Blackpool Tower is to be lit up in orange to mark 15 years of a charity for orphaned children in Africa set up by two former ...

The tower, completed in 1894, in the seaside resort town in northwest England, was at the time the tallest manmade structure in the British Empire. The flames turn out to be bright orange netting.

When Victorian architect Frank Matcham was drawing up the plans for the inside of Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom in the late 18th century, the idea that more than 100 years later the venue would host ...