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Serious safety failings exposed at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
PLUS: An update on heritage trams and their return to Blackpool
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Watered down welfare reform bill fails to win support from Blackpool MPs
PLUS: Blackpool Council's breakfast clubs to see significant reforms
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How Blackpool adapted to make a vital contribution in World War 2
Mike Coyle, who blogs about historical events in Blackpool, writes about the end of World War 2 and its impact on Blackpool
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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
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
Independent review underway at Blackpool Victoria Hospital as concerns raised over fetal medicine service
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South Shore Academy teacher charged with murdering baby boy
 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes
Half of Blackpool either forced to go private - or go without - vital dental care
PLUS: The biggest changes to the bins since they got wheels
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After council vowed Stanley Park high ropes were not gone for good - it turns out they are
PLUS: The latest on who is, might be and isn't politicising child sexual exploitation in Blackpool
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Welfare reform must not leave people in Blackpool behind
PLUS: A pensioner died of a heart attack after being left waiting almost two weeks for an urgent bypass operation that should have been done within…
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New report calls for Blackpool to be included in national grooming gang inquiry
Plus: Where Blackpool scored in council climate rankings and 'root cause of toxic culture' at Blackpool Vic is convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault
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Operators of Reform UK's first pub, where Nigel Farage drank last week, previously hosted BNP including jailed neo-Nazi Jack Renshaw
PLUS: Hope Not Hate say it is unfortunate that Reform UK have joined a 'miserable guestlist'
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South Shore Academy teacher charged with murdering baby boy
PLUS: Guesthouse vows to come back from prohibition order better than ever
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Focus on child poverty after government u-turns on winter fuel payment
PLUS: A care home is warned to take action after a Bispham pensioner choked on his food after an unseen fall
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Inside the deal to return Blackpool Tower to council control
PLUS: Who has been whacked on the knuckles over failures to pay the minimum wage?
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Jamie Lopez
Blackpool bus service could be blueprint for the rest of Lancashire
PLUS: Cuadrilla accused of breaching planning rules and failing to achieve results
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