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VisitBritain is gearing up to host virtually its flagship global travel trade event ExploreGB from 1 to 5 March. VisitLancashire will be actively promoting the county with almost 50 pre-booked appointments ExploreGB Virtual is bringing together more than 350 global buyers to connect online with 350 tourism industry suppliers and destinations from across the UK […]

Lancashire is bidding to become City of Culture in 2025; the first time a county-scale cultural programme will compete for the title and the first time a submission will have envisaged a county as one ‘virtual city’. Debbi Lander, Bid Director of Lancashire 2025 and Tony Attard, Chair of the Board of Lancashire 2025, have […]

VEKA plc, employer of 360 people at its headquarters in Burnley, celebrated National Apprenticeship Week shining a light on the apprentices working within the business.  With six apprenticeships currently running at VEKA in a range of areas from HR to IT to engineering, the company has a strong history of supportingand helping individuals build careers. […]

The UKs #1 e-liquid manufacturer Flavour Warehouse Ltd. has today snapped up Guildford based Vapouriz for an undisclosed sum to supercharge its expansion plans. The acquisition of Vapouriz is the third large-scale acquisition by the group in the last 18 months, following Total Vapour and Premier Vaping in 2019 and 2020 respectively. The Darwen based […]

With so much uncertainly still facing the tourism and hospitality industry and as the country awaits the government roadmap that we hope will at least give some more clarity, Marketing Lancashire has today launched ‘Redefining the Rule of Six – a recovery plan for Lancashire tourism and hospitality’. The tactical plan, developed in consultation with […]

Plans for Eden Project North in Morecambe received a boost from the Government during an adjournment debate called by David Morris MP in the House of Commons on Wednesday.   Mr Morris, MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, made the case for the Government to invest in Eden Project North in his speech, outlining the projected […]

A group of 21 of Lancashire’s fastest growing businesses are on course to create dozens of new jobs, expand their operations and develop new products and markets after taking part in a Lancashire County Council programme to fast-track their coronavirus recovery. The firms received tailored support to help them return to sustained high growth quickly […]

Blackpool’s annual Illuminations display is to be extended by two months for a second consecutive year. VisitBlackpool announced today that the Illuminations season will start on Friday 3 September and run until Monday 3 January, 2022. The two-month extension is intended to give the resort’s hard-hit tourism industry an added boost with the COVID-19 pandemic […]

The Red Rose Awards, Lancashire’s favourite business awards ceremony, has extended its 2021 programme of events and will return with a new look, new categories and new trophies on November 25, 2021. With the introduction of the third national lockdown, the awards organisers have decided to expand the calendar, moving the event from its revised […]

The untapped potential of financial technology (fintech) in helping deepen trade relations between the UK and India is to be investigated in a new project involving the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). The three-year project brings together universities, leading research institutions, government organisations and fintech firms from both countries to assess the role of fintech […]

Farmers in Bowland are being invited to online meetings this month to hear more about the future direction of farming policy and support payments, including the new Environmental Land Management system and changes to the existing Countryside Stewardship schemes. Following the publishing of the Government’s Agricultural Transition Plan in November 2020, farming is set to […]

Keep Britain Tidy project LOVEmyBEACH is calling on all regular beach users to help identify and report signs of coastal pollution to help protect the North West coastline. Thanks to the hard work of LOVEmyBEACH volunteers and the Turning Tides Partnership, the North West coast is the cleanest and safest it has ever been, but pollution […]