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Lancashire’s food and drink manufacturing sector can play a key role in the county’s economic recovery from Covid-19, a national retail expert has claimed. Suzi Wynne, managing director at Wynne Business, works with national retailers including Waitrose, the Co-Operative and Tesco. She specialises in helping growing food and drink manufacturers to target contracts with supermarket […]

Lancashire County Council and Lancashire Cricket have officially agreed to work together to support the delivery of local, regional and national cricket in Lancashire. The project, which is a unique partnership between the county council and the professional cricket club, will also look to develop a second home for the club’s teams and bring together […]

2021 is set to be the year several major improvement projects across the borough come to life. This comes following the council’s commitment to look ahead past the pandemic and to plan for the future of the borough; delivering continued investment in making Chorley a better place to work, live and play. Having allocated investment […]

A Lancashire social enterprise business has teamed up with the biggest name in the UK hotel industry to produce a one-of a kind-product for remote workers looking for Premier Inn comfort. With many of us finding it hard to get out of bed when working from home, and half of us claiming to have made […]

Co-producers of the Digital Arts Festival, Lancashire Youth Challenge, More Music and the Prop Up Project, are working in partnership with GRAFT to present Voices: Sparking Conversation in Art, an outdoor exhibition of artworks by three emerging Black artists. The exhibition aims to promote Black artists as part of a creative response to racial inequality in the Arts and the wider Black […]

Dr Sakthi Karunanithi, the county’s director of public health, is the latest expert to be added to the line-up of speakers for the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Conference where insight, advice and first-hand case studies will be shared on Thursday 8 April. The Conference is the latest in a series of in-depth events designed to support the county’s […]

Businesses looking to relocate or set-up in Chorley are being asked to get in touch to speak with the team about premises options in a new 75,650 sqft scheme in Alker Lane, Euxton. Comprising of a mix of office and light industrial space, the flexible space will include a range of options for sale or […]

Lancashire business leaders have been advised the time is now to make the most of funded business support currently available within the county. The calls come from Lancashire’s public sector leaders to take advantage of a number of enhanced fully-funded business support opportunities while they are available on key issues including EU Transition and business […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is hosting a free online event to highlight hate crime. At 4.00pm on Monday, 22 March, the University will welcome a presentation from the Sophie Lancaster Foundation. The Foundation was set up in 2007, following the brutal murder of Sophie. She was a goth and was attacked simply for […]

A thousand trees have been planted at Yarrow Meadows by FCC Environment. Working with FCC Environment, one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies, this latest tree planting work is part of Chorley Council’s wider plans to tackle climate change, after declaring a Climate Emergency in November 2019. Councillor Alistair Bradley, Leader of […]

Lancashire businesses in all sectors have been challenged to step up and play their part in forging Britain’s global future. Lynne Gillen, export manager for the county at the Department for International Trade (DiT), threw down the gauntlet at the Lancashire International Trade Conference 2021. She told delegates: “I’d like to challenge everybody, if they […]

As businesses start to reopen and more visitors begin to return to Chorley town centre, they may notice a number of changes. Last year, Chorley Council agreed to invest £600k to enhance Chorley’s famous markets. Despite the pandemic, renovation work has been ongoing since Autumn with the most noticeable change being the recent removal of […]