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Stanley House Hotel and Spa has raised £700 for charity after the success of its adopt a tree scheme. The Mellor-based hotel is home to a budding orchard which has helped to boost funds for its charity of the year, Rosemere Cancer Foundation. The 16 trees in the Rosemere orchard range from Bramley and Cox […]

The search is on for fun photographs and selfies of visitors enjoying Blackpool’s world famous Illuminations display. A new Blackpool Illuminations photo competition will offer the chance to win a short break in Blackpool, staying at the contemporary boutique Number One South Beach. The top five entries will also win the chance to have their […]

Jobs growth in the professional, scientific and technical sectors, and in business administration and support services, lies behind a further growth in the number of jobs in Burnley. The news has been welcomed as confirming the effectiveness of the strategy and partnership working developed by Burnley Bondholders and the local council. Figures just released from […]

A chance meeting with an elephant led a six year old girl to pursue a really wild career that started in Blackpool and is set to continue in South Africa. Sarah Chantry, an Education Officer at Blackpool Zoo, is embarking on the trip of a lifetime to work at the Daktari Bush School and Wildlife […]

A Lancashire hotel has been named one of the nation’s best, following inclusion in the Sunday Times’ Ultimate 100 British Hotels 2014. Stanley House Hotel and Spa, Mellor was reviewed and selected from destinations across the UK and is the only Lancashire hotel to make the cut.  The Times prize list, now in its second […]

Future Preston Tours are set to teleport into the city next month as part of the British Film Institute’s  (BFI) nationwide Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season. North-West cultural production team, They Eat Culture, (TEC) will take citizens on journeys into the future with a series of non-traditional and immersive film screenings, combined with […]

Marketing Lancashire today (Monday 29 September) revealed the finalists of the Lancashire Tourism Awards 2014. The awards now in its 11th year has received a record number of applications with an increase of 25% on 2013. The only tourism-focused awards in Lancashire will take place on Thursday 6 November at The Blackpool Tower Ballroom. This […]

Canadian master blasters Firemaster Productions have been named winners of Blackpool’s World Fireworks Championships 2014. The annual festival, which runs every Friday night throughout September, saw competitors from Sweden, Austria and Canada battle it out to be named the winner. And as Great British pyrotechnic experts Titanium rounded off the annual spectacle on Friday (26/9) the […]

The autumn sound of geese flying overhead has begun with 21,500 Pink-footed geese arriving at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre in the last few days, having made the 500 mile journey from Iceland to spend the next month in Lancashire. WWT Martin Mere had a record number of geese arrive with 36,000 of them roosting […]

Preston-born Marian Clayden’s career has taken her from the world of textile art to Hollywood and haute couture, and yet she is perhaps better known in the United States (where she lives) than in the UK. We are delighted to have this opportunity to show work from this influential textile artist and designer in her […]

For that’s the year that Lytham Hall’s Georgian façade was built. And it’s also the name of the special hand-pulled ale – brewed to celebrate the mansion’s 250th birthday – which has proved a best seller across the Fylde, Lancashire and beyond during the summer. Hall chiefs teamed up with big-hearted Lytham Brewery to mark the […]

Blackpool Zoo’s tiger cub twins have been named after presenters on the UK’s longest running and best loved children’s TV progamme Blue Peter. The three-month-old adorable stripy duo have been called Barney and Radzi and the presenters were delighted when they found out live on air earlier this month. Keepers even matched the cubs to […]