Blackpool’s entertainment season kicked off with the stars of Summer Holiday in a photo shoot whilst in George Street, there was an armed police seige going on. Eternal switched on the lights and Blackpool had its own Mastermind champ.
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8. Blackpool, 1996
Demonstration in support of a proposed 4.26 pound per hour minimum wage during the Trades Union Congress conference in Blackpool, 1996 Photo: Steve Eason
9. Blackpool, 1996
Stagecoach Ribble's operations manager Paul DeSantis begins clearing up at the Fleetwood depot after vandals went on a £50,000 rampage Photo: National world
10. Blackpool, 1996
Armed Police at property on George St Blackpool, 1996 Photo: Martin Bostock
11. Blackpool, 1996
Elsie Sadek, the Blackpool woman who made it to the final of the 1996 Mastermind series Photo: Rob Lock
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