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Kids Free Friday at Food Festival

The Great British Food Festival is back at Stonyhurst College for it's 5th Year! This year the event is open from 10am Friday the 21st April, all over the weekend until 5pm Sunday the 23rd and the organisers have announced that Friday will be a free entry day for kids, so anyone under 16 can […]

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An evening of wine from the five fields of the Appenines

Italians may not have invented wine, but more than anyone else throughout the ages they have demonstrated a serious passion for it…. After all wine is also a very important part of everyday Italian life… as the Italians say Il vino fa buon sangue = Good wine makes good blood If you are like us […]

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Lancashire’s new High Sheriff takes office

The new High Sheriff of Lancashire has been officially sworn in at a historic ceremony in County Hall, Preston. Robert Mitchel Webb JP DL began his year in office at the installation on Friday 7 April continuing a tradition stretching back hundreds of years. Appointed by Her Majesty The Queen, Robert takes over the role […]

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James’ Places Open Event Success

Lancashire-based hospitality group, James’ Places, is celebrating a successful open event at its new headquarters, Holmes Mill. James’ Places hosted an open day to showcase its new offices in Clitheroe on April 5, attended by a number of local dignitaries including Ribble valley Mayor Joyce Holgate, as well as many councillors, suppliers and clients. In […]

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Catering students cook up signature dish for Accrington Food Festival

It looks like an Accrington Nori Brick, it stacks like a brick and 200 of them will form a stunning centrepiece at the town's Food and Drink Festival this year. But unlike the town's iconic red slabs these will be entirely EDIBLE and even DRINKABLE thanks to the imagination and creativity of catering students at […]

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Lancaster Food Festival Returns in Two Weeks

Lancaster Food and Drink Festival is all set to take place in a few weeks on Sunday 30th April and Monday 1st May 2017 at Lancaster Leisure Park. Anyone who attended one of the biggest events on the district’s culinary calendar over the May Bank Holiday last year, is probably already begging, Oliver Twist-style, for […]

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An ‘Icon’ is born

Blackpool Pleasure Beach has today announced the name of its new £16.25 million rollercoaster – Icon.   Revealed in a dramatic sizzle – a movie-style promotional trailer, adrenalin enthusiasts are treated to a taste of what will be the world’s most exciting rollercoaster, featuring 15 interactions with other rides at the famous amusement park.     […]

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Viva Blackpool go ‘all in’ with investment into Viva Vegas Diner

Viva Blackpool is to transform the former Harry Ramsden’s into the Viva Vegas Diner offering a brand new dining concept on Blackpool’s Golden Mile. The new venue sees the multi-award winning business expand its offer, creating 25 new career opportunities and providing a one of a kind experience for visitors and locals alike. Development work […]

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Gawthorpe Hall exhibition celebrating Miss Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth

An exhibition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of The Honourable Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth MBE, will go on display in Burnley later this month. The exhibition, entitled The Gawthorpe's Great Lady Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth 1886-1967, will be at Gawthorpe Hall from Thursday 20 April until Sunday 5 November. The display will showcase some of the […]

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Lancaster Arts Champions Nominated For Regional Awards

The Dukes is hoping for a hat-trick at the first ever North West Cultural Education Awards. The Lancaster theatre’s Centre for Creative Learning is a finalist in three categories of the awards run by Curious Minds, an organisation dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people in the North West by connecting them […]

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Twenty years old and still going strong

Clitheroe's legendary Emporium is getting set to celebrate its 20th birthday in true Ribble Valley style.   Next month (May 2017), the former Methodist Chapel on Moor Lane and first member of the James’ Places family, marks its milestone anniversary with a new seasonal menu and a selection of original cocktails.   The Emporium, which […]

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Holmes Mill Hosts Comedy Nights

Clitheroe’s Holmes Mill is to host more of the biggest and freshest stand-up comics in Lancashire following the success of its first comedy night. In association with comedy fame, Frog and Bucket of Manchester, the mill has lined up two more nights of side-splitting entertainment in its function room, bringing six great comedians to the […]

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