Southport FC are opening their club lounge to 'those who wish to gather' and have announced they have cancelled Tuesday's match 'out of respect to those who have so tragically lost their lives, and to those who will be deeply impacted by this horrible tragedy'.
Southport FC have cancelled tonight's match out of respect to those who 'so tragically lost their lives' in a knife attack in the seaside town in which two children were killed and nine other people injured. Six of the children and two of the adults who were attacked at a holiday club in Hart Street are still in a critical condition in hospital.
The money will go to Alder Hey Children's Hospital where some of the victims are being treated and has been organised by the Taylor Swift UK & EU Facebook group. Flowers and teddies have been left near the scene. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, who is in Southport today, has described the incident as 'utterly heartbreaking'.
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