David Cameron

Victoria Atkins MP (left) has taken the position of Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, previously held by Steve Barclay MP (right). Images: Getty

PM's cabinet reshuffle sees him swap one former Blackpool pupil for another

Former head of the Home Civil Service Lord Bob Kerslake has died. (Photo by Tayfun Salci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake dies aged 68

International Harry Potter Day is on May 2

How to celebrate International Harry Potter Day

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer publishes tax details

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street after reportedly £6 million deal.

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street

2022 World Seniors Darts Matchplay Championship

This new Blackpool darts competition will be screened live on Channel 5

Tom Ince scores his and Blackpool's second goal

Blackpool's Championship memories: Millwall win ends a difficult few days for th...

Letters - Monday, December 20. 2021

Covid-19

Former MI6 head says Covid virus lab leak evidence has likely been destroyed

Fish and chips

Letters - Thursday, April 22, 2021

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock are facing a lawsuit over Test and Trace - here's...

Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street following the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on September 15, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Boris Johnson’s controversial Internal Market...

Colin might feel like part of the family - but how well do you know him? (Photo: M&S)

13 things you (probably) didn't know about Colin the Caterpillar as the cake tur...

Harding runs England’s heavily criticised NHS Test and Trace system (Photo: PA)

Dido Harding has been appointed to run the new national body that will replace P...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak introduced the furlough scheme as a response to economic pain caused by the coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

A quarter of UK workers are now furloughed - and unemployment levels could rocke...

Boris Johnson's choice of name for son could mark out his future Sally Burton

Here's whether the Prime Minister will take time off after the birth of his baby...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is recuperating at his official country retreat after being discharged from hospital (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Chequers country estate - where Boris Johnson...

Union Jack

Letters - Thursday, February 6, 2020

Nigel Farage

Letters - Tuesday, February 4, 2020

No new starter homes have been built in England since 2014 - despite government ...

Walkers visiting in the Lake District in Cumbria.

New 'super masts' lined up to improve rural mobile phone signal

Would a bulldog be Boris' choice?

Boris Johnson considers pet dog for Downing Street

Ruth Jones as Nessa, Mat Horne as Gavin, Joanna Paige as Stacey and James Corden as Smithy

Gavin and Stacey: The show's most famous catchphrases

Tom Walker as Jonathan Pie, who is on tour in the North West

Jonathan Pie announces brand new nationwide tour 'The Fake News Tour'

Cantona urges Brits to take an exit from Brexit

Eric Cantona is encouraging Brits to make an exit from Brexit

Letters - February 7, 2019
Like blowing our life savings in a casino
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David Cameron (right) with Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker

Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil reveals just how we got in this mess, but Ca...

Should the threshold for tremors allowed at fracking sites be raised to make it easier for fracking companies?

Letters - January 18, 2019

Alan Reid, CEO of Disability First, at the annual general meeting, celebrating 25 years of the Blackpool-based charity, held at The Grange, Blackpool.

Letters - November 14, 2018

David Cameron

David Cameron moving back into politics 'entirely a matter for him', says No 10

Roy Edmonds

A Word In Your Ear - September 6, 2018

Children's centres are disappearing '“ here's what it means for the under fives ...

25 of Kevin Bridges' most hilarious quotes and jokes

Property owners on Topping Street could get money to upgrade their premises

Letters - March 7, 2018

Mark Menzies

MP's call to speed ahead with next generation jet to protect jobs

Aasma Day

Blabbing secrets by accident

Prime Minister Theresa May

What would trigger a Tory Party leadership contest?

George Osborne

George Osborne reveals his true feeling about our Prime Minister

Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall arriving in Vienna, Austria, with an RAF Voyager A330 in background

Using new ministerial jet for Charles's European tour may have cost Â£150,000

Jake Berry who has taken over as Northern Powerhouse Minister

Lancashire MP takes over as head of the Northern Powerhouse

Theresa May is preparing to trigger Article 50 and kick start Britain's exit from the EU

ARTICLE 50: Key questions about first step towards Brexit

Regional coordinator for the North West Raptor Protection Group, Terry Pickford, with the peregrine falcon that was shot in St Annes.

Letters - February 27, 2017

Mine..

Video: Battle with dive-bombing gulls moves inland

Samantha Cameron, who has launched a fashion line

Samantha Cameron launches Cefinn women's fashion collection

The Thing Is with Steve Canavan - January 26, 2017

Talbot Road Bus Station, Blackpool.
Historical dated july 1939

Letters - September 29, 2016

Has your home got the Aldi effect?

Has your home got the Aldi effect?

David Cameron who is to stand down as MP for Witney, triggering a by-election in the Oxfordshire seat

David Cameron stands down as Witney MP

Hotels on Bourne Crescent off Blackpool Promenade, South Shore

Letters - July 15, 2016

FCAT chief executive officer Felicity Greeves with finance lead Jane McCumiskey, HR business partner Laure Ferris, and community relations and estates lead John Topping

New Blackpool school announced by departing David Cameron

David Cameron and his wife Samantha on the first day of the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 2005

Blackpool's key role in David Cameron's premiership

Meet Theresa May, Britain's new prime minister ...

Letters - July 8, 2016

Fylde MP Mark Menzies

MP '˜hopes jobs are not lost' in EU exit