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URGENT REMEDIAL action is taken on the new Promenade due to poor flow, regular long queues and displeasure about the whole scheme. The honeymoon is...

THE COUNCIL executive met at the town hall to thrash out some key decisions, specifically in relation to Lauderdale Avenue tram crossing and a new ...

PART 2 of the Lauderdale Avenue crossing debate. John Donnellon has prepared new paperwork to be put in front of Labour on the 20th of July 2011, b...

A KEY Anchorsholme tram crossing looks set to be closed by Labour, despite the council ruling to keep it open last year. Here is the full story tha...

EXTERNAL AUDITORS are set to be called in to review some of Blackpool council's controversial property deals.

WE HAVE waited with bated breath for our Promenade to reopen after what seems to be an eternity of closure, and the time has now come. Or has it?

BLACKPOOL COUNCIL have put up a contract for a £6.5m refurbishment of Talbot Road bus station and car park. Do we need this car park or should we ...

WITH SEVEN town hall executive jobs set to be slashed by Labour leader Simon Blackburn, will he extend the same level of cuts through the whole cou...

BLACKPOOL'S CHIEF executive, Steve Weaver, is history.

WEAVER WAVED his magic wand and a new structure to the hierarchy of councillors was realised...

THE TOP table of the Labour council is announced.

BLACKPOOL CONSERVATIVES have a new leader in Peter Evans, but will the former taxi driver have what it takes to reform the party?

PETER CALLOW'S ruling Tories have been sensationally swamped out of power by Simon Blackburn's marauding socialist steamroller. Here are the results.

BLACKPOOL'S LABOUR leader, Liberal Democrat leader and a Conservative cabinet member duked it out in a live election slugfest, but who ended up cov...

A BLACKPOOL resident has set the cat amongst the pigeons in Waterloo and Highfield with a leaflet showing their Conservative councillors in a new l...

THE CONSERVATIVES take the Battle of Brunswick to Simon Blackburn's doorstep with an explosive leaflet exposing financial excesses they claim he is...

THE MANIFESTOS are out and the candidate lists are in, here's my preview and predictions for Blackpool's 2011 local election.

LABOUR FIRE the first shots in the local elections with some hard hitting leaflets exposing their opponents, but do they have the policies to win o...

WE'RE TOLD that it is a travesty that Boundary library should be subject to closure, but with such low membership, was closure inevitable?

ON THEIR website, the Blackpool Labour party have published a list of their candidates for the upcoming May elections, and this includes a series o...

THE PARTNER of local Labour leader Cllr Simon Blackburn has hit back at claims on this site that he is a champagne socialist. An irate Gilliam Camp...