Just wanted to share quickly how lovely yesterday felt in Southport; a total contrast to the night before. 🧵
The mosque and people’s garden walls were rebuilt by builders and bricklayers volunteering their time and labour:
The mosque and people’s garden walls were rebuilt by builders and bricklayers volunteering their time and labour:
"We're local lads, we've lived in Southport our whole lives," Joesph Wood, 37, from Craig Prince brickwork said.
“I have friends who go to the mosque, and I just can't believe it really. It's a sad day in Southport."
“I have friends who go to the mosque, and I just can't believe it really. It's a sad day in Southport."
Local shops including Waitrose were walking the streets offering everyone involved in the clean up effort — and us reporting on it — free drinks and snacks.
The roads had been swept before most people were even out of bed, and had been retarmaced by lunchtime.
The Chief Constable, metro mayor, council leader, PCC and MP send the media away after we’d had our turn, so that they should meet affected residents without distraction.
Kimberley Parker, 36, from the nearby dog groomers, came down to the mosque with pizzas and doughnuts.
“It’s amazing to see the show of solidarity,” she said. “I never thought I’d see in my hometown the inhumanity of Monday, or the inhumanity of last night.”
“It’s amazing to see the show of solidarity,” she said. “I never thought I’d see in my hometown the inhumanity of Monday, or the inhumanity of last night.”
And I did enjoy seeing that someone (I was told the fire service, but can’t say for sure), had placed these arson prevention leaflets in the local little free library.
And best of all, as evening fell, the streets were peaceful.
//ENDS.
//ENDS.
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