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Speedworks Motorsport and Hoyle Bottom Spirits Ltd today announced a new hospitality partnership to provide premium spirits and mixers to guests of the British Touring Car Championship season 2020. The partnership will make available a range of premium spirits and mixers to guests and invitees of Speedworks Motorsport at race events and further extends the […]

Morecambe Business Improvement District (BID) is rolling out an app that allows patrons in the Hospitality, and Food & Beverage Industries to order and pay for their food and drink straight from the table, without the need to go to the bar or receive table service. John O’Neill, Manager of the Morecambe BID, said: “Recent […]

Calyx Drinks are set to launch into 28 Booths stores at the end of June with a range of natural flower drinks. Lancashire based Calyx Drinks are passionate about flowers, natural ingredients and wellbeing.  The drinks are craft brewed using dried flowers, herbs and spices mixed with natural juices.  All drinks are vegan approved by […]

Marketing Lancashire’s Visitor Survey offers insight into consumer confidence and travel plans. As Lancashire begins to ease out of the Covid-19 lockdown Marketing Lancashire, the destination management organisation (DMO) for the county, has issued the results of a visitor survey issued in May to the Visit Lancashire database, tourism partners and followers of the DMO’s […]

Burnley based uPVC window system company VEKA plans to launch a consultation process, which unfortunately may result in job losses. In March this year, Burnley based uPVC window system company VEKA made the difficult decision to temporarily close operations in the UK and place most of its staff on Furlough due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. […]

A local Customer Experience business has developed a unique solution to ensure team members can feedback their safety concerns when they return to work. “We know from our own research we have conducted, that business leaders are worried about how their team members may be feeling about the safety of their workplace when asked to […]

Preston City Council will mark Refugee Week with a series of virtual events alongside Uclan and Preston City of Sanctuary. The events, to be hosted online due to ongoing restrictions caused by coronavirus, will celebrate positive encounters between different communities with a focus on arts, culture and education. Adrian Phillips, Chief Executive of Preston City […]

Preston City Council is working with key partners such as the Business Improvement District and Lancashire County Council to safely and successfully reopen Preston city centre, as restrictions are lifted and non-essential shops are able to re-open their doors to customers from 15 June. A number of temporary changes to traffic in the city centre […]

An uplifting new choral performance by artist Daniel Bye, former Chumbawamba guitarist Boff Whalley and a volunteer choir from Morecambe has been released as a beautiful film. The film of the project known as These Hills Are Ours was shot in early March before Government lockdown measures for Covid-19 were put in place. It shows […]

SOUTH Ribble Borough Council’s annual gardening competition, South Ribble in Bloom, will take on a new format this year following the fallout from coronavirus. Unlike in previous years, where judges would visit the competing gardens, this time around entrants will be asked to submit four photos via email, post, or Facebook Messenger. The deadline to […]

The markets in Blackburn and Darwen will reopen to the public on Monday 15th June 2020 but there will be changes. Although the markets have been closed since the end of March, many of the stallholders have been able to continue trading by offering phone and online ordering , with home delivery and click & […]

With 500 days to go until the opening fixture of the Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021), tournament organisers have announced that Preston will be the training base for Wales’ men’s team.The Rugby League World Cup is coming to England in 2021, with the groundbreaking tournament hosting the men’s, women’s and wheelchair games concurrently for […]