railway station in Blowick, east of Southport. |
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Southport has developed a niche by buying small logs that other mills don't want and turning out framing and dimension lumber. |
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On the debit side Mark Fletcher has made the return trip to Southport and Birkdale and Mark Foulder has moved back to Sefton Park. |
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While the state of northern beaches is lagging behind that of seasides in the south, Southport, Ainsdale, Formby and West Kirkby have been given Seaside Awards. |
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Newlyweds Keith and Linda Jennings had them rocking in the aisles when they celebrated their wedding at a rock'n'roll weekend in Southport with 60 like-minded pals. |
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The eight-strong team, known as the Grunt Futtocks, after a famous Kenneth Williams sketch, set off on the 17 day, 300 mile trek, from Southport to Portsmouth, on Monday. |
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A Women's Question Time event is set to take place in the city centre, and Lib Dem John Pugh will be among the candidates facing voters at a hustings in Southport. |
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The area also has many online media sites, including the UK's first online newspaper, the Southport Reporter, as well as Internet forums and blog sites. |
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The annual Southport 24 Hour Race, organised by the West Lancashire Yacht Club, is an endurance race of national standing, with an average turnout of 60 to 80 boats. |
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Anne's boat was lost and all but two of the Southport crew were too. |
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It was followed on 9 April 1855 by the Manchester and Southport Railway with a line to Manchester via Wigan, with stations at St Luke's and Blowick. |
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Southport railway station has a frequent service of trains to Liverpool and a regular service to Wigan, Bolton, Manchester and Manchester Airport. |
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The main operator is Arriva North West, that operates many services to Liverpool, Ormskirk and other places to and through Southport as well as some local services. |
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Annes and Southport set off to try to rescue those aboard the vessel. |
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Due to the limited number of directions by road, many of the services operated in Southport are from one place South to one place North or East of Southport. |
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Southport has many unique buildings and features, many of which are privately owned Victorian villas and houses and the town centre shops are of architectural interest. |
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Escape artist Nicky Flash, 31, cried out for help after his miniature escape key got jammed in the lock during a talent competition at Southport arts centre. |
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The Power Station, that was the base of the town's former radio station Dune FM, on the edge of Victoria Park, which itself is home to the Southport Flower Show. |
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Southport is often called England's Golfing Capital because it is at the centre of England's Golf Coast and has the UK's highest concentration of championship links courses. |
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The filmstar, whose real name is Dave Law, arrived in Southport on Sunday and checked into the town's luxury 60-bedroom Vincent Hotel on Lord Street. |
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Paul is now head chef at Finos, the newlyopened Spanish tapas restaurant on the new Neptune Development's Waterfront scheme on the Promenade in Southport. |
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Southport is quite affluent compared with other parts of the north west. |
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In the same period in 1980, a Private Member's Bill proposed restoring Southport to Lancashire, and renaming the residue of Sefton to the Metropolitan Borough of Bootle. |
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Later on tonight I'm going to see a fortune teller in Southport. |
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Liverpool and Merseyside are areas of high population and important industry along this coast, with tourist resorts of Southport and Blackpool being further to the north. |
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Mexico was just one of many shipwrecks in the Southport area. |
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The whole trip and Beth's success so far has all been possible thanks to David LLoyd Leisure, Kirkby, Marine Lake Surf Tech and Southport Sailboard Association. |
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Terrified Janet Lott, of Southport Close, Toll Bar End, has been left severely bruised after her knee and elbow got stuck in the doors of the number 21 bendy bus. |
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Southport absorbed pressure before extending their lead with a quarter of an hour to go as Baker whipped in a lowball from a corner which Tony Gray pounced on and scored. |
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They made merry for as long as they could, and then started their homeward trek before deciding that 20 miles to Southport might be a Christmas adventure too far. |
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