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Bosses at Reform UK's first pub 'accidentally' agreed to host two-day neo-Nazi gig
 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes
The Metropole: Closer to a prison than a holiday for asylum seekers
 • Luke Beardsworth and The Blackpool Lead
Investigation into Central Pier concludes after woman suffered serious injuries falling through access hatch
 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes
“Not fit to run a licenced premises”: The backstory of the co-owner of the UK's first Reform UK pub
 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes
Getting under the skin of plans to transform central Blackpool
 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes
Refugees living in Metropole Hotel to be reminded they could always go home
 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes
Mentally unwell STILL waiting days for treatment at The Vic
PLUS: Why fracking entering the national politics debate is not good for Lancashire
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Luke Beardsworth
 and 
The Blackpool Lead
A very Blackpool call to arms in 1899
Local historian Colin Reed looks at Blackpool's key role in the response to the second Anglo-Boer War
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Two boys, 13, arrested on suspicion of arson after hotel fire
PLUS: A £400,000 bill for a fishing trawler deemed to have accidentally cut an internet cable running from Ireland to Blackpool
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
The Blackpool Lead
Blackpool's Reform UK councillors refuse to vote in motion condemning fracking
PLUS: What are the ambitious plans for Stanley Park?
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
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Inside the collapse of the Indigo Hotel scheme as Blackpool Council step in
Plus: Spire Fylde Coast Hospital being lined up for sale
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Blackpool councillor apologises for 'provocative' post comparing Reform UK to Nazis
PLUS: The states of trees across the county after a number of deaths in the last 12 months
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
The Blackpool Lead
Questions to answer after death of man rough-sleeping during Blackpool storm
PLUS: Blackpool Victoria Hospital will be part of a nationwide probe into maternity services
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
Michael Holmes
Role of Blackpool Council in death of Alistair Taylor to be scrutinised by a coroner
PLUS: A Blackpool woman who sued the Ministry of Defence after falling off a horse and shattering her shoulder has been branded “fundamentally…
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
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The Blackpool Lead
, and 
Michael Holmes
Reform UK at risk of being home for Tory rejects
PLUS: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust finds itself poorly placed in the new NHS league table
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
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The Blackpool Lead
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Michael Holmes
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The Blackpool Lead covers people, place and policy across the town. Direct to your inbox every Wednesday and Sunday, edited by Luke Beardsworth with writing from Michael Holmes and Jamie Lopez.
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