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Photos: Preston Arts Festival

19th, October 2010 by

This weekend saw several pre-launch and official launch events for the Preston Arts Festival. Below are a great collection of photos from the day which was a great success.

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Thoughts on the #PrestonTweetup

18th, October 2010 by

Preston Tweeps gathered together for the third Preston Tweetup last Tuesday at the New Continental. In association with Stage 9 Marketing and They Eat Culture, the event was a great success with around 40 attendants. I’ve put together a few notes and thoughts from the evening, what went well and what could be improved for a future meetup.

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Preston Photos Digest

17th, October 2010 by

As part of one of our new series here at Blog Preston, in which we showcase the very best photographs taken in Preston, here is this week’s offerings! All of these images have been compiled from Flickr, but if you’ve got a photograph that you think deserves to be showcased, get in touch at contactus@blogpreston.co.uk

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Upcoming gigs in Preston

15th, October 2010 by

A variety of reasonably big names hit Preston throughout the rest of this month, but quantity is far and few between. Today, Saturday 16 sees the launch of Preston new indie clubnight, ‘Crash in’ @ 53 Degrees.

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Three things to do this weekend #prestonarts

15th, October 2010 by

Continuing the weekly series, I’ll be finding the best of what’s on in Preston every weekend for Blog Preston readers. As ever, if you feel something should be included in next week’s roundup, send an email with details to contactus@blogpreston.co.uk.

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Win a pair of tickets for ‘What Colour Was Her Blood?’

13th, October 2010 by

Set in a London and Edinburgh What Colour was her Blood? focuses on the strained reunion of Jackie and Siobhan. It’s over 20 years since Jackie walked out on her daughter and there are so many questions to be answered. What dream life did Jackie leave the family for? What has she done since? Why did she agree to meet? Siobhan, now a successful self-assured [...]

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Preston Arts Council funding halves

12th, October 2010 by

Preston has suffered a 50% decrease in Arts Council funding between 2008 and 2010. The figures, taken from data.gov.uk, show the amount of grants awarded between 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. The awards are then broken down into regional figures and then further into individual local authorities. Preston received £386,221 during 2008/2009 but only £180,510 during 2009/2010. I’ve uploaded the data sets for the Northwest into more easily readable Google Documents and have highlighted grants that [...]

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Another night of comedy at 53degrees

11th, October 2010 by

Stand and Deliver was back on Friday night with another delicious cocktail of hilarious comedians. First up Welsh compare Ellis James who had a full fountain of knowledge on Preston but later confessed he had memorised Wikipedia before the show.

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October 19 to be ‘PNE day’

7th, October 2010 by

From a dire start to the season, coupled with the news of reported financial issues, to one of the greatest comebacks in football, it has been a dramatic time to be a Preston North End supporter. Now the club are hosting its first ever PNE Day with the club hosting a series of exciting events, aimed at boosting its profile, and highlighting the Football League’s [...]

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Preston Photos Digest

7th, October 2010 by

As part of one of our new series here at Blog Preston, in which we showcase the very best photographs taken in Preston, here is this week’s offerings! All of these images have been compiled from Flickr, but if you’ve got a photograph that you think deserves to be showcased, get in touch at contactus@blogpreston.co.uk

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Blog Preston – The best of September

4th, October 2010 by

We’ve had a surge of new contributors this month on Blog Preston, which we’re hoping will continue into the months ahead to give you the best content that Preston has to offer. I’ve pulled together the top five articles from September  in case you missed any.

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Kitty Cointreau’s Brahaha at Frog & Bucket

1st, October 2010 by

Clothed in a leopard print jacket and with a shock of pink hair, comedian and compere Wil Hodgson strides onstage at the Frog & Bucket to introduce Kitty Cointreau’s BraHaHa.

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Photos from New Meadow Street Labour Club

1st, October 2010 by

When scouting the Preston blogosphere for assorted web links to go in our weekly roundup, I came across an entry on Garry Cook’s Long Lens blog. Garry describes himself as a photographer who specialises in “capturing people’s lives”, and has over 20 years of experience in photography. In this post he’s made a musical slideshow of his photographs from the anniversary of the New Meadow [...]

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