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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
Footage released by police shows John Robinson during his arrest as he played a 'key role' in the disorder on Saturday 3 August in Blackpool town centre
Bought by Blackpool Council as part of a private collection, the new Showtown museum collection includes a photograph and flyer from the 1920s showing the offensive practice of 'blacking up'.
The Lead speaks to three asylum seeking and refugee women about their experiences of the violence seen across the country in the past week.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric isn’t acceptable in any form. Ceding ground on this issue sets a ticking time bomb.
The former actor was seen on a Ryanair flight to Cork on Saturday, 3 August as the Prime Minister slammed far-right activists "whipping up action" and "running away".
From rioters to ministers, the far right has long wooed British Jews for its own ends. It’s time to see it for what it really is.
For years, the extreme right and its legitimisers picked off minorities one by one. Now they're unveiling a wider war.
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.
How the nation’s long love affair with police stories continues to shape our relationship with policing today.
Omasan and his business have been by Blackpool’s ambitious development projects, which have delivered blow after blow to his trade
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