Keeping the shops on the high street is important but the support of the public needs to be consistent. Shops in Blackpool town centre were closing down and H&M, in the Houndshill Shopping Centre, was the next one to shut.
Heritage chiefs were looking at ways of trying to preserve the Blackpool piers. They were the only UK structures included on the New York-based World Monuments Watch in 2018. The council bid to American Express for 200,000.
After 30 years of being in charge of the ever-famous, Blackpool Illuminations, Richard Ryan announced he would be moving onto new ventures.
Former Miss Blackpool winner Kendall Rae-Knight searched for love on popular ITV dating show, Love Island. The former beauty queen wanted to find love after a previous relationship fell apart.
Horrific footage emerged from St Marys Catholic Academy in Blackpool of a pupil attacking another. The video was shared on popular smartphone app Snapchat.
Police were found to solve fewer than one-in-20 burglaries and robberies in Blackpool. The resort, alongside Preston, was named one of the worst areas in the country for the number solved.
Over the past two years, there had been 2,500 noise complaints made to Blackpool Council, leading to the authority to pledge a crackdown. Fines handed to residents started at 300 and went up to 5,000 in extreme cases.
