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Blackpool has become the UK’s first tourist resort to gain national recognition for its commitment to customer service, after being awarded WorldHost Recognised Destination status. The town received the recognition after it trained over 2,500 front line staff using WorldHost customer service training programmes over the last 2 years and signed a commitment to delivering […]

Winter Gardens bosses are offering people the chance to grab newly released tickets for the brand new production of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage at just £15. Blackpool Opera House will play host to the hit show for almost three weeks when it begins a brand new touring production on August 11. […]

Today at 11am, the Department for Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) announced the four successful finalists in the bid to host the Great Exhibition of the North, which includes Blackpool, Lancashire. Earlier this month key partners Blackpool Council, Marketing Lancashire and the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) submitted a joint bid to host the Great Exhibition […]

Blackpool, Bradford, Newcastle-Gateshead and Sheffield have been shortlisted to host the Great Exhibition of the North in 2018, Matt Hancock, Minister of State for Digital and Culture, announced today. The exhibition, which will run for at least two months, will showcase the great creative, cultural and design sectors across the whole of the North, and […]

Childhood nostalgia has arrived at Freeport Fleetwood in the form of an interactive puddle – the first of its kind to come to the UK. The centre will be taking the plunge this summer with two interactive puddles designed by Australian artist Anna Crane. The special artwork was installed yesterday (Thursday 28th July) at the […]

Business in the Community’s Healthy High Streets programme aims to increase footfall by 10%, reduce the number of vacant properties by 20% and stimulate the creation of new jobs in 100 towns over three years. The programme first launched in June 2014 and is backed by some of the UK’s biggest high street brands – […]

Actors Paul Nicholls, Jack Ellis and Ben Onwukwe will take the lead roles in new production The Shawshank Redemption when it heads to Blackpool Opera House this November. Best known and loved for his role as heartthrob Joe Wicks in Eastenders, Paul Nicholls is to play jailed banker Andy Dufresne. Ben Onwukwe will take on […]

With most eyes on Rio de Janeiro & the upcoming Olympic games, Garstang based cheesemakers, Dewlay have already accumulated an enviable hoard of medals and trophies making 2016 one of the most successful years for the family owned dairy. Their most recent success came at the International Cheese Awards held at Nantwich, Cheshire on 26th […]

A range of training courses aimed at benefiting tourism and hospitality businesses in Blackpool has been launched. Courses to train staff in areas including social media marketing, leadership and management and presentation and selling techniques are available at a subsidised rate at Blackpool and The Fylde College. Businesses operating in the tourism and hospitality sectors […]

At Hoghton Tower we have developed 2 new exciting tours to add to our already highly rated house tour. From 7th August, every Sunday, visitors will be able to take a new Dolls House & Dungeons tour, specifically focusing on these two areas. The standard house tour visits these areas on the route around the […]

Lytham Festival organisers are warning of low tickets remaining for this year’s week-long festival after experiencing an unprecedented demand. Day tickets to see Canadian rock legend Bryan Adams are now SOLD OUT and the only chance of now seeing him at Lytham is by buying one of just a few weekend tickets still remaining. There […]

Musical comedy double act Ferris & Milnes are to join the line-up for the West End Proms at Lytham Festival. The duo, made up of Dominic Ferris and Martin Milnes, offers an eclectic and packed musical programme including Broadway and Hollywood favourites plus pop classics, which will have theatre lovers dancing in the aisles. The […]