Inside Strictly's Blackpool history, from Angela Rippon's Come Dancing to the show's first ever 40

As the BBC’s dance competition returns to the Tower Ballroom, Isobel Lewis explores the town’s dance history, and how ‘Blackpool Week’ became a ‘Strictly’ institution

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