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“Do I actually have to die?” Grandmother fears home will kill her before it is habitable

Private rentals in Blackpool and the growing mould problems

Blackpool North general election hustings to be held in Cleveleys

The Blackpool Lead is teaming up with The Gazette and Shelter Lancashire to host the chance of you to quiz those seeking to be your MP on 4 July

By Jamie Lopez

Disabled woman left relying on wheelchair-adapted taxis from outside of Blackpool for hospital trips

Belle's situation has triggered a review into the lack of wheelchair-friendly taxis available in Blackpool

By Ed Walker

Layton's Hidden Garden aims to provide green space for people without their own garden

The space, at Layton Library in Blackpool, will be officially opened tomorrow (21 August)

By Luke Beardsworth

Metropole Hotel 'wholly inadequate' to house refugees but has been their home for three years instead of three months

Webb believes more appropriate accommodation than the hotel chain named worst in the UK for 11 consecutive years should be found

By Shelagh Parkinson

'People behave like this, leave, call it a shithole': Sexual harassment reality in Blackpool

I began the Reclaim Blackpool campaign to help women share their experiences of sexual harassment in the town. Here, those people tell their stories of spiking, verbal abuse and feeling unsafe out in Blackpool

By Antonia Charlesworth Stack

Blackpool's £65m Multiversity project means second forced upheaval in three years for one business

Omasan and his business have been by Blackpool’s ambitious development projects, which have delivered blow after blow to his trade

By Rachel Howarth

Three from Blackpool plead guilty to their part in weekend disorder

Roger Haywood, Ben Smith and Tyla Chalmers-Millington will all be sentenced in September

By Luke Beardsworth

Ride The Lights Blackpool offers first look at Illuminations

All the info you need from parking, route, length, safety information and more as the annual cycling route runs the length of the Prom

By Ed Walker

Historical chemical contamination under investigation at Hillhouse Technology Enterprise Zone

Wyre Council said sampling was set to get underway next week to consider whether historic contamination has occurred from Hillhouse Technology Enterprise Zone

By Shelagh Parkinson

'Ringleader' who attacked police and made vile racist and xenophobic rants jailed

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

By Ed Walker

Controversial blackface memorabilia to form part of new museum collection

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'.

By Michael Holmes

“Is anywhere in the world safe?”: Asylum seeking women on far-right riots

The Lead speaks to three asylum seeking and refugee women about their experiences of the violence seen across the country in the past week.

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

Condemning violence alone won’t stop the far-right – Britain must reject xenophobia once and for all

Anti-immigrant rhetoric isn’t acceptable in any form. Ceding ground on this issue sets a ticking time bomb.

By Diyora Shadijanova

Exclusive: Laurence Fox seen on flight to Ireland as Starmer vows crackdown on far-right

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".

Riots show why British Jews must reject fake solidarity from the right

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.

By Em Hilton

By targeting "multiculturalism", the British far right launches an attack on all of us

For years, the extreme right and its legitimisers picked off minorities one by one. Now they're unveiling a wider war.

By Diyora Shadijanova

A mom arrested over a birthmark? Hospitals must be held accountable for medical racism

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.

By Leah Borromeo

From Sherlock Holmes to Line of Duty, Britain loves copaganda

How the nation’s long love affair with police stories continues to shape our relationship with policing today.

By Leah Cowan

Blackpool's £65m Multiversity project means second forced upheaval in three years for one business

Omasan and his business have been by Blackpool’s ambitious development projects, which have delivered blow after blow to his trade

By Rachel Howarth

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