Residents are being asked to remove tributes they put up after the Southport knife attack, as the council said seeing them has become "emotionally challenging" for some of those affected. Bebe King, six,

Now, Sefton Council is contacting properties and businesses to encourage them to remove any remaining temporary tributes. Council officers will also be "sensitively removing" any temporary tributes from street furniture such as benches and lamp posts, reports the Liverpool Echo.

It has been confirmed work is underway to secure a permanent memorial for the three schoolgirls who were brutally killed in Southport on July 29. It comes after Sefton Council asked for people in the town to begin removing private tributes to Alice Da Silva Aguiar,