Public asked not to lay flowers to mark a year on from Southport attack

Floral tributes on the junction of Tithebarn Road and Hart Street in Southport (James Speakman/PA) - (PA Archive)

The public is being asked not to lay floral tributes to mark a year since the Southport knife attack but to donate to charitable causes instead.

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were killed in the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Hart Street in the seaside town on July 29 last year.