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In their latest meeting with the Casino Advisory Panel spokespeople from Blackpool’s entertainment industry said that the resort is threatened with fatal decline if it does not win the licence.

Blackpool Council chief executive Steve Weaver was emphatic in his assessment of the casinos importance to the resort, saying: “For all the others the casino is a cherry on the icing of a pretty big cake. For Blackpool it is the cake.”