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Market Gate Shopping Centre has achieved Platinum status in this year’s “Loo of the Year Awards” and as if that wasn’t enough the hard working cleaning team have also been awarded “Attendant of the Year 2014". The facilities were upgraded in 2009 funded jointly by Market Gate Shopping Centre and Lancaster City Council.  They include […]

The Crook O' Lune is coming into bloom for the first time since Lancashire County Council invested £1m in improvements to the bridge and a new picnic area. An official opening was held on Monday 17 March to mark the completion of a major restoration of the east cycleway bridge and a significant revamp of […]

Wyre has scooped a national jackpot – a massive £191,000 worth of business support to boost four of its town centres. As the sole winner of the Revive and Thrive Challenge, Wyre Council gets to spend six months working with some of the finest retail and marketing minds in the country. Altogether 24 business and […]

Pennine Lancashire Museums group, has secured a grant £71,000 of Arts Council strategic support funding for a new multi-museum project, ‘We are the Champions’. This ambitious project will see all nine museums in the partnership develop workforce ‘champions’, to develop their brand, share best practice across the museums and improve the visitor experience as a result. […]

Marketing Lancashire is calling on all Lancastrians to help create Lancashire’s Hall of Fame as partof a VisitEngland national campaign to find the country’s ‘great and the good’. From the country’s most notorious witch hunt in Pendle to spearheading the Industrial Revolution, Lancashire has played a huge part in the shaping of England’s history.  Add […]

Visitors to Preston, the Guild City, should have no problem finding their way around, thanks to a new city centre map. Featuring Preston’s key attractions, recent graphics graduate, Ric Bixter alongside UCLan graphics tutor, Pete Thompson, developed the map on behalf of Preston City Council and the Business Improvement District (BID). The map will replace […]

Blackpool Zoo is urging visitors, members, Facebook fans and Twitter followers to ‘pull the plug’ for Climate Week (3rd – 9th March 2014). The research and education team at the zoo are working with the European Association of Zoo’s and Aquariums (EAZA) on a two-year campaign entitled Pole to Pole, which has been designed to […]

Entries for the second Asda Foundation Pennine Lancashire 10K were officially opened on Monday 3rd February as it was revealed local charities are in line for a huge £10,000 boost. The cash was raised by the face of Safestyle Windows’ famous TV adverts, Jeff Brown, who lost over 5 stone in weight to take on the […]

Marketing Lancashire, the destination management organisation for Lancashire, is working with Creative England, to help raise the profile of the many unique and photogenic locations and venues available in and around the county, for television and film-makers. Creative England supports creative ideas, talent and businesses in film, TV, games and digital media and, as part […]

Marketing Lancashire, the destination management organisation for Lancashire, is working with Creative England, to help raise the profile of the many unique and photogenic locations and venues available in and around the county, for television and film-makers. Creative England supports creative ideas, talent and businesses in film, TV, games and digital media and, as part […]

More than 30,000 people visited Showzam! Blackpool’s festival celebrating Circus, Magic and New Variety. Showzam! Central, the hub of the celebrations during the 10-day festival, attracted 21,600 people while audiences at the event’s 60 plus ticketed shows and tours attracted in excess of 10,000. And while the figures are pleasing news to VisitBlackpool, the force […]

Ruth Connor, CEO of Marketing Lancashire joins Judith Dugdale head of Moore and Smalley’s leisure and tourism team in Lancashire to discuss the current health of Lancashire’s visitor economy and issues and opportunities for the county’s leisure and tourism businesses.