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LEYLAND will be illuminated with festive cheer this Saturday as Dave Spikey switches on the Christmas lights! Leyland Town Team and South Ribble Borough Council have worked together to improve the town’s Christmas lights and the hard work will be culminated with a Christmas festival on Hough Lane on Saturday 28 November.  Leyland Town Team […]

Campaigners from across Europe, including the UK, are arriving in Brussels to tell the European Commission to drop the attack on vital nature laws and focus on their enforcement instead. Today’s discussions have particular relevance for Lancashire as the future of special sites, such as the Forest of Bowland and Leighton Moss and key species […]

Oh yes it is! Christmas in Blackpool is bigger and better than ever with a whole sleigh-load of entertainment over the festive period. The resort is hosting a huge range of family favourites from pantomimes, shows and concerts to shopping, Santa’s Grotto, ice skating and discounted parking offers. Blackpool Town Centre BID will be kicking […]

THE Woodland Spa has once again won the “Best spa in the North” Award at this year’s Good Spa Guide Awards in Stratford-upon-Avon. The award is a remarkable achievement for the Burnley-based spa as it’s a second consecutive win. The award also follows on from The Woodland Spa last month winning the Global Luxury Spa […]

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum will celebrate Lancashire Day in a traditional way on Friday 27 November. A Lancashire menu will be on offer in the Coffee Mill Café for the special day. Visitors will be able to choose from old-style Lancashire fayre such as hotpot with red cabbage, corned beef hash and Chorley cakes. Other […]

Lancashire’s spectacular Symphony at the Tower event is to become a three-day musical extravaganza for 2016. The event at Hoghton Tower has taken place over two days since music promoters Cuffe and Taylor joined forces with Lostock Hall-based St Catherine’s Hospice in 2013 to programme Symphony. Since then its popularity has grown and so it […]

Chorley’s festive season got off to a spectacular start on Saturday as thousands of people packed into the town centre for fun, fireworks and fabulous entertainment. Thousands of people braved the wet weather to celebrate Chorley’s Christmas Lights Switch On which marked the start of the town’s countdown to Christmas. People packed into Market Street […]

Blackpool has enjoyed one of its best October half-terms on record. Figures from various sectors within the visitor economy show that the nine days at the end of October proved a remarkable finale to the 2015 tourism season with a number of operators claiming their highest ever figures. Indicators show that the season got off […]

The boss of Britain’s leading arts organisation praised Burnley Mechanics for its innovative approach during a visit to the historic theatre. Arts Council England’s chief executive Darren Henley toured the building and talked to staff about the theatre’s contribution to arts and culture, not only in the borough but across the North West.  Afterwards Gerard […]

The tastiest food craze in the world is coming to Preston for the first time this month.   The Fishergate Street Food Festival will bring sensational flavours from around the world to the city in a three day celebration of great eats and fantastic snacks.   Running from November 19 – 21 at the Fishergate […]

The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership anticipates 3,000 new jobs by 2030 within energy, food and professional services sectors   James Wharton MP, Minister for Local Growth and the Northern Powerhouse, has announced today (November 12th) that Blackpool Airport has been given official Enterprise Zone (EZ) status.   The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) first submitted a bid […]

Businesses across Lancashire are being called on to enter the national award-winning Red Rose Awards, which will crown the county’s best firms across 26 categories. The 2015 event, which was organised by Lancashire Business View magazine, attracted more than 1,000 of the county’s top business people for the celebration at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens. The 2016 […]