Retro

Youngsters got to go backstage at the Harris to get an exclusive look behind the scenes.

It’s raining in Barbados, and the 12 members of the Lancashire Army Cadet Force feel right at home under the tropical skies heavy with clouds.

The kitchen is almost 60 years old and barely bigger than a cupboard but Carnforth-based Northern Belle, rated one of the most luxurious trains in the world, has still been given a Five Star rating by hygiene inspectors who 
described it as “excellent”.

Plans continue to progress for an Eden Project to be developed in Morecambe, and the scheme was the subject of a government visit to the town.

Time changes everything.... as the saying goes, and it is certainly true of Myerscough College.

Lancashire has a rich history, mixed with tragedy and cultural richness.

Some 15 years ago, Robin Bamford was sat at his desk at his soft furnishings firm, RB Contacts, when he got an email from Debenhams. The retail giant was undertaking a revamp of its changing rooms and needed thousands of new curtains.

Once a year, a cabal of burly rugby players from Preston Grasshoppers Rugby Football Club swap their scrum caps and gun shields for sequins and a flourish as they take part in a Strictly-style dance competition organised by Dancers Preston, one of the region’s top dance schools. The two sporting entities from either end of the spectrum of physical rough-and-tumble share a home, and the get-together is universally well-loved.

St Paul’s Parish Hall in Scotforth has been given a boost after the National Lottery Fund issued a grant of £115,000 for the building can be re-roofed.