{"id":44358,"date":"2026-10-26T03:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=44358"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:36:42","slug":"blackpool-gazette-city-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/blackpool-gazette-city-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool Gazette: City Of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk\/news\/laurence-llewelyn-bowen-toyah-wilcox-city-of-culture-2029-blackpool-9302792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk\/news\/laurence-llewelyn-bowen-toyah-wilcox-city-of-culture-2029-blackpool-9302792 noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25722 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bpoolgazette16a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a>I want Blackpool to be City of Culture because it would mean the country has woken up to how special it is<\/p>\n<p>TV personality Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has described Blackpool potentially becoming UK City of Culture 2029 as \u201cthe most extraordinary accolade\u201d, while singer Toyah Willcox has called the seaside resort \u201ca gem within the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrities voiced their support for Blackpool after the resort was shortlisted as one of four finalists in the prestigious national City of Culture competition, alongside Wrexham, Sheffield and Milton Keynes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk\/news\/laurence-llewelyn-bowen-toyah-wilcox-city-of-culture-2029-blackpool-9302792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Blackpool Gazette<\/strong><\/a>. See more reports on Toyah&#8217;s <em>Wishing Star<\/em> at Blackpool Illuminations <a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/wishing-star\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. (Photo \u00a9 Toyah)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk\/news\/laurence-llewelyn-bowen-toyah-wilcox-city-of-culture-2029-blackpool-9302792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk\/news\/laurence-llewelyn-bowen-toyah-wilcox-city-of-culture-2029-blackpool-9302792 noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44365 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blackpool26d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blackpool26d.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blackpool26d-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want Blackpool to be City of Culture because it would mean the country has woken up to how special it is TV personality Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has described Blackpool potentially becoming UK City of Culture 2029 as \u201cthe most extraordinary accolade\u201d, while singer Toyah Willcox has called the seaside resort \u201ca gem within the UK\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[1077,3516,3515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44358"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44375,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358\/revisions\/44375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}