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Some of the best food in the North West is now being served at affordable prices from pop-up cafes and converted trailers.   What we are seeing is a grassroots revolution in British food and leading the revolution in Lancashire is David Johnson and his Crafty Vintage Street Food events.   The gatherings are enabling […]

The legacy continues as The Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival celebrates its 26th year of bringing some of the best R and B music to Colne. And what a line-up!….. Coco Montoya, Anson Funderburgh, Davina and The Vagabonds, Billy Boy Arnold, Avery Sunshine,The Climax Blues Band and Nikki Hill. With an unusually strong female […]

A Chorley-based business which specialises in the bottling of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages is raising a glass to growth after receiving free support from Lancashire Skills Support for the Workforce. The £5.6m skills programme has enabled H&A Prestige Bottling, which has a 130,000 sq ft state-of-the-art bottling and warehousing facility at Ackhurst Business Park, to […]

Lancashire's new High Sheriff has been officially sworn in at a historic ceremony at County Hall in Preston. Amanda Parker has been installed into office as Lancashire's new High Sheriff – continuing a tradition stretching back to at least the middle of the tenth century. The office of High Sheriff is held for a year. […]

After three hugely successful events in London, the Best of Britannia (BoB) team is travelling north for the first time, to host their exciting 3-day pop-up unique department store in Preston, Lancashire. Taking place from 15th – 17th May in the historic Post Office building and Market Square in the heart of the Lancashire city, […]

ASTLEY Park’s Walled Garden is set to be transformed into scenes of comedy and romance as part of Chorley Council’s first outdoor theatre event of the year. After successful performances in 2014, Chorley Council is bringing back Heartbreak Productions to perform its fun, musical adaption of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. Set in the Roaring 20s […]

It’s the final call for Lancashire’s young business people to enter the Young ‘Uns Awards 2015. The awards, which will celebrate the next generation of business leaders, will close for entries at midnight on 14 April 2015. And the awards, organised by Lancashire Business View magazine and backed by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), […]

The financial failure, last week, of paper giant Robert Horne Group has struck a huge blow to the East Lancashire Railway’s ambitions to restore their Bury Bolton Street Station back to its former glory. The heritage railway’s £100,000 project to re-establish the Victorian style station canopy at the showcase station’s platform 2 is now in […]

The Grand Theatre is delighted to welcome Record-breaking comedian Tim Vine this October in his first stand-up tour in 4 years! Tim joins a stellar line-up of top comedians performing on Blackpool Grand’s stage in 2015/16, including master of Comedy Michael McIntyre, ‘Chatty Man’ Alan Carr, Mock The Week favourite Milton Jones, New York Comic […]

The Hemingway-inspired Vintage by the Sea has announced it will once again transform  Morecambe’s seafront and landmark venues in September (5th & 6th September) after over 40,000 visitors took over the town in an uplifting extravaganza in 2014. Morecambe-based organization, Deco Publique, will co-deliver the festival, along with Lancaster City Council and Hemingway Design’s Vintage […]

Their under starter’s orders……. For the annual duck race at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre Come down to WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre all week to paint, personalise and design your own plastic duck to enter into the annual duck race on Sunday 19 April at 3pm. Ducks can be painted everyday at the centre […]

The city’s biggest fashion showcase, Preston Fashion LIVE, returns to St George’s Shopping Centre on Friday, April 10. Retailers from across Preston will help shoppers spring forward into the new season, showcasing the latest styles from petals to metals and bold to beautiful. Those hitting the catwalk include high street favourites such as Topshop, Miss […]