'People behave like this, leave, call it a shithole': Sexual harassment reality in Blackpool

I began the Reclaim Blackpool campaign to help women share their experiences of sexual harassment in the town. Here, those people tell their stories of spiking, verbal abuse and feeling unsafe.

By Antonia Charlesworth Stack, first published 23 January 2024

Hundreds of women have spoken of sexual harassment, spiking and verbal abuse in Blackpool. 

The stories come from all areas of life but are most common in the night time economy. And it’s stories like these that mean I’m on my way to a specially-organised party this evening in response to one …