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Last Laugh star Bobby has a Ball in aid of children's charity

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Lejaune Andre stars in Signed Sealed Delivered

Tribute acts take over to celebrate stars’ greatest hits

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Stephen Triffitt on stage in The Rat Pack Live

Ole Blue Eyes Stephen steps in to do it his way in a Rat Pack tribute show

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Gary Barlow on stage

Could it be magic? Take That star set to cast a spell over Opera House

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Blackpool: From the courts 26-04-18

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Super fan’s mission to see her idol

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Eat, sleep, rave repeat - with your kids along for the party

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Car transporter crashes into bridge on M61 motorway

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Two warrants were executed on Vance Road

Four arrested in Blackpool drugs bust

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Vic infection rates better than average

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Blackpool: From the courts 26-04-18

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Two warrants were executed on Vance Road

Four arrested in Blackpool drugs bust

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Stephen Unwin, 42, and William McFall, 51

Sadistic killers will never be released from prison

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Police vans in Blackpool town centre this evening. Photo: Facebook

Police hail member of public after man is talked down from top of Blackpool car park

Crime
Ronke Badru (left) and Wendy Badru, the mother and half sister of Abraham Badru who was shot dead on Ferncliff Road in Hackney on March 25, at Ronke's home in Hackney. Photo credit: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Graduate 'Gunned down in revenge attack for helping convict rape gang'

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Transport More Transport >>

Car transporter crashes into bridge on M61 motorway

Transport
We all want to avoid the glare when driving

Why you could face a HUGE fine if you wear sunglasses while driving

Transport
Coun Derek Robertson on Osborne Road

Permit scheme to tackle parking woes in parts of Blackpool's tourism area

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Staff and pupils from Boundary Primary are celebrating after being nominated in the TES Awards for Primary School of the Year. Pictured is headteacher Suzanne Ashton with pupil Emily Taylor.

Blackpool school in running to be named best in country

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Twins Haydn Astbury (R) and Sam Astbury (L), aged 11, have both been accepted to prestigious ballet schools.

Ballet brothers set sights on stardom

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Youngsters at Revoe Learning Academy in Blackpool with two of the chicks that have hatched at the school

PICTURES: Reception youngsters at Blackpool school watch chicks hatch inside incubator

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St John Vianneys Catholic Primary School

Ofsted in praise for Blackpool school

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Blackpool investment firm to lose name

Business
Language Insights' HQ at Kirkham

Fylde language firm's eastern promise

Business
Cuadrilla's fracking rig at Preston New Road

Fracking will 'industrialise' countryside claim

Business
We all want to avoid the glare when driving

Why you could face a HUGE fine if you wear sunglasses while driving

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Lancashire Police to pull out of North West Motorway Policing Group

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MP Cat Smith

MP says potholes are costing Fleetwood motorists dear

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Michael Daley, 66, was refused permanent residence in the UK in 2015, despite living in Blackpool since he was a toddler and both parents being born in Lancashire.

‘I feared I’d be deported after 60 years here’

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Jeremy Corbyn

Labour to press ahead with new public holiday plans

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Cuadrilla's fracking rig at Preston New Road

Fracking will 'industrialise' countryside claim

Business
The Hand and Dagger junction as seen in a Google image

Fracking inquiry hears of potential dangers from 'juggernauts'

Business
Staff at SEA LIFE Blackpool have conjured up an aquatic tribute for World Circus Day...an underwater Big Top for the clown fish!

Life really is a circus for fish at Blackpool Sealife Centre

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Health More Health >>

Vic infection rates better than average

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Tom Evans and Kate James failed in an 11th-hour attempt to persuade judges to let them move the 23-month-old to a foreign hospital.

Parents of Alfie Evans keep bedside vigil amid tensions over treatment

Health
A man and woman (both centre), believed to be members of a German air ambulance crew, exit Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after they were asked to leave the hospital

UPDATED: Alfie parents lose latest Appeal Court battle

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Take That superfan Louise Sacha

Super fan’s mission to see her idol

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Gulliver's World, Warrington

Gulliver's are calling all married couples to Gulliver's World, Warrington

Offbeat
The Shyte home page. The name is an acronym for 'seriously helps you to energise"

Canadian chocolatier Shyte goes viral for hilarious name

Offbeat
Alexa Sterchele with her parents

Toddler is caught on camera having a spot of difficulty with the word 'goldfish'

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Archdeacon of Lancaster, wearing red and white, praying during his parachute jump

Column: Day I jumped out of a plane

Opinion
Pam and Emily with their runner bean chutney in the new BBC2 show Top of the Shops with Tom Kerridge

Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge - A flop from top to bottom

TV and Film

REV RON GREENALL: Pictures capture a real revolution

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