that is reported by the liverpool echo. this lady said we were terrified, panicking, sick with worry. i don't know how this can happen on a monday lunchtime. we have few details at the moment. can you give us a sense of the geography? do you know whereabouts this is? this is in the north—west of the country, not too far from north—west of the country, not too farfrom liverpool. the whole north—west of the country, not too far from liverpool. the whole of the street very much blocked off by these emergency vehicles. the one bit of warning that it spits out in situations like this, and we don't know what the situation is, we don't know what the situation is, we don't know how mass casualty otherwise this incident might be, but met speculation on social media, you have to be very careful about that. this would have been a call, it doesn't matter if i went to the police or ambulance first, worth a reported casualties, where there are there are reports of stabbing, police and ambulances will attend. we can see fire appliances on

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joining us now on the line is megan banner, who is a seniorjournalist at the liverpool echo.g the unrest in southport tonight. hi. reporting the unrest in southport toniaht. . ~ reporting the unrest in southport toniaht. ., ~ i. ., reporting the unrest in southport toniaht. ., ~ ., ., tonight. hi, thank you for having us. i've tonight. hi, thank you for having us- i've been _ tonight. hi, thank you for having us. i've been in _ tonight. hi, thank you for having us. i've been in southport - tonight. hi, thank you for having us. i've been in southport for . tonight. hi, thank you for having | us. i've been in southport for the last few days, but tonight, it's absolutely horrific. i've been here with my colleague, and the things we've seen, isjust with my colleague, and the things we've seen, is just absolutely disgusting. i'm still here in the middle of the street, hiding away from the others — i've just seen a fellowjournalist from the others — i've just seen a fellow journalist get chased from the others — i've just seen a fellowjournalist get chased down the street. we've go

on the phone now ben roberts—haslam, a reporter at the liverpool echo who's near the scene of the clashesar away. i hope you are safe and you can talk to us 0k are safe and you can talk to us ok ——| are safe and you can talk to us 0k —— i know you not too far away. thanks, it is not safe, it is absolute chaos, in my opinion. this has descended into violence, thuggery. fires are being lit on star street, there's been fighting, there's been a lot of stuff happening here that quite frankly, as a southport resident, is unwelcome.— as a southport resident, is unwelcome. ., , ., ., unwelcome. how did it start, from what ou unwelcome. how did it start, from what you saw? _ unwelcome. how did it start, from what you saw? what _ unwelcome. how did it start, from what you saw? what did _ unwelcome. how did it start, from what you saw? what did you - unwelcome. how did it start, from what you saw? what did you see l unwelcome. how did it start, from i what you saw? what did you see and hear? what were people saying to you? hear? what were people saying to ou? ~ ., ., , hear? what were people saying

. ~ ., ., ., joining us now on the line is ben roberts haslam, who is a reporter at the liverpool echofrom where you are standing. goad me from where you are standing. good evenina. me from where you are standing. good evening- yes. — me from where you are standing. good evening- yes. it— me from where you are standing. good evening. yes, it is _ me from where you are standing. good evening. yes, it is chaos, _ me from where you are standing. (limp. evening. yes, it is chaos, in all honesty. people have come out in their hundreds, potentially more than 1000 people here on the streets of southport. pallets on fire, police cars on fire. barricading a local mosque off from the crowd of people that arrived here tonight. it all kind of kicks off at eight o'clock it was a peaceful protest that had circled around social media before all of these people descended onto the streets of southport. is onto the streets of southport. is there a muslim community in this area where the protest is? and what does the situation for them tonight? the protest has been gathered around at the local mosque and

and tonight on the sofa are liam thorp, political editor of the liverpool echo, and freddy gray, deputy editor of the spectator, and our nick is also here, of course, making sense of it all. and with parliament preparing for all the pageantry of the state opening tomorrow, we're going to dive straight into uk politics and the first king's speech under a labour government in nearly 75 years. nick, what do you know? you know i like to have a scoop, i like to reveal things exclusively to you. i have got the secret document upon which the king's speech is based. i can reveal it here. it is this document here, it is called the labour manifesto for the general election. there are going to be 35 bills or draft bill is absolutely taken from there, so no great secrets, but what is interesting is what is downing street, what is keir starmer, highlighting tonight? they are highlighting a number of areas, transport, they are talking about how they will take rail services back into public ownership once their contracts expire or if operators fail to deliver on their commitments. they are going to ha

a report by the liverpool echo is that police have taped off a local housing estate, which is about 15ose in banks, which is about 15 minutes away. and there's a cordon in place and the echo is reporting that that is related to the stabbing. now, there is lots of journalists here on the scene, as well as obviously lots of concerned members of the pubuc of concerned members of the public as well, because this is a harrowing and traumatising thing to happen in your local community. martin. >> and what makes it even more traumatising is this was at a day—care day—care centre, a taylor swift dance and yoga event at the former warehouse building believed to be the norwood business centre, which is often used for taking care of children. and of course, it's the summer holidays now. well, so this would be children at a day—care centre, no doubt. while parents worked and eyewitness reports coming in of locals coming into the streets will and taking children into their homes to protect them of supermarket workers offering food and water to those in the area affected of the high street closing d

a member of staff at yates motor engineers, which is on hart street, has been talking to the liverpool echod . it's heard helicopters overhead. it's further down the road from us. there must be at least 20 police vehicles here. i heard the air ambulance overhead. it landed on the field by scarisbrick, new road, so that again just backing up the reports, that i was talking about just half an hour ago about air ambulance assets also being sent to the scene and perhaps an indication of the significant injuries involved in what is we now know a multiple stabbing attack we have here. >> obviously not confirmed yet , >> obviously not confirmed yet, but, an eyewitness saying that the attack took place in a day care centre , which confirms what care centre, which confirms what you were suggesting earlier. but as i say, not absolutely not confirmed yet, this eyewitnesses said that it took place, quote, just a few houses up the road. i think it is a day care, and it's just on a residential street, another local, told another broadcasting outlet, that his colleague had seen, quote , kids colleague had

echo - those comments. thank you very much indeed. that is dave guest, our correspondent outside alder hey children's hospital in liverpool.sad news that we have had in the last few minutes, that a third girl has died as a result of this mass stabbing incident in southport yesterday. she was a nine—year—old girl, who died in the early hours of the morning, having been taken to hospital. nine were taken to hospital. that nine—year—old girl has died, joining a six—year—old and seven—year—old who died at this event here in southport. it was a taylor swift themed music event as part of the summer holidays. of course, up and down the country parents will be dropping their children off at similar events during the summer holidays. this one has taken place in a very quiet street here in southport. we understand 25 children were involved in this event, not only dancing to taylor swift of music, there was yoga and they were making bracelets. there have been four or —— floral tributes laid at the scene here by local people. my colleague was saying that someone from liverpool camejust colleague was saying that someone from liverpool