Tringe Festival 2010
Bumped into Sam and Dawn from Screaming Theatre today and beckoned them into the studios of Preston FM for a chat.
Free workshops for Writers!
Calling all writers! Can’t get your head around the money making aspect of writing? Want to know how to market your work? The Lancashire Writing Hub and Creative Lancashire have got together to provide a series of FREE workshops to give you key insights into managing creative projects, how to make your project portfolio increase, contacts book expand and your work bring in the pennies. Creative Lancashire offer professional business development opportunities for writers across all fields of writing, from copywriting to feature journalism to writing that bestseller.
What’s brewing in the back streets of Preston?
Come with me down through town and beyond to sample some of the finest tea you have ever tasted! Tucked away at the bottom of Cannon Street is the Mystery Tea House, a sweet little cafe and tea shop serving every type of tea imaginable. As well as serving their delicious tasting brews the Mystery Tea House also serves food and caters for coffee lovers too…
Shop local, look fabulous!
Our local governments are urging us to shop local.
It seems, however, that as much as we know we should people still like to go in to the same convenient shops and buy the same bog standard things.
Preston Bus Station will not be listed
Preston City Council are welcoming the decision that Preston Bus Station will not be listed.
Winter Steam Gala
Starting the Ribble Steam Railway‘s 2010 season in fine style is a Winter Steam Gala on Feb 6th & 7th featuring four engines in steam over two full days.
Cambridge Girl Joins Blog Preston!
Very excited as local journalism student Olivia Pinnock is joining the team here at Blog Preston. I absolutely love Olivia’s blog Cambridge Girl in Preston it’s so cool to have her on board commenting on all things style.
Business of the Month: Crafty Hearts
Crafty Hearts is a gorgeous, bright, funky papercrafts shop residing on Blackpool Road, near the Lane Ends junction. This happy little shop sells an array of papery gifts and products to make cards, invitations, journals, artwork, scrapbooks and memory albums, wrapping paper. The mother and daughter team behind Crafty Hearts have sourced many of the items on sale from across the north west and in the States and offer a range of workshops for novice and experienced crafters. I had to find out more…
At The Edge British Art 1950 – 2000
A new touring exhibition arrived at the Harris Museum on Friday. read article »
Performers Wanted!
Ever fancied performing at a fringe frestival? Local theatre company Screaming Theatre are on the hunt for a range of acts to perform at this year’s Preston Tringe Festival.
Winter Wonderland
Braved the black ice on our doorstep and ventured onto Haslam Park for what turned out to be a glorious day frolicking in the snow!
New Year Lots to See and Do in the City
What better way to chase away the post Christmas blues than have a friend to stay? A good pal arrived on Sunday and rather than curling up in front of the radiator we decided to head out into the Wintery weather and show her around town. read article »
A Big Preston HIYA
Hiya!
A quick introduction, I’m Lisa. I’ve stepped into Ed’s shoes to edit Blog Preston. Don’t worry those of you who know him well, he’s still in the background, just a couple of hundred miles away!
Review: How To Disappear Completely @ New Continental
Preston’s Screaming Theatre group put on a great performance of Fin Kennedy’s ‘How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found’ on Thursday 26th November 2009. read article »
Takeaway review: Jing Jing
This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of posts, as me and my housemate attempt a gastronomic feat and take on Preston’s takeaways. First up was Chinese takeaway Jing Jing on Water Lane. read article »
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