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The hotel group which runs the art-deco Midland Hotel in Morecambe andthe Lancaster House Hotel has announced a raft of new senior managementappointments in an expansion of its executive board. The changes reflect English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues’ ambitions forgrowing the business and developing its offer across its four starvenues in North Lancashire and […]

The films provide practical advice to people less confident using train stations. They showcase each station including entrances, nearby parking and tram stops, where to buy tickets, food and drink and how to pass through the automated ticket barriers.  The films advise about the number of platforms, the importance of keeping tickets safe and how to open […]

THE cast for a top movie based on the Take That songbook being filmed in Clitheroe next month has been revealed. Aisling Bea (This Way Up, Hard Sun), winner of the 2020 BAFTA Television Craft Award for Breakthrough Talent, will star in the feelgood movie alongside Alice Lowe (Black Mirror, Sightseers), Jayde Adams (Serious Black Jumper, Alma’s […]

The HAPPA (Horses and Ponies Protection Association) Team are thrilled to share news of completed improvements to pathways at the Charity’s Farm based in Burnley, Lancashire. The Charity was able to secure funding for developments to walkways around the Farm to improve accessibility for all, by The Lancashire Environmental Fund (LEF). The pathway to the […]

Mark O’Rourke, restaurant entrepreneur, is giving the people of Lancashire the chance to name his new Preston restaurant.  The new restaurant is located in the Miller Arcade and will be a casual British restaurant, adding to the city’s flourishing food and drink scene. The competition opens on Wednesday 23rd March and closes on Wednesday 6th […]

Preston has been named the best city to live and work in the North West in the Demos-PWC Good Growth for Cities Index. Preston remains the highest performing city in the north-west, for the third time, and scored above average across a number of categories the public think are most important when it comes to […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and a major recycling company have developed a ground-breaking solution to ensure scrap vehicle waste, known as Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR) is turned into renewable energy. A team of UCLan academics has worked with Recycling Lives, the UK’s largest end-of-life vehicles processor, to create a way of transforming hard-to-recycle ASR into […]

The festival, organised by Ribble Valley Borough Council and hailed as one of the best food festivals in the UK, will take place on Saturday, July 30, after a two-year break, because of the pandemic. The free-to-enter festival features some of the finest food and drink producers in Lancashire, along with a healthy serving of […]

A new and exciting addition is on its way to Preston Market Hall. Tipsy Chef, a new restaurant where you can eat in or takeaway will serve up classic street food, including boa buns, smash burgers, dirty fries, freakshakes and more. All made on site by head chef and owner Jay Oates. Jay is an […]

Italian agri-chef, Maurizio Bocchi, chef-patron of the multi-award-winning La Locanda restaurant in Gisburn, has been announced as Marketing Lancashire’s newest Taste Lancashire Ambassador; joining a stellar line-up of the county’s most celebrated chefs who are leading the way in the promotion of Lancashire as a must-visit food destination. Maurizio and his wife Cinzia opened the […]

Blackpool’s historic Grand Theatre has become the first theatre in the country to receive a National Policing Award for Safety by scooping the Licensing SAVI Award. Situated in the heart of Blackpool’s busy town centre, the Grand Theatre achieved this impressive accolade after successfully taking part in a pioneering, police-led initiative to improve the safety […]

We are thrilled to announce that our CEOs Andrea Challis and Robert Kearsley have been shortlisted for The Northern Leadership Awards 2022 Andrea Challis and Robert Kearsley are the Joint Group CEOs of Partington’s Holiday Centres. The brother and sister team are the fourth generation of the Partington’s family, recently celebrating their 77th anniversary and […]