Blackpool Central Pier is closed ... smashing through the Central Pier. I was absolutely terrified... I thought she was dead.” A North West Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We were called ...

A man climbed a pier in Blackpool and hurled bricks at police after stabbing another man. Stefan Taylor refused to come down from the North Pier during a lengthy stand-off with officers.

The group was hit by the car near the North Pier along Blackpool's Golden Mile A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car hit a group of people on Blackpool's promenade.