‘Southport has experienced unthinkable grief and fear, but friends, family and strangers have banded together’

‘Southport has experienced unthinkable grief and fear, but friends, family and strangers have banded together’

After the killings and the riots, kind gestures from the community show their solidarity in grief and emphatic rejection of violence

Mike Ainscough woke up on Tuesday morning to find a bunch of flowers leaning against the garden gate of his home in Southport.

“I saw it and I thought ‘It should be in water’, so I went to get a bucket,” the 82-year-old said. Soon there would be hundreds of bunches arrayed alongside his garden wall, with cuddly toys, sparkly balloons and handwritten messages to the children killed and injured at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

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