Is Southport home to the UK’s most inspirational coastal spot?

CHILEAN winery Isla Negra is calling upon those living in and around Southport to share their photographs of Lancashire’s stunning coastline with the rest of Britain.

Why not join Isla Negra in Southport between 19 August to 21 August 2011? Visit the sampling Airstream caravan on the seafront and you’ll be amongst the first in the UK to enter your photograph into its national competition to find the most inspiring stretch of the British coast. Whether you’re a professional photographer or just enjoy getting snap happy at the weekend, your photograph will help build an amazing interactive map of the UK and Irish coast which will allow you to travel along the coastline revisiting the beaches of your childhood and finding new beauty spots.

Visitors to Southport seafront will also be able to sample Isla Negra’s range of wines and, by uploading their photos of the British coastline, will be in with a chance to win prizes. Next time you’re inspired by Lancashire’s coast, point, click and upload your photo to our interactive map for the chance to win prizes including cash and a digital SLR camera. The overall winning image will feature on the label of thousands of limited edition bottles of Isla Negra wine on sale up and down the country!

Isla Negra is named after and inspired by the beautiful seaside town of Isla Negra in Chile’s Valparaiso region, home of romantic poet Pablo Neruda.

For more information join Isla Negra and other visitors at Southport Seafront on 19 August to 21 August 2011.  You can also follow Isla Negra on twitter to win prizes throughout the summer at:- twitter.com/inspiredbycoast.

Superheroes descend on Spaceport

THERE''S a lot going over 20 August to 21 August 2011, when Superheroes including Batman, Halo’s Masterchief, Ghostbusters and Daleks descend upon Spaceport with two days of space super hero activity, including storytelling & animation workshops to help children understand cartoons and unlock their own creative talents.

Visitors to the Seacombe based attraction will be greeted by our Imagination Station Commander, receive a superhero spot check and can be measured with a multi-planetary measuring tape to gauge their ‘superhero status’.

There’ll be Superhero storytelling sessions and cosmic comic storyboard workshops, where children will see storyboarding frames from comic strips and be encouraged to write and draw their own frame – with superhero characters from the Galactic Knights and face painting too, it should be astrotastic!

Story Telling sessions each hour between 11am to 3pm. Work Shop Sessions each half hour between 11.30am to 3.30pm. Face Painting throughout the day from 11.00am to close.

Usual admission prices apply with no extra charge for storytelling and workshops. Face painting extra charge. See their website or call them on:- 0151 330 1566 for full details.

One FREE child ticket is available with each full paying adult on combined Spaceport & Mersey Ferries River Explorer Cruise tickets - You can go online for terms and conditions and to download your FREE child voucher.

NEXT OF KIN APPEAL - NORMAN FOSTER

LIVERPOOL Coroner's Officer are trying to trace the next of kin of a 71 year old man from South Liverpool. Norman Foster, who lived at Merseypark Nursing Home, died on Sunday, 14 August 2011 from natural causes. It is believed that he had lived in South Liverpool for most of his life and that he may have grown up in the Wellington Road area, in Dingle with a sister and 2 brothers. Mr Foster's next of kin, or anyone who knows the whereabouts of his next of kin, is asked to call Liverpool Coroner’s Office on:- 0151 233 4704.