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Businesses need to go wild to help their employees cope with stress and other mental health issues. The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside is offering Wild Wellbeing Days to companies and organisations through its Myplace project, which is already supporting people across Lancashire to improve their wellbeing. A recent report stated that […]

Are you ready to party on the Prom? The good news is that MTV will once again be associated with the Blackpool Illuminations Switch-On concert. The free show will take place on Friday 30 August on the Tower Festival Headland, one of the most iconic outdoor music venues in the UK. Details of the acts […]

Marketing Lancashire today announced its latest line-up for the Taste Lancashire food & drink conference 2019, taking place at Holmes Mill, Clitheroe on Tuesday 5 March. The growing list of speakers now includes leading restaurateur, Ormskirk-born curry evangelist and founder of Mowgli street food restaurants, Nisha Katona MBE who will feature in a special Q&A […]

National tourism agency VisitBritain/VisitEngland and Airbnb have announced a partnership to promote and broaden local-led tourism experiences, driving visitor growth and boosting the economy. The £500,000 match-funded partnership will work with businesses and destinations to promote local experiences to domestic and international visitors, and grow and broaden the range of experiences available. Experiences on the […]

An exciting, one-time investment prospect in Leyland has been declared “an amazing and unmissable opportunity” to become involved in one of South Ribble’s most illustrious historical icons. Worden Hall, beautifully set in the heart of Worden Park in Leyland, will be the subject of a new council consultation, seeking views and interest from businesses and […]

Today at full Council, Councillors of Preston City Council received updates of, and made decisions concerning, the continued development of the Harris Quarter. Just shy of 12 months since the opening of the new award winning Preston Market Hall, the Council is making good progress working with its partners to secure the regeneration the surrounding […]

The Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) has further expanded its membership with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) joining the health partnership. UCLan joins other leading north universities in the alliance, alongside research-intensive NHS trusts and the region’s four Academic Health Science Networks. Health research is a key priority for UCLan, and its academic innovators […]

Following a successful pilot in Blackpool, where 1.4 million pages of local high street offers and events were viewed, a national version of OFFiGO has now gone live. The digital platform which is based in Lancashire seeks to increase spend and footfall in the retail and hospitality sector by bringing the ‘high street’ online and […]

Highest Point will return to Lancaster’s glorious Williamson Park on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th May for another jam-packed weekend of music and arts. Now in its second year, the city’s largest and most popular music festival will welcome some of its most established names to date. Disco royalty Sister Sledge, famed for their hits […]

To celebrate their 125th Birthday, this year Blackpool’s Grand Theatre will launch the first ‘125 Club’. Offered on a first come basis, a limited 125 members will have the opportunity to subscribe to 12 monthly payments of £12.50 per month. Then, each month, from the 125 members, three winners will be drawn who each win £125! […]

Five Lancashire pubs have been named some of the best in the country. Freemasons at Wiswell, Parkers Arms in Newton in Bowland, The Cartford Inn in Great Eccleston, The White Swan at Fence and Assheton Arms in Downham were named on the prestigious Top 50 Gastropubs list at a special event at Lillibrooke Manor in […]

The Blackpool Resort Pass is back for 2019! Visitors will once again have the opportunity to make big savings on their favourite attractions whilst having fun in the UK’s most popular seaside destination. We brought the Resort Pass to Blackpool in 2013, and it has increased in popularity over the years as thousands of families […]