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Blackpool Gazette
Country music celebration with Brittney centre stage
The big story of the weekend
1 min |
August 29, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
A natural final resting place
Many people are opting to go back to nature by selecting a green burial for when they die.
1 min |
August 29, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Villa and Spurs 'in talks' to sign Marseille man as Forest eye Dutch full-back
All the latest Premier League transfer rumours including updates from Aston Villa, Spurs, Chelsea & Forest
1 min |
August 29, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Port jobs boost as long-established glass firm opens second factory
Fleetwood’s manufacturing sector has been given a lift with the opening of a new factory by Northern Express Glass.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Novelette to make short work of her rivals
Novelette is expected to complete her hat-trick for Simon and Ed Crisford in the curtain-raising Woburn Partners Nursery Handicap at Sandown.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Freeze your credit cards – and more bizarre cash-saving tips
From feng shui fridge to diluted washing-up liquid - cash-conscious internet users share their ways of looking after the pennies and enjoying the pounds piling up
2 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Olly Murs on stage and all YOU need to know for Switch-On day
Singer Olly Murs heads an all star lineup rolling into town tomorrow for the annual Illuminations switch-on ceremony
2 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Pool boss giving a bright forecast for Palace loanee
Steve Bruce expects Danny Imray to become an important player for Blackpool this season, writes AMOS WYNN.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Areas that Pool may address for weekend's clash
Blackpool have endured a disastrous start to the new season - and will need a big shift in fortune against Bolton Wanderers on Saturday afternoon.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Victorian-era floral favourites asters make comeback
Asters, which were popular in Victorian times, have made a comeback as a bouquet with demand for the flowers rocketing by nearly 350 per cent over the last two sales years at a UK supermarket.
2 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Fearnley overcomes nerves to claim victory
Jacob Fearnley provided a bright end to a disappointing day for Britain at the US Open despite serving 18 double faults in a debut victory.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Calum Scott looks to his grass roots after Brit Billion Award
He burst into the limelight singing Robyn's Dancing On My Own on Britain's Got Talent in 2015, and 10 years on Calum Scott is still growing his audience.
2 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Carmers all set for St Leger after Knavesmire run
Paddy Twomey’s Carmers will turn his attention to the Betfred St Leger after his fine run to finish second in the Sky Bet Great Voltigeur Stakes at York.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Hall's well that ends well for crooner who is still hitting right notes at 82
Tony on song for farewell tour in summer sun as venue serves up another wondrous weekend
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
You'll want to Listen Twice as top new bands grace the stage
Lancaster Music Coop are holding their popular monthly club night at city venue The Pub on tomorrow.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
New café serving up a nostalgic twist on a plate
A diner with a nostalgic twist is set to launch in Blackpool’s South Shore.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Croft: Lancashire youngsters should have seen off visitors
Steven Croft rued another defeat after Lancashire's Metro Bank One Day Cup campaign concluded with a one-wicket loss to Middlesex at Emirates Old Trafford.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
RNLI crews launch four times in three days over bank holiday
Blackpool RNLI volunteers were called out four times around the bank holiday weekend.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Mark and Jane are Still Game with tour recalling classic comedy show
Stars of long-running BBC and Netflix programme recall their career highlights for fans
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
The stories history of Blackpool's famous Illuminations
The first set of Illuminations were introduced in 1879 when Blackpool Council devoted the sum of £5,000 to experiment with the concept of electric street lighting, starting off with eight arc lamps on 60ft poles along the seafront.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Keely going for gold in strong GB Tokyo squad
Keely Hodgkinson will star in a 66-strong Great Britain and Northern Ireland athletics team named for next month's World Championships in Tokyo.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Long Story Short - my journey in news and life
Long Story Short', as they say when telling a yarn, is my newly published memoir of coming here to the Fylde, working on this newspaper as a reporter and subeditor then elsewhere.
2 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
A ramble through some of history's most unusual deaths
'm reading a rather fascinating book at the moment about unusual deaths. I suppose it's not the most uplifting read - I mean essentially I've spent every evening for the last week learning about how some poor so and so met his or her maker - but it is weirdly absorbing.
3 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Taylor and Travis – it's a love story
Taylor Swift has announced her engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Parents' successful school place appeals
Almost two dozen Blackpool parents successfully challenged their child's school place last year, new figures show.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Town Hall warning for St George's Cross vandals
Blackpool Council has spoken out after St George's Cross symbols were painted on West Park Drive
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Billions to overhaul 70-year-old aqueduct suppling county's water
United Utilities has signed a landmark agreement to refurbish the crucial Haweswater aqueduct, which carries water from Cumbria to 2.5m customers in the north west - nearly five per cent of England's population.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
When it comes to mysteries, Fake or Fortune? is the real deal
Sue Wilkinson follows the picture clues
2 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Ormerod pained by Blackpool defending
Blackpool legend Brett Ormerod bemoaned their defending after watching Pool’s defeat at Plymouth Argyle last weekend.
1 min |
August 28, 2025
Blackpool Gazette
Man jailed for strangling and biting girlfriend on Snapchat
Social media caught drunken boyfriend Michael Innes in the act as he tried to throttle his partner, a court heard.
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