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The Lancashire Wildlife Trust is holding a Connecting to Nature project at Heysham Nature Reserve for a race to find as many bumblebees, insects and plants as possible in a day. For anyone who enjoys nature and wants to learn more, we need your help to find as much wildlife as we can. The drop-in […]

Four students from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) have beaten off stiff national competition to win a prestigious film award. Yousef Thami, Liberty Shaw, Jake River Parker and Heather Davenport received the Royal Television Society (RTS) Student Television Award 2017 Undergraduate Comedy and Entertainment prize for Headless: The Ed Shales Story. The seven minute […]

Cricket legend will play role of Kevin when the musical heads to Blackpool from 29 May – 2 June 2018 Joins previously announced Jodie Prenger, Sam Bailey and Elaine C Smith Former England cricket captain, and star of SKY’s League of Their Own, Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff will swap the cricket pitch to tread the boards […]

Edge Hill University has achieved Gold, the highest rating in the national Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), for delivering ‘consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for its students’.   The Gold award – which has been given to less than one third of Universities nationally and only three Universities in the North West – indicates that […]

Flashdance – The Musical returns to the UK for the first time since 2011 starring Strictly favourite Joanne Clifton and singer-songwriter Ben Adams, and will arrive at Blackpool’s Opera House on 23 October – 04 November 2017 as part of an extensive UK tour. Strictly Come Dancing Champion Joanne Clifton is no stranger to being […]

Keepers at Blackpool Zoo are preparing to share the hatching of their latest penguin chick with the world via Facebook Live. The egg, which is currently in the bird nursery, is showing early signs of its arrival by rolling and tapping. It is now a case of watching and waiting……. The first live broadcast will […]

Staff, volunteers and supporters of The Dukes theatre have successfully completed a Cross Bay Challenge. More than 100 people were led across Morecambe Bay by the Queen’s Guide to the Sands, Cedric Robinson, to raise money for the Lancaster theatre which is a registered performing arts and cultural charity. Some of the walkers were dressed […]

Exactly 30 years ago this Saturday – June 24 – The Dukes opened its first ever promenade theatre season in Lancaster’s Williamson Park. And to mark this milestone, theatre staff and some of The Dukes dozens of volunteers celebrated with a party and tucked into a 30th birthday cake made specially by Ginger Bakers of […]

There's no click and collect, no buy-one-get-one-free, and not a self-scan till in sight –   the Bowland Food Hall is set to transform food shopping when it opens in Clitheroe on Thursday June 29. The Food Hall, part of the £10million Holmes Mill redevelopment by hospitality group James’ Places, aims to showcase the best of […]

Glasses were raised this month to two historic northern family firms which have joined forces in order to offer holidaymakers the ultimate in Lancashire hospitality. Stockport's 180-year-old Robinsons Brewery will now be supplying its award-winning ales to the Holgates group of holiday parks which also began life in Lancashire. Although comparatively youthful at just 60 […]

Holmes Mill, the go-to venue in Clitheroe, is hosting its first ever Gin Fest this July. Taking place over two days, July 21 and 22, visitors to the area will be able to taste a selection of more than 30 different gins from a variety of local, independent and national distilleries including Batch, Cuckoo, Manchester […]

CHORLEY town centre will be the host to an exciting new community food event that will showcase some of the best food and drink within the borough. A Taste of Chorley will bring together a variety of local businesses and food producers from within the Chorley borough, along with organisations offering advice on healthy eating […]