Blackpool, England News

TP, you speak of hatred. What do you say about those two cowards who assaulted my black brother and his dogs in his motherland? You must have something to say or you are also a coward? Remember that will destroy you.

The tragic proof that sometimes love really CAN'T conquer all: When Rick was horribly maimed in Afghanistan, Leanne insisted their wedding went ahead.

The family of eight, including a four-year-old boy, had to cover the child in a blanket to protect against the smoke and escape to safety after a fire started in the property on Clarence Street in Morecambe owned by landlord Graham Sawings, a district judge heard.

As revealed in The Gazette yesterday, Blackpool Council has announced it is looking at five possible options for the future of the town's Golden Mile - including a return to its previous four lane layout.

Centenarians were invited to put on their dancing shoes and relive their youth as Blackpool's most famous attraction celebrated its birthday.

A man was so drunk he kicked his way into a family's home instead of the new flat he had just moved into.

Five possible options for the future of Blackpool Promenade are exclusively revealed by The Gazette today after town hall chiefs agreed to a full-scale review of the layout which has been blamed for causing congestion.

A landlord who put lives at risk by breaching fire regulations was slammed by a judge who told him he was guilty of "gross negligence". Mohammed Attique ran Tazy's takeaway on Church Street, Blackpool, where he had two members of staff staying in the flat above when the first of two fires broke out.

More than 3,000 people will line up on the Promenade on Sunday, eagerly awaiting the start of this year's Beaverbrooks Blackpool 10k Fun Run.

A strong smell of cannabis put police on the scent of a stash of drugs near a hot tub in a Blackpool garden.

A Blackpool singer will pay a special visit to her home town tomorrow as excitement builds over the release of her second album.

Three years ago Blackpool mum Jackie Hague went to the gym just so she could get into her holiday bikini.

An 11-year-old Blackpool schoolboy fell from a zip wire because he had been wrongly attached to the equipment, an inquest jury was told.

A National training company has unveiled a new centre in Blackpool to help people get the skills they need for employment.

Police are hoping to speak to this woman who may have seen someone involved in starting a fire at a flat in the centre of Blackpool.

Almost 10m has been spent on shipping vulnerable children out of Blackpool in the last three years because there are not enough suitable care facilities in the town.

The Mitre, the Pump and Truncheon and the Cedar Tavern are among favourite drinking holes judged important enough to be given a special 'local listing'. But there is no place for the former ABC cinema on Church Street which the council is proposing to demolish.

Two Fylde opticians have changed hands and another is to close as a national retailer moved to snap up stores in the county.

Workers left their desks behind to go litter-picking on the sands to raise awareness about caring for our seaside.

Rory Bremner is in Liverpool where he tries his hand at bell ringing in its famous cathedral.