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Book review: A Walk in the Park by Jill Mansell
If any film-makers out there have never curled up with a Jill Mansell book, then perhaps now is a good time to start.
What’s On Thursday 23rd February
Don’t miss our What’s On section for all the best in entertainment across the Fylde coast.
Olly to headline finale at Proms
HEARTS are set to skip a beat when one of pop’s hottest talents invites thousands to dance with him under the gaze of Lytham’s iconic windmill.
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Rocket man for festival headland
It’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Hello Blackpool Headlands – and not before time!
A Grand National
The National Theatre’s West End and Broadway smash-hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, is coming to Blackpool Grand Theatre.
Entertainment
Celebrating 20 years of making music together
Friday’s Fylde Arts Mid Day Recital at Poulton Methodist Church is being given by Rossall School’s director of music Margaret Elizabeth Young (clarinet) and Philip Kubilius (piano) who will be presenting a programme of Brahms and Weber.
Star names for Grand
A trio of star names have been confirmed for two of Blackpool Grand Theatre’s future shows.
The great 208’s Battle of the Giants
A tribute to Radio Luxembourg’s once hugely popular Battle of the Giants programme is launching its 2012 tour in Lytham – and you could be taking part.
Cancer heartbreak sparks big concert
TWO teenagers are hoping to pull in the crowds as they organise a charity concert to raise money for Trinity Hospice.
Book review: Jezebel by Eleanor de Jong
Jezebel – most recognise her as the notorious Biblical figure synonymous with power but forever tainted by her reputation as a treacherous ‘painted lady.’ Is her Old Testament story the truth, partly the truth or just a pack of lies?
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Memory Lane
Memory Lane: Hidden tram tracks
GAS mains utility work on Whitegate Drive has exposed a link with that road’s transport of the past.
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Memory Lane: Teenage great escape
SHOWZAM! Central, with its sideshows theme, has brought back colourful memories for reader Jeff Moss.
Memory Lane: Roy’s Fuller life
BLACKPOOL is rarely, if ever, noted for its influence on the literary or cultural life of this country, and yet, amid the distinctive output of former Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, Roy Fuller – born a century ago last Saturday – the resort comes very much into its own.
Memory Lane: Kermit and Co are back
KERMIT and Co are back, ready to be enjoyed by a new generation in a big screen movie, The Muppets, opening in Fylde coast cinemas later this week.
Memory Lane: By the Dickens, he felt better in Blackpool
AS Britain today celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, reader Gerry Wolstenholme looks back on the great English novelist’s solitary visit to Blackpool.
Supplements
Russell’s ready to Kane it
Comic Russell Kane on The Big One, meeting his girlfriend while naked and what Manscaping is.
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Key date with teen prodigy
Teenage piano star Lara Melda is the guest of North Fylde Music Circle next Friday in the new concert hall of the Blackpool Sixth Form College, starting at 7.30pm.
Raconteur Blofeld bowls into town
IRREPRESSIBLE and nothing short of a national institution, Henry Blofeld, aka Blowers, breezes into Lytham next Friday.
THE DADDY OF ALL JOBS
ON January 12, I became a father for the first time to Decster. More importantly, I became a member of the Dads’ Club.
Columnists
Duke’s Diary - Night job beggars my belief
I’ve got to cut down on the St John’s Wort. Maybe from two a day to one. It’s just that the so called “sunshine pills” appear to have made me so mellow I just don’t get angry like I used to do – and anger is what has helped this column keep going for however many years it’s been filling this corner of Saturday’s paper.
A word in your ear - February 9, 2012
MICHAEL Owen – the one time boy wonder of English football – caused something of an internet tsunami this week, and surprisingly it had nothing to do with John Terry.
Taking Stock - February 6, 2012
WHAT do cornflakes packets, toilet rolls, plastic pop bottles and dried pasta have in common?
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Weather for Blackpool
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
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Temperature: 10 C to 13 C
Wind Speed: 23 mph
Wind direction: South west
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Temperature: 4 C to 11 C
Wind Speed: 21 mph
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