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Friends and business partners Jenny Oliver and Lynsay Evans have set up a Miss Seaside beauty competition, catering for all ages from babies to 35 year-olds, which will take place in Blackpool this August.
Who will be crowned? Jenny (left) and Lynsay. PIC BY ROB LOCK
26-4-2012

Are you our miss seaside beauty?

IT’S one of the enduring images of the golden age of the holiday camp in the 50s and 60s.

Taking part in the ladies-only British Cycling Breeze event on Blackpool's Middle Walk, are from left, Laura Bennett, Julie Ball, Carley Brierley (organiser), Sarah Brown and Vicky Easley.

GET ON YER BIKE

IT can help improve fitness, tone and strengthen legs, can be great fun, gets you out in the fresh air and can be a great way to socialise.

Ego Mediterranean Restaurant, Lytham

Eating Out: Ego Mediterranean Restaurant

Pleasant Street, Lytham. Since opening on Lytham’s Pleasant Street more than two years ago, Ego has entrenched itself as a staple venue for foodies on the Fylde coast.

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Stars of Blackpool's Funny Girls are urging local women to seach in their drawers for unwanted/unworn bras they can donate to Oxfam's big bra appeal.

The bras are then sold in the shops to raise funds or given to women in Senegal where they are in short supply.
L-R Krystal, Jade, Zoe, Amber and Ruby.

Bra-vo!

KIND-hearted Gazette readers and local ladies have given generously to help improve the lives of women and their families in the Third World.

Dora, SpongeBob and friends at Pleasure Beach Blackpool.

Party with SpongeBob and Dora!

SpongeBob SquarePants and all his friends at the UK’s only Nickelodeon Land are having a party on Friday when the attraction celebrates its first birthday!

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Celebrations for the Reds and St Annes

Thornton Cleveleys Reds won the Under-10 Coulton Cup with a battling 2-1 aggregate win against YMCA.

Allstars match of the week from the Blackpool Schools Finals at Fleetwood Town FC between Montgomery (red shirts) and Highfield.
Action from match. Highfield's Daniel Stead slides in on Reece Linley.  PIC BY ROB LOCK
19-4-2012

Star shows on big stage

FLEETWOOD Town staged the five Blackpool Schools’ Cup finals for years 7 to 11.

Rossall cross country Year 5 boys race

Just crazy for cross country

Over 150 children from 13 local schools took part in th annual junior cross country fun run at Rossall School.

Stanley Primary Tag Rugby winners

Stanley stars bag Tag title

STANLEY are the Blackpool Primary Schools’ Tag Rugby champions.

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Victoria Holmden is through to the final 10 in the Curvy Kate Star in a Bra competition.

Queen of curves

Blackpool beauty Victoria Holmden talks to Emma Harris about her hopes to become a Star in a Bra.

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A FYLDE teenager is on a mission to make girls more positive about their body image.

96 year old Ethel

Happy when I’m busy – Dobbie, 96

AT 96, Ethel ‘Dobbie’ Dobbins is showing no sign of slowing down.

Instructor train driver Tracie Wing at Blackpool North station.

My career on track

ALL aboard! Anchorsholme mum Tracie Wing is urging other Fylde coast women to get on the right track and join her – as a train driver.

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Army Wives set for epic run

LIKE many Army wives, Kim Entwistle did not want to sit around waiting for her husband to complete a tour of Afghanistan.

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Imelda May

Expect Mayhem

The rise and rise of tonight’s Opera House star Imelda May has been unstoppable since the release of her album, Mayhem in the UK.

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The F factor first semi finalists - Chloe walker, Chloe ann Foster and Tres Belle
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Decision time for F Factor

IT’S a case of seven up for the finals of The F Factor Final on Saturday at the Ashley Club in Thornton.

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NKOTBSB - UK dates

Live link-up with O2

Sunday’s live O2 show, featuring two of the biggest pop bands of the last 20 years, New Kids on the Block and The Backstreet Boys, is being broadcast live to the Odeon Blackpool.

Outgoing Blackpool LVA president Michael Sugden,new president Roy Sibley, secretary John Farrell. Back row - Pat Hopwood and Elizabeth Farrell (treasurers)

A change of guard

BlackpooL and District Licensed Victuallers Association has a new president.

Stewart Suggett (creative director from Huddle media), Nellie Deans licensee Stephen Pierre and Thwaites marketing executive Nicola Kemp

Pub wins top gong

Nellie Deans on Blackpool’s North Promenade, scooped the top pub promotion accolade at the Thwaites Awards for Excellence 2012.

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The Lancashire Hotpots are glad to be back in Blackpool with a night of flat cap humour at Blackpool Grand Theatre.

Hotpots back to cook up some more folk fun

Eeee by gum it’s time to catch The Lancashire Hotpots at Blackpool Grand Theatre this Friday.

Zest Food & Wine Bar in Lytham

Eating Out: Zest Food & Wine Bar

21 Market Square, Lytham. I often think of Zest when looking for somewhere fun, to share with easy company, the sort who wouldn’t be put off by the hustle, bustle and noise that do a lot more to add than detract from its lovely, lively atmosphere.

Steve Holbrook

Beyond the veil with a star medium

There’s another chance to see why Steve Holbrook is regarded by many as Britain’s most gifted clairaudient medium this Thursday, 7 for 7.30pm in the Savoy Hotel on North Promenade.

Bombay Bicycle Club - Ed Nash, Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Ed Nash and Suren de Saram. Picture: Jo McCaughey

Cycling along in top gear

First time in Blackpool will be a big deal for Bombay Bicycle Club, EMMA HARRIS finds out.

Thai By Night, Tithebarn Street, Poulton

Eating Out: Thai By Night

Tithebarn Street, Poulton. Sometimes in life you just know what you want. You finish work after a hard day at the office and your tastebuds are aching for something familiar.

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