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Shopping at Freeport Fleetwood is now even better than it was before following the opening of its brand new Beauty Outlet store.   Packed with the best beauty brands including Elizabeth Arden, Calvin Klein, St Tropez, OPI, TIGI Bed Head, Rimmel & Maxfactor to name a few, the new store opened on Saturday 20th June. […]

This summer holiday, children of all ages can discover their inner adventurer by becoming fully fledged Nature Explorers at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre.  Here, they can follow in the footsteps of Scott of the Antarctic (father of WWT’s founder Sir Peter Scott) by going on an array of ‘wild’ adventures and recording them in […]

Visitors to the new Chorley Flower Show will get a unique opportunity to see paintings in the historic Astley Hall like they have never seen them before in a specially commissioned exhibition on 1 and 2 August. The ‘Up close and personal: portraits from the Great Hall at eye level’ exhibition will be a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ […]

A £5.6m programme which offers Lancashire companies access to free workforce training has announced more than a thousand extra training opportunities. Lancashire Skills Support for the Workforce (LSS) has been so popular that it has been awarded the extra places from the Skills Funding Agency (SFA). Firms are being urged to act quickly to secure […]

Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) chair Edwin Booth has revealed vital information about the organisation’s progress and initiatives in the pipeline at an exclusive event hosted by ICAEW Chartered Accountants North West yesterday (8 July 2015). The LEP was established four years ago and after an admitted stuttering start, has found its feet with some significant […]

The Grand Theatre are inviting accommodation providers and Taxi Drivers to the first three nights of the all-singing, all-dancing Puttin’ On The Ritz, starring Strictly Come Dancing stars Katya Virshilas and Jared Murillo. All you have to do to claim your tickets is bring your hotel utility bill or your Taxi Driver ID to the […]

Minister James Wharton visits BAE Systems at Samlesbury   MINISTER for Local Growth and the Northern Powerhouse James Wharton visited the Lancashire Enterprise Zone at Samlesbury, one of two sites making up the Lancashire Enterprise Zone, for a progress update.   The visit was hosted by the leader of Lancashire County Council Jennifer Mein and […]

Fans can now leave their light on for funny man, Paddy McGuinness, at Madame Tussauds Blackpool, and get the ultimate selfie as the comedy actor-turned-presenter is the latest celebrity to be immortalised in wax. The loveable Lancastrian’s wax figure was unveiled today (8 July) at Madame Tussauds Blackpool as Paddy came face-to-face with his wax […]

When the owners of Countrystyle Meats, Alan Beecroft and Heather Cornthwaite set their minds to something, they not only get the job done, but they do it in style. Next month sees the completion of their dream, 4 years after its conception. In August they open a huge, brand new restaurant next to their already […]

Stories as diverse as a body found on a beach with a steamship ticket from Ireland, a soldier dying in a boxing match before he made it to the front, and a pregnant young woman last seen jumping from Morecambe Pier, all feature in a new exhibition launched in July. The poignant exhibition 'Time and […]

A Lancashire-born artist whose passion for painting began in the Sixties is staging a summer exhibition at The Dukes gallery. John Baldwin learned his craft at Leeds Arts School whose alumni include Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Damien Hirst. He was drawn into the music scene there and ran a psychedelic nightclub where the likes of […]

The Dalmeny in St Annes, Lancashire, has unveiled its £2.5million refurbishment programme as it aims to develop a ‘one stop’ resort hotel for guests ahead of its 70th anniversary next year.   Over the next 12 months, 80 of the family hotel’s 125 bedrooms will be given a facelift while a new function suite and […]