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The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII), the leading professional body for the licensed retail sector, has appointed Joycelyn Neve as a Non-Executive Director. Joycelyn Neve founded Seafood Pub Company in 2010 when she was just 25 years old, and the chain now has seven sites across Lancashire. This award-winning operation is renowned for its creative […]

Preston’s famous Harris Museum & Art Gallery has won financial support from a locally-based charity to help bring a 194-year old work of art back to life. Art Aid has donated £1,000 to help conserve the painting, ‘View of Preston from Penwortham Hill’ which was painted by artist John Jenkinson in 1821.  Without specialist treatment […]

Businesses across Lancashire are being called on to enter the national award-winning Red Rose Awards, which will crown the county’s best firms across 26 categories including the Tourism and Leisure Business Awards. The 2015 event, which was organised by Lancashire Business View magazine, attracted more than 1,000 of the county’s top business people for the […]

Visitors to Fleetwood Museum had a big surprise on Friday 20 November. On KidsinMuseums Takeover Day, 37 children from Chaucer Community Primary School and four sixth form pupils from Rossall School, Fleetwood could be found doing jobs and taking on the roles usually done by staff and volunteers. Their roles for the day included becoming […]

Around 100 delegates attended a special breakfast networking event yesterday to hear about progress on the Preston, South Ribble and Lancashire City Deal and forthcoming investment opportunities. Local, regional and national businesses at the City Deal Investor & Developer Forum heard from developers and housebuilders about their schemes, had the opportunity to network with other […]

Live music fans can grab a Black Friday bargain as Lytham Festival is offering a special pre-sale price on weekend tickets. Friday November 27 will see festive shoppers across the globe go online in the hunt for big deals as businesses make huge discounts for Black Friday. And Lytham Festival is offering a limited number […]

LEYLAND will be illuminated with festive cheer this Saturday as Dave Spikey switches on the Christmas lights! Leyland Town Team and South Ribble Borough Council have worked together to improve the town’s Christmas lights and the hard work will be culminated with a Christmas festival on Hough Lane on Saturday 28 November.  Leyland Town Team […]

Campaigners from across Europe, including the UK, are arriving in Brussels to tell the European Commission to drop the attack on vital nature laws and focus on their enforcement instead. Today’s discussions have particular relevance for Lancashire as the future of special sites, such as the Forest of Bowland and Leighton Moss and key species […]

Oh yes it is! Christmas in Blackpool is bigger and better than ever with a whole sleigh-load of entertainment over the festive period. The resort is hosting a huge range of family favourites from pantomimes, shows and concerts to shopping, Santa’s Grotto, ice skating and discounted parking offers. Blackpool Town Centre BID will be kicking […]

THE Woodland Spa has once again won the “Best spa in the North” Award at this year’s Good Spa Guide Awards in Stratford-upon-Avon. The award is a remarkable achievement for the Burnley-based spa as it’s a second consecutive win. The award also follows on from The Woodland Spa last month winning the Global Luxury Spa […]

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum will celebrate Lancashire Day in a traditional way on Friday 27 November. A Lancashire menu will be on offer in the Coffee Mill Café for the special day. Visitors will be able to choose from old-style Lancashire fayre such as hotpot with red cabbage, corned beef hash and Chorley cakes. Other […]

Lancashire’s spectacular Symphony at the Tower event is to become a three-day musical extravaganza for 2016. The event at Hoghton Tower has taken place over two days since music promoters Cuffe and Taylor joined forces with Lostock Hall-based St Catherine’s Hospice in 2013 to programme Symphony. Since then its popularity has grown and so it […]