This all comes at a time when the polls – and anecdotal conversations – suggest that we’re distinguishing more than ever before between what Westminster is in charge of and what the Senedd controls.
He said the group had chosen a series of songs "that we feel reflect the zeitgeist of the town at the moment".Songs For Southport takes place at Little Theatre and runs until Sunday.
A victim of the Rotherham grooming scandal has spoken about how she still feels let down 10 years after the publication of the landmark Jay Report.Professor Alexis Jay was commissioned to investigate sexual abuse in the town and identified 1,400 children who were exploited between 1997 and 2013. The victims were mainly white girls who had been abused by Asian men of predominantly Pakistani heritage.Among them was "Amy", a survivor who does not use her real name. She was just 13 when she was preyed upon by 10 men.
She said she had never received an "official" apology from those in authority who had failed her at the time. After being contacted by the BBC, South Yorkshire Police hand-delivered a letter of apology.shocked the town and had wider repercussions across the north of England.
It exposed the rape of children as young as 11 by multiple men, who had also abducted and trafficked them. Many of the children were vulnerable and from unstable backgrounds, and their plight had been ignored by social services.
Amy twice reported her abuse to South Yorkshire Police in 2003 when she was 13 years old, but had to wait another 13 years until her abusers were convicted.She said members of her rowing club would be in the river when the train went over the bridge. "I'm going to give them a wave."
Christine Eastlake, from Ashington, said her family were taking the train to Newcastle to do some Christmas shopping.The journey would have taken about an hour on the bus, but the train cuts the time by half.
"[The station is] only seven minutes walk from where we live," she said."It's really handy."