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The Park & Ride service helps to reduce congestion in the city centre and increases travel options. Approximately 300,000 passenger trips are made each year, an average of 980 per day on the route. County Councillor Keith Iddon, Cabinet member for highways and transport, said: “We’re pleased that we could add some stability to this […]

A scheme to replace 38,000 streetlights with LEDs has been approved by Lancashire County Council’s cabinet. This £9.2m project, which will begin in April 2018 and be complete in November 2020, is the final part of plans to replace all of the county’s older, less efficient streetlights with cutting edge, energy saving LEDs. It follows […]

Skelmersdale’s UPS Building & Maintenance was crowned a triple-winner at Lancashire Business View’s Red Rose Awards, which returned for its eighth year on Thursday 8 March, 2018. The awards ceremony honoured the most ambitious, most innovative and most successful businesses in Lancashire, and played out in the transformed space Olympia at Winter Gardens Blackpool, which has […]

Blackpool and The Fylde College (B&FC)’s new Lancashire Energy HQ has been officially opened by Northern Powerhouse Minister, Jake Berry MP. Lancashire Energy HQ is a £10.7m dedicated education and training facility and is the flagship development on Blackpool Airport’s Enterprise Zone.  It offers a wide range of energy-related training for future employment in the […]

Adults seeking work in Lancashire will be able to give their employment prospects a boost thanks to a new online tool from the Lancashire Skills & Employment Hub called ESCALATE. ESCALATE is a web-based tool which brings together for the very first time Lancashire’s varied opportunities available for those looking to start their journey into […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) will host a debate organised by The Guardian designed to shine a light on Preston’s model of a more local, community focussed economy. The Guardian Live event on Monday, 12 March, will look at how Preston, despite the effects of austerity and cuts, has struck out on its own, […]

More than 160 developers, investors, property professionals and policy makers drawn from across the North gathered together on March 1st for a special inward investment conference focussing on the huge investment potential offered by Preston, South Ribble and the wider central Lancashire region. Entitled Invest in Central Lancashire, the event was organised by the City […]

Thanks to the BBC, nine year old Thornton school boy and avid animal lover Austin Trickett has had a dream come true… to work alongside his father as zoo keeper for the day.  The children’s BBC TV Channel CBeebies approached Ribby Hall Village’s Wild Discovery which is an educational and interactive wildlife centre and zoo.  […]

Lancashire producers served up a slice of success at this year’s Fine Food Show North. Marketing Lancashire introduced six producers to the prestigious event as part of the Taste Lancashire campaign to fly the flag for the county’s food and drink. Culinary snails from the Forest of Bowland, exotic drinks made from fruit and flowers […]

Successful lancashire based events company Crafty Vintage is hosting an Easter Fair and Farmers Market at Shores Hey Farm in Briercliffe this Easter. Laura Johnson Director of Crafty Vintage who won Tourism Superstar 2017 at the Lancashire Tourism Awards last year was contacted by Graham Vernon who is Head of Commercial Operations at the farm.  HAPPA Shores Hey […]

Changes to the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into effect on 25th May 2018.  All businesses that handle personal data need to be aware of these new responsibilities, in order to comply with the law. Marketing Lancashire invited GDR expert Philip Brown from Napthens to the first Members Meeting of 2018 to talk through the steps we should […]

With the turn of a new year, The Spa Hotel at Ribby Hall Village has vowed it will do all it can to help people suffering with stress, anxiety and depression; the most common mental health issues in Britain today.(1) The Wellness team at the Spa Hotel insist that there are so many things that […]