Two births celebrated as aerial acrobatics thrill resort crowds

Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Blackpool Air Show over the weekend - and those numbers were boosted by a couple new arrivals.

- by Tony Durkin

Members of the show's audience packed on the Promenade gasped with delight when it was announced over the loudspeakers on Sunday that two babies had been born during the event on Saturday.

The announcement came amid various birthday and other special occasion greetings and no further details were given, but a spokesperson for Visit Blackpool said it was understood one of the babies had been been born on North Pier and the other in the back of an ambulance at an unspecified location.

The news of the births added to the delight of one of the busiest weekends of the year in the resort, as the seafront and all available vantage points were packed over the two days for an array of spectacular aerial displays from the Red Arrows and more of the world's top military and civilian aircraft.