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Claremont People’s Plan could offer blueprint for improving areas if successful
The plan makes asks of government and the local authority - but also residents themselves
Dec 3
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Luke Beardsworth
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The Blackpool Lead
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November 2025
Blackpool Council puts forward its preferred method for abolishing itself - but what else could happen?
Blackpool Council is on borrowed time. But what comes next?
Nov 30
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Luke Beardsworth
and
The Blackpool Lead
1
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
Nov 26
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Luke Beardsworth
and
The Blackpool Lead
1
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
Nov 23
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Luke Beardsworth
and
The Blackpool Lead
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2
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
Nov 19
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Luke Beardsworth
and
The Blackpool Lead
2
1
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
Nov 16
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Luke Beardsworth
2
1
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
Nov 12
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Luke Beardsworth
,
The Blackpool Lead
, and
Michael Holmes
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2
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…
Nov 9
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Luke Beardsworth
and
The Blackpool Lead
3
2
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'
Nov 5
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Luke Beardsworth
and
The Blackpool Lead
1
1
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
Nov 2
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Luke Beardsworth
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1
1
October 2025
'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…
Oct 29
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Luke Beardsworth
and
The Blackpool Lead
2
1
Blackpool again at the centre of 'political football' over grooming gangs
Kemi Badenoch said Labour councils - naming Blackpool - were attempting to suppress the truth over the issue
Oct 26
•
Luke Beardsworth
and
The Blackpool Lead
1
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