Locals have claimed they feel like they are 'stuck in lockdown' at an abandoned seaside town.
Southport Pier, Merseyside has been closed for five months, leaving locals and business owners fighting to survive and in desperate need of a cash injection from the tourist season
It's claimed the Pavillion was deserted in a mad dash like something out of an apocalypse film - and that's because the council ordered its closure last December on health and safety grounds.