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Blackburn’s Big Christmas

Published on Tuesday 15 November 2016 at 3:12 pm

A host of fantastic festive events are coming to Blackburn this Christmas.

Blackburn BIG Christmas 2016 includes free entertainment and large scale events across the town centre on four Saturdays in the run up to Christmas beginning with the Big Christmas Lights’ Switch On on Saturday, November 26.

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Working together could help you live better longer lives: plea

Published on Tuesday 8 November 2016 at 3:14 pm

“We want to work together to design a healthier future for all the people in Pennine Lancashire”

That’s the message for Blackburn with Darwen residents from a partnership overseeing a drive to find new ways of improving health and wellbeing across the borough and meet the future financial challenges.

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Don’t take a chance with flyposting

Published on Friday 4 November 2016 at 1:50 pm

Businesses are being reminded that it is illegal to fly post on public property.

Blackburn with Darwen Council is advising traders and business owners that it is an offence to display advertisements or hoardings on public property including lamp posts, fences, roundabouts, safety railings or buildings.

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Make your way down to The Making Rooms

Published on Friday 4 November 2016 at 11:10 am

The Making Rooms, Blackburn’s creative, digital and technological hub is now open.

The three storey facility will boast one of the country’s biggest and best equipped Fab Labs (Fabrication Laboratory) where residents can use small scale digital manufacturing machinery such as laser cutters and 3D printers to develop products, artwork or bespoke designs.

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