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Blackpool is back
IT’S the first big test of the shape of things to come – a break which marks the beginning of the 2012 season for new look Blackpool.
Don’t try this at home, kids
FIRE eating, escapology, sawing limbs off, piercing bodily bits, exploding (pretend) budgies, levitating the missus ... it’s all in the CV (that’s conjurer’s vitae) of Blackpool magician Derek Lever, organiser of the three day Blackpool Magicians’ Convention which starts tomorrow.
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Iconic diva few could imitate
IT speaks volumes of Whitney Houston that, while many of the fame and fortune chasers auditioning for their big break in The X Factor or Britain’s Got Talent – including right here in Blackpool – try to sing like her, very few succeed. And most slaughter the songs she made her own – which Dolly Parton penned and sang for a friend: I Will Always Love You.
S(no)drops? Slowdrops!
It’s Snowdrop month at Lytham Hall. Shame nobody told the snowdrops.
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Up up and hols away
Five years and rising. Jet2holidays is celebrating its fifth birthday – with a 500 per cent boom in the package holiday market since it started out.
Mr and Mrs Bispham ...
Former shopfitter Mick Grewcock didn’t make the best first impression on Sheila Chick when he did some joinery at her workplace.
Enjoy a real trail blazer
It’s not every day you see an heron eating a slice of bread and, strictly speaking, Jenna Trewartha, Blackpool Council park ranger, does not approve.
Cam’s your man ma’am
Blackpool has bagged one of the first royal visits of Diamond Jubilee year proper.
Monkey with mayoralty?
Stuart Drummond set out to be the missing link in the mayoral chain – he donned a monkey suit to win the vote as Hartlepool’s first elected mayor.
Secret life of the sea
It’s easier to access than outer space and just as mysterious – one of the last great and generally unexplored “wildernesses”. Just a wet one!
Blackpool’s Eden project
Co-op boot and shoe repairer and amateur photographer Albert Eden was ahead of his times – 1891 to 1925. In an age when photographs tended to be static, and often unsmiling, affairs, his brought Blackpool to life.
Reflecting on war’s horrors 67 years on
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Lisa Ettridge finds a visit to a Nazi concentration camp is still an overwhelming and revealing experience
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Amaechi... and friends
Slam dunk! This is what John Amaechi used to do best – even as a self confessed “terrible athlete” who first picked up a basketball at 17.
A matter of civic pride
Griff Rhys Jones is busy, busy, busy. That’s how he likes it. When he gets time to think of it. Which isn’t now. Right now he’s preparing to put a bit of civic pride back into Preston – via a workshop there this afternoon – and then heading off to a big black tie do in Blackpool tonight, at arguably the most surreal setting the Winter Gardens has to offer – the Spanish Hall.
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With Anna away Faye [ELLE MULLVANEY] does her best to play Owen Armstrong [IAN PULESTON-DAVIES] up. He tries not to rise to the bait but when he discovers creosote on her jumper he confronts her about the dead fish. Faye confirms she was responsible and Owen loses his rag and slaps her on the back of the legs.
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Hitting home
Spare the rod and spoil the child? Coronation Street has courted controversy with a storyline which, for some, has simply lost the plot, but for others well and truly hit home.
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Weather for Blackpool
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Sunny spells
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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