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Marketing Lancashire has an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Manager to join the team based in Leyland.  You will be here on a full time, fixed term basis of 9 months and you will be offered a competitive salary of up to £28,000 per year. About Marketing Lancashire; Marketing Lancashire is the Destination Management Organisation […]

Lancashire council leaders are edging closer to an agreement over how best to work together to secure more investment in the county from Central Government. Talks about forming a Combined Authority broke down last year but leaders are back around the table in a bid to form an agreement that could see the region take […]

Lancashire women from Burnley’s Angela James and Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth to Blackburn’s Barbara Castle and Kathleen Ferrier are some of the amazing women who have lived near the Calder Valley Railway Line and are included in a new booklet. To mark the special significance of 2018 for women, an imaginative booklet ‘Discover Amazing Women by Rail’ […]

PEOPLE are being encouraged to visit and check out Chorley with the launch of a new cinematic-style video showing the beauty of the area and the many things to do on a great day out. The three minute, 28 second video has been launched by Chorley Council on Chorley’s visitor information website checkoutchorley.com to inspire […]

VisitEngland has today announced the finalists in the tourism industry’s national Awards for Excellence and they include a trio from Lancashire who each won in their category at the Lancashire Tourism Awards in November 2017. The Cartford Inn, Little Eccleston – Tourism Pub of the Year Award Browsholme Hall, Clitheroe – Sustainable Tourism Award Ascent Trampoline Park, Blackpool – New […]

A food offer described as ‘quality, creative, colourful, different, versatile and value for money’ has been recognised in prestigious industry awards. The Seafood Pub Company, which has 11 sites across Lancashire and Yorkshire, scooped the award for Best Food Offer at The Publican Awards in Battersea, London. Judges were looking for a pub company that […]

Blackpool’s 2018 tourism season was officially launched today (Tuesday 20th March) with the unveiling of three major new visitor attractions, new events and a spectacular programme of live entertainment. The launch event at Blackpool Pleasure Beach was attended by several hundred hoteliers and tourism-based businesses who heard that more than £100m of new investment had […]

2018 will see two of the North West’s favourite chefs collaborate on a dining experience not to be missed.  Lancashire’s Tom Parker (right), chef at the the White Swan at Fence, and MasterChef champion Simon Wood will team up to conceive a shared menu to tantalise the taste buds for two nights only!  On 9th May, Tom Parker, the […]

Edge Hill University will offer an Access to Medicine course from 2019 and train doctors from 2020, following the announcement by the Secretary of State for Health to establish a Medical School at the University. The new facility will open at the Ormskirk Campus, within the successful Faculty of Health and Social Care which is […]

PEOPLE looking for a great day or night out in 2018 are in for another action-packed year as Chorley Council announces details of its programme of events. After organising events that attracted over 64,000 people into the Chorley area last year, the authority is aiming to give even more people a great day out in […]

VisitEngland is shining a spotlight on the country’s tourism industry in a week devoted to travel and exploration during English Tourism Week (ETW) 17-25 March 2018. Now in its seventh year, ETW raises the profile and showcases the benefits of the tourism industry to local communities and the economy. In the lead up to ETW, […]

Volunteers from Fleetwood Museum Trust are to take over the town’s Museum from next month. A decision taken by Lancashire County Council’s cabinet on Thursday 8 March 2018 agreed to the Trust taking over the operation of the museum. The doors will be reopened by the volunteers on Tuesday 27 March in time to take advantage of one […]