Blackpool Victoria Hospital

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, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes

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, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth and The Blackpool Lead

Mentally unwell STILL waiting days for treatment at The Vic

PLUS: Why fracking entering the national politics debate is not good for Lancashire

Oct 5, 2025 • 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

Sep 17, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth 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

Sep 10, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes

Environment Agency rubbishes independent monitoring from stinky landfill operator

PLUS: Further damaging revelations from Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Sep 7, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes

Inquest into Valerie Kneale's death returns spotlight to hospital murder that hasn't been solved

PLUS: Circumstances that led to death of an Irish man, washed up in Blackpool, to be examined

Sep 3, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes

Long waits at Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s A&E department lead surge in distressing sores

PLUS: What really happened with Backlot Cinema?

Aug 17, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, Michael Holmes, and Jamie Lopez

Serious safety failings exposed at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

PLUS: An update on heritage trams and their return to Blackpool

Jul 9, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes

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…

Jun 25, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes

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

Jun 11, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Michael Holmes

Job cuts and rides shelved as Pleasure Beach cites cost-of-living crisis in announcing further losses

PLUS: An inquest opens into the death of a woman believed to have been murdered - and Blackpool and The Fylde College under the microscope

Mar 26, 2025 • Luke Beardsworth, The Blackpool Lead, and Jamie Lopez

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