A new lifeboat station has opened in Southport after three years of construction. The £1.4m building has been paid for entirely by public donations on behalf of the Southport Offshore Rescue Trust.

The Shannon lifeboat was designed to be launched and recovered from a beach and can also be launched from a slipway or lie afloat. Whilst the Severn is the largest lifeboat in the RNLI fleet at 17 ...