Raw sewage was released into open water on the Fylde Coast more than 1,500 times in 2022. The result is Blackpool's hard-fought status as a safe place to swim is in jeopardy.
 

Experts from the University of Salford, drafted in to inspect the area, found evidence of 'low-level occupation of the landscape'

Ethan Miles and Peter Waite the latest to be charged after disorder in Blackpool

Mystery still surrounds the reason for the 13-month delay in burying the infant

Wyre Council and the Environment Agency are investigating whether a chemical called Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) has contaminated local gardens and allotments

Cinema was once an important piece of Blackpool’s allure of affordable glamour, with seventeen movie theatres operating in the town at its peak. Now, almost a year after the final Odeon has gone dark, the local council is opening a nine-screen multiplex of its own. 

The owner of the site, in Bispham, has blamed Blackpool Council, the government and United Utilities. But many of their claims are contentious

Giving the heavily pregnant mother the drug was proved to be negligent - but it was deemed insufficient to prove a connection between the negligience and complications suffered during birth

A £450,000 project to restore and repair The Grand in Church Street is up and running

Labour's Louise Haigh vowed that if there is demand, then the possibility can be investigated