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The new High Sheriff of Lancashire has been announced as Anthony Attard OBE DL. He is the CEO of East Lancashire-based Panaz and chair of Marketing Lancashire. When Tony left Poole in Dorset to go to university, little did he know that this was to be a lasting move to the North of England. While […]

Things couldn’t be going any better for Farm Yard Ales founder Steven Holmes – and his dad couldn’t be more delighted. Bob Holmes wasn’t totally convinced when son Steven told him he was opening a brewery on the family farm. It would take hard work and a lot of money – £225,000 to be exact. ‘It was […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has triumphed once again at the North West Royal Television Society’s (RTS) annual Student Television Awards by this time picking up the prize for Best Short Film Drama. Four former film production students who graduated in 2017; Gaius Brown, Heather Davenport, Jodie Horn and Jake River Parker, beat off […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has been shortlisted for four prizes in this year’s Student Nursing Times Awards. In a record-breaking year for entries, UCLan has been shortlisted for the Nurse Education Provider of the Year (Pre-registration) award and in the Student Experience category for the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing. In addition, midwifery […]

A workshop to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Horrocks will take place at Lancashire Archives on Saturday 24 March. The event, which takes place from 10.30am to 3pm at the offices on Bow Lane, Preston, will include a talk about the life of John Horrocks and the international textile company he […]

The Park & Ride service helps to reduce congestion in the city centre and increases travel options. Approximately 300,000 passenger trips are made each year, an average of 980 per day on the route. County Councillor Keith Iddon, Cabinet member for highways and transport, said: “We’re pleased that we could add some stability to this […]

A scheme to replace 38,000 streetlights with LEDs has been approved by Lancashire County Council’s cabinet. This £9.2m project, which will begin in April 2018 and be complete in November 2020, is the final part of plans to replace all of the county’s older, less efficient streetlights with cutting edge, energy saving LEDs. It follows […]

Skelmersdale’s UPS Building & Maintenance was crowned a triple-winner at Lancashire Business View’s Red Rose Awards, which returned for its eighth year on Thursday 8 March, 2018. The awards ceremony honoured the most ambitious, most innovative and most successful businesses in Lancashire, and played out in the transformed space Olympia at Winter Gardens Blackpool, which has […]

Blackpool and The Fylde College (B&FC)’s new Lancashire Energy HQ has been officially opened by Northern Powerhouse Minister, Jake Berry MP. Lancashire Energy HQ is a £10.7m dedicated education and training facility and is the flagship development on Blackpool Airport’s Enterprise Zone.  It offers a wide range of energy-related training for future employment in the […]

Adults seeking work in Lancashire will be able to give their employment prospects a boost thanks to a new online tool from the Lancashire Skills & Employment Hub called ESCALATE. ESCALATE is a web-based tool which brings together for the very first time Lancashire’s varied opportunities available for those looking to start their journey into […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) will host a debate organised by The Guardian designed to shine a light on Preston’s model of a more local, community focussed economy. The Guardian Live event on Monday, 12 March, will look at how Preston, despite the effects of austerity and cuts, has struck out on its own, […]

More than 160 developers, investors, property professionals and policy makers drawn from across the North gathered together on March 1st for a special inward investment conference focussing on the huge investment potential offered by Preston, South Ribble and the wider central Lancashire region. Entitled Invest in Central Lancashire, the event was organised by the City […]