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A record 20 places from across the UK have put in a bid to become the UK City of Culture 2025 Bids received from every nation in the UK as regions and groups of towns were encouraged to apply The new winner will be announced next year and will be at the centre of the […]

After a rollercoaster 17 months, Ribby Hall Village have so much to celebrate. The more than 120-strong SPA Hotel team, all of whom returned from furlough earlier this year are celebrating 10 years since welcoming their first guests. In August 2011, Ribby Hall Village became home to one of Lancashire’s first SPA destinations with 42 […]

Physicists and engineers from UCLan team up with NASA to gather new insight into outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere Physicists and engineers from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) have teamed up with NASA on a suborbital flight to gather new information on the workings of the Sun. The project saw researchers successfully launch […]

Stealth Mask has shipped more than 5 million professional facemasks since 2017. Exports masks and filters to 22 countries around the world. New transparent ‘Clarity’ FFP3 mask improves communication between workers and vulnerable people in settings where PPE remains essential. Lancashire-based family firm setting new standards in protection and certification. Gearing for growth with fresh […]

‘Leave nothing but your footprints’ is the inspiration behind a series of 10-metre-long footprints spectacularly created in Fylde. A total of 15 footprints were raked into the sand on the beach at St Annes as part of Fylde Council’s awareness campaign to encourage people to dispose of their litter responsibly. They are part of the […]

A Lancashire woman who set up a personal assistant business just as lockdown hit is now in the process of recruiting her own team after gaining more than 30 clients with the help of Boost; Lancashire’s Business Growth Hub. Quality Time PA Services, a virtual assistant service, is the brainchild of former project co-ordinator and […]

Lancaster’s Dukes theatre has paid an unusual tribute to a much-loved volunteer and supporter of their outdoor walkabout shows. Bernard Gladstone, who died in March, had seen every Dukes production in Williamson Park since 1987 and had volunteered at them for decades. He was also the theatre’s honorary archivist for more than 40 years. In […]

Work to refurbish Worden Hall, the centrepiece of the iconic Green Flag Award winning Worden Park, will begin on Monday 16 August – and South Ribble Borough Council want to give you the chance to have to see the development plans and to have your questions answered. Come along to a drop-in event at the […]

Renowned designer Wayne Hemingway MBE is part of a team tasked with creating an exciting new vision for Penwortham – and South Ribble Borough Council wants local residents and business owners to help shape it. The Council has enlisted the Lancashire-born creative to develop a masterplan for the Liverpool Road, Kingsfold and Middleforth commercial areas, with the aim of making the […]

Lancaster City Council has stepped in to purchase Morecambe’s Frontierland site to kick start its regeneration and give the site a new lease of life. The land was previously home to a theme park which closed more than 20 years ago, since which time there have been a number of failed re-development attempts by the […]

Tickets are selling fast for The Dukes outdoor walkabout theatre production of Grimm Tales which runs until August 22. After a two-year absence from Lancaster’s Williamson Park, The Dukes is delighted to entertain audiences outdoors once again. Grimm Tales: Witches, Wolves, Fairies and Frogs is a fun and fresh adaptation of the famous Brothers Grimm fairy tales told […]

Lancaster-based digital agency Novi Digital has been appointed the sole agency partner for the delivery of digital marketing Skills Bootcamps in the North West of England. Skills Bootcamps is a 12-week course in Digital Marketing, which forms part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee and Plan for Jobs. Delivered by Coventry-based We Are Digital, working in partnership with […]