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A new short film spotlighting Lancashire’s little known Brontë connections has been released. Called In Brontë Footsteps, it features multi-million bestselling American historical novelist Tracy Chevalier. Tracy visited Pendle this autumn for the first time, to find out about the area’s Brontë associations. She is most famous as the author of Girl with a Pearl […]

Chorley is bucking the trend when it comes to the number of empty shops in the town centre. Figures revealed this week show that the town centre vacancy rates in Chorley are below the national average proving that new shops and businesses are continuing to set up in the town centre. Councillor Alistair Bradley, who […]

Smash hit musical comedy Hairspray is coming to Blackpool Winter Gardens in 2017 with a production guaranteed to have you dancing the night away. The international stage extravaganza will run at Blackpool Opera House from Monday 18 to Saturday 23 September. Tickets priced from £17.50 go on sale at 10am Friday October 28 and are […]

Pendle Council’s Customer Services Team and Liberata are celebrating after taking home two awards in this year’s North West Contact Centre Awards. Organised by the Call North West Forum, the 11th annual Awards celebrated sixteen category winners including individuals, team and company successes. They were all rewarded for their outstanding contribution to the Contact Centre […]

Inaugurated in 1986 as a part of a national initiative called Time for Design, the Lancaster District Design Award scheme has run for 30 years.  In that period it has recognised nearly 200 schemes and projects in the District, ranging from major new build and restoration projects to landscaping work and small improvements. The chief […]

The judging is over and the finalists have just two weeks to wait until they find out if they have won a prestigious Lancashire Tourism Award, at the county’s foremost celebration of tourism excellence.  This year the Lancashire Tourism Awards  returns to Blackburn Cathedral, the Cathedral of Lancashire, on Thursday 10 November and today, organisers […]

Following on from the Design Charrette* which took place at the beginning of this year, a prototype stall has been unveiled to Preston Market traders. The brief was to design a stall for use on the Outdoor Market which was easy to set up and versatile enough to meet the needs of all traders and […]

YOKO ONO, one of the world's leading contemporary artists and social activists, has been confirmed to exhibit alongside artists including Bob & Roberta Smith, Mark Titchner and Liz West at the inaugural LightPool Festival in Blackpool from Friday 28 October to Wednesday 2 November 2016. Marking the penultimate weekend of Blackpool Illuminations, the new six-night […]

The demand on those of us working in the hospitality industry is relentless: 16 hour days, managing the needs of our guests and overseeing our teams whilst working at 100mph speed. Let’s take a moment and catch our breath! Most industry professionals will tell you there is no work-life balance or very little. This is […]

Ministers, developers and investors line up to hear from the ‘We Are Lancashire’ consortium at international property expo in London Lancashire's debut at MIPIM UK has been hailed great success with hundreds of delegates, drawn from across the property and investment world, visiting the ‘We Are Lancashire’ exhibition stand to find out more about the […]

Staff and the family owners of a Lancaster holiday park are celebrating after hearing that they have been short-listed for a major "green tourism" accolade.  Moss Wood in the village of Cockerham has made it into the finals of the Lancashire Tourism Awards 2016 as one of the county's most environmentally-friendly businesses. Now they must […]

The first UK festival bringing together manufacturing, art and design to be held in the heartland of British industry, developing celebratory acts of creativity and uniting makers of diverse disciplines.   The first National Festival of Making takes place on Sat 6 and Sun 7 May 2017 in Blackburn Lancashire, where 25% of the population […]