Amy Fenton

A conservationist who feared he would starve on his low income set up a business planting trees. After leaving his career in civil engineering to start a woodworking business with just a few tools, 52-year-old Clitheroe entrepreneur Richard Atton is now c... See more

Just more than 100 years before The League of Gentlemen cemented the phrase "a local shop for local people" a not dissimilar idiom was set in stone as the slogan of a a pioneering early film production company in Lancashire. At the end of the nineteenth c... See more

With evenings getting colder and Christmas approaching the idea of eating out will be, for many, little more than a dream as wages are eaten up by energy bills and presents. The cost of living crisis continues to bite and so even a trip to the local café ... See more

There are few better ways to end a blustery walk than with a pint in a traditional pub and the village of Croston is the perfect place. Croston, in the borough of Chorley, was founded in the seventh century and was reportedly once home to a castle. The st... See more

On the corner of a tiny side street called Higher Cockcroft in Blackburn town centre an unassuming blue plaque is positioned on the red-brick wall. Nicolò Paganini was a world-famous violinist and visited Blackburn in September 1833 as part of his Europea... See more