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  • 1 week ago | blackpoolgazette.co.uk | Richard Hunt

    A Blackpool councillor who has produced a damning report on the horrifying scale of sex offences against children in the resort has called on the town to be included a forthcoming national inquiry into child grooming,Coun Paul Galley, the leader of Blackpool Council’s Conservative group, was speaking after the Government announced a forthcoming national inquiry into the issue.

  • 2 weeks ago | lep.co.uk | Richard Hunt

    Special permission has been granted which will enable a phone mast to be put up on one of Lancashire’s most distinctive buildings. The motorway service station known as Lancaster (Forton) Services, on the M6, is famous for its hexagonal Pennine Tower, and is a Grade II listed building. Described as being a cross between an airport control tower and a flying saucer, it was designed by T.P. Bennett & Sons in 1965 and is a prime example of brutalist architecture.

  • 2 weeks ago | lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | Richard Hunt

    Marton Mere Holliday Village (Image: NQ) A number of people staying in caravans at the Marton Mere Haven holiday park in Blackpool had to be evacuated last night due to a suspected gas leak. A holidaymaker who was staying at the park, said they were alerted to the situation just before 10pm last night and had to be moved to the main complex for around 90 minutes.

  • 2 weeks ago | blackpoolgazette.co.uk | Richard Hunt

    A new bar is proposed to open in the middle of Bispham’s high street. Temporary signage has gone up on the premises at 105 Red Bank Road advertising the impending opening of Soundwave, Blackpool’s Soul Bar with host DJ John. It also states that there will be a sports bar upstairs. The proposals are the latest in a string of new additions to the high street, which has seen new bars, a restaurant, a cafe, a ‘forever’ florist and a tattoo parlour open within the last 18 months.

  • 3 weeks ago | lep.co.uk | Richard Hunt

    Proposals to set up a new banking hub in Garstang have now reached the planning stage, with an application lodged with Wyre Council. Premises at 96 High Street, a historic building which once housed Garstang’s council offices, have now been chosen for the bank hub, which is being set up following the announcement that the town’s NatWest Bank is to close.

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