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
B&Bs and guesthouses, old hotels, new hotels and areas left to ruin - Blackpool saw record tourism in 2023, but that doesn't mean traditional businesses aren't jostling for survival
Arts leaders in Blackpool are working with the local authority to draw up a five-year Cultural Plan - so now is the right time to set out big aspirations.
The Blackpool Lead teamed up with the Blackpool Gazette to host a hustings ahead of the Blackpool South by-election on 2 May
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
Scott Benton finally stood down after a recall petition was called - meaning the national spotlight will again be on Blackpool as it goes to the polls on 2 May
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
Both Amazing Graze and Mark Butcher, the Reform UK candidate in the Blackpool South by-election, have defended themselves against the complaint
The South Shore Romany Gypsies were central to the development of Blackpool as a tourist town, but as the town grew they were forced off the land they had occupied for generations. Is enough being done to recognise their contribution?
Much of the conversation on the night centred around whether Reform could take second place - they couldn't
Almost a million people in England depend on ad-hoc, unregulated private water supplies. We look at one village that drinks from a contaminated beck - but has been told connecting to the water grid will cost £150,000.
Greta Thunberg and other protesters like her are being arrested, fined and threatened with jail. These intentionally aggressive tactics aim to bully us into silence.
Ghanian artist and poet Kwame Aidoo reports his impressions from the climate change Biennale that is bringing African voices into the heart of the architectural mainstream - despite obstruction from Italy's own government.
The victory of common sense and communal rights over Alexander Darwall deserves to be celebrated - but it needs to become a turning point, not just an exception.
How Thatcher's chancellor made climate denial a Tory value.
Plant knowledge is on the decline: a study of UK students found only 14% could recognise more than three species of native plants. This is a serious problem.
Rivers full of plastic, beaches full of sewage, fens all but gone and half the native species already extinct. This isn't a dystopia, but today's reality - unless both major parties take on a new approach.
You have access to far, far more land than you think you do - but finding that out takes sleuthing. From slavery records to ancient tree maps, here is how to find out who owns what - and where you come in.
There’s an old adage that profit is reward for innovation and risk-taking. That’s BS. Shell and BP are raking it in because we’ve let them own the market - environment be damned.
Children born in the first blush of the pandemic will be thirty years old in 2050 - with “large-scale drought, famine, heat stress, species die-off, loss of entire ecosystems, and loss of habitable land" as the best-case scenario. But they are our last, best hope.