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Organisers of the popular Chorley Live event can now announce the venues taking part in this year’s live entertainment extravaganza, with wristbands now available to purchase at just £5. Chorley Council has teamed up once again with The Creative Network to hold the weekend event which has proved to be a massive hit for the last […]

Blackpool Council announces £48,000 funding from the Arts Council’s National Lottery funded Grants for the Arts programme for the town’s new LightPool Festival. The grant will help fund the new LightPool Festival, a free light art festival from October 28 to November 2, celebrating Blackpool's unique relationship with light. Building on the successes of the […]

University’s city centre shop is hosting a range of free creative and information sessions for members of the public Do you want to learn a new skill or gain some advice? Or do you need a central Preston location for your event?  If so, then the University of Central Lancashire’s (UCLan) city centre shop is […]

Blackpool Transport celebrates a milestone next month. Wednesday 26th October marks exactly thirty years since the company was formed out of the original Blackpool Corporation Transport Department. Up until 1986, buses and trams up and down the country were run by councils, but Deregulation meant they were privatised. Blackpool’s buses were transferred to a company […]

Italians may not have invented wine, but they more than anyone else throughout the ages have demonstrated a serious passion for it. We all know that Italian’s are passionate people to start with – for them romance, art, food, culture and family are of the utmost importance. Wine is also a very important part of […]

There’s a chance to meet a Coronation Street scriptwriter whose latest play is to be staged at The Dukes this autumn. Debbie Oates will be taking part in a Meet The Makers event at the Lancaster theatre on September 15. Her play – The Ockerbys On Ice – runs at The Dukes from September 30-October […]

Brickhouse Farm Holiday Cottages are proud to host the EMpowered Cycling Group this week covering over 150 miles in the Lanes of Lancashire!  Brickhouse’s accessible holiday accommodation will be the ideal base for all 50 riders some with conditions such as amputations, acquired brain injuries and parkinson’s disease.     After a local road traffic accident […]

Teams from Australia, Slovakia and USA will go head-to-head in this year’s World Fireworks Championships Blackpool, it has been announced. A team from Canada, Feux D’Artifice Orion, put on an incredible display to scoop the prestigious prize last year, seeing off competition from finalists from France and China. This is the second year a team […]

For the second time, and despite a change to Investors in People’s rigorous and challenging NEW assessment criteria, Ribby Hall Village in Wrea Green Lancashire has again been awarded Investors in People GOLD against the NEW standard.  Ribby Hall Village has now also joined the top two per cent of organisations in the UK whilst […]

“Brierfield could benefit from £1.5m if Pendle Council’s bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund succeeds,” announced Council Leader, Mohammed Iqbal. “We sent the bid off on 1st September and will hear if we get through the vital first stage in January,” explained Councillor Iqbal, who leads on economic development for Pendle. The  five year Brierfield […]

Switch-On Weekend proves a hit as Dame Barbara Windsor switches on Blackpool Illuminations! Blackpool’s Illuminations season is under way after a star-studded night of entertainment featuring showbiz royalty, Dame Barbara Windsor, and a host of musical talent. For Dame Barbara the event has marked an emotional return to the town to where she was evacuated […]

Keepers at Blackpool Zoo are preparing to say ‘bon voyage’ to a very special resident as he leaves for a new life in France. Barney, the two-year-old Amur tiger, will leave his birthplace after being one of only two cubs to be born in Blackpool in the past 20 years. His twin brother, Radzi, left […]