The dates for Blackpool's biggest selection of free events in 2026 have been officially confirmed. Highlights include the ...

Across January, a wide variety of solo-stars, plays and musicals will be on at the Winter Gardens Blackpool, Blackpool Grand ...

Life expectancy in Blackpool, in the north-west of England, is the lowest in the country: 5.3 years lower than the national average for men and 4.2 years lower than the national average for women.

Dozens of staff bring the annual light show to life – but a changing climate means displays now need to be designed differently ...

A Blackpool MP has spoken out in Parliament defending his hometown after it was labelled ‘ground zero for social decay’ in a ...

From theme parks to cancelled shows to new rides and retro reads, this is what you wanted to know about in April ...

It’s 3 p.m. and I’m having tea in the Blackpool Tower ballroom, a grand gilded pleasure palace built in 1894. A dozen elderly couples are gliding solemnly over the floor, as an organist on the small ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary since the final Football League match was played on Christmas Day in England.

For many of us Blackpool is a treasure trove of tender childhood memories of melting choc ices, donkey rides and a slightly eccentric funfair. Once known as the Lancashire Riviera, families from ...

Blackpool’s annual air show attracts around 300,000 visitors over a single weekend. Rebellion, the famous punk jamboree, brings in 8,000 spiky-haired oldies and youngies to see bands like the ...

A resort that was once dubbed the UK’s Las Vegas is now England’s most dangerous place to live and filled with "drugged up zombies". With its tower, pleasure beach and illuminations, Blackpool was a ...