
Tony Durkin
Reporter at Lytham St Annes Express
Reporter at Blackpool Gazette
Dedicated husband and dad of one, four decades plus a newspaperman, with passions for The Who, Green Day, crime fiction and Blackburn Rovers. Views my own.
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1 month ago |
lep.co.uk | Tony Durkin
A travel company operator who grew up in Lancashire has described what life is like for him in Ukraine, 12 years after he moved there and more than three years after Russia began its attacks. Pete Griffin runs In Lviv Tours, based in the fifth-largest city in Ukraine, around 70 kilometres from the border with Poland.
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1 month ago |
blackpoolgazette.co.uk | Tony Durkin
It has been described as Blackpool’s most disastrous planning mistake. The shock closure of the resort’s Central Station in autumn 1964 tore the transport heart from the town and gouged a gaping, 23-acre expanse of open space at the gateway to the Golden Mile which has still not been filled.
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1 month ago |
blackpoolgazette.co.uk | Tony Durkin
It has been described as Blackpool’s most disastrous planning mistake. The shock closure of the resort’s Central Station in autumn 1964 tore the transport heart from the town and gouged a gaping, 23-acre expanse of open space at the gateway to the Golden Mile which has still not been filled.
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1 month ago |
lep.co.uk | Tony Durkin
A travel company operator who grew up in Lancashire has described what life is like for him in Ukraine, 12 years after he moved there and more than three years after Russia began its attacks. Pete Griffin runs In Lviv Tours, based in the fifth-largest city in Ukraine, around 70 kilometres from the border with Poland.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
blackpoolgazette.co.uk | Emma Downey |Tony Durkin
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Woman on the @SkyNews press preview just refrerred to the "Stockport massacre". Somewhere in the North, eh?🙄

Couldn't help but smile at the title of what is on @BBCOne just now instead of @bbcquestiontime and ahead of the election results - Would I Lie To You?

Quick time duplication of patter on @thisisheart just now - on way to supermarket, Mark Wright is talking about a baked bean flavour soap bar and 45 minutes later on way back, Dev Griffin mentions the very same thing.