Wyre Light, situated two miles off Fleetwood, caused a stir when it was built because it was the world’s first screwpile lighthouse in operation, when the lantern was first lit on June 6 1840.

The event entails an expertly-guided walk across the Fleetwood sands, out to Morecambe Bay and the ghostly, ruined lighthouse, Wyre Light. The structure, which burnt down in the 1940s and is ...

Fleetwood is the only port in the country to host three lighthouses - the Lower Lighthouse, Pharos Lighthouse, and the sea-based Wyre Light. Their creation marked a "pioneering achievement in ...

Fleetwood's RNLI lifeboat was launched on at about 13:55 BST on Sunday near Wyre Light, the ruined lighthouse in Morecambe Bay. The volunteer crew dropped the speedboat's anchor in an attempt to ...

A video, taken Emma Lemon, shows several dolphins swimming in the water, near the Wyre Light lighthouse in Fleetwood, at the weekend. Emma said: “They seemed to be heading towards the wind farms.