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The nation’s favourite holiday resort is paying its own special tributes to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Blackpool evokes fond memories for those evacuated to the resort, for the troops based here during the wartime years and for those who found respite from the horrors of war. With the national events scaled back […]

A discretionary fund has been set up to accommodate small businesses previously outside the scope of the business grant funds scheme with up to £617 million to be made available for local authorities in England. This additional fund is aimed at small businesses with ongoing fixed property-related costs. Local authorities have been asked to prioritise […]

Preston City Council is giving three months rent relief to the traders at Preston Markets, as a way to help combat the current business climate due to Covid-19. This rent relief period will assist all the businesses at Preston Markets. It will enable the fresh produce traders to continue to provide the essential service to […]

A firm based in Newton, near Preston, Lancashire has delivered an important new addition to a children’s special needs school in Manchester. Submarine Manufacturing and Products Ltd (SMP Ltd) has designed, manufactured and installed a bespoke, fully automatic, 6 seat HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy) chamber to deliver much needed Oxygen Therapy treatments to school pupils […]

Lancaster University has offered the use of its own labs in order to increase the number of tests for Covid-19 among NHS staff and patients following an approach from the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT). University staff from Biomedical and Life Sciences (BLS) in the Faculty of Health and Medicine are […]

Specialist technicians at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) are utilising their skills to create much needed hand sanitiser to help fight the spread of coronavirus. Four members of technical staff have made 60 litres of the hand cleaning product after a request from the Lancashire Resilience Forum (LRF). There are plans to make the […]

Lancaster’s first virtual digital and tech festival, Array Festival, will go live throughout May to encourage those in the region to learn more about the city’s industry. A series of online seminars and inspirational entrepreneur stories have been organised to allow people to discover the different types of career opportunity locally and what it takes […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has today endorsed a national campaign for the Government’s consideration to protect and support key public service provision at universities post Covid-19. The campaign Strengthening and enhancing UK public services in response to Covid-19 has been launched by Universities UK (UUK) and MillionPlus, the Association for Modern Universities. UCLan […]

The amazing volunteers who take part in beach cleans across the Fylde Coast have removed a whopping 9,000 bags of litter over the past year. Over 380 beach cleans have been done over the last 12 months, with over 900 new volunteers joining the 200 regular beach cleaners in an effort to keep the beaches […]

The Chair of the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, Steve Fogg, has welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement yesterday to offer loans of between £2,000 and £50,000 to micro and small businesses affected by Covid-19, saying ”I am delighted the Government has listened to businesses and extended the existing loan scheme to offer a 100% loan guarantee of up […]

The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has launched a single webpage with full details of all the latest help and support for businesses affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. The LEP has included signposts to all the relevant and current information on the webpage www.lancashirelep.co.uk/covid-19 to make it easy for employers to find out about the support […]

Lancashire head-quartered,Northern food retailer, Booths, has launched a campaign to support British artisan cheesemakers who are struggling to cope with the Covid-19 crisis. Graham Kirkham is one of the last makers of farmhouse Lancashire cheese in the country and makes his multi award-winning cheeses near Goosnargh. Overnight, he saw 60% of his markets disappear as […]