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  Blackpool police seek man who stabbed woman, 66, with pen

  2 Sep 2014: Appeals for help in identifying man and his two female companions after woman has pen embedded in her arm

• Endangered monkey gives birth to twins after abduction ordeal

  26 Aug 2014: Mother was one of five tamarins stolen from Blackpool zoo in April, one of which is still missing

• From the archive, 25 August 1979: What Auberon Waugh thinks about Blackpool

  25 Aug 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 25 August 1979: Concluding our series on the holiday haunts of distinguished writers, Auberon Waugh remembers the impact of Blackpool

• Fracking protesters occupy Blackpool office leased by Cuadrilla

  18 Aug 2014: Stunt part of a day of nationwide direct action against plans to drill for shale gas in the UK

• Fracking protesters superglue themselves to environment department

  18 Aug 2014: Campaigners claim Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is hiding findings on impacts of drilling
  

• Protesters occupy field near Cuadrilla’s proposed fracking site in Blackpool

  14 Aug 2014: Field in Flyde area turned into a protest camp as locals and campaigning groups prepare for mass action on Sunday

• Eyewitness: Blackpool, Lancashire

  Picture, 22 Jul 2014:

  Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

• The North (And Almost Everything In It) review – a stream-of-consciousness, non-linear gazetteer of a book

  13 Jul 2014:

  Paul Morley's rambling, elegiac, highly personal paean to the north-west of England will win you over in the end, writes Stuart Maconie

• Geordie Shore has been banned from Blackpool. Will anyone else have them?

  8 Jul 2014:

  Tourism bosses have told makers of the MTV reality series that they cannot film in the city. We try to find a location that is willing to play host to the show

• The worst hotel in Britain: Blackpool's New Kimberley

  15 Jun 2014:

  Owner Peter Metcalf, who has in the past been compared with Basil Fawlty, is in prison for breaching 15 fire-safety regulations at the 90-room building

• Dozens of English beaches could fail new stricter sewage standards

  23 May 2014:

  Beaches including Blackpool and Margate may be affected by tighter EU water quality regulations

• Five monkeys stolen from Blackpool zoo

  2 May 2014:

  Thieves cut hole in perimeter fence and remove locks from enclosures to snatch cotton-top and emperor tamarins

• £30,000 reward offered for information about murdered Blackpool teenager Paige Chivers

  16 Apr 2014: The 15-year-old disappeared without a trace from the seaside town in August 2007. Now detectives have increased the sum of money on offer for anyone who can lead them to her killer - or her body. Hatty Collier reports

• Mystery over men killed walking down a motorway in Lancashire

  14 Apr 2014: Stephen Hayes, a 68-year-old from Blackpool, was hit by a vehicle on the M61 northbound, just north of Rivington Services between junctions 6 and 8 near Bolton at around 1.30am in the early hours of Friday morning.

• Blackpool councillors vote against ban on sale of alcohol after 3am

  10 Feb 2014:

  Police and council chiefs wanted early morning alcohol restriction order, but licensing committee rejects application

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