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A warning at Blackpool North is expected to advise against swimming for the remainder of the 2024 bathing season. So why is the boss of water firm United Utilities in a position as an ambassador for the town?
Residents living in some of the 72 properties set to be demolished speak with The Blackpool Lead about the harsh reality of the challenges they face as a direct result of the Multiversity project
133 new social properties have been finished in a £20million scheme
Blackpool Council wants the town to be the UK’s Coastal Capital of Creativity by 2030
Funding still needs to be found but councillors have given the green light to proposals for a major revamp of the Grundy and Central Library
There are around 1,300 spaces like Kilmory Community Centre in Bispham keeping people out of the cold. But their future is far from secure and their reason for existing in the first place points to a failure of government and politicians.
Chris Webb is heavy favourite to be re-elected in Blackpool South with a tight contest for second place, while Blackpool North and Cleveleys will see Labour hope to claim the seat from the Conservatives
Police have released details of charges to three men in Blackpool after town centre disorder from the far-right
Ethan Miles, 21, has been jailed for 30 months for his part in the events of 3 August
Work on the Revoe Sports Village has been delayed since planning permission was granted in January 2023
The Migration Museum sits in one of London's most diverse neighbourhoods, once the scene of fierce clashes with the Far Right. A new, timely installation opened last week - we went to take a look.
The scheme would see a two-storey extension built to the Grundy Art Gallery on Queen Street
It is nine years since plans were first put forward - and almost three years since any work has been done
Poet and spoke word artist Nathan Parker teams up with Streetlife to bring stories from the streets to life
A £450,000 project to restore and repair The Grand in Church Street is up and running
All the info you need from parking, route, length, safety information and more as the annual cycling route runs the length of the Prom
A Nepalese mother was arrested in an NHS hospital because staff mistook a common birthmark for child abuse. Structural racism in medicine needs to end, and only structural upheaval can end it.
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