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-Tickets on sale for Rossendale’s new family attraction with water features, interactive raft and animal statues –   Step into The Squirrel’s Lair – American Golf’s newest UK adventure golf course is set to open in Rossendale on Thursday 24th March, boasting an interactive woodland-themed golfing experience with unrivalled views across Lancashire’s rolling hills. Located […]

  The Council owned Harris is among more than 60 galleries, museums, libraries and cultural venues to receive Government’s Cultural Investment Fund (CIF) Awarded through the Museums Estate and Development Fund (MEND) strand, this award will enable the Harris to undertake urgent stonework repairs to the deteriorating façade of the building, in addition to works […]

A top movie based on the Take That songbook is to be filmed in Clitheroe. The post-pandemic feelgood movie, Greatest Days, will shoot in Clitheroe and the surrounding countryside on a date to be confirmed. And delighted Ribble Valley Borough Council bosses said the project will showcase the charm of Clitheroe and beauty of the […]

Bowland Retreat Lodges, a luxury holiday retreat in Clitheroe, Lancashire has invested in sustainable composite decking to boost its eco credentials and enhance its green reputation. Research has shown that nearly 1 in 3 consumers are making purchases based on the ethical and sustainability values of products and brands¹. As a result, Bowland Retreat Lodges, […]

English Tourism Week is fast approaching with this year’s week dedicated to showing support for tourism businesses and destinations as they rebuild, with a focus also on skills and career opportunities across the sector. With ‘You’re Welcome’ as its strapline this year, the week is also sending a message that England’s tourism industry is ready […]

Wyre Council is hosting a FREE creative arts festival at Fleetwood Market and Cleveleys Plaza this month. Creatival is a brand new artistic event packed full of performing arts, exciting interactive workshops, live music, entertainment and more on Saturday 26 March. Taking place across two locations in Wyre, visitors will experience incredible performers, take part […]

An alternative Blue Plaque will travel key places in the life of a forgotten working-class heroine on International Women’s Day on 8 March, 2022. Activist, poet, journalist and author Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (Born Oswaldtwistle 1886- Died 1962), is believed to be the first working-class woman in Britain to publish a novel. Pendle Radicals, a research and […]

Visiting an amusement park can be hungry business and with thousands of visitors each day, Blackpool Pleasure Beach needs plenty of staff to help prepare, cook and serve meals and snacks at its many food outlets. In preparation for the 2022 season the park is holding a catering recruitment day on Monday 14th March. Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s […]

The tragic scenes in Ukraine this past week have made many Prestonians look for ways they can personally help. There are a variety of ways to donate – either financially or supplies – locally and nationally and we urge anyone wishing to do so to ensure all donations are through a trustworthy source. Examples of […]

An important representative of the Pakistan government has paid a fact-finding visit to the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). His Excellency Muhammad Tariq Wazir, Consul General of Pakistan, was accompanied by UCLan Ambassador Lord Wajid Khan of Burnley. Over a working lunch the Consul General met UCLan’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Graham Baldwin, UCLan researchers working with partners […]

A time capsule has been placed within the newly refurbished tower leg recess of The Blackpool Tower Circus, to mark the countdown to its official reopening next month. Packed with handwritten letters, photographs, messages from local school children and even a lateral flow Covid test and mask, the capsule has been hidden away for future […]

Today, Wednesday 2nd March, marks the beginning of the Plant Preston fortnight, a city-wide campaign inviting everyone to get planting. Preston was chosen as a Champion City in 2021 for The Queen’s Green Canopy national campaign, encouraging people all around the UK to plant more trees. There are many plantings taking place in Preston already, […]