It was featured on BBC tonight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03jy6g2/North_West_Tonight_04_12_2013/

Nine minutes in.

A RNLI volunteer is looking to secure funding to lease a hovercraft to launch a hovercraft service from New Brighton to North Wales, Southport and possibly Speke.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25194960

http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/128873/hovercraft-may-return-to-rhyl.aspx

I also found the volunteer's website: http://www.hoverlink.net/

Already discussed here:

https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/841071/Rhyl_hovercraft_service_may_re.html

they could have done with it today, poor guys got called out to handle the flood