TOMORROW'S parade through Padiham promises to be one of the best for years.

The Clan Wallace Pipe Band will lead the parade of floats, carnival queens and majorettes which leaves Blackburn Road at 2pm.

Festival queen Stephanie Clough will be accompanied her entourage including princesses Lyndsay Clough and Claire Rawcliffe, rosebud queen Elizabeth Neary and princesses Chelsea Jackson and Gemma Macro.

Padiham Festival has been held for more than 10 years but in the mid 1990s the carnival procession was cancelled because of lack of floats.

Last year the parade, the focal point for the weekend's events, was reintroduced and attracted floats from Padiham Youth Club, Padiham Community Church and the Victoria Tavern and animal welfare workers and carnival queens from all over the north west.

And festival chairman Tony Rankin said this year the parade will have majorettes, bands and floats and Burnley mayor Coun Enid Tate will judge the best.

The parade will finish on the festival field at the end of Park Road where there will be a funfair and wild west demonstrations.

A charity market will raise money for worthy causes and there are plenty of events at the town hall all weekend including a baby show, band concert and line dancing. The Padiham events will continue next weekend when the Round Table organsies a duck race on Sunday, tickets will be on sale outside the Co-op store tomorrow.

And on August 30 Padiham Allotments Association Show will be held at Padiham town hall.

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