Talent

13-year-olds Hugo Brooks and Darcy Walshaw will portray a young Torvill and Dean as they join the cast of the skating legends on their UK tour this year – and the young pair learnt to skate in the Pleasure Beach Resort's ice arena in Blackpool

Young Blackpool ice skaters join legends Torvill and Dean on UK tour

You could perform on the same stage as these stars in Lancashire

How you could perform on stage at a huge Lancashire music festival

Charli XCX has won the first of what hopefully will be a number of BRIT awards ahead of this weekend’s event.

Charli XCX wins BRIT Songwriter of the Year award

The competition aims to fuel a passion among industry professionals

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Getting everyone in the shot is Brits biggest frustration when it comes to taking group shots

Top celebrities Brits would NEVER cut from their group shots

From Bill Beaumont to Cheryl Fergison: 17 celebs from Lytham St Annes

In its fourth year, the Lancashire Apprenticeship Awards 2025 features 14 award categories

Nominations open for Lancashire Apprenticeship Awards 2025

We took Solo Parents United CIC to the top of the UK now we want everyone to reach a huge high and be celebrated

SPU UK Awards 2025

It delves into universal themes such as love, grief, youth, society, and wealth

Ad Feature British actor Mem Ferda releases debut anthology on life’s extremes

The cast of Legally Blonde: The Musical, brought to you by Encore earlier this year.

Winter Gardens partnership celebrates year of fostering local talent

Raef Virdee (4) at Daytona go-karting in Tamworth

Meet Britain's youngest racer - he's 4 and has his eyes on Formula 1

Leon Marseglia (left), Co-founder and CEO of Youth Group UK, and Jack Parsons (right), Co-founder and Group CEO of Youth Group.

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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen admires 'A Kind of Magic' by artist Severi Haapala from Finland, on display at Showtown, Blackpool, part of Lightpool Festival 2024. A celebration of art, light, music and performance, with 24 different art and light installations around Blackpool sea front and around the town for nine nights until October 26th.

16 dazzling photos of Blackpool's Lightpool Festival - don't miss it

The Lightworks team, based near Blackpool Airport, produced eight spectacular neon pieces in collaboration with internationally-renowned artist, Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE

Team behind world famous Illuminations help light up Leicester Square

Blackpool born-and-bred Maxine Cunliffe, 67, started dancing at nine years old,

My career at Blackpool Tower allowed me to dance across the world

Come and get me: Boxer's message to UK’s best light-heavyweight boxers

Blackpool-based boxer Bradley ‘The Sting’ Rea has issued a ‘come and get me’ plea to the UK’s best light-heavyweights.

Dominic McGuinness

The Britain’s Got Talent auditions return to Blackpool next month.

How to apply for Britain's Got Talent as auditions return to Blackpool

The annual Encounter Festival is set to light up Preston once again

Encounter Festival set to light up city with Torchlight Procession

Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival

70 pics from an action-packed Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival

There will be live music to enjoy during the FYA Festival in Blackpool this weekend

25 live acts to enjoy during FYA Festival this bank holiday weekend

Award-winning singer-songwriter Ella Henderson will headline the Blackpool Illuminations Switch-On celebrations.

X Factor star to headline Blackpool Illuminations Switch-On

Bea Armitage, age 9

I'm a Lancashire schoolgirl - I'm starring in Matilda in the West End

L: Susy Rossi (credit IndiePics Photography). R: Linda Cowperthwaite (credit Bella Fricker)

Lancashire duo chosen to represent England in prestigious competition

L: Matt Cardle pictured in 2018 (credit Getty). R: Matt as William Shakespeare in & Juliet (credit Matt Crockett)

I'm Matt Cardle and I can't wait to perform in Lancashire

41 pictures from the Garstang Scarecrow Festival 2024

37 spectacular pictures from the Garstang Scarecrow Festival

A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson

A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson: book review

Stephen Tomkinson

17 celebs from Lytham St Annes from Bill Beaumont to Cheryl Fergison

Our corner of the world has produced many famous faces through the years and these are the ones from Lytham

Claire Lark

Credit 2023 Switch On Credit Gregg Wolstenholme for VisitBlackpool.jpg

I believe this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our youngsters

2023 Enterprise Vision Awards winners. The EVAs is the UK's largest business awards dedicated solely to women

Enterprise Vision Awards announce Lancashire finalists for 2024

Australian singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem is the latest star to be added Lytham Festival's line-up (Credit: CMoye)

Australian singer Delta Goodrem added to Lytham Festival line-up

Boy, 12, tipped to be future F1 champion.

Watch: Boy, 12, tipped to be future F1 champion

Mark Butcher wants to bring a film studio to Blackpool

Reform UK candidate pledges to campaign for a film studio if elected

Lancashire beauty queen in Miss England final after Blackpool pageant

Scream Oscars Judges [Left to right: Nick Pickard, Susanna Boccaccio, Jon-Paul Bell]

15 photos of Scream Theatre Schools' 2024 Oscar awards night

A busy main stage in 2022.

Local bands offered chance to share stage with Tom Odell and Sam Ryder

Encore Productions' Legally Blonde the Musical at Blackpool Winter Gardens

I went to see Legally Blonde the Musical & the talent was exceptional

Are you ready for Battle of the Bands?

Ad Feature Get your videos in for Battle of the Bands competition

Legally Blonde opens at Blackpool's Winter Gardens

Legally Blonde The Musical opens in Blackpool with a real bend & snap

Johannes on the House of Jojo artwork

I chatted to Strictly's Johannes Radebe ahead of his Lancs show

Live music at Lowther Pavilion

Ad Feature Why music touches the soul as Lowther's Battle of the Bands launches

Some of the Phoenix Nights props up for auction. Picture: Warren and Wignall

Chance to bid for props from cult comedy show Phoenix Nights

Jools Holland will return to BBC Two for his Annual Hootenanny 2023.

How to watch Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny 2023 and full line-up

Matthew Perry attends the GQ Men of the Year Party 2022 at The West Hollywood EDITION on November 17, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for GQ)

Matthew Perry, star of Friends, has died aged 54

Leading Lancashire aerospace specialist Airframe Designs has issued a message to retired engineers as it expands its business.

'We need you' - Aerospace leader sends message to retired engineers

Former UK health secretary Sajid Javid

Senior Tory Sajid Javid says MPs £86,000 salary ‘should be doubled’

Bafta-award winning actor joins Doctor Who

Coachella 2023: Where to see the festival’s best acts live in the UK - including Kaytranada and boygenius

Coachella 2023: Where to see best acts live in the UK

Ahmad Jamal, the jazz pianist who inspired Miles Davis dies aged 92

Jazz pianist who inspired Miles Davis dies aged 92

Disneyland Paris Pride returns with live concert - how to get tickets

Britain’s Got Talent Judges (L-R): Bruno Tonioli, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell (Photo: Dominic Lipinski/Getty Images)

Britain’s Got Talent return date announced for new series

Liverpool’s Paul O’Grady. Photo: Olga Productions

Paul O’Grady dies: ‘Sublime natural talent’ - Piers Morgan

Kayleen Kelly, 37, has always been fascinated by clearing out and transforming spaces. As a little girl, she realised she had a talent for organising and decided her calling was to help others after failing to climb the corporate ladder.

Professional organiser makes $100k a year decluttering peoples’ homes

Buckingham Palace is on the look out for a new team member

King Charles to recruit new Royal team member with generous salary

The Brits 2023: BRIT Awards winners including Album of the Year and Best New Artist

The Brit Awards 2023: All the winners and nominees

The Brits 2023: ITV Brit Awards betting odds - who is favourite to win Song of the Year and Album of the Year?

The Brits 2023: Favourites to win ITV Brit Awards song & album of year

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