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Light hearted fun

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The giant heart on the front of the structure has been completely rebuilt and re-fitted with new-style light nodes in time for the 2019 Illuminations display which runs for 66 nights until November 3.

It is part of a gradual replacement of the lighting on the Tower legs aimed at reducing the number of faults caused by exposure to extreme weather conditions and salt air.

For the coming Illuminations season, the west face of the Tower “stick” will be illuminated along with the Tower top and the heart.

The replacement of lighting on all faces of The Tower will follow from next year subject to successful testing of the new nodes on the heart over the coming months.

be constantly maintained simply because of the beachfront location and severe weather conditions that often come in from the Irish Sea." “For this season, we are trialling a new form of lighting nodes on the heart to determine how much better they stand up to the conditions."

“That work has now been completed and the heart reinstalled on the front of The Tower. It looks fantastic and we are delighted it is in place for this milestone anniversary year along with the lighting on the west face and The Tower top."

“It is a little disappointing that we cannot light up the whole of The Tower for the coming Illuminations season, but replacement of lighting on such a large scale structure cannot be achieved overnight.”

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LINK-Mag Recipe

Sausage Rolls with a Beer Dip

Who doesn’t love a sausage roll, and they are especially welcome on the buffet table or as a perfect warming snack on chilly evenings. Suitable for freezing.

Makes: 24 Preparation time: 30 mins Cooking time: 20-25 mins You’ll need • 450g high meat content sausage meat • 1 small onion, peeled and finely diced • 4 sticks Fenland celery, trimmed and finely diced • 1 tbsp chopped fresh sage • 350g ready-made puff pastry • 1 free-range egg, beaten with 1 tbsp milk (to seal) • 1 free-range egg, beaten (to glaze) • Salt and pepper to taste For the beer dip

make a long sausage shape, then lay it on one half of one of the strips of pastry. Moisten the edges with a little egg and milk mixture then fold the other half of the length of pastry over and seal along the edges.

• 4 tbsp tomato ketchup • 2 tbsp tomato chutney • 1 tbsp Worcester sauce • 1 tsp English mustard • 150ml dark beer What to do Pre-heat oven to 220C/450F/ Gas 7. Grease and line two large baking sheets with greaseproof paper.

Mix the sausage meat, onion, Fenland celery and sage together and season with a little salt and pepper.

Roll the pastry out on a wellfloured board into a large rectangle. Cut into three strips, lengthways.

With floured hands, take a third of the sausage meat mixture and 10

Using a sharp knife, cut about 8 sausage rolls out of one strip, then snip the tops to allow the steam to escape. Repeat with the remaining two pastry strips.

Place them all on the baking sheets, brush with beaten egg and bake on two shelves, swapping them over half way through for 15 to 20 minutes until the pastry is puffed up and golden brown.

Remove the sausage rolls from the oven and allow to cool slightly before serving warm, or cold.

Meanwhile, make the dip by adding all the ingredients to a sauce pan and heating gently until warm. Pour

the dip into a bowl and serve with the warm sausage rolls.

Can be frozen before baking.

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Halloween tricky treats Halloween is the perfect time for creatively creepy cooking so pull on those oven gloves and put on a FANGtastic outfit to get into the spirit! and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and beat in.

Gently fold in the flour until it’s all combined and the mixture drops from the spoon with a slight tap.

Divide the mixture between the cake cases and bake in the oven for 16-18 minutes or until they’re golden and spring back when gently pressed on the top. Leave to cool.

When the cakes are cool, make the icing by combining the icing sugar with 2tbsp water to make a paste.

Halloween Cupcakes

Simple to make cakes that make a huge impact. A trick and a treat all rolled into one!

Serves: 12 Prep time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 16 minutes You’ll Need: • 120g butter at room temperature • 120g sugar • 2 eggs, at room temperature • 120g self-raising flour • 250g icing sugar • Orange food colouring, a black gel icing tube, liquorice laces, strawberry laces, • 6 blackberries, 6 raspberries, 6 blueberries What to do: Heat the oven to 170C/ 150C fan and line a muffin tin with cake cases.

In a mixing bowl beat the butter

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Divide the mixture into two bowls and colour one orange. Ice half the cakes in orange and half in white.

Use the black icing tube to draw concentric circles onto the orange iced cakes then, drag the point of a cocktail stick or skewer from the centre of the icing out to the edge.

Repeat all of the way around, like the spokes of a wheel, to create a web effect.

Add a blackberry as the spider in each web and create its legs with pieces of liquorice. Use a raspberry and blueberry together on the white iced cakes to make the head and body of a bug and again create red legs and antenna in the same way.

Cooks tip: If you’re short on time buy a pack of fairy cakes and decorate in the same way or ice a big spiders web onto a shop bought Victoria Sponge and cover in berry spiders..

Eyeball Jelly

This dessert may look gruesome, but the eyeballs are all sweet fruity bites.

Serves: 4 -6 Prep time: 20 minutes, plus setting time overnight You’ll Need: • 1 tin lychee in syrup • 1 pack BerryWorld blueberries • 1 pack raspberry jelly What to do: Drain the lychees.

Gently push 1 or 2 blueberries into each lychee.

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Pour the jelly mixture into the serving glasses over the blueberry-lychee eyeballs and refrigerate to set.

Graveyard Pudding

These ghoulish puddings are scarily good.

Makes: 4 Prep Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 5 mins You’ll need: • 300g BerryWorld blackberries • 200g chocolate, dark or milk to suit your taste • 2tbsp sugar, optional • 200ml double cream • 2 eggs, separated • 4 tombstone shaped biscuits (we used Nice biscuits) • 8 chocolate filled Oreos • 1tbsp desiccated coconut • Black gel icing tube • Green food colouring • Flower cake decorations

Method: Reserve 12 blackberries and mash the rest in a bowl with a fork. Set a fine sieve over a bowl, tip in the mashed berries, using the back of a spoon to push them through the sieve. Discard the remains in the sieve and set the puree aside.

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blackberries between 4 glasses, cut them up if they’re large.

Spoon the chocolate mixture on top then refrigerate. To create the graveyard, use the icing tube to spell R.I.P. on each biscuit then put the Oreos in a zip-lock bag and bash with a rolling pin, smashing them so they look like soil.

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Millions of Dogs and Cats suffer Fireworks misery

and very gradually introduce your pet to these types of noises. Play them quietly in another room to start with, and make sure you remain calm and act normally. Reward your pet when they remain calm, and if they become anxious then stop immediately and try Vet charity urges early action to tackle pets’ fears again later with a lower volume. When • If you have a young pet who will be experiencing fireworks for they show no reaction, very gradually the first time, then this experience can often feed into how they increase the volume and duration over react to fireworks into adulthood. Read up on the process of a period of several weeks. socialisation, which is when young pets are introduced to a variety • Build a hideaway den for your pet of people, objects, sounds and experiences at a critical stage of their development during their first few months of life. How you several weeks ahead – this should be react is also very important – remaining calm will help to reassure somewhere they feel safe. For dogs them the noises are nothing to worry about. When done correctly, this may be behind the sofa or under a socialisation can significantly reduce the likelihood of fears table – cover it with blankets and line developing in later life. it with pillows to reduce any sound.

Cats often feel safest when high up, • For severe phobias, we recommend speaking to your vet, who so a safely secured cat bed on a shelf will be able to discuss various options including referral to an or wardrobe may be their preferred accredited behaviourist. option. Don’t force them to use this, but do reward them with praise or a Olivia continued: “We can’t stop fireworks from happening, but healthy treat when they do, so they with some advanced preparation and patience we can make a big difference to the amount of anxiety and stress our pets’ experience.” build a positive association.

• Use pheromones – these are available For more advice on preparing pets for fireworks season, visit as diffusers which release scents which are undetectable to humans, but can have a calming, reassuring effect on our pets. They are available for dogs and cats, and should be used for several weeks leading up to fireworks season.

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Skoda Kodiaq VRS

by Rob Auchterlonie

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ATS off to Skoda – they’ve managed to produce a diesel engine that sounds for all the world like a booming, burbling V8….

It languishes under the bonnet of the fastest production diesel Skoda have built so far and comes with twin turbos attached.

The effect, for any petrolhead, is impressive if a little false.

The synthesised exhaust note is piped inside to disguise the engine’s diesel origins and Skoda make no attempt to conceal the Dynamic Sound Boost system in the Kodiaq vRS. Whichever driving mode you’re in, but especially so in Sport, there’s a deep, throbbing burble.

The vRS Kodiaq is a car that has an air of inevitability about it, a car that cried out from its introduction to be given the ‘quick’ treatment.

Which doesn’t just mean the black styling accents, alcantara sports seats and 20 inch alloys.

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vRS styling means it gets its own unique sports front and rear bumpers, as well as dual exhaust tail pipes.

Also ‘de rigeur’ for any VW Group product these days is the Virtual Cockpit, which puts all the info you might need right in front of you on the customisable 10.25 inch digital display, which offers five different views – classic, basic, extended, modern and sports.

You’ll find the dual clutch auto gearbox wants to get into the top ratio without too much fuss, but you can use the paddles on the steering wheel to ‘play’ a bit with the car, which has the ability to show a decent burst of cross country pace.

Skoda have had something of a penchant for exotic animal names in the past (Yeti, anyone?) and the ‘Kodiaq’ is a car that bears (!) close scrutiny if you’re in the market for a big SUV with a bit of character.

Its natural habitat will obviously be the highways and byways of our ailing and potholed road network, but in 4x4 trim it’s quite adept at heading for the bondooks. Good ground clearance is a given and

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The interior passes close inspection, neat and functional in its layout and if you search around you’ll find some neat touches, like the concealed compartment in the passenger’s side of the dash, and the ‘why has no one done this before’ logical placing of the push start/stop button on the steering column when most put it in the dash or the centre console.

with, and comes with a good ride and handling balance as standard. The interior is cavernous, there’s room for seven, it’s quick and surefooted, as well as being comfortable and easy to drive.

It’s capable of romping along at a fair lick without disturbing the comfort of those inside. It’s not perfect on rough country roads but it’s not going to have you thinking you’ve made the wrong choice of car either.

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LIBRARY @ THE GRANGE Bathurst Ave FY3 7RW Tel: 478270 MON 9.30am - 5pm TUE 1pm - 5pm, WED 1pm - 5pm, THU 1pm - 5pm FRI 1pm - 5pm, SAT 10am - 4pm SUN closed. Reading group: SECOND MON OF MONTH, 1.30pm. Knit and natter: every MON 1pm. Keep Calm And Colour In group, EVERY TUE 11am. Reading group: SECOND MON OF MONTH, 1.30pm. Knit and natter: every MON 1pm. Keep Calm And Colour In group, EVERY TUE 11am

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Telephone 116 123 (Freephone) E-mail: jo@samaritans.org. 16 Edward Street, Blackpool, FY1 1BA. We receive callers at the door most days until 9.00pm AGE UK LANCASHIRE SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLEY Inc Home Help Service, Benefit Advice and help re form filling hospital after care service (take home & settle). 0300 303 1234

SAVE THE CHILDREN COFFEE MORNING Sat 5th October. Tea, coffee & biscuits served from 10:30 am – LAYTON LIBRARY 11:30 am. At The United Reformed Talbot Road, FY3 7BD Tel: 478145 MON 10am - 5pm, TUE closed, WED FURRY TAILS FELINE WELFARE Church, Cleveleys. Entrance is by donation. There will be a Raffle and 10am - 7pm, THU 10am - 5pm, Cat welfare charity serving stalls selling Handicrafts, Jewellery, FRI 10am - 5pm SAT 10am - 2pm Blackpool and Flyde area. Our Cakes, & Save the Children Items.

SUN closed. Bounce & Rhyme: for policy at the sanctuary is not to Please support us in our efforts children 3 and under, EVERY THUR catch and cage but to heal and to raise funds for the vital work of 10.30am. Reading Group: FIRST FRI home. The little orphans have Save the Children. There are still OF THE MONTH 2pm safe and warm units with radio many children suffering throughout and TV. Our cats are happy and the world. Please help us if you MOOR PARK LIBRARY healthy and our homing record is can.

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EVERY FRI 10am. Knit and Natter: details please contact Carole Carers, spouses and partners EVERY THUR 2pm. Keep Calm & Ashworth at Palatine Library Tel: welcome to come along and join Colour In group, Moor Park Library, 01253 476390 us. Aim to offer help and support to EVERY FRI 2pm. Board Games Club: each other and raise the profile of THE KENSINGTON every Thursday 2pm this little-known dreadful and fatal FOUNDATION disease. Contact - Malcolm Hyland: We are a charity in need of good ST WALBURGER’S CHURCH 01253 885561 / 07734 265748. Email quality items of furniture and toys Open every Saturday to visitors - jmhyland@sky.com. Fred Bostock; for re-distribution to families in throughout the year, 10am - 2pm.

01253 713496. Email - fbostock@ need. Contact 761444 Refreshments provided. Trips talktalk.net up the Spire for a fee of £2. Tel: BLACKPOOL FYLDE & WYRE 07709574422 BISPHAM WORKSHOP GROUP SAMARITANS ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS We offer emotional support for Kincraig Community Centre, FOREST GATE BAPTIST whatever you are going through.

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0NB. Anyone who feels that they may have a problem with alcohol is welcome to attend any A.A. meeting. This is an ‘open’ meeting which means that partners, friends and other interested people are all welcome as well as the problem drinker. Meet Wednesdays 7:30 to 8:30pm. Contact Ron H: 07429 9 66404 or Peter V: 07817 547973 bisphamworkshop@gmail.com

at the Windmill Unit, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, at 2.30pm to discuss all issues related with prostate cancer – patients, spouses and carers are welcome!

Wherever you are in your cancer journey, you will be welcomed with open arms. call 01253 697876 01253 353060.

NEW LOCAL ASPERGERS GROUP MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE Are looking for new members.

ASSOCIATION Meet like-minded adults for Blackpool, Wyre & Fylde Branch intelligent conversation (no small meet 2nd Wednesday every month talk) & occasional activities such from 11.00am-1.00pm at Blackpool as bowling at Thornton YMCA or Centre for Independent Living, meals out in quiet restaurants etc.

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Enquiries most welcome. Please Contact Contact Linda Endicott show family members who 828584 or mndconnect 08457 might be interested. Either join 626262 Facebook group: ‘Aspergers 16+ Blackpool Area Connect’ or HEAD & NECK CANCER email Becky: becky_boo1967@ SUPPORT MEETING yahoo.co.uk The Village Hotel, East Park Drive, Blackpool. Come along and meet CARERS’ SUPPORT GROUP like-minded people dealing with We hold various monthly meetings Head & Neck cancer, Everyone for carers, both during the day and Welcome and we look forward in the evenings at Blackpool Carers to meeting Patients, Carers and Centre, Beaverbrooks House, 147 family members on the night. 2nd Newton Drive, Blackpool FY3 8LZ Wednesday of the month, 7pm to If you care, unpaid, for a family 9pm. Contact Sharon - Mobile: member or friend, come and join 07572493874. Email: Sharon@ us for tea, coffee and biscuits. theswallows.org.uk Have a chat and meet new friends.

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BLACKPOOL BLOOD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP SENSITIVE BEREAVEMENT Come and meet others battling SUPPORT blood cancer. Patients, carers, Have you lost a precious loved family and friends all welcome. We one? We offer sensitive one to one meet 7pm third Wednesday every or small group support to enable month (not August) Macmillan you to work through your loss. We Windmill Unit, Blackpool Victoria are part of the Gate Community Hospital, Whinney Heys Road FY3 Church. For info, contact Julia on 8NR. Contact Jez 07950635249 07969087352 or 01253 760758. or Lesley 07890 847796.

MACMILLAN CANCER THIS IS SILVERLINE. INFORMATION & SUPPORT Need help? The only free SERVICE confidential helpline providing Based at Victoria Hospital, information, friendship and advice Blackpool our centre's aim is to older people, open 24 hours a to give people ‘time away’ from day, every day of the year. Age limit the cancer clinic. People don't over 55. need an appointment to speak Call us ANYTIME on: to or visit our centre and they are 0800 4 70 80 90 welcome whether they have a cancer diagnosis, are worried about MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE cancer or are visiting on behalf BLACKPOOL AND FYLDE of a friend or relative. Information PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT on everything from local support Meet second Weds of every month groups to help for the financial

problems cancer may create, or just a listening ear and a cup of tea.

Windmill Unit, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, FY3 8NR, Open from 9:30 – 16:00 Monday – Friday.

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Social Groups SEEKING FRIENDSHIP Female looking for a Male companion between 60-76 to share the things i enjoy such as Travelling, Eating out, Cooking, Walking and Horse Riding. I am an animal lover with 3 cats. I enjoy meeting new people. Call 07376 161946 EASY GOING GUY With varied hobbies such as concerts,music and theatre is seeking an honest lady, age 30-50 years for friendship and days and evenings out. Tel Patrick 01253 291330 / 07930272533 ROYAL SIGNALS ASSOCIATION BLACKPOOL Cricket Club, Stanley Park The Association is for any serving/ ex serving members of The Royal Corps Of Signals. Come along and join us, we have several events planned and you will be made very welcome. Meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 19:30. Contact The Secretary 07946222517 LANCASHIRE BRANCH OF R.E.M.E ASSOCIATION The Guards Club (Opposite Belle Vue Pub) Whitegate Dr meet every 2nd Thursday of the month. The branch is open to all serving and ex members of R.E.M.E. Meeting start time 19:00 for 19:30 hrs. All members welcome. Also associate membership will be available. ALL welcome.

STITCH AND CHAT CLUB Every Monday 12:30pm - 2:30pm & 2:30 - 4:15pm. Tuition classes & supply materials for the following; Card Making, Knitting, Crochet, Pin Pricking and General Crafts. Come along and learn a new skill or brush up on some old ones. Organise

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coach trips and occasional Blackpool & District Meet on the outside workshops. Dunsop Court, Second Thursday of each Month Blackpool. Tel: 01253 405138 at 1930 hrs at The Plough Inn. Chain Lane, Staining FY3 0BX. All STAINING WI Sappers Very welcome Meetings on a variety of subjects are held every third Wednesday ROYAL MARINES in the month from 7:30pm in St ASSOCIATION BLACKPOOL Luke’s church next to Staining Meet at Guards Club 37 school. Further details from Jean Whitegates Drive, Blackpool. Third Armstrong on 886325 or just turn Thursday of the month at 7.30pm. up on the night.

Retired Royal Marines and their families welcome. Contact Neville SUNSHINE CLUB - OVER 60’S Ayrton Tel: 01253 868874 email: Held in St Luke’s church Staining, xbootneck36@btinternet.com every 2nd Thursday of the month for afternoon teas. We also run a CARD CRAFT CLASS day trip the last Thursday of every Card making with instruction, open month. Everyone welcome. to all. No experience necessary, For further details tel Mrs Finch instruction given. Venue Salvation on 01253 398555 or Mrs Ardley Army Raikes Parade. Every last on 01253 397516.

Saturday of the month 10-12pm Contact Ann Pressley 01253 RENDEZVOUS COFFEE 311231 MORNING FOR OVER 55’S At 10.30 am on the first Tuesday of THE LIGHTHOUSE SPIRITUAL each month in the church lounge CENTRE at Christ Church with All Saints, Spencer Court Community Centre, Palatine Road, Blackpool FY1 Spencer Court, Blackpool, FY1 4BT. All welcome. Coffee, cakes, 3TWNow being run by Deborah speakers, quizzes, games and Lochrie (formerly of Shadowlands gentle exercise. £1.50.

Psychic Club!) and Beverley Todd.

Contact Ruth 01253 390272.

A warm welcome awaits you every Sun evening for a demonstration SEEKING FRIENDSHIP of mediumship followed by an Active 69 year old female would Open Circle. Doors 7pm for a like female travel companion 7.30pm start. £3 entrance fee and male friend to share theatre, inc refreshments. Find us on dancing, music, cinema, dining Facebook - Friends of the out, social events. Call Sylvia Lighthouse Spiritualist Centre 594488 Blackpool WHIST DRIVE St Bernadette’s Church Hall, Old Hallow Road, Bispham.

Every Tuesday from 13:30pm.

Admission £2 to include tea and biscuits. Cash Prizes to be won Contact Beryl on 01253 358940 BLACKPOOL VETERANS BREAKFAST CLUB Squaddie banter on the Fylde.

We meet on alternate Saturdays / Sundays at 1300hrs in the Regent Cinema Market Cafe by Church Street Regent Street traffic lights up on the 1st Floor (near the old Army Careers Office) Browse the indoor market then sit down for a brew, breakfast and banter.

NORTH SHORE ALL PLAYERS Fun, friendly and all inclusive local drama group at Bispham Conservative Club, Red Bank Road on Wednesday evenings.

Recently performed at Bispham Conservative Club and raised £271.72 for Disability First. 18+ For more info call Marie 07961663102

BLACKPOOL MUSIC SERVICE YOUTH CONCERT BAND We are seeking a kit drummer for our Youth Concert Band under the age of 18 and who is grade 4 or above. We offer free rehearsals, a wide range of music covering various genres, full support when needed and the opportunity to perform at prestigious venues THE ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSN including tours abroad. Please 24

contact Andrew White on 07973 727881 or 01253 476767.

KNIT-A-LIFESAVER WITH VITA First Monday of every month.

Reading Lounge, Central Library, 3pm - 4.30pm. All hands on deck knitting poppies (For Victoria Hospital in association with The British Legion, all for charity) BLACKPOOL FRIENDS OF TRINITY HOSPICE GROUP are looking for places in the Blackpool area to hold coffee mornings at, more likely at the weekend. Churches, church halls, community rooms, anywhere really where we would have access to hot water and preferably a kitchen area. All the cash raised will go directly to Trinity Hospice and our volunteers will do all the hard work, we just ask for use of the room.

Sheila Swan on 07990 600051 BLACKPOOL AND FYLDE ROYAL ARTILLERY ASSOCIATON Meets 2nd Monday of the Month at Newton Arms Staining Road FY3 0AJ. 1200 for 1230 Hours. All Ex RA and attached Personnel made welcome. For details contact honsecraablackpoolandfylde@ yahoo.com or ring Mike 01253 761769 MARTON OPERATIC Rehearsals for Iolanthe each Wednesday at 7.30 pm St Paul's Church, Honister Avenue, Marton, Blackpool - Show October 23 - 26 Thornton Little Theatre.

COMMUNITY CENTRE ACTIVITIES Film Club at Lowmoor Community Centre, Edmonton Place, Bispham, Blackpool FY20UT, every Wednesday from 2pm to 4pm, just a donation is required for the popcorn, and refreshments. Pie Club at Sevenoaks Community Centre, Hobart Place , Bispham, FY53DQ, every Thursday from 12.00, Pie, Mash, Peas and Gravy, Tea or Coffee £3.00. 3 Course lunch at Kilmory Community Centre, Kilmory Place, Bispham, FY20XS, every Wednesday at 12.00 £3.50 for 3 courses Inc. tea and coffee. Bingo at Stronsay Community Centre, Stronsay

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Place, Bispham, FY20HE, every Thursday at 7pm, bring your own raffle prize! Craft group at Kingcraig Community Centre, King Craig Place, Bispham, Blackpool, FY20NB. Every Friday at 12.00 till 2.00pm

Clubs & Societies FRIENDS OF STANLEY PARK Meet the 3rd Saturday in each month, come along for a cuppa at 1:30 meeting at 2:00 with speaker. come & find out what is happening in our lovely park. all welcome.

Info ring 318948

Scene. Varied entertainment every afternoon & evening, including our famous Free & Easy, and Wacky Wednesday Club. Function Room Available for Special Events & Forces Reunions. All welcome, contact the Treasurer on 01253 508084. King Street, Blackpool BLACKPOOL FLOWER CLUB Meets at Staining Village Hall the last Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. New Members and Guests welcome. Contact Joan Pickering 01253 394622

THE ARTS SOCIETY FYLDE 10 monthly lectures pa on art, sculpture, architecture, jewellery, BISPHAM WITH NORBRECK ceramics, glass, poster art, mosaics, FLOWER CLUB etc. First Wednesday of the month St Bernadettes Church Hall, at 2.00pm at the Lowther Pavilion, Bispham New Members most Lytham. Admission fee of £8 for welcome. Meet every third Weds of non-members. 07399 870179. the month, 7-30pm. theartssocietyfylde.org.uk.

Contact Helen 354548 GERMAN LANGUAGE CIRCLE BLACKPOOL SEA CADETS We meet Tuesday evenings 596 Devonshire Road Bispham at 7.30 pm at the Low Moor Tues/Fri evenings 19:00 - 21:30 Community Centre, Edmonton Now recruiting cadets aged 10 - 18 Place, Blackpool, FY2 0UT. This years old plus adults to fill roles as a chance to brush up or improve instructional staff or as members your German in a relaxed, friendly of the Unit Management Team. atmosphere. A limited knowledge Contact us or drop in for a chat of the language is necessary on a parade night. 01253 500499 for you to be able to enjoy our meetings. We are now in our THE LANCASTRIAN PLAYERS summer season when we have Meet in Bispham at 7.45 on conversation evenings.

Wednesday evenings. New N.B. No meetings directly after Members always welcome for Bank Holidays Contact Terry on acting, backstage,set, front of 01253 867825 house. No audition necessary.

Details call Steve 07849969619 NORTH FYLDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY BLACKPOOL PALATINE For further details please see ROTARY CLUB. www.northfylde-ps.co.uk or Would you like to help others have contact secretary Neil Pascoe on a better quality of life both at home 01253 734243 and abroad AND have fun while you are doing it? Then Rotary is BRITISH MERCHANT NAVY for you! Meets each week on a ASSOCIATION Tuesday for a meal, social night Have you ever been in the or an outing, if you are interested Merchant Navy? Why not come in coming along phone Gail on and join us at the Blackpool 07530175111 or Howard on Merchant Navy Association. We 07712619612 or you can visit our meet alternate Sundays, at the website by searching Blackpool Guards Club, 37E Whitegate Drive Palatine Rotary Club online.

Blackpool at 11 am. For more information please call 01253 BLACKPOOL ROYAL BRITISH 700735.

LEGION The Hidden Gem of the Social Club GERMAN LANGUAGE CIRCLE

We meet every Tuesday evening, starting at 7.30 pm, at the Low Moor Community Centre, Edmonton Place, Blackpool, FY2 0UT. This a chance to brush up or improve your German in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. A limited knowledge of the language is necessary for you to be able to enjoy our meetings. We are now at the start of our winter programme of prepared talks and presentations, musical evenings, etc., with occasional conversation evenings.

Contact Terry on 01253 867825

Sports & Activities ROLLER DERBY LEAGUE New intake, train every Sunday 12pm to 2pm at Play Football, Garstang Road West, Blackpool FY3 7JH. We welcome men and women to our league. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never skated before we are looking for anyone 18+ who is looking to play a fun full contact, fast paced team sport.

For details email blackpoolrollerderby@live.co.u LAYTON LADIES BOWLING CLUB Ladies pavilion (Cameron Avenue entrance) We are looking for new members. Bowlers and learners would be very welcome. Tuesday afternoons 1pm. Contact Barbara, 339351 or Dorothy, 626188 BLACKPOOL VICTORIA WALKING CLUB invites you to join our friendly group for B and C grade walks on the second Sunday of each month.

Coach pickups from Freckleton via Lytham St Annes, Blackpool, Poulton le Fylde and Great Eccleston cost £10 per person, all welcome. Please contact Derek Helm on 01772 679153 or 07783835041 for more details.

BLACKPOOL & WYRE LADIES HOCKEY CLUB Wednesdays 7-30 - 8-30 on the astropitches in Stanley Park. Have you played hockey? Why not give it another go? An excellent way to get fit. £3 per session.

Enquiries Ann on 890717

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CLAREMONT PARK BOWLING CLUB Warley Road, Blackpool FY1 2RW. We would like to invite new members to join our club. Gents, Ladies and children welcome, either experienced or beginners.

Help will be on hand to learn the game. Please contact Men’s Secretary on 01253 592961 or Ladies Secretary on 01253 314871

at St Bernadettes Church Hall All Hallows Road Bispham. Every Monday at 1-45 - 2-45 tea and biscuits included. Regular events and outings during the year.

Come and join us for a very social afternoon of exercises to suit senior citizens, 1-50 per session.

Just come along or ring Ann on 593343 or Jenny on 534278. New members will be assured of a warm welcome.

success of their incendiary debut singles – receiving support from Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy and Q magazine to name but a few - and string of sold-out gigs, this band still remain something of an enigma. Support from local shoegaze/dream-pop rock band Oceans Over Alderaan Bootleg Social Club, Topping Street, Blackpool. www. bootlegsocial.co.uk

BLACKPOOL WALKING NETBALL GROUP Fridays 12.30 – 1.30pm Indoor Netball Court at Stanley Park Sports Centre. Mostly over 50’s, is mixed in gender, health and experience -playing for fun and exercise. Supported by a trained walking netball host who provides some drills and coaching. £3 per session or free if you are a sports centre subscriber. Come along and try it – it’s a great game.

NORTH FYLDE MUSIC CIRCLE Friday 18th October, starting 7.30pm, in the Blackpool Sixth Form College Theatre, Blackpool Old Road, Blackpool, FY3 7LR, the North Fylde Music Circle welcomes the widely admired piano duo, John Gough and Tom Kimmance, who will be playing music by Schubert, Beethoven, York Bowen, Rachmaninov, Satie and Walton. Non-members most welcome, admission £11, students £4. For enquiries visit www.

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Fortnightly walks. Our walks are not strenuous, we walk about PASSION FOR LIFE CHARITY 6 miles. We like to see nature SHOW through the seasons. All welcome, The Second annual A Passion for Life charity Show takes place LEARN TO DANCE BALLROOM for more details ring 316713 at Viva Blackpool on the 28th AND LATIN AMERICAN PREBOND RAMBLERS CLUB October the show this year has no CLASSES FOR ALL AGE Walk 2nd Sunday of each month. fewer than 9 top acts including the GROUPS 3 walks to choose from. Evening star of the show Ray Lewis lead Every Thursday 7pm - 8.30pm. meal in pub on route home. Keep singer from the legendary Drifters By the end of the course you fit and make new friends. July 8th he will be performing many of the will have learnt a Ballroom and Keswick, August 12th Grassington. Drifters classics. All money raise Latin American routine. Singles Pick up points between Bispham will go to two incredible charities welcome. Bispham United The Rosemere Cancer Foundation Reformed Church Hall, Cavendish and Wesham. Contact 711898 and Molly Olly's Wishes a Road. Barbara 01253 356558, EASY BEGINNERS PILATE FOR children's cancer charity for more Peter 01253 594516 JOINT MOBILITY AND BACK information and to book tickets PROBLEMS. go www.apassionforlife.co.uk LATIN & BALLROOM DANCE Classes every Monday and CLASS Wednesday at Bispham Charity dance class - free of Community Centre, Contact charge , but donations to Trinity Hospice welcome. Learn to dance Norma for details 07715651283 LADIES FASHION SHOW AND or improve your technique with POP-UP SHOP! Olga, former 10-dance world Wed 16th Oct at Fylde Rugby champion (O35s), and help a good Club, Blackpool Road, Lytham St cause at the same time. All ages Annes FY8 4EL. Doors open 7pm, OCTOBER DRIFT & OCEANS welcome. Suitable for beginners. show starts 7.30pm. Tickets £7.50 OVER ALDERAAN Sundays 6pm. Manx Hotel, 248 to include welcome PROSECCO Queens Promenade, Bispham. Tel Sun 6th October, 9pm or fruit juice. RAFFLE with prizes When October Drift appeared Olga 07484 258438 to book. to be won at the show. Text Lesley at the start of 2015 with their www.melnikdance.com. Follow on 07840 924882 for tickets - or beefy yet melodic sound, they us on Facebook. pay at the door. had the confidence to win over all audiences. Despite the early EXERCISE TO MUSIC FRR WALKING GROUP (THE DOG FRIENDLY WALKING CLUB) Affiliated to the Ramblers Association. Enjoy a full day out in the English Countryside with FRR, who welcome new members and well behaved dogs, visiting places such as the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District, the Pendle area, North Wales to name but a few.

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the age of two, and making her first public stage appearance as a dancer in pantomime at the historic Blackpool Grand Theatre.

Lucy, 23, pulled the switch in front of almost 20,000 people on the Tower Festival Headland sparking a colourful explosion of light and pyrotechnics along the seafront, and triggering 66 nights of Illuminations. Dozens of her family and friends, including her boyfriend, parents and sisters, were in the audience to watch her take centre stage.

Since then, she has had a stellar rise to success, winning numerous awards and plaudits in her role as Bethany Platt in Coronation Street.

She now joins a roll of honour of Switch-On celebrities including the likes of Hollywood film director, Tim Burton, Robbie Williams, Peter Kay and Dame Barbara Windsor. Moments before, Lucy spoke of her pride at being invited to perform at the Switch-On in the town where she learned her craft, studying singing, acting and drama from

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The Switch-On was the centrepiece of a dazzling four-hour concert, delivered in association with MTV and featuring performances from Busted, Diversity, Becky Hill, Nina Nesbitt, Sigma and R3Wire & Varski. There were also special guest appearances by the Flakefleet Children’s Choir, who wowed the public with their joyous performances on Britain’s Got Talent, and by Sooty, the UK’s most enduring children’s TV character who was “discovered” in Blackpool and who, this

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