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With the European Championships over and the Olympic Games yet to come, Blackpool Pleasure Beach is getting in the sporting spirit with a whole week of challenges and chances to break Guinness World Records.  Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s Summertime Games also includes entertainment for all the family every day from 23rd to 29th July.   Over […]

More parks and green spaces than ever will be flying the Green Flag Award this year – more than 1,600 across the UK. Preston’s parks are some of the very best in the UK – and that’s official. The parks are among a record-breaking 1,686 parks and green spaces that will today receive a prestigious […]

The Green Flags will be flying high in South Ribble, with today’s announcement that council parks and open spaces have been ranked among the top in the UK for two decades. Worden Park in Leyland has scooped its 20th consecutive honour in the prestigious Green Flag Awards 2016/17. It is the only park north of London […]

Organisers of Blackburn Cathedral Flower Festival have been presented with an award for organising a landmark event which attracted thousands of people to the town centre. Blackburn’s Business Improvement District have dedicated a ‘Be Surprised’ award to the organisers of the event after the iconic Cathedral blossomed into colour and activity for a major four-day […]

Organisers of Lancashire Encounter are thrilled to welcome Preston Guild Hall as Headline Sponsors for this year’s event. Lancashire Encounter is a weekend to discover, experience and be immersed in a bold and imaginative spectacle of performance, music, street theatre and art. Approximately 20,000 people attended last year’s pilot event, which took place in Preston […]

Two short films are being launched this week to spotlight Pendle as the cycling capital of the UK – in sunny Lancashire! One is a Tour of Britain legacy film with all the high speed highlights of the big Stage Two race. World cyclists powered through Pendle on 7th September and the film shows footage […]

Two short films are being launched this week to spotlight Pendle as the cycling capital of the UK – in sunny Lancashire! One is a Tour of Britain legacy film with all the high speed highlights of the big Stage Two race. World cyclists powered through Pendle on 7th September and the film shows footage […]

Live music fans are being offered the chance to scoop fantastic tickets for this year’s Lytham Festival for just £10. From today (WEDS 20 JULY) until Tuesday July 26, 10 tickets will be available for just £10 at 10pm every night. The discounted tickets will be for a different gig each night with the name […]

Blackpool Zoo has this week broken ground on its most ambitious and biggest ever single project to date, which will launch as part of next year’s 45th anniversary celebrations. The multi-million pound scheme, which has been dubbed Project Elephant, will see one of the UK’s largest indoor elephant facilities being built on vacant land at […]

Blackpool Transport’s Volvo Olympean’s, which are the last 6 step entrance buses in its fleet will be withdrawn from service after Saturday 23rd July 2016. The six Volvo Olympean’s, which arrived in November 1994 have operated on various routes and have seen numerous livery’s over the years. More recently, five of the six iconic double […]

Funding is now in place to build a new bus station in Rawtenstall after Lancashire County Council agreed to put nearly £4m towards the project. A decision agreed today (Tuesday 19 July) by Lancashire's deputy leader and the cabinet member for highways and transport, will see the council commit £3.4m towards its construction, and a […]

Budding TV presenters are being invited to become stars of this year’s Lytham Festival. For the first time in its history, Lytham Festival will be hosting its very own online TV channel – LF:TV – throughout the week-long event. LF:TV will broadcast from venues throughout Lytham from August 1 – 7 keeping both festival and […]