All news on the topic: Blackpool

31 Jul 2026 459

Police launch urgent search for missing hospital patient with potentially contagious health condition

Police have warned the public not to approach a man with a potentially ‘contagious health condition’ who has vanished from hospital.

Crime

31 Jul 2026 530

Man jailed after blowing up family home over false inheritance belief

A man who blew up his childhood home in the mistaken belief he had been cut out of the family inheritance has been jailed.

Crime

22 Jun 2026 749

Teacher who murdered adopted baby bought £450,000 home weeks after child’s death

A teacher who murdered his adopted baby son bought a £450,000 new-build home with his boyfriend to reinvent themselves just 22 days after the tot’s death.

Crime

18 Jun 2026 801

Teacher handed whole life order for murder and sexual abuse of adopted baby son

A teacher will die in jail for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby son. Teacher Jamie Varley, 37, has been sentenced to a whole life order for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby, Preston Davey.

Crime

15 Jun 2026 633

Preston Davey case exposes tragic chain from killer birth mother to abusive adopters

The mum of a tragic baby sexually abused and murdered by his adopted dad is a killer schoolgirl who tortured an OAP to death.

Crime

16 Mar 2026 786

Body in a bin horror as three arrested after grim discovery in Coventry park

A man and woman in their 40s and a man in his 20s were arrested overnight in Blackpool on suspicion of murder and assisting an offender after the body of the unidentified victim, believed to have been aged between 40 and 50, was found in Cash’s Park off Daimler Road at about 5pm on Friday, West Midlands Police said.

News

15 Sep 2025 825

UK faces strong winds and heavy rain after record summer: man dies in Blackpool

A man has died after being struck by a falling tree as gusts of more than 70mph hit the UK.

Crime

04 Sep 2025 805

Valerie Kneale’s death in Blackpool hospital ruled unlawful killing following sexual assault

A woman who was subjected to a violent sexual assault in hospital was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.

Crime

25 Aug 2025 693

Black cab rapist John Worboys investigated over 1990s sex attack

Virginia Giuffre, the sex trafficking victim who accused the Duke of York of sex crimes, has reportedly written an autobiography which will be published posthumously later this year.

News

06 Jul 2025 833

Major rescue mission in Blackpool after person swept 30m out to sea and crew injured by powerful wave

A major rescue mission was launched after reports of a person being swept 30 metres out to sea and ’struggling with the waves’ in Blackpool.

Crime

15 Jun 2025 869

Horrific death of infant: Blackpool teacher and his partner charged with rape and murder of adopted son

Jamie Varley and co-accused John McGowan-Fazakerley were in process of adopting 13-month-old Preston Davey

13 Jan 2025 699

Nurse struck off for drugging patients for an easy life

A nurse who sedated patients for quieter shifts then laughed aout it has been struck off.

News

16 Aug 2024 762

Woman’s body ‘found inside old ambulance near children’s play area’

The body of a young woman who died ‘suddenly’ has been found near a children’s play area in Blackpool, Lancashire.

News

17 Jul 2024 878

Mum and dad killed and two children ‘very poorly’ in hospital after house fire

A man and a woman have been killed and two children are in hospital after a fire ripped through a house in Blackpool.

Finance

23 Apr 2024 827

Makers of Blackpool rock express concerns about the future of the traditional confection

The "heritage and tradition" of Blackpool rock is under threat from an influx of "inferior" Chinese imports and a shortage of skilled workers, the town’s manufacturers have said.

Breaking news

03.08.2026, 11:52 • Politics