Regarding the LPL closure - I might be responsible for the start of that rumour, after telling FCA ops that Servisair were about to run for cover and not despatch any more aircraft.
Servisair decision was fine by me because I did not want to depart for BHX with winds gusting up to 60kts across the runway. Landing at Liverpool was bad enough with the wind just 10 or 20 degrees off the runway.
And Atcham Tower if that was you on the radio my I say thank you because without your string of wind reports in the last few hundred feet we would of gone round. Cheers.