October
NINETY five pupils were sent home from school for wearing the wrong type of shoes. Teachers at Highfield Humanities College in South Shore, Blackpool, turned pupils away yesterday as part of a crackdown on ballet-style pumps and trainers.
THE Gazette can today reveal multi-million pound plans for a massive indoor snow dome – slap bang in the middle of Blackpool. Two-thirds the height of The Tower, the stunning world class family attraction would be built on the 20-acre Central car park site – once earmarked for the resort's ill-fated supercasino.
BLACKPOOL has been named as the violent crime capital of the North West. The latest figures, released by the Home Office, show there were more violent crimes, such as assaults and stabbings, in the resort than Manchester, Liverpool and Salford.