People across Blackpool will be deeply disappointed to hear that Manchester, rather than Blackpool, has been given the go-ahead for a regional casino. It is to be hoped that if the Manchester pilot is successful, the Government will reconsider Blackpool as a suitable venue for another super-casino. There is no magic wand to Blackpool’s regeneration.
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If anything is going to do for this Government, it will be their incompetence. The ongoing crisis in the Home Office, in which John Reid is left thrashing about, is a case in point – but let’s not forget other highlights such as the Child Support Agency, Single Farm Payments, hospital infections, the railways, the
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Today is RNLI SOS Day, the day when the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has its annual fund-raising push. I am sure everyone knows there is an RNLI Station on Central Promenade, just below the Tower. First established in 1864, the new station was opened back in 1998. Over those intervening 143 years, countless lives have
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Disappointing news to see Lancashire Constabulary’s dog handling unit is being shrunk from 35 to 21 handlers. Not only that, but it means 4 ‘working dogs’ will have to be rehomed. As the Chairman of the local Police Federation has said, it shows how the police budgets are under pressure, meaning Lancashire Constabulary is faced
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