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Blackpool has been named the best town in the UK for holiday accommodation. The popular seaside resort has been awarded the accolade by Quality in Tourism (QiT), the official assessment service provider for VisitEngland, who today have produced a league table of those streets within the UK, that have the largest percentage of accommodation outlets […]

WELCOME TO MORECAMBE BAY Helping to transform the Bay in 700 days Welcome to Morecambe Bay, a new and bespoke customer service training course, was launched on Monday 24 March at The Midland Hotel, Morecambe by Marketing Lancashire, Cumbria Tourism and the Morecambe Bay Partnership, as part of the partnership’s 700 Days to Transform The […]

A project to transform one of Lancaster’s most historic public spaces has received almost £60,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund's 'Our Heritage' programme. The 'Beyond the Castle' project wants to create a high-quality public space around Lancaster’s historic castle and priory, down the hill and over the meadows to the quayside. The lottery funding will […]

VisitBlackpool is delighted to announce Lancashire-based radio station Rock FM as its media partner for the 2014 Illuminations Switch-On event. As part of the partnership, Rock FM will be utilising the extensive reach of its parent company – the Bauer Media Group – which boasts more than 80 radio stations and magazines across the UK. […]

Budding local entrepreneurs are being invited to bring their ideas and products to Lancaster City Council markets in Lancaster and Morecambe during this year's Love your Local Market Fortnight.   From 14th – 28th May, the council is offering free stalls and pitches to new business owners at its historic outdoor Charter Market in Lancaster […]

Market Gate Shopping Centre has achieved Platinum status in this year’s “Loo of the Year Awards” and as if that wasn’t enough the hard working cleaning team have also been awarded “Attendant of the Year 2014". The facilities were upgraded in 2009 funded jointly by Market Gate Shopping Centre and Lancaster City Council.  They include […]

The Crook O' Lune is coming into bloom for the first time since Lancashire County Council invested £1m in improvements to the bridge and a new picnic area. An official opening was held on Monday 17 March to mark the completion of a major restoration of the east cycleway bridge and a significant revamp of […]

Wyre has scooped a national jackpot – a massive £191,000 worth of business support to boost four of its town centres. As the sole winner of the Revive and Thrive Challenge, Wyre Council gets to spend six months working with some of the finest retail and marketing minds in the country. Altogether 24 business and […]

Pennine Lancashire Museums group, has secured a grant £71,000 of Arts Council strategic support funding for a new multi-museum project, ‘We are the Champions’. This ambitious project will see all nine museums in the partnership develop workforce ‘champions’, to develop their brand, share best practice across the museums and improve the visitor experience as a result. […]

Marketing Lancashire is calling on all Lancastrians to help create Lancashire’s Hall of Fame as partof a VisitEngland national campaign to find the country’s ‘great and the good’. From the country’s most notorious witch hunt in Pendle to spearheading the Industrial Revolution, Lancashire has played a huge part in the shaping of England’s history.  Add […]

Visitors to Preston, the Guild City, should have no problem finding their way around, thanks to a new city centre map. Featuring Preston’s key attractions, recent graphics graduate, Ric Bixter alongside UCLan graphics tutor, Pete Thompson, developed the map on behalf of Preston City Council and the Business Improvement District (BID). The map will replace […]

Blackpool Zoo is urging visitors, members, Facebook fans and Twitter followers to ‘pull the plug’ for Climate Week (3rd – 9th March 2014). The research and education team at the zoo are working with the European Association of Zoo’s and Aquariums (EAZA) on a two-year campaign entitled Pole to Pole, which has been designed to […]