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ASTLEY Park’s Walled Garden is set to be transformed into scenes of comedy and romance as part of Chorley Council’s first outdoor theatre event of the year. After successful performances in 2014, Chorley Council is bringing back Heartbreak Productions to perform its fun, musical adaption of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. Set in the Roaring 20s […]

It’s the final call for Lancashire’s young business people to enter the Young ‘Uns Awards 2015. The awards, which will celebrate the next generation of business leaders, will close for entries at midnight on 14 April 2015. And the awards, organised by Lancashire Business View magazine and backed by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), […]

The financial failure, last week, of paper giant Robert Horne Group has struck a huge blow to the East Lancashire Railway’s ambitions to restore their Bury Bolton Street Station back to its former glory. The heritage railway’s £100,000 project to re-establish the Victorian style station canopy at the showcase station’s platform 2 is now in […]

The Grand Theatre is delighted to welcome Record-breaking comedian Tim Vine this October in his first stand-up tour in 4 years! Tim joins a stellar line-up of top comedians performing on Blackpool Grand’s stage in 2015/16, including master of Comedy Michael McIntyre, ‘Chatty Man’ Alan Carr, Mock The Week favourite Milton Jones, New York Comic […]

The Hemingway-inspired Vintage by the Sea has announced it will once again transform  Morecambe’s seafront and landmark venues in September (5th & 6th September) after over 40,000 visitors took over the town in an uplifting extravaganza in 2014. Morecambe-based organization, Deco Publique, will co-deliver the festival, along with Lancaster City Council and Hemingway Design’s Vintage […]

Their under starter’s orders……. For the annual duck race at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre Come down to WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre all week to paint, personalise and design your own plastic duck to enter into the annual duck race on Sunday 19 April at 3pm. Ducks can be painted everyday at the centre […]

The city’s biggest fashion showcase, Preston Fashion LIVE, returns to St George’s Shopping Centre on Friday, April 10. Retailers from across Preston will help shoppers spring forward into the new season, showcasing the latest styles from petals to metals and bold to beautiful. Those hitting the catwalk include high street favourites such as Topshop, Miss […]

The city’s biggest fashion showcase, Preston Fashion LIVE, returns to St George’s Shopping Centre on Friday, April 10. Retailers from across Preston will help shoppers spring forward into the new season, showcasing the latest styles from petals to metals and bold to beautiful. Those hitting the catwalk include high street favourites such as Topshop, Miss […]

Marketing Lancashire, Lancashire County Council and the Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership would like to invite you to take part in a focus group about current and future skills needs facing your business and the wider visitor economy in which you operate. This focus group is an important part of a project being undertaken to develop […]

A new pop-up Astley Experience is set to open this weekend while conservation repairs continue at Chorley’s historic hall. Astley Hall has been closed since Christmas whilst conservation work was done to preserve the Grade 1 listed building. Now following the recent announcement that the Hall will have to remain closed until the summer, Chorley […]

The award-winning SPA Hotel at Ribby Hall Village has today launched their NEW treatment menu and brochure following a recent investment in excess of £500,000 to enhance The Spa Hotel’s facilities and offering*.  Over the last 12 months the award-winning SPA Hotel which is open 7 days a week, 365 days a year has welcomed […]

Families can come and experience the best model boats in the North West at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre this Easter. Model boat groups from Southport, Hoylake, Liverpool, Runcorn, Ormskirk and West Lancashire will be showcasing their collection of model boats on Saturday 11 April and Sunday 12 April. Centre Manager, Nick Brooks, said: “Easter […]