AFTER A senior councillor claimed that Queens Park drug addicts could spend their £4,700 windfall on a lethal overdose, uproar ensued from the residents group.
THE BLACKPOOL, Fylde and Wyre Economic Development Company has set about planning its Economic Strategy. An army of highly paid and highly qualified boffins have been locked in a think tank for years coming up with this stuff.
Most of it is just common sense, though.
Sep 152011
CHASING THE stereotype, Strictly judge Bruno Tonioli has laid into Blackpool.
Aug 312011
EVERY YEAR the council close the Blackpool Promenade to allow cyclists to enjoy a sneak preview of the Illuminations known as “Ride the Lights”. I did it, and here are my thoughts.
May 262011
MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS were hailed as the saviour of Blackpool’s ailing tourism industry. So why does the deal look so shady?
May 042011
THE GASJET conjure up a thoroughly biased report of the Crystal Road saga, labelling local hero David Palmer as a Walter Mitty character.
May 042011
DAVID HASSELHOFF was featured at the Pleasure Beach at an opening event for Nickelodeon Land today, but given that half of the money for Nickelodeon Land came from Blackpool taxpayers, who paid his (reported) £50,000 appearance fee?
FOR MANY it wont make any difference, but here is a short roundup of the Blackpool Conservatives’ manifesto for 2011.