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Blackpool holiday lets owner faces £20k bill for 'second homes'

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Judith Robbins runs eight self-catering units in one building in Blackpool .

The 75-year-old was told six of her Westward Holiday Apartments had been reclassified.

She is now liable to pay about 9,000 a year in council tax after the changes.

Government said people had been given a year 's warning that "properties should meet the rules".