In any other year, you’d be able to feel the excitement in the Blackpool air. Thousands of wide-eyed holidaymakers would be wandering its sweeping Promenade, gazing at its impressive festival of lights.
There would be music blasting from karaoke bars and amusement arcades, screams from its pier and pleasure beach, and the smells of fish’n’chips and candy floss.
Thanks to its world-famous Illuminations, Blackpool always seemed like the only place where the feel of the summer holidays carried on right into the dark nights of winter.
But today the famous kiss-me-quick town wakes up with a very different feeling - not of fun and thrills, but dread and despair.
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