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Blackpool Football Club has been in a right old mess for some years now, and last year owner Owen Oyston appointed his daughter as chairwoman. We managed to get an exclusive telephone interview with her: [telephone interview begins] NC: Hello? CN: Hello this is Cleveleys News. Is that Natalie? NC: Certainly not your honour, I never even met the girl. CN: Sorry, which girl is that? Am I speaking to Natalie? NC: Yes, yes of course. Sorry I got confused there for a moment. CN: Your voice sounds very gruff. NC: Sorry about that, my big floppy hat fell over the mouthpiece and muffled my voice. Is that better now? CN: Not really. Did you say “big floppy hat”? NC: Yes. CN: Is this Owen? NC: [coughs] No. CN: Okay. Well Natalie you’ve been chairwoman of Blackpool FC for a while now. How do you feel about the club’s performance? NC: I’m very proud of what I’ve achieved here. When I bought the club in 1988 for a pound it was on the brink of collapse. Look at it now....

To boldly go where no one has gone before . That was the motto of Star Trek , the enduring sci-fi franchise in which the crew of a starship travel through the universe encountering new places, new species, and new experiences. However, when a £1million Star Trek exhibition opened in Blackpool two years ago we had a strong sense that this was somewhere we HAD been before. Carol Stenburg The original curator of the exhibit was one Carol Stenburg - a New York born entrepreneur who already had a history of failed exhibitions. She was the director of a Lego exhibition called "Art of the Brick Ltd" which was dissolved after 2 years, and a tour company "Exhibitours Ltd" which went into liquidation owing £17,811. That may not sound a lot of money, unless of course it is owed to you. Cleveleys News reported this detail on 12th July 2016 before the doors even opened: Curator of new Blackpool #StarTrek exhibition Carol Stenberg previously ran a Lego exhibit (diss...

Ooooh hello again loves! It's me, Dee Dee, Cleveleys' favourite pensioner back with another blog all about life in Cleveleys from the relatable persepective of an interfering old harridan. Well! This week I was shocked and dismayed to read that ALDI has been threatened with legal action by a British farmer who says the budget supermarket ripped off his trademark chipolatas. I can't believe that some jobsworth yokel who thinks he invented sausages could have the audacity to accuse such a wonderful British institution like ALDI of something like this! Personally I love ALDI, and LIDL and do all of my shopping there. As I have my grown-up daughter and her husband living in our attic I have quite a few mouths to feed so the savings I make there are fantastic. I'm particularly fond of their knock-off products, their version of the Bounty bar is one of my personal favourites. I always keep a multipack next to the loo, as I tend to get a bit peckish when I'm "e...