Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Blackpool's council leader has urged tourists not to cancel their travel plans after the resort was declared a covid 'enhanced response area'.
It means that residents and visitors are being advised to 'minimise travel' in and out of Blackpool and to exercise 'particular caution' about mixing with people not in their household.
The move comes as the resort's infection rate more than doubled in the space of a week to stand at its highest rate since February 9, reaching 164 per 100,000 people in the seven days to June 9.
A total of 229 individual cases were reported over the same period. But Blackpool council leader Lynn Williams stressed that the resort was not