New digital screens could be coming to the city’s Flag Market to help let Prestonians know what’s coming up.

Preston City Council is looking at using funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to upgrade the current ‘totem poles’ which used to signpost events happening in and around Preston.

They said these were needed due to a ‘lack of physical advertising space in the city’.

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A spokesperson for the city council said: “The council is working on the provision of a permanent digital screen on the corner of Harris Street and the Flag Market to promote what’s on, the Harris offer and other key city messages as a more sustainable alternative to the previously printed totem and to address the lack of accessible physical advertising space in the city centre.”

The funding for the new screen would come from a pot of more than £300,000 that is being used to run and promote events focused on Preston city centre.

No timescale is given for when the screen would be operational.

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