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Bleakholt puppies to star on Paul O'Grady show

YOU CUTIES: Vet Darren Bentley and sanctuary worker Carolyn McMahon with the Bichon Maltaise puppies

10:37am Wednesday 7th January 2009

THREE rare puppies are set to became stars of the small screen for one night – thanks to their resemblance to a celebrity pooch.

Danny Boyle is dancing in the street

Danny Boyle

10:50am Wednesday 7th January 2009

Read Danny Boyle's thoughts on making Slumdog millionaire and vote for your favourite Danny Boyle film.

Band's new single inspired by tragedy of Sophie Lancaster's murder

Band's new single inspired by tragedy of Sophie Lancaster's murder

1:12pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

AN up and coming band has used the tragic story of Sophie Lancaster to inspire a new single which targets Britain’s ‘unsafe streets’.

Former Blackburn Rovers star confirmed for Dancing On Ice show

PARTNERS ON ICE: Graeme and Kristina Lenko,

8:28pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

FORMER Blackburn Rovers full-back Graeme Le Saux has been named as one of this year's Dancing On Ice contestants.

Review: Fifth Gear, Five

1:14pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

Fifth Gear is basically a poor man’s version of Top Gear.

Blackburn student lands BBC presenting job

BEEB DREAM: New BBC2 presenter Onatejiro Odudu

3:50pm Monday 5th January 2009

A BLACKBURN student has landed her dream job as a TV presenter for the BBC.

Ex Rossendale man writes book on life on the run from police

3:48pm Monday 5th January 2009

A NEW book tells the story of a Rossendale-born man’s brushes with the law.

Diana Vickers reveals hopes for New Year

Diana at the Christmas tree at home

9:07am Monday 5th January 2009

WHAT a year 2008 was for X Factor singing sensation Diana Vickers. She told us of her ‘quiet family Christmas’ and of her New Year wish for a recording deal.

Review: Demons, ITV1

4:23pm Monday 5th January 2009

ON the night that the Beeb revealed that the new Doctor Who will be played by a 12-year-old with weird hair, ITV launched its own fantasy series which it hopes will capture the Saturday evening, family market.

Clitheroe town centre walk

Clitheroe town centre walk

12:32pm Monday 5th January 2009

The open market is small, compact, full of humour and with a real Lancashire flavour.

Recipe: Spicy herb-roasted chicken with cous cous, garlic & cucumber yoghurt

Recipe: Spicy herb-roasted chicken with cous cous, garlic & cucumber yoghurt

12:23pm Monday 5th January 2009

Top chef Paul Heathcote has devised this simple — and inexpensive — main course to tempt the family

Review: Casa Tapas, Rawtenstall

Review: Casa Tapas, Rawtenstall

12:19pm Monday 5th January 2009

THIS was my first tapas restaurant experience in England, and with a group of 11 to feed, the restaurant had its work cut out!

Paul Heathcote: The man behind a culinary empire

Paul Heathcote: The man behind a culinary empire

12:17pm Monday 5th January 2009

He may be one of the North West’s top chefs and smartest businessmen, but there’s more to Paul Heathcote than meets the eye. He told us the secrets of his success.

Review: Celebrity Big Brother, Channel 4

12:27pm Monday 5th January 2009

YOU’VE just got over the disappointment of Christmas and New Year TV. But what is there to look forward to?

TV focus on Bacup theatre group

ACTING UP: The cast for Puss in Boots take to the stage as the cameras roll for a new TV documentary

3:45pm Friday 2nd January 2009

A THEATRE group has been the centre of attention in a documentary that is to be aired in the new year.

Review: Most Shocking Celebrity Moments of the 21st Century, Five

10:59am Friday 2nd January 2009

WHAT a lazy programme Most Shocking Celebrity Moments of the 21st Century was.

Review: The Reader (15)

Review: The Reader (15)

11:01am Friday 2nd January 2009

The collective guilt of Germany’s ‘second generation’, struggling to come to terms with their parents’ role in the Holocaust, underscores every elegant frame of The Reader.

Review: The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2 (12A)

Review: The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2 (12A)

11:03am Friday 2nd January 2009

Audiences who looked past the unwieldy title of the original The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants back in 2005 were rewarded with a well written and impeccably acted coming of age story.

Review: The Spirit (12A)

Review: The Spirit (12A)

11:04am Friday 2nd January 2009

Frank Miller, the creator of Sin City and 300, directs this visually arresting adaptation of the comic series about a rookie cop (Gabriel Macht) in the crime-riddled metropolis of Central City, who returns from the dead as the masked avenger The Spirit.

Rossendale model Agyness Deyn is 'most annoying'

Supermodel Agyness Deyn, from Rossendale, was named the most annoying person of 2008 by BBC3

12:42pm Thursday 1st January 2009

EAST Lancashire supermodel Agyness Deyn has been voted the “most annoying” person of 2008 by a TV panel show.

Interview: Mike Falcon

Interview: Mike Falcon

2:43pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

HE’S been a singer, a circus clown, an illusionist, a puppeteer, a fire eater and a Punch and Judy entertainer — and this Christmas he celebrates 50 years in showbiz.

Review: Britain's Weirdest Phobias, ITV1

4:57pm Friday 2nd January 2009

JUST when you thought the year was over and you had learned all you were going to learn for 2008, this programme brought a few new surprises, to say the least.

Dick Whittington @ Thwaites Empire Theatre, Blackburn

2:40pm Monday 29th December 2008

ONCE again Pendle Productions and Thwaites Empire Theatre, Blackburn, have excelled with their ever-popular pantomime.

Gazza beyond help, says son, 12

Concern: Paul Gascoigne

6:43pm Sunday 28th December 2008

PAUL Gascoigne's 12-year-old son fears the troubled former Burnley footballer is probably going to die soon.

Interview: Steve Royle in Cinderella

Review: Merlin, BBC1

12:40pm Friday 26th December 2008

We spoke to Steve Royle, playing Buttons in his sixth panto at Blackpool Grand Theatre.

Interview: Daniel Crossley in Mary Poppins

Interview: Daniel Crossley in Mary Poppins

12:40pm Friday 26th December 2008

Following award-winning runs on Broadway and in London’s West End, where it ran for three-and-a-half years with more than 1.000 performances, the musical Mary Poppins has arrived at a theatre closer to home, in Manchester. We spoke to Daniel Crossley, who plays chimney sweep Bert, about the supercalifragilistic family favourite show.

Review: Bedtime Stories (PG)

Review: Bedtime Stories (PG)

11:17am Tuesday 30th December 2008

DIRECTOR Adam Shankman follows up the global smash Hairspray with this colourful family feature, proving that sometimes dreams do come true.

Review: Yes Man (12A)

Review: Yes Man (12A)

11:19am Tuesday 30th December 2008

BASED on Danny Wallace’s humorous memoir, Yes Man is a comedy about what would happen if one man said "yes" to everything that he would have previously dismissed with a cursory "no".

Review: Australia (12A)

Review: Australia (12A)

5:04pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

SINCE his eye-catching 1992 debut, the ugly duckling fairy-tale Strictly Ballroom, Australian writer/director Baz Luhrmann has left us in a swoon with beautifully crafted stories of romance across the social and cultural divide.


Watch the Credit Crunch Christmas Song

Peter Pan @ King George's Hall, Blackburn

Strictly tea dancing! Watch the movers and shakers at the LT tea dance

Watch Diana Vickers being interviewed after X Factor exit




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