Interview: Anne Savage

3:19pm Tuesday 22nd July 2008

THIS summer will see Burnley-born DJ Anne Savage spinning the decks at some of the world's hottest clubs in everywhere from Ibiza to Aya Napa.

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Not every fox is a farm threat

11:50am Monday 21st July 2008

ONE day last week I made an early start and by 6am I was sitting on a wall close to Pendle HIll having my picnic breakfast.

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Former quarry is a great day out

11:50am Monday 21st July 2008

FOR THOSE who try to plan their nature trips ahead, they should put Salthill on their mid-August diary. Salthill is reached just off the Clitheroe A59 bypass and was once a huge limestone quarry. This is now a local nature reserve run by the Wildlife Trust.

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Bright future for butterflies

11:50am Monday 21st July 2008

THERE was a time in the 1970s and 1980s when many of our British butterflies were very much under threat.

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Interview: Charles Ross of One-Man Star Wars Trilogy

5:24pm Tuesday 22nd July 2008

ONE man's misspent youth is another's springboard to stardom. We spoke to Canadian actor Charles Ross who spent much of his childhood in a galaxy far, far away, watching Star Wars videos.

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Interview: The Ryes

5:17pm Tuesday 22nd July 2008

IT’S funny how the musical world goes around and around in big concentric circles.

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Interview: Chaka Khan

10:57am Wednesday 16th July 2008

Ten questions put to Chaka Khan about her new album ‘Funk This’.

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Rare birds on our doorstep

2:25pm Monday 14th July 2008

I LOVE it when rare birds successfully breed in Lancashire.

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Sefton coasting to a bright future

2:25pm Monday 14th July 2008

THIS week I had more good news as I read a magazine called Coastlines produced by the Sefton Council, supported by lots of organisations.

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Reader has back yard nature haven

2:23pm Monday 14th July 2008

THESE days there always seems to be more worrying environment stories than good.

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Review: The Taming of the Shrew @ Worden Park, Leyland

4:33pm Friday 11th July 2008

Sun shining, birds singing, home-cooked food and Shakespeare- these were definitely the right ingredients for a perfect evening.

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Interview: Mik Kaminski of The Orchestra

3:17pm Friday 11th July 2008

THE Orchestra are heading out on a UK tour this autumn.

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Interview: Jimmy Cricket

2:52pm Friday 11th July 2008

DIG OUT your L and R wellies and rose-tinted spectacles ready for a trip down memory lane — because comedy legend Jimmy Cricket is coming to Blackpool, as part of the Best Of British Variety Tour 2008.

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Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat @ Grand Theatre, Blackpool

11:52am Wednesday 9th July 2008

A modern take on one of the country’s most popular musicals had the Grand Theatre on its feet on Tuesday.

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Interview: Avalon Way

11:58am Tuesday 8th July 2008

YOU could be forgiven for thinking that old-fashioned rock star behaviour had been totally eradicated, what with plasma TVs unable to penetrate double glazed hotel windows and recreational drug use being no less hazardous than today’s fast food.

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Puffin paradise

1:30pm Monday 7th July 2008

WHILE I was on the coastline of Cumbria I went to study the seabirds on the headland at St Bees and from which the Isle of Man can clearly be seen.

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The ‘touchy-feely’ aquarium

1:28pm Monday 7th July 2008

THERE has been a lot in the national news recently about the need to conserve the wildlife around the coast of Britain.

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Single: Jupiter One – Platform Moon

4:58pm Thursday 24th July 2008

EIGHTIES revivalism seems to work better coming from the mouths of Americans – and once again, a band from Brooklyn leads the way.

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Single: The Blakes – Don't Want That Now

5:17pm Thursday 24th July 2008

SWAGGERING, effortlessly cool rock from Seattle, from a band who look gratifyingly like they really don't give a damn.

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Soldiers honoured for war actions

Updated 10:26am Friday 25th July 2008

More than 100 soldiers have been honoured for bravery and commitment displayed while fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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