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02/04/2023

02/04/2023

Fylde Sand Dunes Project won a Coastal Excellence Award for Coastal Best Practice in the North West for its significant contribution to long-term management of the coastline, at the Climate Change Conference

02/04/2023

02/04/2023

Blackpool is a town with problems on the scale of a city, but it hasn’t had the investment of one, meaning dire statistics continue to blight it

22/02/2021

Nine months on he is still suffering with ‘long covid’ symptoms and doesn’t know if he will practice as a paramedic again. He is a very humble man and speaking to him, it’s easy to warm to his kind nature - we’re rooting for him to make a full recovery.

11/01/2021

Because you're worth it:

31/12/2020

Can you help get 100,000 people involved?

01/12/2020

As the winter months draw in and life gets ever harder - especially with the added burden of lockdowns and the virus, please spare a little time to support those who are in the worst situation for all this. Streetlife is a vital service in our town and they're going to struggle even harder this year:

*Do click through to the video - beautifully shot, arranged by Blackpool Musical Director, Robert Richmond, and sung by the renowned soprano, Jane Irwin, with accompaniment from (a collective of musicians and singers, from across the Fylde Coast)

QUICK LINK to great to (much needed) donations: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/mike-todman

24/11/2020

The two staff members from the same primary school are both being treated at Blackpool Victoria Hospital's intensive care unit. They remain in a critical condition

22/11/2020

One woman is killed by a man every three days in the UK – a figure unchanged in a decade. A new census analyses this epidemic of male violence

14/11/2020

Follow along with your favourite characters Belle, Beast, Chip and Lumiere and discover the magic of Beauty and the Beast.
Young readers will enjoy the Graphic Novel, available now in our library.
https://lancashire.rbdigitalglobal.com/comic/35469/456653

05/11/2020

There were 159 patients in hospital with Covid-19 on the Fylde coast today, down from 196 last week.

01/11/2020

It's time to close schools and colleges now as part of the national lockdown. Support the National Education Union's call.

14/10/2020

Important to know as figures are rising for COVID and our hospitals getting more busy, please care about those of us who live in this town...

"Blackpool is (also) for life, not just holidays"

11/10/2020

18/09/2020

They clampdown will cover cites and towns including Preston, Lancaster, Wyre, Fylde, Chorley, Blackburn, Burnley and Rossendale.

13/09/2020

The essence of it is this (paywalled):

[Thousands of people with COVID-19 are taking tests that will never be analysed, warn government docs marked "official sensitive"

Our "world beating" testing programme has a 185,000 swab backlog and is so stretched it's sending tests to labs in Italy and Germany Most UK laboratories are clearing fewer tests than their capacity, as they are hit by “chaos” in supply chains, per the leak.

The govt claims it has capacity for 375,000 tests a day - but the actual number of people being tested for coronavirus is closer to 62,000 a day.

Randox, a Northern Ireland firm, pays Tory MP Owen Paterson as a consultant. It won a £133m testing contract unopposed at the start of lockdow. It disposed of 12,401 used swabs in a single day on 2nd Sept. The firm has voided more than 35,000 used test kits since August.

Officials and labs are blaming each other for the chaos. Tests are mostly voided because of “swab leaks” or damage during transit.

It was claimed last night that thousands of kits have had to be voided in a lab in Germany because they were transported at the wrong temperature.

Compare what the government says about its testing programme with the apparent reality based on these leaked files here. Scoop with the brilliant Tom Calver]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leaked-figures-reveal-scale-of-coronavirus-test-shortage-xjxprnm0v

The government’s “world-beating” testing programme has a backlog of 185,000 swabs and is so overstretched that it is sending tests to laboratories in Italy and Germany, according to leaked documents.A

09/09/2020

From Anthony Costello on Twitter:
[Remember apps? Immune passports? The PMs Moonshot nonsense (no science, feasibility, evidence) has been earmarked for £100bn, almost the entire NHS budget, w contracts for Astra, Serco and G4S. This is waste/corruption on a cosmic scale.]

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3520

The UK government has drawn up plans to carry out up to 10 million covid-19 tests a day by early next year as part of a huge £100bn (€110bn; $130bn) expansion of its national testing programme, documents seen by The BMJ show. The internal correspondence reveals that the government is prepared to ...

17/06/2020

Blackpool Council have some money to spend and want input from residents:

Have your say

12/06/2020

29/05/2020

Worrying!

From a concerned resident:
[On the day when Boris tells everyone to invite 6 members of their family around for a BBQ I look at the local ‘R’ rate and see that it is 1.66. One of the highest in the country. Is anyone else concerned by this?]

*Useful site for local 'R' number: https://app.deckzero.com/deck/UK-Covid-19-Monitor-MTMzODU0MDMyMjU/4

27/05/2020

Missing happier times where distance didn't matter:

22/05/2020

18/05/2020

Please sign and share widely if you agree

To The Prime Minister: We, the undersigned, oppose any re-opening of schools before it is safe to do so. As a matter of urgency and certainly well before any proposal to re-open schools is published, please can you share with teachers and parents: Your modelling of the increased number of cases and....

02/05/2020

Beautiful:

A bed time story of how it started, and why hindsight’s 2020. 🛌 🧸 Music by Katie Phillips / Sound Design by Sam Gee Facebook: Probably Tomf...