dupalo - 10:22 pm on Mar 28, 2012 (gmt 0)

yes, thanks daveVk that works a treat. I didn't know that $("li#cities_list").html("city_arr[index]").show('fast'); the html method within the loop doesn't assign 4 bullet point to the list but at every run it clears the previous item and adds another one, therefore leaving me with only 1 bullet point. It took me a while to understand that, I simply thought that there was an error in my code.
cheers