Lancashire News

North West based Learn Live, works with companies like The BBC, Balfour Beatty, Network Rail, Health Education England and the NHS to deliver careers advice, recruitment opportunities and health awareness broadcasts into schools and colleges across the UK.

After a four-day audit, industry-leading systems supplier VEKA Group, which has a facility in Burnley, has been awarded the International Standard ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems. 

Batch Brew, a Burnley distiller of small-batch gin, has broken into the North American spirits market after securing two new export contracts with suppliers in the US and Canada.

A Preston-based media and publishing business is expanding across the region after receiving support from Boost, Lancashire’s Business Growth Hub.

Ribchester-based vehicle leasing and fleet management firm KeyFleet has joined its sixth BNI group, having supplied £1 million worth of vehicles since first joining the referral marketing organisation.

Levity CropScience has published its latest research on how nitrogen affects the growth of plants. The research, published in the Journal of Horticulture and Post Harvest Research, utilised Levity’s ‘LimiN’ technology, present in its Lono product line.

More than 350 people from across the country turned out in force to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Blackpool Grand Theatre.