IT’S the weekend to take to the streets – whether you enjoy fine foods, dancing or simply walking.

The two-day Burnley Food festival, which starts tomorrow, will showcase the region’s best produce and feature live shows from BBC Fusion chef Aazam Ahmad.

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It runs from 10am until 5pm on both Friday and Saturday.

An outdoor event will also be held on the streets of Blackburn, with the Town Hall Street Fair from 10am until 5pm on Saturday.

Some of the finest artists, designers and makers from across the region will be on display in a pavement gallery of up to 20 stalls in the pedestrianised area.

Organisers will be praying for clear skies over Darwen on Saturday for the town’s 50th Gala. The parade starts at 12.30pm and winds its way to Borough Road for all the attractions.

A weather warning for East Lancashire ends tomorrow and hopefully the clouds will have emptied all their rain for a dry weekend.

A spokesman said: “Friday will be unsettled and humid with outbreaks of rain, some heavy and thundery.

“But fresher air will arrive from the west for the weekend, giving sunshine and a few showers.”

Not that people at the Drop the Beat Festival in Burnley will care – they will be lost in house music at Towneley Park on Saturday.

The one-day festival, which runs from 1pm until midnight and has been organised by Burnley DJ Craig Kennedy and Remedy Bar co-owner Madge Nawaz, will see 2,000 gather for sets by legendary Hacienda group K-Klass.

The weather shouldn’t affect the 6-mile circular Pub2Pub walk which takes in the Kettledrum and Crooked Billet, Burnley, on Sunday. Registration is between 11am and noon at either pub. The walk is for the Gail Simpson Memorial Fund in aid of Pendleside Hospice.

Jimmy Carr’s lightning deliveries should raise the laughs when he performs his Funny Business at King George’s Hall tomorrow night.