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Proud Burnley ‘ambassadors’ gathered at the town hall to fly the flag for the Red Rose county on national Lancashire Day. The Mayor and Mayoress of Burnley, Cllr Andy and Mrs Lorna Tatchell, together with council officers, Miss Burnley Chloe Ingham, Burnley Youth MP Connor Wold and representatives from The Royal British Legion also shared […]

As Amazon, Asda and Argos prepare for the busiest shopping day of the year, the Winter Gardens Blackpool have launched their own Black Friday promotion slashing prices on 15 events by as much as 75% for a 24 hour flash sale this Friday. For millions of people Black Friday is the time to do some […]

Today – Lancashire Day! – Preston takes a leap forward into the digital age with a brand new showcase website for the city – www.prestonguildcity.co.uk The website’s clean and simple design features five main categories: Invest; Live & Work; Study; Visit; and What’s On. For the first time all information about Preston is located in […]

Stanley House Hotel and Spa has become the latest Lancashire business to get free training for its employees as part of a £5.6m workforce skills programme being delivered in the county. The award-winning business, based at Mellor in the Ribble Valley, was able to secure leadership and management training for three new staff members, while […]

We’re celebrating Lancashire Day, 27 November 2014 with some amazing spot prizes throughout the day.  Look out for our tweets @MarketingLancs and share your Lancashire Day messages or photos on Twitter using both hashtags  #LancashireDay #wherelifefeelsgood for a chance to win! Terms and Conditions for Spot Prizes One tweet, using both hashtags, will be selected […]

The history of Lancashire's cotton industry attracted popular BBC rural affairs programme, Countryfile, to Helmshore Mills Textile Museum earlier this month. With the help of Lancashire cartoonist Tony Husband and Yorkshire poet Ian McMillan, the programme delved into the history of 'tacklers tales' at the museum. Jennifer Ingham, Lancashire County Council's manager at Helmshore Mills, […]

The three original paintings are by artist William Gawin Herdman (1805-1882), known mainly for his many pictures of Liverpool and the surrounding area. In the 1830s it is believed he was invited by Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, the town's founder, to paint a series of eight views showing the early days of development in the […]

The Seafood Pub Company team celebrated at the Cheshire Life and Lancashire Life Food and Drink Awards after receiving two top awards. The Oyster & Otter in Feniscowles was named the Lancashire Life Restaurant of the Year whilst Joycelyn Neve, the Seafood Pub Company’s managing director, was presented with the Lancashire Life Food and Drink […]

Lancashire’s Seafood Pub Company has beaten off competition from some nationally recognised brands to be named the R200 Pub Company of the Year. The R200 Awards are designed to celebrate the progress and achievements of the top 200 restaurant group operators in the UK. Restaurant Magazine’s R200 Club is made up of the UK’s leading […]

THE Woodland Spa has been recognised as the best spa in the north of England at the prestigious Good Spa Guide Live Awards 2014. The event held at Center Parcs Woburn Forest saw the best spa in each UK region recognised. This followed an online vote that polled spa users as well as readers of the Good […]

Marketing Lancashire, the Destination Management Organisation (DMO) for the county, provides a summary of the latest, official visitor and economic impact figures1 for Lancashire. They reveal that the county’s visitor economy businesses are benefiting from growth in visitors numbers, growth in revenue generated and growth in employment in the sector. The latest figures (retrospective, for […]

Having recently announced its extension in the resort for a further 2 years Illuminasia are launching their latest development to the indoor attraction, audio described touch tours with experienced local guides. Illuminasia which opened in April is an imaginative, educational attraction and features a blend of traditional Chinese lantern crafts with the latest in lighting […]