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More Lancashire businesses closed than ever recorded in 2022

More Lancashire businesses closed than ever recorded in 2022

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A pub customer has been caught on CCTV placing their own hair into their food in an attempt to get a refund for their meal. (Credit: Tom Croft / SWNS)

Watch: pub customer puts their own hair into their food to get refund

Lancashire companies are owed omore than £4million after high street shop Wilko collapsed and was placed into administration.

Wilko owes Lancashire firms including Graham and Brown more than £4m

Being a bus driver has never been so appealing - as wages revealed

Wetherspoons: UK pub chain returns to profit following pandemic slump

Wetherspoons reports first annual profits since pandemic

Greggs sales jump by over a fifth as cost increases ease. (Photo: Getty Images)

On a roll: Greggs sales jump by over a fifth as cost increases ease

Many SMEs have reinvested their profits just to stay afloat this year

Aldi boss says 'savvy shoppers' helped profits jump by £118m

Leah Peachey, who won a Blackpool Big Ticket, donated by Blackpool-based business Evolution,pictured with three-year-old brother Oscar, and 13-year-old stepsister Daisyat SEA LIFE Blackpool.

Student whose dad died said winning days out brought her family close

Samuel L. Jackson stars in new Warburtons advert

Wilko fell into administration in August after grappling with a cash shortage and sharp losses.

The Range snaps up Wilko in £5m deal - but stores will close

Commuters wait at a bus stop outside a branch of Barclays in London.

Barclays bank to axe 450 jobs across the business

A Wilko rescue deal could save thousands of jobs

Wilko rescue deal almost over the line and could save 1000s of jobs

Wilko stops click and collect and home delivery services.

Wilko confirms job losses as rescue bid falls through
Wilko has confirmed a last minute rescue bid for all stores has fallen through.

Rob Watts, most commonly known for his annual Sunday Times Rich List has been working with our sister title North West Business Insider to find the 100 most well off buisnesspeople in the region.

The richest Lancashire businesspeople unveiled in North West Rich List

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Thousands of jobs are at risk as retailer Wilko confirms collapse.

Wilko ‘could be saved’ by rival discount chains according to experts

Troubled high street retailer Wilko has suspended home deliveries as it races for a rescue deal to avoid collapse. (Photo supplied by Wilko/Shutterstock)

Wilko stops online orders and appoints administrators

Wilko collapses into administration putting 12,000 jobs at risk

Wilko collapses into administration putting 12,000 jobs at risk

Lancashire Tourism Awards 2023: Here's the full list of finalists

Ne-Yo apologises after controversial remarks about gender identity and recognition

Ne-Yo apologises for controversial remarks about gender identity

Wilko bosses have warned the business is at risk of collapse

List of Wilko stores confirmed to close so far

Kate Haley said "We need our wilkos back."

Wilko on the brink of collapse putting 12,000 jobs at risk

Parents are being offered budget-friendly tips to save money on uniform costs before the new school year begins.

Tips to save money on school uniforms including grants - how to apply

Aldi is hiring an ‘official beer taster’ to try new ranges

Aldi is hiring an ‘official beer taster’ to try new ranges
Aldi’s new beer taster will recieve a host of drinks to review and give their honest opinion on beforethe tipples land in stores

Primark customers will be able to order items online and collect them instore

Primark expands online shopping service to 32 more UK stores

Married couple Janet and John Ford, who own Tudor World, are at loggerheads with Joe Rukin, who runs Sinister Stratford ghost tours.

Turf war breaks out between Stratford-upon-Avon ghost tour guides

Miller and Carter

Miller and Carter issues important security warning to customers

SME owners will invest £5,000 into their own businesses

Three in 10 SMEs will invest over £5,000 - to start their own business

Andy Pilley has already resigned as a director of the three companies involved in the fraud.

Victims of disgraced football boss describe his fraud as ‘inhumane’

Andy Pilley arriving at Preston Crown Court to hear the verdict of the jury in his 8 month long trial

Football club boss ran a 'salesforce of cold-calling liars and manipulators'

Andy Pilley at one of his energy companies involved in the £15m fraud

Disgraced football club boss jailed for 13 years for £15m fraud

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HSBC customers have said they are having issues logging in to the app today

Hundreds of customers frustrated as popular banking app goes down

Jeremy Clarkson has won his battle with West Oxfordshire District council as permission to provide more parking at his Diddly Squat farm has been granted.

Jeremy Clarkson given green light for changes at Diddly Squat farm

£3M plans to build a podium containing a helipad, 190 car parking spaces and sports facilities at Botany Bay, Chorley have been approved

Helipad, 190 parking spaces and sports areas to be built at landmark

Depop entrepreneur Callum Massey poses in a bath full of deadstock nike beanies from 2002 that he purchased and resold on the site.

Student sold unwanted clothes on Depop for extra cash - and made £250k

Vodafone and Three are to merge

Vodafone and Three to merge creating UK’s largest phone network

Rhys Whittock the prince harry lookalike dressed up.

Meet the Prince Harry lookalike who earns over £1,000 a day

Taylors Of Cleveleys has closed after 76 years of trading.

'End of an era': regulars 'shocked' as bakery shuts suddenly after 76 years

More than 15,000 easyJet passengers have been hit by flight cancellations. Picture by PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images

easyJet flight cancellations: Safety and wellbeing “highest priority”

Rachel McQueen delivering a speech at the Lancashire Tourism Awards

Applications open for Lancashire Tourism Awards

Milano Pro Sport, based in Bow Lane, signed a partnership agreement with the Federation of International Gymnastics (FIG).

Global Preston sportswear firm signs lucrative international deal

Costa has been named as the UK’s favourite Coffee Shop

Major change coming to Costa Coffee loyalty card scheme

The retailer specialises in bridal dresses

David’s Bridal announces closing down sale amid bankruptcy filing

Here’s when all the major supermarkets will be open this May bank holiday

When supermarkets will be open this May bank holiday - full list

Wilko stores could close stores as firm in early stages of major shake-up

Wilko could close stores as firm in early stages of major shake-up

Kate Hall, 37, has been batch cooking and freezing for over 14 years, but only began freezing ingredients individually recently in what she deemed a “lightbulb moment”.

Woman saves more than £1k a year by freezing ingredients individually

CCTV footage shows the moment a man’s phone bursts into flames in his pocket

CCTV shows the moment a man’s phone burst into flames in his pocket

Sainsbury’s is giving customers who do not have a garden to host a BBQ this year with their new garden area for free

Sainsbury’s is giving away free £50 BBQ hampers - how to claim

BT to axe 40 percent of its workforce by 2030

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