Environment

Children at a Cleveleys primary school put their creative skills to work to help rid the streets of cigarette ends.

A sandwich shop owner in Blackpool said she knew she wanted to back the ReFILL campaign after reading about The Gazette’s war on plastic.

Lytham in Bloom’s green-fingered volunteers are to come under the national spotlight in a BBC documentary series.

One cafe owner has not only joined the war against plastic – she’s leading the charge on the front line!

Subliminal messaging is the latest tool being used to tackle litter in Blackpool.

The sight of litter washing up on the beach is sadly still all to common – but one man helping to keep our seafront tidy was rather surprised to stumble across this blow up doll.

Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP Paul Maynard has called for a review of proposals to dump millions of tonnes of brine into the Irish Sea.

People should get out and garden in the coming days and weeks to make the most of a spring which "could be over in the blink of an eye", experts said.

A Blackpool hotel and the visitors’ centre at Stanley Park are the latest names to join the war on plastic.

Winter may finally be over as Mediterranean temperatures are set to hit many parts of Britain next week.

Shale gas giants Cuadrilla have admitted that routes to the proposed Roseacre Wood fracking site have been designed in part to reduce the impact of protests.

One of Blackpool’s longest established family-run hotels has signed up for the ReFILL scheme.

Shale gas firm Cuadrilla fleshed out how HGVs would travel to its proposed site if it is granted permission to drill at Roseacre Wood.

They have worked ‘tirelessly’ to bring a community back from devastating flood damage and to ensure a disaster of this scale never happens again.

The second day of a public inquiry is underway into Cuadrilla’s plans to frack for shale gas at Roseacre Wood in the Fylde.