It'll be into a new era that we travel as Blackpool Pleasure Beach loses it's two kingpins within 2 weeks of each other. Doris and her son Geoffrey will be riding the best roller coasters in heaven while, hopefully, steering the new directors onto faster and steeper things.

And nice to see this in the Observer on Sunday. And good to see the local NW news report that property prices in the town have rocketed nearly 30% in the past year. And if you're bored with that ancient North-vs-South debate then this will bring a smile to your face.

"Animal fat is the food of a dominant people. The cry for vegetable oil in Lancashire was for the feeding of an inferior people. Animal fat for the dominant race. Animal fat for the dominant county within that race."