Some 56 applications had been received by the time the original four-week window closed earlier this year, but 40 were refused “for various reasons”

Blackpool charity share how they've organised trips out for those within the hotel - as one of the town's two MPs calls for the government to stop using the Metropole Hotel

Grange Park is one of hundreds of housing estates built after the Second World War. Life has changed in the decades since; here The Blackpool Lead speaks with residents past and present

Housing, immigration and Conservative scandal all topics of discussion at our hustings event in Cleveleys

Police want to speak with the man in the images after another man was left in hospital

Some, but not all, in Blackpool chose to respond to a wicked act in Southport with violence instead of support. But the search for answers as to why isn't straightforward

Poet and spoke word artist Nathan Parker teams up with Streetlife to bring stories from the streets to life

The decision to house refugees in Blackpool was contentious with local Conservative politicians - here two families from Hong Kong share their experiences and how some of that rhetoric made it more challenging to settle in

The Charity Commission continues to investigate complaints about a soup kitchen linked to Reform UK candidate Mark Butcher

Any later excitement extended only to a small group of men and youths waving a St George's flag - upside down - from a roundabout