Britain's poorest homes could be using whale gas extracted by brave fisherman within two years.
The technique, which has been blamed for causing minor tsunami, earthquakes and blow-backs around Blackpool, remains controversial.
The biggest whal...
Shale gas extraction through fracking has caused a lot of concern for residents in areas where drilling for shale gas has been given the go-ahead.
Freckleton, a village on The Fylde near Preston in Lancashire has been the latest victim of Cuadrill...
Liverpool, UK. In emerging news here, authorities have awoken this foggy morning to discover that the famous Blackpool Tower, designed in the form of Paris' Eiffel Tower, has been stolen and cannot be located.
Police are amazed that such a massive...
Police had hoped that the Pen Thief of Lytham St Annes had gone quiet, with no activity on the pen front in several years; however, it now looks like he has started again, this time on memorial mugs and erasers.
"Several years ago," said Jenn Darm...
Physicists recently made headlines by announcing their discovery of the Higgs boson-the long sought-after, so-called "God Particle." The God Particle would explain pretty much everything in the universe. Or so the media report. According to reputable...
Blackpool, the lit up, gaudy armpit of Britain, has asked to be put on a different time zone to the rest of the UK.
"We're not talking about an hour or two," said Chief of Public Interaction, Services and Scaffolding, Robert Cardigan. "We want to...
A RECORD nine out of 10 English and Welsh beaches meet new EU standards for water quality - but Blackpool's are not among them.
The resort's central and south beaches failed to match basic cleanliness standards, as did those at Llandudno in C...
Lancashire - A right frickin' fracking mess has developed as energy industry midgets Wannabe Oil N Gas announced today the discovery of Europe's biggest subterranean gas field.
Company's optimism that 200 trillion cubic feet of shale gas is just w...
Sources close to Blackpool playmaker and Liverpool transfer target, Charlie Adam, are indicating that the Scot will reject overtures from Anfield, and move to Wigan instead.
It is thought that Wigan is closer to Adam's home and therefore a more lo...
Holidaymakers - mainly women, who tend not to cope with such events very well - at Blackpool were left in a state of shock yesterday when an African bull elephant became stranded on the beach, having been washed up by the incoming tide.
Most men p...
London - A bloody great big hole has appeared in the Battersea business plan sinking fund.
For decades cracks in the Power Station's ownership documents had been dismissed as investor paranoia.
Now work on legal papers for the proposed Thames S...
Well would you believe it? Prince William and Kate Middleton's honeymoon destination can be revealed this afternoon; and in keeping with the 'common touch' so evident in the multi-million pound lavish ceremony of pomp and pageantry held at Westminste...
The Las Vegas of the North. A Mecca for bingo players the length and breadth of the nation. There are many descriptions of this section of the English coastline, but none come close to the actuality that is Blackpool.
On the face of it, this Victorian seaside resort has everything. During the summer months, there is a mile of golden sandy beach, a fairground to rival the theme parks, more touri...
The Blackpool Tower is to be moved to London today because London is a bit warmer than it is in Blackpool. There has not been a summer in Blackpool for years now,long hot sunny days are a thing of the past as Global Freezing continues to bite.
Whi...
According to our sources, reports of Robert Pattinson fleeing the USA after some terrible row with love interest Kristen Stewart are terribly misguided.
We were told that Rob was in a hurry to depart the USA simply because he was hurrying to Black...
The famous Blackpool Illuminations, six miles of multi-coloured light bulbs which annually manage to somehow entice thousands of unemployed Mancunians to the run-down north-western shanty town, have this year been switched on by comic and chat show h...
Bargis couldn't quite believe it.
He'd drank too much and engaged in wanton sexual activity with all kinds of ladies from all corners of the globe in his unceasing quest to put international pain in the butt Blow-Me behind bars in Guantanamo Bay.
He tried to forget about the donkey incident down in Mexico.
Although sometimes it haunted his dreams.
But there were worse things to contemp...
The infamous Imaginary Man has once again made a spectacular appearance in Blackpool - this time floating 70ft in the air and waving at passers-by.
One local B&B owner who witnessed the apparition said that she taught he had a 'kindly' face an...