<div><p>The British resort of Blackpool has produced an eye-popping video seeking to add some Gallic chic to its traditional English seaside image -- complete with a bizarre punchline about "Le Hot Pot."</p><p>To a mournful piano soundtrack and amid artfully-shot Parisian-style cafe decor, a young woman speaking strangely-accented French ...

<div><p>As global shares plunge, business editor <em class="bold">Deborah Hargreaves</em> looks at the government's £24bn <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/21/northernrock">deal</a> to end uncertainty over Northern Rock. The Treasury hopes to help ...

<div><p>Police are appealing for witnesses after a young woman drowned in the sea following an argument with her boyfriend while on a weekend trip to Blackpool.</p><p>Claire Burns, 21, from Middleton, near Manchester, was pulled from the water by a lifeboat crew at the resort early on Sunday ...

<div><p>Prices here have historically been low - the average property in Blackburn, for example, costs only just over £110,000. Even in Greater Manchester it is still not difficult to find homes below that price: Wigan, Oldham and Salford can all undercut it and the average terraced house in Rochdale is less ...