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Penny Slot Machine

Good Old Fashioned Fun

6th, January 2011 by

Fancy a bracing New Year’s walk with a non-calorific treat at the end of it? Earlier this week we braved the gnarly weather and headed to Southport for a stroll along Southport Pier and a play on some old fashioned penny slot machines.

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Grand Central train on the North East route

Price promise for train passengers

20th, December 2010 by

Grand Central Railway have promised cheaper fares, spacious trains and better storage if its proposed direct rail link from Lancashire to London are approved. The open access operator submitted plans to run four return services between Blackpool and London stopping at various North West stations including Preston. It already runs identical regional services from Bradford and Sunderland straight to the capital. A cut-price fare policy [...]

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Santa's Tree Top House

Ribby Hall Village: a winter wonderland

7th, December 2010 by

It’s not every morning breakfast is interrupted by a troupe of ducks waddling past your window, usually it’s the sound of a car alarm or a bus thundering past the house. But then we weren’t in central Preston when our feathered friends popped round; no we were taking a short break near Wrea Green. Yes, holidaying just nine miles from sunny Preston. It may seem [...]

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Train users can rejoice with caution

30th, November 2010 by

Depending on your feelings for the railways, users of train services from Preston will become winners, and almost certainly losers. Behind the scenes a lot has been happening, especially over the last three weeks. The Department for Transport (DfT) have submitted proposals for a new timetable in 2012 for the new yet-to-be-tendered operator of the West Coast Main Line (WCML). Plans are in place for [...]

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Late night shopping during Christmas period

21st, November 2010 by

Looking for the 2011 Christmas shopping times? Click here for all the details on the late night shopping, free parking and Christmas Market Preston’s city centre shops will stay open late on Wednesdays and Thursdays to give shoppers every opportunity to get their Christmas shopping done in time. Some of the shops will begin their late nights in the first week of December, but the [...]

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Preston Bus Station: picture special

18th, November 2010 by

With the Tithebarn regeneration project looking likely to go ahead, Preston’s historic Bus Station could soon be a thing of the past. There have been mixed views, and many debates about whether the building should remain; whether it is a work of art, or an eyesore. Jonathan Kenyon, who studies at Preston College focussed an entire project on the building, and produced some beautiful results.

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What Victorian Benefactors Did For Preston

10th, November 2010 by

The industrial era is one easy to overlook in a provincial context in the face of what I and people of varying ages learnt in school. We are granted a rough idea about how life changed, but my education in the matter was confined to general developments leading up to the years when Victoria was on the throne. But what of the individuals who sought to change Preston for the better?

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The Ribble estuary in October - A Great White Heron, three Shelducks, and further afield flocks of ducks.

The Birds on the Ribble Estuary

30th, October 2010 by

October is the month the Ribble estuary harbours influxes of migratory birds. This article examines Shelducks and Swans who inhabit river estuaries across the country alongside a huge variety of avians. Read on to discover why the Ribble’s estuary and nature reserve is a great place worth visiting all year round.

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Preston Docks circa 1905

Examining Preston’s Fossilised Past

2nd, September 2010 by

It’s difficult even with help of study and older relatives to imagine the days when Britain was a leader in domestic manufacturing. Factories, mines, and shipping have largely been superseded by gleaming office blocks, shopping centres and colourful high streets. Massive outsourcing of labour, coinciding with a rapid period of decolonisation introduced commerce to the fact that both labour and resources were plentiful abroad; and both [...]

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Lancaster Canal

An Amble along Lancaster Canal

16th, August 2010 by

Yey the sun has arrived! Its the middle of August but I’m not complaining, I fancied a day out of town so go to dust my bike down and discover two broken brakes and a puncture in each tyre. Oh. Looks like I’m on foot again. Eager to hug a few trees I head down to Aqueduct Street, duck through some trees and onto the [...]

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rufford old hall

Things to do near Preston: Rufford Old Hall

30th, May 2010 by

Located a 20-minute drive down the A59, Rufford Old Hall is a National Trust property and a good afternoon out if you fancy some history and culture.

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AND Festival arrives in Preston

25th, March 2010 by

Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival rolls into Preston this weekend with a programme of events kicking off with Simon Faithfull’s Fake Moon (see below) and finishing up with an inflatable cinema and an art/science experiment in an ice cream van! The travelling new media and art festival is landing in locations across the north-west and this weekend it’s Preston’s turn. Here are the dates & [...]

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Fake Full Moon Spotted by Bus Station!

25th, March 2010 by

If you’re in Preston city centre this Friday or Saturday evening (26th & 27th March) keep your eyes peeled for a ‘Fake Moon’ rising over Preston Bus Station. Yes folks this odd lunar apparition will be arcing across one of Preston’s beloved landmarks at approximately 8pm!

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