Blog (February 2018) - Visit Lancashire

The art-deco Midland Hotel in Morecambe is to play host to a charity high tea event organised by an aid worker to help young people in Africa.

An incredible list of over 35 shows and 160 nights of live entertainment.

Liverpool-based Real Ale Events are bringing back a Beer & Cider Festival to Blackpool this coming March. The company organise large scale beer festivals and after their success across the North West, branched out to Blackpool.

Thanks to the BBC, nine year old Thornton school boy and avid animal lover Austin Trickett has had a dream come true… to work alongside his father as zoo keeper for the day.  The children’s BBC TV Channel CBeebies approached Ribby Hall Village’s Wild Discovery which is an educational and interactive wildlife centre and zoo. 

Indie Favourites To Join International Dance Music Legend Sasha and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard In Festival Never Seen Before In Lancaster.

Brand new stage musical Summer Holiday is set to tour the UK from May 2018, with the famous red double-decker bus making its stop at the Opera House Blackpool from Tuesday 24 – Saturday 28 July 2018.

The final piece of track was installed in Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s new £16.25 million rollercoaster – ICON yesterday (14 February).

SHREK THE MUSICAL® has arrived, stomping into 2018 with a critically acclaimed new UK and Ireland tour and the release of the official full-length trailer to celebrate its star cast in action on the hit West End and Broadway musical. With additional dates added by popular demand, SHREK THE MUSICAL® is now out on the road on a 24-venue national tour until January 2019, arriving at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre this week. 

To celebrate 50 years one of the world’s favourite films, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the musical of the same name will be coming to Blackpool and will have audiences of all ages flying high with its mixture of madness, intrigue and exuberance.

Alice Broadway, a writer from Buckshaw Village, has been nominated for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2018, widely regarded as one of the most prestigious accolades in the world of children’s books. Announced today, Wednesday 7th February, Broadway is shortlisted in the Older Fiction category for her book Ink.