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Wyre councillor will need permission to skip meetings as he recovers from heart operation – or faces loses his seat

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Sir Alan Sugar

Blackpool is a hot spot for apprentices

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Blackpool Magistrates Court

Latest convictions from Blackpool's court - Monday, October 12, 2018

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Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Blackpool Victoria Hospital is to cut the number of sugary drinks it sells so it can cash in on financial reward

Health

Blackpool’s director of public health in bid to make booze more expensive

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Blackpool weather forecast: Sunny spells but this is when rain will hit Blackpool

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Road closed after protesters stage demo as fracking starts in Lancashire

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Fracking in Lancashire LIVE: Cuadrilla say 'protests will not halt plans' as Preston New Road remains closed in both directions

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The nine cyclists from Lytham Tennis Club who took part in the ride.

Lytham tennis players raise £10,000 for Parkinson's UK

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$The Preston New Road fracking site the day before fracking was due to start after a court injunction seeking to halt it was rejected$

Fracking to begin in Lancashire today following delays due to Storm Callum

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Latest convictions from Blackpool's court - Monday, October 12, 2018

Crime

Paedophile Grahame Brennand, 71, of Calder Avenue, Freckleton, made a career of being perverted and sadistic at a primary school in East Lancashire in the 1970s and 80s.

Victim of paedophile teacher Grahame Brennand sues Lancashire County Council

Crime

Couple who want doctors to keep treating severely-disabled baby son await High Court ruling

Health

Transport police were called to a railway bridge in Blackpool where a man was seen hanging upside down from a railway bridge

Semi-naked man hung upside down from Blackpool railway bridge

Crime

Vauxhall Corsa which crashed in Garstang after being chased by police

Arrests follow crash in Garstang

Crime

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Fracking in Lancashire LIVE: Cuadrilla say 'protests will not halt plans' as Preston New Road remains closed in both directions

Environment

Transport police were called to a railway bridge in Blackpool where a man was seen hanging upside down from a railway bridge

Semi-naked man hung upside down from Blackpool railway bridge

Crime

Trains have been cancelled between Preston and Carlisle

'Severe weather' causing disruption on trains through Lancashire today

Transport

Several people were injured in the incident

UPDATE: Police appeal after Weeton crash

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Victim of paedophile teacher Grahame Brennand sues Lancashire County Council

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Ofsted inspectors visit St Aidan’s High School in Preesall – and praise teachers

Education

Make It Count campaign on World Mental Health Day

One in 10 children 'have no one to talk to when feeling worried or sad'

Education

Lancashire RE teacher Ben Wood says it is "unacceptable" that every child does not have high quality access to the subject.

Religion will still be a key part of RE even if curriculum expands to include 'worldviews', says teacher

Education

Blackpool Victoria Hospital

The nursery at Blackpool Victoria Hospital has been inspected by Ofsted

Education

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Blackpool is a hot spot for apprentices

Business

Protesters at the Preston New Road site

Road closed after protesters stage demo as fracking starts in Lancashire

News

$Preston New Road is closed in both directions due to fracking demonstrations$

Fracking in Lancashire LIVE: Cuadrilla say 'protests will not halt plans' as Preston New Road remains closed in both directions

Environment

$The Preston New Road fracking site the day before fracking was due to start after a court injunction seeking to halt it was rejected$

Fracking to begin in Lancashire today following delays due to Storm Callum

Environment

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Beggars have put us off visiting Blackpool town centre at night - ever again!

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Letters - October 11, 2018

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Letters - October 10, 2018

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Letters - October 9, 2018

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Letters - October 8, 2018

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Politics More Politics >>

Wyre councillor will need permission to skip meetings as he recovers from heart operation – or faces loses his seat

Politics

Paedophile Grahame Brennand, 71, of Calder Avenue, Freckleton, made a career of being perverted and sadistic at a primary school in East Lancashire in the 1970s and 80s.

Victim of paedophile teacher Grahame Brennand sues Lancashire County Council

Crime

Concerns over mental health services in Lancashire, including problems at The Harbour in Blackpool, are being raised with the health secretary after being revealed in The Gazette

'No excuse' for mental health failings in Lancashire

Health

Lancashire County Council has consulted on cutting the number of buildings from where children's services can be accessed.

Familiar surroundings can stop vulnerable families falling through the net, says councillor

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Coun Balmain, former Wyre mayor, in 2015

Wyre councillor will need permission to skip meetings as he recovers from heart operation – or faces loses his seat

Politics

Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Blackpool Victoria Hospital is to cut the number of sugary drinks it sells so it can cash in on financial reward

Health

Dr Arif Rajpura, below, wants a minimum alcohol price

Blackpool’s director of public health in bid to make booze more expensive

Health

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Meghan and Harry

Meghan and Harry expecting baby in Spring 2019

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How to defrost your windscreen - according to a former NASA engineer

Ex-NASA engineer reveals the quickest way to defrost your windscreen

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Do people make assumptions on your name?

Revealed - the (unfair?) stereotypes based solely on people's first names

Offbeat

Fines for mobile use

Lithuania's phone-addicted pedestrians to face fines

Crime

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Dan Donohue

Column: Danny Donohue - fitness is about the long game

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Amber Valley Wines vineyard

Lancashire Wine School's visit to a Derbyshire vineyard

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Fred Sirieix, Gordon Ramsay and Gino DAcampo were in ITV's latest celebrity travelogue series, Gordon, Fred and Gino's Road Trip

Gordon, Gino and Fred's Road Trip gives banter a bad name

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