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Mum who faked her own kidnapping to con ex out of £2k for Xmas presents freed from jail

Mum-of-one Leah Jumeaux, 20, of Blackpool, used red felt-tip pen to make it look like she was bleeding in an attempt to convince her ex she had been kidnapped

Daily Mirror

Pleasure Beach's Big Dipper rollercoaster evacuated down to heavy snow

Daily Mirror

Blackpool's Big Dipper grinds to halt 'halfway down hill' amid Storm Eunice carnage

The Big Dipper is one of the Pleasure Beach's most iconic rollercoasters.

Daily Record

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Councillor apologises after claiming Blackpool looks like 'Chernobyl' wasteland

Cllr Paul Hayhurst, of Lancashire, compared the seaside town of Blackpool to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Pripyat that exposed thousands to radiation poisoning

Daily Mirror

Thousands of small black balls of tar wash up on British beach

Oil firm ENI UK has sent in teams to clean up the Blackpool beach after a pipe supplying fuel to the Isle of Man burst on Monday and now remains shut off

Daily Mirror

Storm Eunice: Londoners warned not to travel on Friday amid red alert warning

Waves crashing on the seafront at Blackpool before Storm Dudley

Evening Standard

Coffee tin cocaine dealer splurged his cash on a static caravan in Blackpool

He was caught when police spotted him driving erratically in his Mercedes

Liverpool Echo

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Dealer hid cocaine in a coffee tin - then splurged his ill-gotten gains on a static caravan in Blackpool

Martin Bradshaw has been jailed and disqualified from driving

Manchester Evening News

Driver of horse and carriage has licence suspended for using phone at the reigns

The driver was accused of using their phone, changing lanes suddenly and not having the proper lights on while taking their Cinderella carriage through Blackpool with passengers

Daily Mirror

Irish director of Netflix hit Stay Close says filming on location in Blackpool during Covid lockdown was 'eerie'

Daniel O’Hara said it was strange shooting the series, based on the Harlan Coben novel of the same name, with no buzz about the seaside resort

Irish Mirror

Fury as councillor describes Blackpool as 'a bottomless pit' that 'looks like Chernobyl'

Paul Hayhurst’s comments were slammed as ‘disrespectful’ by Blackpool Council’s leader after he compared the seaside resort to an irradiated wasteland

Daily Mirror

Bristol City predicted team vs Reading: Nigel Pearson eyes new formation with Bentley to return

The manager could make a couple of changes and a tactical tweak or two in a attempt to prevent conceding goals

Bristol Post

Coventry City vs Blackpool LIVE: Championship result, final score and reaction

Follow all the action from The Coventry Building Society Arena

The Independent UK

Every word Bristol City coach Curtis Fleming said on set-pieces, Callum O'Dowda and Dan Bentley

Bristol City's assistant manager stepped in for the pre-match press conference ahead of Wednesday's game

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Nigel Pearson needs to shoulder some responsibility as Bristol City boss has big calls to make

Bristol Live fan columnist Math Withers breaks down a bleak day in Blackpool and another case of one step forward, two steps back for Bristol City

Daily Mirror

Holiday hotspot Blackpool named UK's depression capital with 34,000 on antidepressants

Despite its reputation as one of Britain's greatest resorts, Blackpool has now been awarded a down-heartening accolade - being named the nation's depression capital

Bristol Post

Bristol City predicted team vs Blackpool: Nigel Pearson could tweak two positions

Bristol City manager Nigel Pearson has been clear that he wants, and needs, the Robins to start matching performances with points as they travel to face impressive Blackpool at Bloomfield Road

Daily Mirror

Couples relive first steps to love after popular ballroom restoration

The Blackpool Tower Ballroom, which has meant so much more than dancing to so many generations, opened in 1894. The general restoration was its first in 60 years, with 30 specialists on site

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Boris Johnson slammed for taking private jet to Blackpool despite 3-hour train journey

The Prime Minister's total journey time would have been only around 50 minutes less if he had decided to catch the train to Blackpool, instead of flying north

Reuters

Analysis-A change of style? UK's Johnson fights for political survival

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to shake up operations in his 10 Downing Street office to try to survive his gravest crisis yet over boozy events held at the heart of power during COVID-19 lockdowns.

Daily Mirror

Man given days to live after blood cancer symptoms dismissed as old age for 10 years

Retired bus driver Brian Mellor, 80, from Blackpool, was found unable to move last year after bending down to wash his hands - he has since been diagnosed with cancer

Evening Standard

Evening Standard Comment: Don’t let levelling up hit London’s recovery

“National missions”, “system change”, “devolution revolution” — the Levelling Up White Paper is high on rhetorical flourishes. But what everyone wants to know, from Bromley to Blackpool, is — will this make their lives better?

Evening Standard

Tom Newton Dunn: If levelling up doesn’t happen, beware the anger of the left behind

This week, I met Debbie, Becky, Mark, Margaret, Ben, and Richard. They’re voters in the Red Wall constituency of Blackpool South, won by the Tories in 2019 for the first time since 1992. I met the six when I sat in on a focus group, representing all demographics and political…

Manchester Evening News

The man who loves rollercoasters so much he's bought a bit of track for his house

'For me it’s priceless, and when you think about it, it’s a bit of history'

The Guardian - UK

Fulham 1-1 Blackpool, Celtic 1-0 Dundee United, and more – as it happened

Reading were trounced again, Bolton hit Sunderland for six, Oxford’s Cameron Brannagan scored four penalties, and Celtic closed the gap on Rangers

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