Plans to build a five-storey hotel next to a conference centre in a seaside town have been given the green light, with developers keen to start work "as soon as possible". The 266-bedroom venue ...

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Blackpool has not hosted major political party conferences since 2007, with the lack of hotel facilities attached to the Winter Gardens blamed. 'Major investment' ...