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An alternative National Park — covering 460 square miles of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester — including East Lancashire, was launched today. South Pennines Park aims to champion the landscape, its people and businesses in order to bolster recognition and unlock resources for the only upland in England that is not a designated National Park […]

Waterfoot Wakes is launching a Crowdfunder campaign on Monday 28th June, to raise much needed funds in order to bring the festival back and make it free for everyone to attend. The festival has been running since 2018 as a partnership between The Boo, The Old Library Café and Edgeside and District Community Partnership. It […]

More than 320 business owners and managers from across Lancashire have worked together to solve common challenges, share knowledge and grow as part of a Government-funded business support programme. The businesses have recruited staff, launched products and services, found new markets and improved their business resilience through the Peer Networks programme, which brought together owners […]

A group of 21 of Lancashire’s fastest growing businesses are on course to create dozens of new jobs, expand their operations and develop new products and markets after taking part in a Lancashire County Council programme to fast-track their coronavirus recovery. The firms received tailored support to help them return to sustained high growth quickly […]

Some of Britain’s extraordinary Corona Heroes have officially switched on the Blackpool Illuminations. They gathered in the resort’s historic Empress Ballroom for a virtual Switch-On event that was streamed around the globe to trigger the start of four months of illuminations. They included a consultant, frontline nurses, a hospital catering manager, extraordinary fundraisers, and a […]

It’s Blackpool’s biggest party of the year – and for once, everyone is invited! The traditional Illuminations Switch-On concert usually takes place in a packed seafront arena with an audience of almost 20,000 people fortunate enough to secure a ticket. COVID restrictions on large-scale events have put paid to that for 2020, meaning no live […]

Darwen-headquartered Contract Manufacturing specialists WEC Group have recently announced that they have secured a multi-million pounds contract with Royal Mail. From July 1st 2020, the market leading Engineering & fabrication businesses will start manufacturing all the iconic red letterboxes and associated Royal Mail fabricated metal products which form part of the British heritage. The 900 […]

Workers fighting a huge moorland blaze near Darwen in Lancashire have expressed their gratitude for the upswell of support they have received from local people. Fire crews, mountain rescue teams and workers and contractors from water company United Utilities have been ‘overwhelmed’ with gifts of food and other essential items since the fire started on […]

Two University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) students have won an international competition to find the best games’ students. Final year student Matthew Lowe won the Search for a Star 2020 competition while Justyna Kwiatkowska was chosen as the recipient of the Sumo Digital Rising Star 2020 competition, an award for first and second year students. […]

Almost 7 years on from being rescued from closure, 2020 will be a year of significant change and growth for The Whitaker, Rossendale’s Museum & Art Gallery located on Haslingden Road in Rawtenstall, Lancashire. Since it’s take over in 2013, this historic site and museum has seen visitor numbers soar from 9,000 to 40,000 and […]

On Thursday 7 November, the world-famous Pleasure Beach Arena, Blackpool was the ‘coolest’ venue for Marketing Lancashire’s annual Lancashire Tourism Awards, supported by Headline Sponsor, University of Central Lancashire and Host Sponsor VisitBlackpool. Blackpool-born professional ice-skater Daniel Whiston was guest presenter and entertained the audience, gliding through the twenty-two awards with great style. Rachel McQueen, Chief […]

Marketing Lancashire today announced the finalists of the Lancashire Tourism Awards 2019 which will be held on Thursday 7 November at the Pleasure Beach Arena, Blackpool supported by Headline Sponsor, University of Central Lancashire and Host Sponsor VisitBlackpool. The finalists have been through rigorous shortlisting and, in many cases, have been mystery-shopped in order to reach this stage of the competition.  Each of the […]