Good news for the Rolling Stones. The band have been given the all clear to play Blackpool. The band have been blacklisted in the seaside town ever since a 1964 gig at the town's Empress Ballroom at which fans smashed crystal chandeliers, tore seats and smashed a Steinway grand piano. Bottles and stones we're thrown around and fifty odd fans ended up in hospital. The band haven't been welcomed back in the town ever since, but a council leader has now said he'd be more than happy for Jagger et al to gig there.
Metro quote Blackpool council leader Peter Callow thus: "We are writing to the group to say the ban has been lifted and they are welcome to play here again".
Yay, bring on the chandelier smashing, seat tearing and piano trashing, that's what I say.