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Blackpool Council's potential role in death of much-loved dad to be examined at inquest
PLUS: Is fracking about to be back on the table on the Fylde Coast?
Aug 27
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Blackpool Council's potential role in death of much-loved dad to be examined at inquest
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Blackpool Council told it must improve adult social care in damning new report
PLUS: A particularly upsetting case where a girl was subjected to ‘unimaginable abuse’ at the hands of a man from Blackpool. He has unsuccessfully…
Aug 6
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Blackpool Council told it must improve adult social care in damning new report
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The story of a Blackpool captain convicted for being homosexual
Local historian Anne Charlesworth writes on Captain Edward Rigby - convicted in 1698 of sodomy
Aug 1
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The story of a Blackpool captain convicted for being homosexual
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Questions for fire service after anonymous crew member claims lives are at risk
PLUS: Blackpool's suicide strategy with figures still above national average
Jul 20
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Luke Beardsworth
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Questions for fire service after anonymous crew member claims lives are at risk
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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
Jul 6
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Watered down welfare reform bill fails to win support from Blackpool MPs
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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
Jul 2
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The Blackpool Lead
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Michael Holmes
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Half of Blackpool either forced to go private - or go without - vital dental care
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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
Jun 29
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Luke Beardsworth
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Michael Holmes
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After council vowed Stanley Park high ropes were not gone for good - it turns out they are
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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…
Jun 25
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Luke Beardsworth
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Michael Holmes
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Welfare reform must not leave people in Blackpool behind
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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'
Jun 18
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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
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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
Jun 11
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Michael Holmes
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Focus on child poverty after government u-turns on winter fuel payment
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Air quality report into Jameson Road landfill not enough to declare site safe
PLUS: What the report into violence after the Southport attacks tells us about our area
May 14
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Air quality report into Jameson Road landfill not enough to declare site safe
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Blackpool Council was accused of 'insidious' tactics to force sale of home before young dad's death
PLUS: The latest on the Metropole Hotel controversy
Feb 9
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Blackpool Council was accused of 'insidious' tactics to force sale of home before young dad's death
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