Staggering! Blackpool Is the Place for Pre-Wedding Bash

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Byline: JONATHAN PRYNN

DUBLIN and Amsterdam have already barred them, and Prague may soon follow suit.

Now London's notorious stag night revellers are set to make Blackpool - the brashest, wildest and most vulgar destination of them all - the unlikely choice for that last blast of freedom.

Until now, for Londoners at least, it has been regarded as just too tacky, too rain-lashed and absurdly difficult to get to. The u180 standard rail journey takes four hours on the West Coast Main Line, with an obligatory change at Preston. By car the 248-mile journey can take just as long, even if the M6 is clear of traffic jams. Which is hardly ever.

But, from …