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Blackpool Zoo keeper Johnpaul Houston is taking part in an international expedition involving scientists and government officials from all over the world to help protect one of the rarest birds on earth. Johnpaul will travel to eastern Russia and the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve, which is also one of the last strongholds of the Amur […]

Blackpool Pleasure Beach is celebrating as Valhalla has been named The Best Water Ride in the World at the recent Golden Tickets Awards.   Representatives from amusement and water parks across the globe gathered at Coney Island, New York, on 11th and 12th September for the annual ceremony, which recognises the very best in the […]

Lancashire County Council's community heritage team is helping people to discover how World War One shaped the lives and experiences of the imprisoned, the dispossessed and enemy 'aliens'. Staff from the county council's community heritage team will hold a couple of interesting talks across the county in October. Andrew Walmsley, community heritage manager, said: "Over […]

THE WALLED Garden in Chorley’s Astley Park is set for two new additions after plans were approved to install a green stage for live performances and a glass house to entice even more people to visit. Chorley Council is looking to develop Astley’s picturesque Walled Garden to improve the offer to visitors and provide a […]

Fans of Blackpool are being urged to back the resort’s campaign to be officially recognised as Britain’s best beach holiday resort. The resort is up against the likes of Eastbourne, Brighton, Rhossili, Tenby and others to be named as the best beach holiday in the #GoBritain awards. A public vote is now open and VisitBlackpool […]

   Lancashire Business View celebrated a decade of publishing the magazine for business, industry and regeneration with a real red rose afternoon of crown green bowling and a chippy tea. The magazine’s longest standing friends, supporters and colleagues attended the event at East Lancashire Cricket Club on Friday September 18. Guests enjoyed a crown green bowling competition, kindly […]

Staff and supporters of the Harris Museum & Art Gallery are entering the final phase of their push to raise enough money to save a unique painting of Preston.  Led by charity the Friends of the Harris, hundreds of people have made donations totalling half of the £4400 needed to rescue the work which is […]

The second annual Buy British Day will be taking place on Saturday October 3rd 2015, with mini Best of Britannia pop-up events in London and Preston, encouraging consumers to support brands and businesses that design and manufacture in Britain. An initiative from Best of Britannia – an annual event and newly launched website that showcases […]

Blackpool’s ‘Brilliance’ arches will play host to a month of outdoor performances and live music throughout October as part of Blackpool Illuminations’ LightPool programme. The programme will see the arches, based on Birley Street in the town centre, become the centrepiece of eleven different shows over five weekends during the month. The shows, which range […]

Super Slow Way, a major arts commissioning programme established to create a lasting legacy of arts and culture in Pennine Lancashire, announces the launch of its programme for 2015-17. The programme includes a specially commissioned symphony to mark the Bicentennial of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, a mass participation project drawing on the traditions of […]

Renowned restaurateur and proud Lancastrian Paul Heathcote MBE, is stepping down from his role as Chairman after three successful years at the helm of Lancashire’s place marketing organisation, Marketing Lancashire.  Marketing Lancashire was created in 2012 with considerable investment from Lancashire County Council, replacing the former Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board and Paul Heathcote was the company’s […]