Blackpool
Blackpool struck by 1.5-magnitude earthquake
Tremor hit at depth of 0.6 miles outside the village of Weeton just after 7.30pm on Friday
Tobi Thomas
04, Feb, 2023 @6:41 PM
Strictly Come Dancing to celebrate BBC centenary with themed week
BBC show will also return to Blackpool Tower ballroom after two-year break in new series launching next month
Jessica Murray
21, Aug, 2022 @11:01 PM
Boy, 6, becomes voice of Blackpool Tower
Tower-obsessed Charlie Barratt recorded the welcome speech visitors hear as they ascend the lift
Helen Pidd North of England editor
12, Aug, 2022 @4:10 PM
‘I feel like a second-class citizen’: outsourced hospital staff join strikes
OCS workers at Blackpool and Blackburn call for weekend pay in line with NHS staff
Jasper Jolly
29, Jun, 2022 @3:45 PM
Is the Conservative party the Woolworths of politics? | Brief letters
Brief letters: The NHS and Blockbuster | Bus stop benches | Heather Wheeler’s insults | New York’s crystal energy | Venison food strategy | Boris Johnson’s brass neck
Letters
12, Jun, 2022 @5:25 PM
Blackpool council leader criticises Tory minister’s ‘ignorant’ comments
Heather Wheeler reportedly said she had been ‘at a conference in Blackpool or Birmingham or somewhere godawful’
Clea Skopeliti
11, Jun, 2022 @11:14 AM
Tory MP apologises for calling Birmingham and Blackpool ‘godawful’
Heather Wheeler, a minister in the Cabinet Office, made comments at technology event in London
Harry Taylor
10, Jun, 2022 @8:54 PM
‘It’s good for all of us’: Blackpool hails Jake Daniels for coming out
While older fans praise teenager’s courage, younger people wonder why football is so behind the times
Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill
17, May, 2022 @6:45 PM
‘Grown men come in here crying’: how Tory cuts have hit Blackpool hard
While the party conference ponders poverty, the town’s most deprived face being £1,000 a year worse off
Helen Pidd North of England editor
05, Oct, 2021 @6:01 PM
Asylum seekers placed in ‘unsuitable’ Blackpool hotel despite council protests
Local authority accuses Home Office and Serco of trying to beat court hearing and frustrate justice system
Maya Wolfe-Robinson
28, Sep, 2021 @6:18 PM
Scrapped Covid rules bring fewer than 20% of UK city workers back to the office
Footfall in 30 big cities averages just 18% of pre-pandemic levels, thinktank finds
Larry Elliott
12, Aug, 2021 @5:01 AM
There is a way to save our coastal resorts… welcome to Zoomtown-on-Sea | Will Hutton
Our coast is in dire need of help, as a new report has highlighted, but without drastic changes to local funding it will be difficult to deliver
Will Hutton
25, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM
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