CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The bash Corrie deserves? Glasto at Blackpool with whelks, not drugs

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: The bash Corrie deserves? Glasto at Blackpool with whelks, not drugs By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:18 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 02:18 GMT, 10 December 2020 Queens Of The Street  Rating: Meet The Richardsons At Christmas Rating: Coronation Street does enjoy a good birthday. … Read more

Linda Lusardi joins Hayley Tamaddon and Chris Hughes in Blackpool for The Real Full Monty On Ice

Linda Lusardi joins Hayley Tamaddon and Chris Hughes in chilly Blackpool ahead of their first day of training for The Real Full Monty On Ice By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 12:08 GMT, 4 December 2020 | Updated: 12:08 GMT, 4 December 2020 Linda Lusardi led the arrivals in Blackpool on Thursday as the stars … Read more

Bomb squad use robot to investigate suspicious package in Blackpool

Bomb squad use robot to investigate suspicious package after police arrest man ‘with explosives and shotgun’ in Blackpool Troops set up robot outside the house in Blackpool as officers evacuated homes Lancashire Constabulary seized a shotgun and found the ‘suspicious package’ They also set up a cordon around the house and asked residents to steer … Read more

Strictly Come Dancing brings Blackpool to Elstree!

Strictly Come Dancing brings Blackpool to Elstree! Stars of the show lament not being able to take to the iconic Tower Ballroom due to COVID-19 By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 19:48 GMT, 21 November 2020 | Updated: 19:48 GMT, 21 November 2020 Advertisement Strictly Come Dancing’s usual jaunt to Blackpool had to be cancelled … Read more

Strictly’s Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman prepare for Elstree-based ‘Blackpool’ special  

They may not be able to head on their annual jaunt to Blackpool this year amid Covid-19 travel restrictions. But that didn’t stop hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman from getting in the mood as they prepared to celebrate the iconic Tower Ballroom from the comfort of Elstree studios in Hertfordshire. Taking to Instagram on … Read more

Blackpool Tower lights up with urgent ‘SOS’ message over Covid lockdown

Blackpool Tower lights up with urgent ‘SOS’ message as tourism bosses say Tier 3 Covid lockdown leaves seaside resort facing ‘catastrophic’ economic collapse Business leaders in Blackpool have warned they face collapse due to Covid-19  The popular northern resort has been placed in a Tier 3 lockdown  by Number 10 In an open letter, traders … Read more

Coleen Rooney and her four sons brave the rain to head to Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Coleen Rooney shares a sweet family selfie as she and her four sons brave the rain during a wet day out at Blackpool Pleasure Beach By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 15:45 BST, 21 October 2020 | Updated: 16:21 BST, 21 October 2020 She is in the midst of a legal WAG war with her … Read more

Nicola Sturgeon warns Scots NOT to travel to Blackpool

Nicola Sturgeon has told Scots not to travel to Blackpool and other high-risk areas of England after almost 200 cases in Scotland were linked to the holiday seaside town.  Scotland’s First Minister warned Celtic and Rangers fans that they should not travel to the Lancashire town to watch the Old Firm match in pubs on … Read more

Hospitals in Blackpool, Newcastle and Liverpool seeing two thirds as many Covid patients as at peak

NHS hospitals in Blackpool are treating up to 65 per cent as many patients as they were at the peak of the outbreak in April, statistics show. In Newcastle and Liverpool, admission rates are nudging closer numbers not seen for six months as the second wave of Covid-19 rips through the North of England. Cases … Read more

Hordes of tourists flock to Blackpool after it was excluded from new lockdown rules

So much for the Rule of Six! Hordes of tourists flock to Blackpool after it was excluded from new lockdown rules as crowds hit promenade with little social distancing and traffic comes to standstill New coronavirus restrictions set to come into place in Lancashire on Tuesday But Blackpool, run by a different authority, will not be … Read more