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Volunteers are needed to help Light Up Lancaster. This festival of art and light in Lancaster city centre will take place over the two nights of November 4-5. Light Up Lancaster organisers are looking for friendly volunteer stewards to help guide people during the event and ensure that all runs smoothly and safely. Duties could […]

                     Dear Colleague. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced on Tuesday 11th October that Newcastle & Gateshead will host the Great Exhibition of the North in summer 2018.  Our congratulations go to Newcastle & Gateshead and we look forward to helping celebrate the North’s collective talent and playing a role in the […]

International visitors spent an extra £800 million across the nations and regions of Britain in the last year as a result of work by the national tourism agency VisitBritain, latest figures show. This means that every £1 invested in VisitBritain’s activities resulted in an overseas visitor spending £23 in Britain. Domestic visitors spent an additional […]

WHEN THE RED ROSE… rises from the waves, to mark a historic journey through the Red Rose county On Wednesday 19 October, the second in a new series of pop-up artworks by environmental artist Steve Messam, rises from the waves of the Leeds & Liverpool canal at Eanam Wharf in Blackburn. Steve Messam’s When the […]

The Dukes outdoor walkabout production of The Hobbit has won a prestigious UK Theatre Award. At Sunday’s glittering ceremony in London, the Lancaster theatre scooped the award for Best Show For Children And Young People. The Dukes Artistic Director, Joe Sumsion and Executive Director, Ivan Wadeson were presented with the award by actor, Don Warrington. […]

Marketing Lancashire is delighted to announce an esteemed list of tourism colleagues now in the running for Lancashire Tourism Superstar 2016, the only award in the Lancashire Tourism Awards to be nominated and decided by the public. The public can now vote for the candidate they feel most deserving of the title Lancashire Tourism Superstar […]

Lancaster Castle is raising the curtain on the production 'Ghostly Tales' later this month. The storytelling performance will take place on Friday 21 October and Saturday 22 October at 7.30pm. Excerpts from the work of 20th century British female writers, Edith Nesbit, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Jeanette Winterson, will be read by actors […]

Pendle Vision Board is thrilled that Pendle is once again being highlighted as a hotspot for success and innovation. This comes after Barnoldswick’s Silentnight Group is placed 199th in the twelfth annual Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table. The league table ranks Britain’s private mid-market growth companies with the biggest sales and […]

A week of workshops, drop-ins and seminars aimed at giving Pendle businesses a boost is back by popular demand and spaces are starting to get snapped up. Organised by Pendle Council and Pendle Vision Board, this year’s Focus on Your Business Week is running from Monday 17th October to Friday 21st October. It brings together […]

A new website to promote Pendle to tourists will be launched at the annual tourism conference on Monday 17th October at the ACE Centre, Nelson. “Pendle’s tourism website www.visitpendle.com has had a major re-design to attract more visitors to our area,” announced Pendle’s leader for tourism, Councillor Eileen Ansar. “The new visitpendle.com will make it […]

New proposals have been announced to tackle congestion in Preston city centre, ahead of the busy Christmas shopping period. Lancashire County Council has previously introduced a restriction of the right turn from Butler Street onto Fishergate. To ensure that drivers are observing this requirement, new 'no right-turn' signs will be added at the Butler St […]

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government today allowed Cuadrilla's appeal against the county council's decision to refuse permission for fracking at the Preston New Road site, subject to conditions. In the same decision, he allowed the opportunity for more information to be provided on highway safety issues related to the Roseacre site […]