Blackpool
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The Broadway hotel fined a couple £100 after they wrote a bad review on Tripadvisor. How would Helen Pidd fare on her stay?
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Blackpool council says Broadway Hotel, described as ‘filthy, stinking hovel’ on website, will also revoke ‘no bad review policy’
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Manston, Bristol Filton and Plymouth airports have fallen victim to the downturn, shifting airline networks and domestic taxation
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Disappointment and nostalgia for holidaymakers and workers as Balfour Beatty confirms regional airport to shut on 15 October
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Blackpool may not be known as an international hub for air travel now but in the early days of aviation it was at the forefront of Britain’s new adventure in flight
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Robert Ewing, from Blackpool, charged with murder of Paige Chivers who left family home in 2007
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Appeals for help in identifying man and his two female companions after woman has pen embedded in her arm
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Mother was one of five tamarins stolen from Blackpool zoo in April, one of which is still missing
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From the Guardian archive From the archive, 25 August 1979: What Auberon Waugh thinks about Blackpool
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 -
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Stunt part of a day of nationwide direct action against plans to drill for shale gas in the UK
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Campaigners claim Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is hiding findings on impacts of drilling
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Field in Flyde area turned into a protest camp as locals and campaigning groups prepare for mass action on Sunday
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Paul Morley's rambling, elegiac, highly personal paean to the north-west of England will win you over in the end, writes Stuart Maconie
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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
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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
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Beaches including Blackpool and Margate may be affected by tighter EU water quality regulations
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Thieves cut hole in perimeter fence and remove locks from enclosures to snatch cotton-top and emperor tamarins
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The Northerner £30,000 reward offered for information about murdered Blackpool teenager Paige Chivers
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 -
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.
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Police and council chiefs wanted early morning alcohol restriction order, but licensing committee rejects application
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Andrew Martin grew up in York, upped sticks to London and never moved back north. This week he swam against the tide of migration to the south-east, and went home
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Pretty much everyone is moving to London and we're always going on about it - so it must be better than the rest of the UK, right? Have your say
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Talented young people are leaving provincial cities to make a success of their lives in London and never go back, report shows
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The cat piano, the ice trumpet, the road that plays Rossini ... Trevor Cox picks the world's weirdest tools for making music
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Strictly Come Dancing's stars had belongings stolen from their dressing rooms – but is their assumed escape route less a fact and more of an urban myth?
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Police investigate after jewellery, an iPad and a phone were stolen from dressing room used by stars of the BBC programme
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Hundreds gather in Lytham, Lancashire for cremation of Harold Jellicoe Percival, who died in nursing home, aged 99
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Hundreds of people attend funeral of second world war veteran Harold Percival after social media campaign
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Ten years after disappearance of Charlene Downes, police renew appeal for information about her and Paige Chivers
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Locals in Fleetwood, Blackpool and Barrow-in-Furness report feeling quakes of 3.2 and 2.4 magnitude
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The Centre for Social Justice has published a report called Turning the Tide, looking at social conditions in five UK seaside towns
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Life expectancy in the seaside town is the worst in England. Patrick Collinson examines the reasons
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