The Labour MP for Blackpool South, Gordon Marsden, has tabled a Commons motion praising the club for its "inspirational achievement".

BBC: Commons praise for Blackpool Premier League promotion

Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden put the result down to devolution.

BBC: Activists' gloom over by-election

Rescue teams focused on an area of the Irish Sea around Blackpool's south pier and sea wall and earlier searched under the piers.

BBC: Paul Morris

Trains between Wigan and Preston and Liverpool South Parkway and Blackpool North have been cancelled in both directions because of the weather.

BBC: Severe weather in Lancashire

Paul Morris, from South Shore, Blackpool, was washed into the sea by a wave while walking a dog with a friend in the early hours of New Year's Day.

BBC: Paul Morris