AIG Women’s Open Returned to Royal Lytham for its 50th Anniversary
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club will welcome the world’s leading women golfers from 29 July to 2 August 2026 when the AIG Women’s Open returns to the Fylde Coast for its landmark 50th staging. The championship will bring five decades of women’s golfing history back to a course that has played an important part in the development of the event. The championship was first held at Fulford Golf Club near York in 1976, where English amateur Jenny Lee Smith claimed the inaugural title. What began as a comparatively modest competition later developed into one of the most prestigious...
Bob Dylan Returns to Blackpool Opera House
Bob Dylan will return to Blackpool Opera House on 30 November and 1 December 2026, thirteen years after his last appearances at the Winter Gardens. The two concerts will bring one of the most influential figures in modern music back to a stage that already holds a distinctive place in his long performing history. Dylan’s previous visit came in November 2013, when he played three consecutive nights at the Opera House. The residency gave Blackpool an unusually prominent place in a British tour that included only a small number of extended engagements. For three evenings, audiences gathered inside the historic...
Lottery Winner Raymond Young Celebrates Thunderball Jackpot with Trip to Blackpool
A Scottish lottery winner chose Blackpool as the setting for his celebrations after scooping a £500,000 Thunderball jackpot. Raymond Young, 63, from Edinburgh, landed the top prize in the 23 March draw using numbers he had played consistently since Thunderball launched nearly 25 years ago. Rather than opting for an exotic getaway, the recently retired British Gas worker headed straight to the Lancashire coast — a place he describes as his “home from home”. Young has holidayed in Blackpool since childhood, recalling days spent playing on the beach and returning over the years to stay with friends. For him, the...