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I SAID at the start of June that the Pleasure Beach would be the secret beneficiary of a five million pound loan from Blackpool Council and despite some readers casting doubt over the issue and others claiming that people high up the food chain had laughed off the idea, it turns out I was right.

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I wish to apologise profusely for saying that Peter Callow used first class rail on the taxpayer and visited his daughter in London.

It was wrong, I should not have said this and regret doing so.

Read more on An Apology…

Simon Blackburn: Michael Foot is my hero

Blackpool Aloud has managed to coax an interview out of Blackpool Labour group leader Simon Blackburn who reflects on his previous life in a squalid junkie infested council estate in Edinburgh, his family’s unionist background and the policies that he hopes will revitalize the flattened Labour party and propel him into the council chamber hot-seat.

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Last week there was a rumble about the supposed “priceless” ceiling of the Tower Ballroom which apparently is under threat from water damage from the “hydrodemolition” work being done on the Tower by Cumbrian civil engineers MP Marine.

Read more on Roof is collapsing on Tower Ballroom says Callow…

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On Thursday last week the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government confirmed that the Government’s financial input into the council’s acquisition of Blackpool Tower and Winter Gardens was not going to be withdrawn. Robert Neill put it bluntly;

Read more on Roof could collapse on Tower deal says Marsden…

Kids to be sent back to Afghanistan

It’s a fairly automatic response from a far righter to suggest that we should “send ‘em all home” when questioned about asylum seekers. It seems the LibCon coalition agrees: £4m has been allocated for a new ‘reintegration centre’ to be constructed in Kabul which will receive failed Afghan asylum seekers that are under 18.

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Blackpool bids for World Heritage status

On Wednesday this week it was decided by Blackpool Council to put forward an expression of interest in becoming a World Heritage Site alongside wonders such as the Great Wall of China and the Great Barrier Reef.

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Nowhere to spend; 20p to spend a penny

There is much press at the moment around the issue of public toilets in Blackpool and to be quite honest I agree with what has been said by many. There is just not enough public toilets in Blackpool.

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