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Get ready for half price WOW Weekends at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 2016!  The UK’s favourite amusement park opens for an exciting new season on Sunday 7th February with all wristbands just £15 when booked online in advance online at . Beat the winter blues at Blackpool Pleasure Beach where all wristbands will be £15 for […]

Tony Award-winning comedy musical Avenue Q is the latest show to be announced at Blackpool Winter Gardens’ Opera House for 2016.   The smash hit Broadway and West End musical will bring a host of fuzzy friends to the Opera House from Monday 6 to Saturday 11 June as part of a nationwide tour.   […]

A £10m fund for tourism investment in the North of England was announced by Government on the 6 November 2014. The programme aims to deliver an additional 2m visitor nights to the North of England equating to £177m in international visitor expenditure and create 3,280 jobs. Marketing Lancashire is a lead destination and has contributed […]

Invitation to tender – Website Design and Delivery for Marketing Lancashire Overview: Marketing Lancashire is the destination management organisation for Lancashire, promoting the county as a visitor destination as well as a place to live, study, invest and work in.  It is Marketing Lancashire’s ambition to make the world sit up and take notice of […]

A Christmas Carol is now officially in the Blackpool Winter Gardens “Hall of Fame.” The magical festive musical starring Paul Nicholas is proving a hit for audiences in Blackpool and in the tradition of all top shows and acts performing at the Winter Gardens, A Christmas Carol is now etched in gold. Since 1889 top […]

Invitation To Tender Food & Drink Strategy Development Project Brief Introduction: Lancashire welcomes just over 63 million visitors each year who contribute £3.67 billion in visitor spend to the local economy and support just over 56,000 jobs. Food and drink is worth around £734 million to Lancashire’s visitor economy accounting for 20% of this tourism […]

Businesses who have been severely affected by recent floods in Lancaster, Wyre and the Ribble Valley can apply for the new Flood Recovery Grants through Boost Business Lancashire, the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership's Growth Hub. This scheme is available for small and medium sized businesses (up to 250 fulltime equivalent employees) in Lancashire flooded during the […]

Sand grown’un Jane Tregonning returns home, to work at Ribby Hall Village.  After almost a decade at Marriott Hotels International Limited and as Director of Leisure, Jane Tregonning has returned to work in the Fylde; bringing a whole wealth of experience to lead her team of 45 at Ribby Hall Village’s award-winning Spa.  Married and […]

You might think that winter is a quiet time in our city Parks, but not in Moor Park this year. Following a successful bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund, money is in place to restore Moor Park, along with some of its features and facilities, and to create new areas […]

Councillors in Pendle will decide whether they’d like the borough to join forces with authorities across Lancashire to create a combined authority. On Thursday (December 17) councillors will debate the proposals which are being, or have been, discussed by 14 other Lancashire authorities. They will be asked to note the progress made so far and […]

Christmas has come early at Blackpool Zoo after the only Hartmann’s mountain zebra to be born in the UK this year arrived safely on the morning of Friday 11th December. The stripy new addition, who is yet to be named, is the son of Helene, and takes the number of zebras at Blackpool to three […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is a financial powerhouse in Lancashire and the North West, according to a recently commissioned report. Regeneris Report states that in 2013/14 UCLan: Contributed over £200m to the North West economy Was one of the largest employers in Preston and supported an estimated 4,300 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) jobs in […]