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Interview: Chaka Khan

Interview: Chaka Khan

10:57am Wednesday 16th July 2008

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

Hoghton: Boars Head

4:34pm Monday 14th July 2008

THE Boars Head is yet another establishment to have undergone a transformation.

Review: Would I Lie to You, BBC1

4:30pm Monday 14th July 2008

THE show that makes liars out of our favourite comedians made a welcome return to the TV schedule on Friday night.

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

Pictured left to right: Brigid Lohrey who plays the Shrew and David Beck who plays Petruchio

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.

Review: Lab Rats, BBC2

3:30pm Friday 11th July 2008

A NEW comedy series, so it’s bound to end in disappointment.

Interview: Mik Kaminski of The Orchestra

RETURN: From left, Kelly Groucott, Mik Kaminski, Phil Bates, Louis Clark, Gordon Townsend and Eric Troyes

3:17pm Friday 11th July 2008

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

Interview: Jimmy Cricket

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.

Lytham: Chu's

Chu's, Church Road, Lytham

1:45pm Friday 11th July 2008

Chu’s restaurant is a relatively new, unassuming little place in Church Road, Lytham, offering Oriental cuisine.

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

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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.

Interview: Avalon Way

CROWD PLEASERS: Avalon Way adapt their set to suit a particular audience

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.

Review: Doctor Who, BBC1

1:04pm Monday 7th July 2008

SO, David Tennant wasn’t exterminated after all.

Review: Big Brother, Channel 4

10:08am Friday 4th July 2008

HAS anything interesting happened on Big Brother yet? No, thought not.

Review: EastEnders, BBC1

10:48am Tuesday 1st July 2008

I FEEL kind of sorry for Max Branning. OK, he slept with his son's fiancee.

Mellor: Spread Eagle

5:15pm Monday 30th June 2008

THE last time I visited the Spread Eagle it had only recently undergone a dramatic conversion from cheap and cheerful to stylish dining, so a return was long overdue.

Review: Doctor Who, BBC1

11:27am Monday 30th June 2008

SO that’s why we’ve kept hearing things about the bees going missing every week in Doctor Who?

Interview: Tony Benn

INTERVIEW: Former MP Tony Benn with Citizen reporter, Nazia Parveen

11:09am Monday 30th June 2008

Britain’s foremost socialist, Tony Benn, shared his forthright views with Citizen reporter, Nazia Parveen, following a conference in Preston.

Single: The Dodos – Red & Purple

10:54am Monday 14th July 2008

A chirpy debut UK release from a San Franciscan psych-folk duo – featuring what might be child's toy instrument as the musical hook.

Album: Five O'Clock Heroes – Speak Your Language

Album: Five O'Clock Heroes – Speak Your Language

6:18pm Thursday 17th July 2008

SOMETIMES music critics seem to engage in the musical equivalent of a playground pile-on.

Review: Hollyoaks, Channel 4

5:17pm Monday 30th June 2008

Poor Max Cunningham. If ever there was a character who has no luck, it’s him.

Review: Heroes, BBC2

1:05pm Friday 27th June 2008

IT’S hard work having superpowers if Heroes is anything to go by.

Interview: Paul Daniels

PAUL AND DEBBIE:“She gets more applause than me”

1:02pm Friday 27th June 2008

PAUL Daniels is in a mischievous mood when I call.

Interview: Craig Chalmers

Craig Chalmers

12:46pm Friday 27th June 2008

Craig Chalmers thought his chances of a leading stage role had disappeared when he was voted off TV’s search for Joseph. But now he’s touring the country in his dream role.

Interview: Andrea Glass

8:42pm Thursday 26th June 2008

ANDREA Glass isn't your typical female singer-songwriter.

Tribal Wives, ITV1

12:10pm Thursday 26th June 2008

I WANT to be a tribal wife! Because after watching frazzled ‘slave-to-my-Blackberry’ single mum Karen Morris spend a month with the Waorani tribe of Ecuador on ITV’s Tribal Wives last night it seems better than a stint in the priory.

Doc Martin, ITV1

11:01am Wednesday 25th June 2008

I HAVE a question – who in the land of TV big wigs decided that there was a place in the TV listings for a slow-paced drama set in a sleepy Cornish village?

Poulton: Papa’s

Papa's, Vicarage Lane, Poulton

9:51pm Monday 23rd June 2008

Papa's, Vicarage Lane, Poulton An office leaving party led a group of ten of us to Poulton restaurant Papa's for a farewell meal of what is billed as modern Italian food.

On The Ball, BBC1

2:05pm Monday 23rd June 2008

TUCKED away at the back end of Saturday night's viewing was a little treat of a programme over on BBC1.

Chorley: Camerons, Birkacre Garden Centre

Camerons restaurant, Birkacre Garden centre, Chorley

10:08pm Monday 23rd June 2008

Trying to find somewhere different to have lunch, apart from the usual cafes and sandwich shops in Chorley, I remembered that Camerons restaurant in Birkacre Garden centre was just a short drive down the road.

Preston: Anderton Arms

Anderton Arms, Fulwood, Preston

10:02pm Monday 23rd June 2008

The Ember Inns company prides itself on creating a friendly, relaxing atmosphere for adults, and that’s exactly what you get at the Anderton Arms pub in Fulwood.

The Money Programme, BBC2

1:11pm Saturday 21st June 2008

I CAN't say that I'm a regular viewer of The Money Programme but last night there was an hour long special which was fascinating.


National News

Tories blast waste collection plans

Joan Ruddock regards new detention limit as 'plucked from thin air'

Updated 10:42pm today Friday 18th July 2008

Councils may refuse to collect rubbish from households which ignore written instructions on how it should be put out, a minister said.


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