AS you know, on the Breakfast Show we always feature a weather picture every day, drawn, coloured or painted by one of our younger listeners.

This week we've received a smashing calendar of weather pictures drawn by the 78 pupils of the John Cross CE School, Bilsborrow in Preston. We look forward to showing most of them during 1998. Incidentally the calendar is available from the school and all proceeds will go towards school funds.

Talking of calendars, is it due to cut backs (Gilly reckons he used to receive at least a dozen at this time of year) but apart from the school calendar us crazy pair haven't received one calendar from local companies - our office wall is bare.

THE Spice Girls girl power antics have earned them an accolade on the small screen they would probably rather forget.

The girls' recent association with Walkers crisps has put them top of the list of Marketing Magazine's annual 'most annoying ad of the year' survey.

They beat off stiff competition from Bruce Forsyth playing a judge in Courts furniture ads and also the Prudential's 'Man from the Pru'.

IF you have over indulged during the New Year period then we have just the ideal short break for you - a teetotal weekend in Cumbria.

A break in a local hotel, which in the 70s was itself a temperance hotel, offers only light refreshments, Victorian temperance lectures and fines for those who fall off the wagon.

The Wakefield husband trail, will be open to the general public on January 17.

Visitors can see Yorkshire rhubarb being 'forced' to grow out of season.

The tour includes a three course meal with rhubarb in every course - perhaps with lumpy custard?

FOR the two of us it's been a great year presenting the Breakfast Show since April with special guests joining us on the programme

Who can forget when Frank Carson read the sports news or Mick Miller telling us about Noddy and Big Ears.

Kevin Horkin whose company supplies animals to TV soap operas letting us in one or two secrets.

Mick from Helmshore with his talking parrot, the treacle miners from Sabden, Tommy from Ingol cracking the odd joke.

Joe Pasquale telling the joke of the day.

Singer John Secada, snooker ace Dennis Taylor from Clitheroe. Simon Entwistle who made some brilliant sound effects using just his mouth. More madness with our chilli chomping competition.

It's been a crazy eight months and next year we're looking to be even more crazy.

Have a great new year and we hope you will join in the show at some point during '98.

THIS week we have three copies of Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast - The Enchanted Christmas to give away.

Just answer the following question: Who sang the title track of Beauty and the Beast?

Send your answers with your name, address and telephone number by January 16 to Beauty and the Beast Competition (NET), Preston Citizen, 3 Winckley Court, Chapel Street, Preston, PR1 3JJ.

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