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Preston City Centre

The city centre includes the administrative and main shopping areas of the city. The city’s law courts are found here, police station, town hall and of course Preston Bus Station. The electoral ward is known as Town Centre despite the change to city status.

Preston Busking Festival to see music ring through city centre streets

Charlotte Macdonald is one of the acts already registered to perform Buskers are set to take over the streets of Preston for a one day festival. Tens of busking spots have been allocated throughout the city centre to raise money for […]

9 years ago
Exciting new Energi Trampoline Park comes to Preston

The new Energi Trampoline Park opened in Preston today, Saturday 17 October 2015. This is an exciting and new way of mixing recreation with fitness for both young and old. […]

9 years ago
Paper dresses to pottery: UCLan students show off creative work at free exhibition

Xinyun Jiang with her dresses Artwork by more than 50 students at the University of Central Lancashire has gone on display to the public. Fashion, design, illustration and animation students are running their annual exhibition. […]

9 years ago
Fishergate Shopping Centre cinema plans submitted to Preston City Council

Artist impression of how the Vue Cinema may look at the Fishergate complex Major plans for the Fishergate Shopping Centre including a new cinema for the city centre have been formally lodged. A former TJ Hughes shop is proposed to be replaced with […]

9 years ago
Advertisement Advertisement 15 things you only know if you went to UCLan in the mid-2000s

Ten years. Yes folks, it’s ten years or more since many of us turned up unkempt, spotty and wide-eyed on the streets of Preston. Now we’re all sensible folk and […]

9 years ago
Preston Christmas Lights switch on 2015: Alesha Dixon to headline as switch on moves to Fishergate

Alesha Dixon is unlikely to be wearing this outfit when visiting Preston in November Alesha Dixon has been confirmed as switching on Preston’s Christmas Lights. Fishergate will be packed with thousands to watch the festive season be officially started as Dixon flicks the switch. […]

9 years ago
New Ham and Jam cafe in Preston almost ready to launch

The much awaited Ham and Jam coffee shop in Lancaster Road is almost ready to launch with a format that should suit most people. Owner Richard Lowthian said: “We are now finalising […]

9 years ago
Silly Billy’s weekly diary

Today we start the ‘Silly Billy’s weekly diary’ for the children and those who are children at heart. Silly Billy is one of the main characters in this year’s pantomime, Sleeping Beauty, […]

9 years ago
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