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The University of Central Lancashire’s (UCLan) award-winning Publishing House has been shortlisted for another prestigious industry award. UCLan Publishing has made The British Book Awards 2020’s Small Press of the Year shortlist. The Publishing House, which is based at UCLan’s Preston Campus, is the only children’s publisher in the north of England. Hazel Holmes, from […]

The Hive business network has officially launched their prestigious Blackburn with Darwen business awards. The awards celebrate the brightest and best in the Blackburn with Darwen region, and Hive is expecting to see a raft of entries from local companies this year. Ian Brown, chair of Hive said: “The Hive awards are one of the […]

Clearance work has now been completed at the site of the former indoor market and car park at Preston’s Harris Quarter. The site works have been undertaken to prepare the land for redevelopment ahead of a planning submission in the spring of 2020 which, if successful, would see the expansion of the flagship scheme to […]

The world-famous Winter Gardens will again throw open its doors for an exclusive access all areas event, allowing the public a rare chance to explore every nook and cranny of the grade 2* listed building. The Open Day will take place on Thursday 27th February from 11am until 3pm. The public will get the chance […]

Healthy peatlands actively capture and store carbon from the atmosphere, forming an effective and vital natural resource in the fight against climate change. Today Lancashire Wildlife Trust (LWT) starts work on the next phase of the restoration of Winmarleigh and Cockerham Mosses Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), outside Garstang in Lancashire. Since taking over […]

Lancashire’s 2020 delegation will showcase the region’s sector strengths, commercial opportunities and investment potential with more events than ever before. Marketing Lancashire, the county’s place marketing agency and organisers of the Lancashire MIPIM 2020 delegation on behalf of Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP), met yesterday with representatives of the business delegation* heading to MIPIM; the property […]

The Cabinet Member for economic development at Lancashire County Council has welcomed the government announcement to go ahead with HS2, the high speed rail scheme. County Councillor Michael Green, Cabinet Member for economic development, environment and planning, said: “HS2 will undoubtedly bring new opportunities for the whole county, by making us a transport hub on […]

New businesses at Chorley’s hi-tech business centre have been welcomed to their new premises by Chorley MP, Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Leader of Chorley Council, Councillor Alistair Bradley. Professional 3D printing solutions company, Ultimaker, who moved to the hub at the end of January, is the latest company to join some of the region’s best […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has come top of a national wellbeing league table. The 2020 Student Welfare League Table, which analyses the amount of money higher education institutions put into their student wellbeing services, has ranked UCLan in first position. During the 2018/19 academic year, the University’s total spend on student wellbeing services […]

The money will be donated to the Zoo and Aquarium Association Australasia’s Wildlife Conservation Fund to rescue and rehabilitate native wildlife, restore and improve resilience of habitats, fund the reassessment of species status and support and help to establish targeted breed for release conservation activities. During Sunday 26th January staff at the zoo hosted lots of themed events […]

The free ticket ballot for the 2020 Blackpool Illuminations Switch-On event is now open! It follows the overwhelming demand for last year’s event when thousands of people packed into the Tower Festival Headland Arena to watch a spectacular five-hour concert, culminating in an unforgettable switch-on by home-grown actress, Coronation Street’s Lucy Fallon. Since then, the […]

Blackpool Grand launches its new website, www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk. Re-designed from the ground up for 2020 the blackpoolgrand.co.uk website includes more comprehensive information on shows than ever before. Starting with the homepage a ‘tailored for you’ section adapts to viewing interests, a new place to discover more about Blackpool Grand on each visit, in addition to the […]