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Stagecoach bus

Stagecoach South drivers head to Blackpool for UK Bus Driver of the Year 2025

Seaside breaks don’t get more classic – and these Wowcher deals put the beach within reach from just £59.

Three bargain UK beach breaks from £59 on Wowcher

Omani Hamer has transformed her rented home into a colourful living space by painting vibrant murals on her garden fence and her fridge.

I transformed my boring grey fridge into a colourful piece of art

Johnnie Norman and his wife, Rachel

Watch: Man's romantic gesture for wife goes hilariously wrong

James Taylor at a Sandgrown Beardsmen meet up

We're pruning our facial hair ready for Oktoberfest beard championship

Why Brits love Benidorm

Rachel Ward plays the saxophone while riding a unicycle in Stanley Park

I'm a musical juggling unicyclist - it makes me feel ‘free’

Landlord Chris Bracegirdle rides into the Bloomfield Brewhouse on horseback for St Georges Day.

Moment patriotic landlord rides into pub and orders pint...on a HORSE

Walkinshaw drives along the tram lines.

Watch: Drunk driver drives on tram lines before hitting pedestrian

Kenny Higgins, 48, lost 22 stone after frightening wake-up call

I recorded a goodbye message to my family...then I lost 22 stone

Inside Blackpool Brick Festival

Amazing LEGO Olympic stadium even has Red Arrow flyover

The sun sets over Camber Sands.

Later time the sun will set in your area on day clocks change

inside the Glasform workshop, where John Ditchfield makes his beautiful glass sculptures, at Singleton, Lancashire

Video: I built 30ft glass sculpture in my garden...watch how I made it

Chair burlesque dancers hold midnight burlesque-athon in their pyjamas

We had all-night pyjama burlesque-athon. We feel sexy and empowered

John Bolloten, documentary photographer at his Blood Brothers exhibition

I photograph brutal bare-knuckle fights. I'm often sprayed with blood

A reckless teenager, 17, was forced off his e-bike after a high-speed chase in Blackpool

Reckless yob forced off e-bike after high-speed chase through park

Sammy Rodgers, 53, from Stockport, won her wrestling comeback match at Rascals Pro-Wrestling Academy in Blackpool

I made a wrestling comeback at 53 after seeing my picture in a museum

Police seized £21,000 in cash and approximately £25,000 worth of cannabis during drug raids in Blackpool and St Annes

Watch: Police smash into warehouse using chainsaw as £25k drugs seized

Katie Brett and Lorraine Beavers with a photo of Sasha Marsden.

My sister was murdered after fake job interview: MP backs Sasha's Law

Ashes at Carleton Cemetery and Crematorium.

I found a 'mass grave' of human ashes dumped unlovingly at crem

Karen Downes says an inquiry is needed into grooming gangs - including in Blackpool

'Living in limbo': Missing teen's mum wants grooming gang inquiry

Cillian O Connor

Watch: I'm autistic. I felt invisible before discovering magic

Vicky Bennett, 60, a former Miss Blackpool, with daughter Tabitha Bennett, 20 - Miss Blackpool 2024.

I won decorated beauty pageant 40 years after mum was crowned champion

Stolen car crashes into wall...and gets seized

Video: Stolen car crashes into wall...and gets seized

Mourners at the funeral of singer Linda Nolan have been told she would have “loved all the fuss”

Video: Massive crowds pay respects to Linda Nolan at showbiz funeral

Linda Adams plays Mrs Crossley - the Blackpool landlady who helped to get justice for murder victims of serial killer George Smith.

I found a dead bride in my hotel. I proved husband was a serial killer

Linda Nolan has sadly passed away, aged 65. Inset: Tower lit up pink for Linda

Breaking Watch: Tower lights up pink after Linda Nolan's tragic cancer death

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Exclusive Government reveals how it will tackle scourge of nuisance behaviour

Paying respects at the Gynn Square memorial service to officers who died in the 1983 rescue mission at Blackpool.|Lucinda Herbert, Blackpool Gazette

Video: Police sea tragedy remembered as memorial goes ahead in snow

Alpacas dine on donated Christmas trees

Super-sweet alpacas tuck into prickly treat - of donated Xmas trees

Shots! TV meet the festive runners at Blackpool Santa Dash, in a Christmas Special of Unconventional Brits

Watch thousands of running Santas in quirky Christmas TV show

Santa's elves pet the animals on Lowlands Farm, including adorable goats, rabbits and alpacas.

Inside the magical Christmas alpaca farm where you can meet Santa

Chris McCausland poses for selfies outside Blackpool Tower during Strictly Come Dancing visit.

Video: Chris McCausland chats with Strictly fans and poses for selfies

Magician and Punch and Judy entertainer Martin Scott Price at his Blackpool Puppet Museum

Secrets of puppet museum hidden under coastal guest house revealed

The Woof Truck - 'rusty old bike' (inset) and what it looks like now.

Video: I upcycled a rusty old bike to become a mobile dog treat vendor

Katie Brett is campaigning again to keep David Minto in prison and to change the lenient sentencing appeals law. Inset: 'Evil' David Minto

I'm trying to keep the man who murdered my sister behind bars

Strictly Fever Comes To Blackpool

20 years of Strictly: Watch as fans and celebs waltzed into Blackpool

From left, Brunswick PACT chairman Brian Roberts, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and policing minister Dame Diana Johnson at the Home Office discussing the NationalWorld campaign Silent Crime on November 21, 2024

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pledges action on Silent Crime

Thief steals giant Santa from charity Christmas display.

Watch: Thief steals giant 20ft Santa from charity Christmas display

Magical light display welcomes Strictly Come Dancing to Blackpool Tower. Credit: Lucinda Herbert

Blackpool Tower lights up to celebrate Strictly’s Blackpool Week

New research by claims.co.uk has named the local authorities in England which received the most additional budget per mile for repairing potholes. Photo: Sussex World

'It suggests potholes are more problematic in this region'

The aftermath of the blaze at the Bristol Avenue tip

Video shows devastating tip blaze caused by a single e-bike battery

Owen Turner (inset) has been jailed for 9 break-ins to businesses across Blackpool

Burglar responsible for 9 raids including theft at Costa Coffee jailed

Mason Gee, 3, worried about his father Stephen Gee, 30, walking on a glass walkway

Toddler attempts to 'save' dad from glass floor at Blackpool Tower

Mark Taylor, a retired art teacher, paints music-themed portraits and album sleeves onto old tin lids and leaves them for gig-goers to take at Waterloo Music Bar.

Meet the tin-lid Banksy who gives out quirky free art at festivals

Bailey Wood has done his house up for Halloween, to raise money for Brian House Children's Hospice (inset)

My little boy builds a creepy garden every year to help sick children

Video grab from footage as Police have mocked a group of dopey dealers who were caught after they videoed themselves bagging up illegal drugs.

Watch dopey drug dealers film themselves bagging up heroin and cocaine

Terri Picton-Clark and dance partner Glenn Badham at the world-famous Blackpool Tower Ballroom

Twinkle-toed lottery winner dances at the Tower Ballroom in dream gown

Police tape across crime scene

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Wide shot photo of Blackpool Illuminations

Blackpool Illuminations: Exclusive behind-the-scenes video

Young Evie Smith meets her hero Melanie Martinez

Watch: Girl excluded from school over Cruella de Vil hair meets idol

Todd German from SeaLife Scarborough and Scott Blacker from SeaLife Blackpool releasing Nazare a loggerhead sea turtle into the sea off the coast of Horta in the Azores

Heartwarming moment loggerhead sea turtle is released back in the wild

Roger Haywood was arrested after attacking police officers and spouting abuse during a protest in Blackpool.

Watch: Man who assaulted police during riots is arrested

At one point his distraught colleagues thought PC Ashley Aspinall might die at the scene

"I thought I was going to die": Cop relives brutal attack in video

Punk dogs of Rebellion festival

Cute fluffy dogs charm punk fans at Rebellion fest

Shania Twain invites 81 year old superfan, Ken, on stage during her set at Lytham Festival.

Watch: Shania Twain invites 81-year-old superfan on stage

George Redfern, 21, stayed in the cheapest hotel in the UK for £16 a night. Pictured at the Coco Beach Hotel, in Blackpool.

Watch: I stayed in UK's cheapest hotel with 'prison-style' mirror

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