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Lancashire Chocolatier, Choc Amor wins 2 awards at the International Chocolate Awards,  World Finals and is the only UK chocolatier to win a World Award for one of their chocolate bars from a new Special Category. The Awards Ceremony took place on Monday 18 November 2019, in the Palacio de los Capitanes, Antigua, Guatemala, where […]

Debbi Lander, Bid Director of Lancashire 2025, and Tony Attard OBE, Chair of Marketing Lancashire and of the Lancashire 2025 bid, have today announced the county-wide vision for UK City of Culture 2025.  A bold new vision that will engage all the people of Lancashire and deliver the most ambitious and inclusive cultural plans ever […]

The Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library, artist-led studio,The Birley, and public art project In Certain Places have been selected as three of the top fifty most socially valuable organisations in the north of England. Recognition has come from the seventh annual edition of Hannah Directory, a print publication, website and launch week of events […]

The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has showcased the range of high-quality development opportunities in the county to an audience of property investors and businesses at an event in London, today (Wednesday 27 November) to mark Lancashire Day. The LEP held the VIP event at The Guild of Fine Food in the heart of the City to launch […]

Debbi Lander, Bid Director of Lancashire 2025, and Tony Attard OBE, Chair of Marketing Lancashire and of the Lancashire 2025 bid, have today announced the county-wide vision for UK City of Culture 2025. A bold new vision that will engage all the people of Lancashire and deliver the most ambitious and inclusive cultural plans ever […]

A series of thought-provoking art commissions will be unveiled as part of an Eden Project programme of public art in Morecambe. The three interventions are the first phase of a programme of art, designed to herald the opening of Eden Project North on the Morecambe seafront, planned for 2023. The projects were selected through an […]

Celebrating Lancashire Day with a pop-up restaurant for the country’s top critics A selection of Lancashire’s award-winning chefs and Taste Lancashire Ambassadors head to London to celebrate Lancashire Day by preparing a 6-course meal for top food writers, critics and industry insiders at the Guild of Fine Food in Southwark on Lancashire Day (Wednesday 27th November). The team heading to […]

A member of the University of Central Lancashire’s (UCLan) Board of Governors has joined the list of esteemed physicists to have received the highest honour that the Institute of Physics (IOP) can bestow. Dame Sue Ion has been conferred with an Honorary Fellowship by the IoP ‘for her internationally recognised expertise in energy and energy […]

People across central Lancashire are being consulted on options within the local plan to meet the needs of people and businesses. We need residents’ help to make sure we have a plan for Central Lancashire that creates good quality places to live, work and relax over the next 15 years. People need good quality homes […]

Following the major capital investment scheme that was agreed by Council on 22 August 2019 to improve the conditions in the Market Hall, a prototype section of the proposed canopy design has been temporarily installed. This prototype will be part of the overall project which will sit above the internal walkways between the stalls. This […]

Amanda Thompson OBE, Managing Director of Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the United Kingdom, became IAAPA’s 2020 Chairman of the Board of Directors. In addition, IAAPA introduced the 2020 officers during the Kickoff Event at IAAPA Expo 2019, the association’s annual global conference and trade show in Orlando, Florida.Thompson brings lifelong industry experience and knowledge to […]

Sea water quality at Blackpool’s most northern beach, Bispham beach, has been classed as being ‘excellent’, in results released this morning by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).   In addition to this top classification for Bispham beach, high standards of bathing water quality have also been recorded by Defra at the […]