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'Inadequate' care firm fined £142,500 for safety breach that led to elderly woman falling from stairlift

Crime
Work on the bridge in Devonshire Road is now underway

Council makes decision on temporary lights in Devonshire Road after trial

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Clive Garrad was jailed for two years

Man who molested young girl jailed despite protesting innocence

News
The BIBAs finals in Blackpool

Judges seek winners for Fylde coast BIBAs ceremony

Business

Fylde coast firms on notice of tourism awards launch

Business

Post put in for North Shore diversion will be removed after complaints – and with no diversion in place

News

Blackpool crooks getting off scot free

Crime

Police in spice ‘scourge’ vow after Blackpool drug raid

Crime
Blackpool Magistrates Court

Blackpool: From the courts 19-06-18

Crime
Dr Jim Morris with a coin found during the 2017 dig

Dig in again as Ribchester is Revisited

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'Inadequate' care firm fined £142,500 for safety breach that led to elderly woman falling from stairlift

Crime
Clive Garrad was jailed for two years

Man who molested young girl jailed despite protesting innocence

News
Burglaries are going unsolved

Blackpool crooks getting off scot free

Crime
Police officers outside the property on Caunce Street

Police in spice ‘scourge’ vow after Blackpool drug raid

Crime
Blackpool Magistrates Court

Blackpool: From the courts 19-06-18

Crime

Transport More Transport >>

TRAIN STRIKES: Disruption across north west as train users hit by more strikes

Transport
Paul Maynard on a Virgin Train

Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP in the driving seat with compo call

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The new breathalysers will give police and instant reading

New instant roadside breathalysers will not give drink-drivers time to sober up

Transport
Fylde MP Mark Menzies

Fylde MP’s delight at upgrade for road surface

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Education More Education >>

Dig in again as Ribchester is Revisited

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Michelle Holden

Headteacher set to leave Blackpool school

News
A "wish list" for parents

School asks parents to help supply pens, pencils and toilet paper

Education
A schoolboy has been excluded after a video was posted on Snapchat of him punching and kicking another pupil at St Mary's Catholic Academy in Blackpool

Two pupils excluded after sickening playground attack on Year 9 schoolboy

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(Left to right) Back Row: Joanne Wright, Debbie Stephenson, Lindsay Stephenson (Deputy Manager) Angie Parkinson.'Front Row: Manager Clare Greenwood.

All hail nursery stars!

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Judges seek winners for Fylde coast BIBAs ceremony

Business
The Lancashire Tourism Awards have been launched

Fylde coast firms on notice of tourism awards launch

Business
There have been no trains between Oxenholme and Windermere since Northern launched its new timetable

Trains to Lake District 'will run from July'

Environment
Paul Maynard on a Virgin Train

Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP in the driving seat with compo call

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Owen Oyston

Does photo of Owen Oyston play into hands of Blackpool fans’ Trust?

Your Say

Politics More Politics >>

Cash woes at Viva Blackpool spark loans debate

Music
Ambulances lined up.

Paramedics across the north west are going on strike today - and more could follow suit soon

Health
An extra 20 billion a year has been promised to the NHS by the Prime Minister. (Photo: PA Wire).

Five things you should know about the £20 billion NHS funding boost

Health
Get snapping

Welsh Assembly committee launches pothole photography competition

Politics

Environment More Environment >>

There have been no trains between Oxenholme and Windermere since Northern launched its new timetable

Trains to Lake District 'will run from July'

Environment
Booths chairman Edwin Booth

Booths free hot drink scheme to be cut

Business
Alison Thomasson and her dog being plagued by a nesting seagul

Winged assassins: Woman plagued by nesting seagulls

Blackpool
Walkers on the seafront

55mph winds hit the Fylde Coast after Storm Hector passes through

Environment

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22,000 babies have been born at the Vic since 2011

REVEALED: What is the peak time for babies to be born at Blackpool Victoria Hospital?

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Ambulances lined up.

Paramedics across the north west are going on strike today - and more could follow suit soon

Health
An extra 20 billion a year has been promised to the NHS by the Prime Minister. (Photo: PA Wire).

Five things you should know about the £20 billion NHS funding boost

Health

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Moderation is the key

Prime Minister weighs in on row over World Cup flags

Offbeat
Batman, looking extra fetching

The story of how this Batman got a crochet costume

Offbeat
The turtles were created using stencils and rakes

WATCH: Thousand turtles etched onto Blackpool beach in fight against plastic pollution

News
Swearing is good for you

Talk to your children about swearing, urges sweary scientist

Offbeat

Opinion More Opinion >>

Owen (Sion Alun Davies) and Cadi John (Sian Reese-Williams) in Hidden, the new Welsh police drama on BBC4

Hidden - Cracking crime capers from Cymru

TV and Film
Race for life

Column: In the pink at the speed of a sloth for Race for Life

Opinion

The Thing Is with Steve Canavan

Opinion