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FIGURES revealed this week show that the number of visitors to Chorley’s Astley Hall and Coach House have soared in the past year. Nearly 50,000 people visited Astley Hall and the Coach House between April and December 2014, which is over 6,000 more than the previous year and the most the Chorley Council-owned attraction has […]

Holiday Inn Lancaster is one of only 33 venues nationwide to strike Gold in the Venue Verdict accreditations and awards for 2014. Based entirely on genuine, verified customer feedback, these accolades reflect the cream of the nation’s meetings providers. 33 venues and hotels achieved a VenueVerdict Gold Standard accreditation, the highest tier available. To be […]

UCLan Students’ Union is pleased to announce a new project with the support of Preston City Council in what is one of the first partnerships of its kind to encourage students to register to vote in time for the General Election on May 7th 2015. With individual registration now in effect many students run the […]

The Great British Food Festival is back at Stonyhurst college, this year in the Easter School Holidays, starting at 10am on Friday 10th April and over the weekend up to 5pm on Sunday 12th April. For 2015 the food festival will also incorporate the popular Stonyhurst Spring Fair, so along with great foodie stalls, inside […]

An artist’s impression portraying the Fylde’s newest eatery ‘The Orangery’ at The SPA Hotel has now been released.    The Orangery’s exquisite interior design and décor reflects its modern and fresh approach to British cuisine.   Following on from the success of the SPA Hotel’s original dining option, ‘The Brasserie’ which holds two AA Rosettes […]

The Great British Food Festival is coming to a venue near you and they want the best local producers to join in!   The Organisers of the popular Great British Food Festivals are looking for the best of local and regional producers to join their events in 2015. The events are held at stunning venues […]

A new campaign is being launched to promote Preston city centre as a round-the-year attraction to visit and enjoy. The city’s Business Improvement District (BID) will target more than 250,000 homes across ‘old’ Lancashire and Greater Manchester between now and the end of January to encourage more visitors to the city centre. It follows a […]

From its humble beginnings as a 17th century manor house, we look at how the family owned hotel’s spectacular conversion of a Grade II listed building in 2004 is now complemented with opulent additions, attracting guests from all over the UK. Over the last ten years Stanley House has continued to evolve and after a […]

Businesses in Lancashire are being urged to act quickly if they want to secure free workforce training as part of the £5.6m Lancashire Skills Support (LSS) programme. It comes as new figures reveal that almost half of the places on the programme have already been filled, just four months after it launched in September 2014. […]

A powerful writing project will be launched at Morecambe Library from 1.30pm to 4pm on Saturday 24 January. The project, called Time and Tide, will use coroners’ inquest reports from 1914 to 1918, held by Lancashire Archives, as a starting point for writing fiction, poems, monologues or whatever form people are inspired to use. During […]

It’s the final call for tourism businesses across Lancashire to enter the Red Rose Awards which will close for entries at 12 noon on 16 January 2015. The Awards, which has categories relevant to every business in the region, will crown the best in business across the county. Last year’s event, which was organised by Lancashire […]

Marketing Lancashire was happy to welcome and organise a visit by Helen Grant MP, Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equalities to Lancashire on Thursday 8 January 2015. The Minister was heading to Lancaster and Morecambe and was keen to meet the partners working together to increase visitors to Morecambe Bay, through initiatives such as the […]