This year's hot summer is making all sorts of headlines and in Ormskirk the talking point is how local watercourses have simply dried up.
The Coronation Park 'lake' seems to have recovered but QLocal reporter Roger Blaxall has taken these pictures recently of dry streams and brooks in and around Dyers Lane, Altys Lane and off County Road; it's the first time he's ever been able to walk along the bed of the Hurlston Brook and there was an eerie silence on Elm Place yesterday morning with the babbling brook there reduced to a mere trickle.