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Fylde coast tenor Alfie Boe to hit the road with new tour Bohemia in 2027

Fylde coast tenor Alfie Boe to hit the road with new tour in 2027

A dartboard at home can quickly turn a casual evening with friends into a tournament

Ad Feature Five hobbies to bring back this winter

Lorraine Beavers MP backs a new rail line between Poulton and Fleetwood

I know families are worried about what their kids will do after school

The M55 is currently backlogged with traffic this morning

If driving on the M55 is challenging, you need to hand in your licence

Medal winners on the podium (photo: Luke Simcock)

Blackpool para fencer Moore starts her European Championships week with a medal

Ofsted praise Blackpool's Norman House Independent School with fees of up to £80,000 a year

Ofsted praises independent school with fees of up to £80,000 a year

Sandwiches have more experimental fillings than they used to

Ad Feature Why the sandwich remains Britain’s workplace lunch champion

Blackpool South MP has celebrated the news.

I’m campaigning for more direct trains between Blackpool and London

TV Host Alison Hammond surprised some of Britain's most loyal people

Britain's most loyal people surprised by Alison Hammond

Blackpool RNLI Station

'Keep saving': Heartfelt message to Blackpool RNLI amid national abuse

Seagulls on Blackpool promenade

Blackpool’s not alone – Britain loses £171m to greedy seagull thefts

A new school set up at Squires Gate Industrial estate will teach plastering and tiling

New trade school training next generation amid record uni applications

Sooty and friends with Matthew Corbett in Blackpool
1995

Beloved kids' puppet Sooty backs Blackpool's City of Culture bid

Millionaire lottery winner to turn mansion into residential school for disabled kids

Millionaire lottery winner reveals incredible plans for huge mansion

Afternoon Tea Week: Blackpool Tower Ballroom serves 45,000 afternoon teas every year

Blackpool Tower Ballroom serves 45,000 afternoon teas every year

The toilets broke on my five-and-a-half hour train journey from London to Scotland

The toilets broke on my major five-and-a-half hour train journey
Major service disruptions on the West Coast Main Line were due to toilet faults.
Jack Marshall

'We've been creating culture in Blackpool for generations' - Council Leader Lynn Williams on Illuminations

The Blackpool Illuminations shape our reputation around the world

Blackpool Airport issues statement ahead of 'busiest weekend of the year' at Air Show 2026

Blackpool Airport statement ahead of 'busiest weekend of the year'

The Charlie Cairoli statue, pictured left at Blackpool’s Stanley Park, is being moved to a prominent town centre spot again.

Charlie Cairoli statue to be moved to promiment town centre spot

Composite image of Nigel Farage and Count Binface

Blackpool on Nigel Farage amid questions over Reform leader's finances

Chris Webb, MP for Blackpool South, has backed moves by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham to cut business rates by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues.

'Hospitality is our identity' - MP backs Prime Minister's 20% tax cut

Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter KT Tunstall has been announced as the latest star to join the line-up for a major free concert at Blackpool Opera House

Music star set for Opera House gig backing City of Culture bid

Chris Webb, Blackpool South MP, has reiterated his support for Andy Burnham’s bid to become the new Labour leader and Prime Minister

Fylde coast MP has say on Andy Burnham bid to become Prime Minister

Volkswagen T-Roc

Second generation T-Roc is a winner for Volkswagen

2026 Armed Forces Service and Parade in Blackpool. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

Blackpool MP on 'fantastic' Armed Forces Service and Parade

Aldi's Summer Support Scheme returns

How to apply for Aldi's Summer Support Scheme for a £50 voucher

Political pundits have suggested Andy Burnham make Blackpool his 'Mar-a-Lago' by moving the PM's official holiday retreat from Chequers in Buckinghamshire to the Lancashire seaside resort

Andy Burnham should make Blackpool his 'Mar-a-Lago' as PM, forget Chequers
“Forget Manchester. Blackpool should be Burnham’s new Chequers...”
Matthew Calderbank

Aldi’s £16.49 gin crowned ‘Best in Britain’ – beating bottles almost double the price.

Aldi’s £16.49 gin crowned ‘Best in Britain’

Tony Hadley on stage

1980s music legend back with festive tour

Leave and Remain campaigners face off during the 2016 EU referendum, the centrepoint of the new BBC documentary series Brexit: A Very British Civil War (Picture: BBC/Zinc Television/Alamy/PA Images/Dominic Lipinski)

Farage and Johnson paint a turning point as playground politics

Blackpool Gazette readers are being offered the chance to enjoy one of Britain's most iconic race days for just 10p as Cartmel Racecourse celebrates 170 years of racing.

Gazette readers offered the chance to enjoy a day at the races for 10p

The Leapmotor T03 brings affordable electric motoring back to the city car segment

Leapmotor T03 review: The £15,995 electric city car Britain needs

Aldi is giving away £1,966 in vouchers and a FREE outdoor cinema kit as it searches for Britain’s best hosting garden this summer.

Aldi is giving away £1,966 in vouchers and a FREE outdoor cinema kit

Secrets at the Dover Café by Ginny Bell

Secrets at the Dover Café by Ginny Bell book review

An elderly man wearing a black coat and a flat cap asleep on a bench beside a similarly dressed person, overlooking the crowded beach from Blackpool Pier in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, circa 1955. Blackpool Tower rises in the background beyond the beach.

24 old school pictures of Blackpool beach scenes from the 1950s

Essity carried out the study to mark the opening of its new £30million recycled paper facility at its manufacturing site in Prudhoe, Northumberland.

Kids in Britain flush up to 13,476,238 MILES of loo paper annually

The statutory deadline for the application for a massive 11-year infrastructure project on the Fylde coast has been reset.

Breaking Major update on plans for windfarm cable through Fylde coast

Blackpool has been the 'poster child for government failure', according to a resort MP who says the cost-of-living crisis is continuing to bite hard.

MP slams Parliament for harsh impact of cost-of-living in Blackpool

Harry Enfield is returning to the stage

Legendary comedian to bring brand new special live show to Blackpool

8 pics as students visit Sir David Attenborough for his birthday

My huge LEGO collection includes The Statue of Liberty and The Beatles

As part a new multi-million pound health commitment to help the public, Holland and Barrett has launched 300,000 free high-street Wellness Check-Ins per month to help people back their bodies. Team GB medallist, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, has lent her support to the initiative and is encouraging the nation to act on health before it’s too late.

Holland & Barrett launch free high-street wellness check-ins

Comedian and Mock The Week favourite Mark Simmons is bring his huge 2026 tour to Viva Blackpool

Comedian and BBC Mock The Week favourite coming to the Fylde coast

The programme follows Donal MacIntyre as he casts a microscopic lens over real cases from across the UK

Ad Feature Donal MacIntyre’s UK Killer Evidence returns to TRUE CRIME next week

Britain’s most popular regional delicacies revealed

Prof Peter Hammond (Jason Watkins) and Ash Smith (David Thewlis) take on the water companies in Channel 4's Dirty Business (Picture: Rob Baker Ashton/Channel 4)

Dirty Business uses fury to defeat the weasel words of the water industry

Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby competed in Monday's figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images

Anastasia Vaipan-Law's pride in her Winter Olympics performance

The greatest Winter Olympics Games moments of all time have been revealed.

The greatest Winter Olympics Games moments revealed

Blackpool Tower

Watch: Historian Barry McCann delves into Blackpool Tower's past

The M&S traitor in Aldi, and Sam, an actual traitor in the TV show.

M&S emoloyee commits the ultimate betrayal by shopping in Aldi

Workers standing in the bottom section of the Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool, in September 1929, beneath an experimental length of reinforced concrete, which would form the roadway.

Britain's biggest construction projects in photos

Phil Spencer and Robert Kingsley are both on the board.

Ad Feature Research exposes hidden cost crisis facing lodge and caravan owners

An elderly man wearing a black coat and a flat cap asleep on a bench beside a similarly dressed person, overlooking the crowded beach from Blackpool Pier in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, circa 1955. Blackpool Tower rises in the background beyond the beach.

24 evocative pictures that remind us of the beach in the 1950s

The Harris has announced that its reopening exhibition will be
‘Wallace & Gromit In A Case At The Museum'

I visited the immersive Wallace and Gromit exhibition in Preston

Lee Kennedy has worked at the plant for 33 years, and now works alongside his daughter Eve.

London Underground named as one of Britain’s best engineering feats

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