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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
Palestinian family-of-seven booted from Metropole day after raising concerns over condition of hotel
 • Luke Beardsworth and The Blackpool Lead
Getting under the skin of plans to transform central Blackpool
 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes
Jameson Road landfill still stinks and causing symptoms, says new health report
Headaches, nausea and more as side effects not enough to bring the end to the Jameson Road landfill that residents hope for
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
The Blackpool Lead
Inside Blackpool’s 'foodbank of foodbanks' - which provides more than 17,000 meals per week - in danger of closure
The number of people needing support to feed themselves in Blackpool is growing rather than decreasing
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
The Blackpool Lead
Who pays for Blackpool to have a world-class arena?
Plans for an arena in Blackpool are ambitious and not without obstacles - but there aren't many confident enough to rule them out
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
The Blackpool Lead
Treatment of Palestinian family-of-seven branded ‘horrifying and inhumane’
The Joint Council for The Welfare of Immigrants has expressed its concerns at the treatment of the family
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
Women and babies have been at risk of death by electrocution in Blackpool Victoria Hospital's maternity theatres
Bosses at the Vic, in Whinney Heys Road, closed the theatre and are now poised to spend more than £250,000 putting the issue right
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
, 
The Blackpool Lead
, and 
Michael Holmes
Palestinian family-of-seven booted from Metropole day after raising concerns over condition of hotel
The Blackpool Lead can exclusively reveal that the family were moved 24 hours after speaking with ITV - leaving their eldest daughter's nurse training…
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
The Blackpool Lead
Blackpool doctor could finally be struck off after tribunal said he raped a woman
Foy-Yamah's conducted was initially found to have not quite crossed the line for 'erasure from the medical register'
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
The Blackpool Lead
How to spend a £20m pot of money in Grange Park
It should be residents who ultimately decide the best place to spend the money, argues one community development manager about the Pride in Place fund
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
'Cruel' and 'inhumane' system behind forced purchase of Alistair Taylor's house slammed
The inquest has drawn a conclusion about the council's role in Alistair Taylor's death - but the battle to ensure it doesn't happen again is only just…
 • 
Luke Beardsworth
 and 
The Blackpool Lead
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