Compete to be city Queen
Royalty will be chosen on Preston's Flag Market today as the competition for the Caribbean Carnival King and Queen takes place.
Five pairs will be judged on the design of their costumes and their knowledge of carnival. The winners will be crowned at the Caribbean Club, Kent Street, on Saturday evening. Visit the Flag Market on Cheapside at 1pm today to view the costumes.

Catching the vandals by seat of their pants
Don't tar us with your vandalism!
Community leaders living on a Preston estate have been using paint brushes as the latest yob-busting weapon.
People living in the Ravenswood and Mimosa Road area of Ribbleton have painted an alleygate which blocks a ginnel between the two roads with anti-climb paint in a bid to stop it being used as a rat run by youths escaping from scenes of crime.
PC Denise Flitney, community beat officer for the area, said that trouble-makers were vaulting over the metal gates which went up earlier this year.
She said: "Hopefully this paint will stop them doing it because, if they try climbing over now, they will find themselves covered in paint."

Health bosses start hepatitis education plan
Lancashire health bosses have joined forces with the World Hepatitis Alliance to urge people across the county to ask: "Am I number 12?"
Christine Landon, lead nurse for Central Lancashire Primary Care Trust's hepatitis team, said: "Worldwide, one in 12 people is believed to be living with hepatitis B or C – more than 10 times the number with HIV/Aids."
Hepatitis may be caught from blood, blood products, unprotected sex and sharing needles.
It was also spread by blood transfusions before September 1992, when screening for hepatitis C was brought in.
Symptoms include fatigue, abdominal pain, aching joints, jaundice and cirrhosis of the liver. The World Hepatitis Alliance is set up in 64 countries.

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