Police launch urgent search for two missing girls, 16, in Blackpool

Police launch urgent search for two missing 16-year-old girls who are believed to have travelled from their home in Leeds to Blackpool Megan Beard and Marissa ‘Missy’ Preston, both aged 16, have gone missing They are from the Yorkshire area and are believed to have travelled to Blackpool Megan is described as white, around 5ft … Read more

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

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

Strictly Come Dancing brings Blackpool to Elstree!

Strictly Come Dancing’s usual jaunt to Blackpool had to be cancelled this year – another pandemic-related spanner in the works for the 2020 series. But Blackpool was brought to Elstree for Saturday night’s live show – as the dancers ‘brought the essence’ of the iconic ballroom location to the Strictly studios. While the celeb contestants … 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: 19:53 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

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 to numbers not seen for six months as the second wave of Covid-19 rips through the North of England. … Read more

Blackpool Illuminations are lit behind closed doors and will stay on an extra two months

Blackpool Illuminations are lit behind closed doors for the first time in 70 years and will stay on two months longer than normal in a bid to get tourism moving after lockdown The Blackpool Illuminations lighting was held away from the public for the first time in more than 70 years It usually runs for … Read more

Football fans won’t be allowed to sing or chant when they return to stadiums next month

Football fans will be allowed back into stadiums NEXT MONTH as the Government ease up on lockdown rules for sport… but capacity will be capped and spectators ‘must sign a code of behaviour that could include a ban on singing’ Fans could be allowed back into football stadiums again from next month Their return could … Read more

Football fans won’t be allowed to sing or chant when they return to stadiums

Football fans will be allowed back into stadiums NEXT MONTH as the Government ease up on lockdown rules for sport… but capacity will be capped and spectators ‘must sign a code of behaviour that could include a ban on singing’ Fans could be allowed back into football stadiums again from next month Their return could … Read more