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Flying shame: the scandalous rise of private jets

Last week, Rishi Sunak flew from London to Blackpool – his third private jet trip in 10 days. He’s far from the only one using air travel for short journeys. Just how much damage is this doing?

The Guardian - UK

Seaside town's life expectancy lower than planned new state pension age as locals fume

Blackpool residents are fuming as the government discuss plans to increase the state pension age to 68 while their average life expectancy age for men is only 67 years and three months.

Daily Record

Inside seaside town where life expectancy is LOWER than planned new State pension age

In Blackpool’s Bloomfield ward, in the shadow of the town’s football ground, the average life expectancy of men is just 67 years and three months - lower than the new proposed state pension age of 68

Daily Mirror

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Toby Sibbick sees Hearts transfer approach 'rejected' as six figure Blackpool offer shown the door

The Tynecastle side are determined to keep Sibbick after his heroics at Easter Road over the weekend.

Daily Record

Blackpool hotel guest slammed by owner after they find 'brown stain that wasn't chocolate'

The owners didn't take long to leave a short yet blunt response to the guests claims

Manchester Evening News

The big picture: Thatcher’s children, 30 years on

Three decades after his photographs of a family in Blackpool came to symbolise the deprivation of post-Thatcherite Britain, Craig Easton caught up with the now adult children

The Guardian - UK

'It's quicker going to Blackpool on the National Express than going from Bolton to Salford by bus'

Dozens of bus services across Greater Manchester are set to be cut in April, months before mayor Andy Burnham starts to take control of the network. But passengers say services are already poor with waits lasting more than two hours, while transport bosses warn that some uncertainty is 'inevitable' over…

Manchester Evening News

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Prime minister receives 'fixed penalty' for not wearing seatbelt in moving car

The clip was filmed in Lancashire as Mr Sunak was announcing Levelling Up funds in Blackpool

Wales Online

Tory criticises ‘politically motivated’ complaints over Sunak’s seatbelt ‘error’

Blackpool MP Scott Benton suggested Lancashire Police should use their time tackling serious crime rather than ‘looking into’ the issue.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak criticised for flying to Blackpool 'like an A-list celeb' in jet

The Prime Minister was visiting the north west after announcing a £1.7bn levelling up package

Manchester Evening News

Prime Minister accused of 'swanning around like a washed-up A-lister' by taking plane

Rishi Sunak took an RAF jet up to Blackpool

Wales Online

Sunak criticised for ‘jetting like A-list celeb’ to Blackpool

PM took an RAF plane rather than using the railways to get to Lancashire town

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak takes taxpayer-funded private jet on jaunt around Tory target seats

The luxury RAF plane took a 41 minute flight from London to Blackpool, then on a 28 minute trip over to Darlington - as the PM visited key seats the Tories desperately need to hold onto in the next election

Daily Mirror

Levelling Up: Full list of every UK project getting cash in round two

The transformational projects across the UK will include Eden Project North visitor attraction in Morecambe and a new AI campus in Blackpool

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Lost adventure play area less than 90 minutes from Manchester 'will always be remembered'

Thousands passed through its doors over the decades

Manchester Evening News

Blackpool hotel owner reports guest who took one look at room then left to TripAdvisor

The owners felt that the one-star review was unjustified and saw fit to respond

Daily Mirror

Kim Kardashian gives herself a 'British chav makeover' and leaves fans floored

Kim Kardashian was dubbed the Queen of TikTok this morning, as the reality TV star paid homage to a grime artist from Blackpool and gave herself a very British makeover

Daily Mirror

Bitcoin scam gang made so much money they handed out £5k gift cards in the street

The four-person criminal gang at the centre of the £22m conspiracy worked with ringleader James Parker, operating from his Blackpool home, and even bought cars for strangers they met in the pub

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Liverpool Echo

Lost play area a short drive from Liverpool that was 'an absolute dream'

It opened around the 1970s

Evening Standard

Tory MP tables Bill to move House of Lords close to Strictly ballroom in Blackpool

Tory former minister Paul Maynard introduced his Relocation of the House of Lords (Report to Parliament) Bill on Monday

The Independent UK

Tory MP tables Bill to move House of Lords close to Strictly ballroom

Tory former minister Paul Maynard introduced his Relocation of the House of Lords (Report to Parliament) Bill on Monday.

Daily Mirror

Hotel manager brutally bashed by stranger in row over his girlfriend's cleaning habits

David James has been jailed after attacking Jonathan Buck, who complained about the quality of the cleaning done by his partner at the Silver Strand on the Promenade in Blackpool

Leeds Live

Gogglebox's Sophie Sandiford flooded with support as she takes break from UK

Sophie lives in Blackpool with her brother Pete and his wife Paige and son Jimmy

Daily Mirror

Tories backed locals over giant wifi masts while taking cash from firms that erected them

Blackpool MP Scott Benton is one of 25 MPs the Sunday People revealed had accepted a combined £147,000 in cash from IX Wireless - a Lancashire-based broadband firm

Manchester Evening News

Urgent appeal to find missing Atherton man, 29, believed to be driving white van

Steven, 29, is believed to have travelled towards Preston and Blackpool

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