In pictures:

Welcome again to our new Time-trip column where each week we publish a set of pictures which appeared in the paper in the 2000s.

The pictures appear on our website and are then reprinted in the paper along with your Facebook comments.

This week features Accrington and Rossendale College NVQ hairdressing tutor Pat Kelsall as Madonna in the college hair and beauty extravaganza and school partnership programme students from Hyndburn collecting awards at Accrington and Rossendale College: Thomas Maylor, Simon Parkington, James Tunaley, Lucy Irving, Jenny Howe, John Murphy and Nathan Roots.

We also feature Multiple Sclerosis Society welfare officer Sheila Lowe, at Accrington’s Castle Hotel, where landlady Margaret Butterfield, along with Josh Woodburn and Andrea Wilcock, donned Halloween outfits in aid of the charity.

There is also a photo of Cara Ainsworth (seated) and friends at her 21st birthday party at the Brookes Club in Accrington. They were all taken in 2004.

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