Blackpool beaches win national awards for cleanliness and water quality

Turning Tides is like a National League North award for beaches. 76 Blue Flag beaches in England, none of which is in the North West. Must do better.
 
Turning Tides is like a National League North award for beaches. 76 Blue Flag beaches in England, none of which is in the North West. Must do better.
Yeah but its something, at least they are recognised and a lot better than they were in the past.

Probably difficult to get Blue flag when we have so many visitors, do all the other beaches that have it have 20 million visitors? There some element of our of our hands.
 
Me and wife were on holiday in Cyprus some 12 years ago and went to one of their highly publicised blue flag beaches. However, we found out that all the sand had to be imported as it was not natural to the area.
 
Turning Tides is like a National League North award for beaches. 76 Blue Flag beaches in England, none of which is in the North West. Must do better.
Blackpool had a Blue Flag a couple of years ago.

St Annes beach is a toxic waste dump in comparison to Blackpool's.
 
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It was only the EU forcing the British Government via court cases that made our beaches what they are today. Read this article for info.

Sadly, it hasn't taken long after leaving the EU for water standards to drop. We will most likely see a gradual decline probably back to the point where there are turds and squelchy dark brown sand again in about 20 years time as the UK government cares not a jot about its own environment and how much a clean environment means to British people.
 
It's all one coastline so when shit goes in its bad for the whole area.

But Blackpool does alright considering the visitors etc.
 
How many on here would actually swim in the sea though off Blackpool?
I did it as a kid but no way would I do it now it’s still a filthy brown horrible colour, mind you go a mile or two out and it’s a different story.
 
If you emptied a pint of shit into a swimming pool, it'd empty quicker than if a shark was on the loose. I never bother swimming in the sea, here or abroad, because I don't fancy swimming in diluted shit. I honestly thought in this day & age we'd managed to address this pollution issue, but alas that's not the case. Discharges into rivers & the sea after a spot of rain (or no rain at all) This whole sewage disposal needs some serious capital expenditure, FFS it's not much better than pouring tubs of it into your nearest watercourse. The truth is we need drainage systems for wastewater/surface water & separate for the nasty brown stuff. That of course won't go down well with the shareholders of these companies & their cronies.
 
How many on here would actually swim in the sea though off Blackpool?
I did it as a kid but no way would I do it now it’s still a filthy brown horrible colour, mind you go a mile or two out and it’s a different story.
Nowt wrong with it, I dipped my head in the other day with no issues at all...

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