Unfortunately the Harington Road Post Office inside McColls Retail Limited, better known as Martin's is closing down. The Post Office have said that it is indeed a temporary closure due to the shop being sold on.

Formby Bubble have been informed that the existing Spar S...

After closing its doors on 13th May last year at the Weld Blundell site, the brand new Shell Euro Garage on the Formby bypass is now open! Incorporating a beautiful Spar shop and a Greggs Bakers.

There is a 10-pump petrol filling station with ancillary retail and very s...

UPDATE: The Official statement has now been released from L37 Fest as follows:

It is with great sadness that we have had to make the difficult decision to cancel this year’s L37 Fest.

This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, and the whole L37 Fest team is unde...

An exclusive Formby home has been named as the ‘Best Individual New Home’ at a prestigious regional awards ceremony.

The prestigious development of the Firwood estate in which Firwood Hall stands, took the title at the LABC (Local Authority Building Control) North Wes...

England staged a confident performance today to beat Spain 13-7 in the mixed international at Formby Golf Club and keep their firm grip on the Seve Ballesteros Trophy.

They built on yesterday’s one point lead with a 4-1 win in this morning’s foursomes before taking si...

The new McDonald’s in Formby will be opening its doors at 11am tomorrow- Wednesday 17th April. McDonald’s Formby will be the largest UK Drive Thru site with 279 seats inside and an additional 44 on the patio area. It will be one of the first in the country to have digi...

Formby man convicted of careless driving for running out of fuel on a motorway and causing a collision

Formby man Gerrard Newell from Formby was convicted of careless driving in court. Gerrard ran out of fuel on the M62 at Eccles Interchange. His car stopped in a ‘liv...

We have been informed today that the new Euro Garage on the Formby bypass will in fact be a Starbucks and not a KFC as we were originally told. There will also be a Greggs Bakery inside the actual garage.

Starbucks Corporation is an American coffee company and coffeehou...

Merseyrail have confirmed that a person has been struck by a train near Freshfield Train Station on the Northern Line. 
 

The person died this morning, Friday 1st March. Emergency services were called at 6:30am and British Transport Police said that the person was prono...

Merseyrail have confirmed that a person has been struck by a train on the Northern Line.
The incident happened between Freshfield and Ainsdale.

UPDATE at 08:30hrs:

Services have resumed. Passengers travelling on the Southport line, services have now resumed. Service from...

Merseyside Police are urging people in Formby to be vigilant following reports that a woman has tried to persuade people to give her small quantities of cash under false pretences.

A report was received on Saturday 23 February that a woman has approached a number of p...

Two men arrested on suspicion of burglary offences in Formby. Detectives working on Operation Castle, the force’s ongoing response to burglary, have arrested two men in connection with burglary offences in Formby.

At around 7pm last night (Thursday 28 February), offic...

Detectives working on ongoing Operation Castle are welcoming the sentencing of two men for a Formby burglary. Joseph Moran, 24, of Mildmay Road, Norris Green, and James Donnelley, 20, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to a burglary at Windsor Road, Formby, which occurr...

Firefighters have been called to a large fire at a compost business in Formby this morning.
Four fire engines and two support appliances are in attendance.

Crews were alerted at 5.18am and on scene at 5.28am.

They arrived to find an area of compost approximately 15m...

In September last year (2018), a residential burglary was reported in Windsor Road, Formby. The occupier of the property had returned home and discovered the front door insecure. An untidy search of the house had been conducted, with items being stolen prior to the off...