Yellows need new leaders

SOUTHPORT Football Club is in desperate need of a change of leadership.

Charlie Clapham has led the club for 33 years and I am thankful for the hard work, time and money he had put into the club.

The club is currently on its 10th manager in four years and has used 45 different players in 39 matches.

There are new directors waiting in the wings and supporters are almost unanimous that change must occur.

The club is currently 23rd in the league, facing relegation. Supporters are gravely concerned the club could face a double relegation such is the way the club is being run.

Now is the time for fresh ideas and to embrace like the supporters have, its new directors. Jonathan O’Byrne

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PLEASE HELP GIRLS

MOST of us out shopping will reach for something extra to donate to a foodbank.

Have you ever thought about donating, or been asked to donate, sanitary products.

I have just read a story online entitled “Girls too poor to buy tampons”.

Families on zero-hours contracts, benefits, a low income or entitled to use foodbanks often find their finances stretched to the limit each month.

Those with daughters at school cannot buy tampons or sanitary pads.

Girls are putting socks or paper tissues inside their underwear.

Others miss days off school each month because of embarrassment.

This not only affects their education, but also their social life and gives them a feeling of low esteem.

Teachers are buying the products for the girls, or seeking help from charities who supply them to girls and women in Africa.

So the next time you reach for that extra tin of beans, think again. Men can also help. Go into any chemist and retell the story, saying you would like to donate some sanitary products to the local foodbank. They will be more than happy to help.

Foodbanks run by the Trussell Trust will accept tampons and sanitary pads. BJ Powell Southport

FRACKING FEARS

MANY readers of the Visiter will be aware that a company called Aurora Energy Resources will be submitting a planning application later this year in order to drill an exploratory fracking well in the local Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence area 164. Before doing so, the company is obliged to follow a “community engagement charter”.

According to the charter, this means engaging with individuals and organisations and consulting openly and honestly with local communities from an early stage.

The company is also required to provide sufficient opportunity for comment and feedback, and listen to concerns and respond appropriately and promptly.

Taking them at their word, I have asked them in advance for an assurance that they intend to hold separate consultations in Formby, Halsall, and Magull, in both the daytime and evenings, so that all residents across the affected area have a chance to comment and provide feedback on their plans for fracking.

I have also asked them to confirm that they will be prepared to respond during the consultations to any questions I have about the effect of fracking on water use; local air, water and land pollution; the industrialisation of