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March 2019

Lancashire News, Lancs What's On

Punk Fest 2019 is a tripled distilled show with three mixed flavours from the punk rock era of the British music scene. After their successful Anarchy Show last year at King George’s Hall, they are back with a twist for March 2019. Blended with music from Small Weller, one of the UK’s best Jam tribute bands, playing all the sounds of The Jam, such as ‘Going Underground’ and ‘Down in the Tube Station at Midnight’.

Small Weller have been invited to play across the UK in pubs, clubs, festivals and private functions. They have shared the stage with many, including The Bootleg Beatles, T-Rextasy, The Real Thing and The Bay City Rollers. What sets the band apart is their delivery and passion, the precision in the musicianship, the authentic equipment and the styling, which all together provides a high energy live show.

Next, we have one of the UK’s best Clash tribute bands, The Complete Clash. Playing all the classic tunes as they should be played, these guys have played sold out shows at the 100 Club in London; headlined The Punk Weekender at The Grand in Clitheroe; supported The Sex Pistols Experience at the O2 Academy in Newcastle and Manchester and twice played at the Butlins Alternative Music Festival in front of 2000 people alongside Toyah, Boomtown Rats, The Vapours and Ten Pole Tudor.

Close your eyes and go back in time: you will think you’re listening to the real thing!

Finally, The Sex Pistols tribute band, The Sex Pistols Experience will take the audience back to 1978, not only in sound but with the true likeness in character. One of the world’s number one professional tributes to the most outrageous and controversial band of all time. From their early beginnings performing pubs and clubs around England, they have worldwide reputation built from over 1,000 performances. Having toured extensively across the USA, Europe, and Brazil, in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, El Paso, Rio De Janeiro, Berlin, Barcelona, Bradford and everywhere in between!

So convincing is their live show that the BBC, Sky TV, Channel4, Fox TV and lately the film, Who Killed Nancy? have all hired this band for re-enactments. ‘The Sex Pistols Experience are the only band to of had the approval of the original Sex Pistols. Whilst on tour in America, they were invited as special guests on Jonesy’s Jukebox, the acclaimed radio show of Pistols guitarist, Steve Jones.

Spending the afternoon being interviewed and playing a few Sex Pistols favourites live on air together to millions of listeners throughout Los Angeles and across the worldwide web! Not to be missed! Relive your youth with music you have never forgotten!

EVENT DETAILS
VENUE: King George’s Hall, Northgate, Blackburn. BB2 1AA
DATE: Saturday 16th March 2019
TIME: 7.45pm
TICKET PRICE:
Advance: £16.50
Door: £21.50
BOOKING INFORMATION
Tickets are available
Online here.
By Phone: (01254) 582579
In Person: King George’s Hall Box Office, Northgate, Blackburn.

Lancs Leisure

The Family Business Network is the latest organisation to move into what is fast becoming a thriving hub of businesses at Cumbria Tourism’s headquarters. As well as being home to the county’s official Destination Management Organisation, the building in Staveley is already a permanent base for long-term tenants Land & Lakes and Lambert Smith Hampton. The Family Business Network now joins two other recent additions: wealth management business Raymond James and placemaking, destination marketing and business development specialist Tapir Ltd. There is also room for further expansion, with a newly converted 600 sq ft (56 sq m) office space currently available for lease and offering desk space for up to 10 people.

The Family Business Network, founded by Sue Howorth, represents a large and growing community of family businesses, which began in Cumbria in 2014 and now covers Yorkshire, Lancashire and Lincolnshire.

Managing Director of Cumbria Tourism, Gill Haigh, says, “It’s a pleasure to be welcoming another leading organisation like the Family Business Network to our impressive and contemporary Staveley HQ. Not only does having a variety of businesses in the building help generate a real buzz and sense of community, but it is also great to be working alongside complementary businesses which all share a common goal of working towards a stronger, more forward-looking Cumbrian economy.”

Founder of the Family Business Network Sue Howorth, add, “The move to a new office space within Cumbria Tourism has given us a rather exciting start to what promises to be a very busy new year for The Family Business Network. The location is perfect for us with its proximity to the M6 and a big advantage of the new premises is the ability to use the internal Conference room. Many of the businesses that we work alongside are already familiar with the building and it offers pleasant surroundings for hosting meetings and events”.

Lancs Leisure

A major maritime-themed show will spearhead ambitious plans to transform Anglesey into the events capital of North Wales.
Tourism chiefs have hailed news that the All-Wales Boat and Leisure Show is coming to the Anglesey Showground as an economic boost for the island. The event from Thursday, May 30, to Saturday, June 1, is expected to attract boat lovers from across the UK. It’s grown out of the All-Wales Boat Show that’s previously been staged in Conwy and Pwllheli.

According to organiser Davina Carey-Evans, managing director of Beaumaris-based Sbarc Event Management, the showground is a great venue with huge potential to be developed while Anglesey is the perfect setting.

The marine sector is growing faster in Wales than any other part of the UK and boating generates an annual tourism spend of £282 million. Anglesey is also popular with surfers and scuba divers, who pump £7.8 million into the local economy.

Davina, who has previously been involved with marine events such as the One Ton Cup, a world-renowned sailing event which was based in Pwllheli in 2001 and the annual Round Anglesey Race, said: “The All-Wales Boat Show has evolved and grown and the 2019 event will also include a strong leisure element. “Moving the show to Anglesey showground will hopefully be a catalyst for our plan to turn the island into a major events hub. “We certainly have all the right ingredients. Anglesey is already a destination for 1.8 million visitors every year looking for things to see and do while, the venue is ideal, with 3000 square metres of undercover buildings, parking for 3,000 vehicles and excellent accessibility as it’s just off the A5 and A55. “The show will connect together industry leaders in boat and leisure products and services across Wales, with not only watersport and boating enthusiasts but all those that have a passion for the great outdoors. “The level of interest from the marine sector is unprecedented for the next event, with over 17 of the best-known brands already signed up.
“Among them are Robalo, Bayliner, Finnmaster, and Ocean Master, to name a few. “Anglesey is already a mecca for water sports that’s surrounded by 146 miles of brilliant coastline. “We’re aiming for the enthusiasts in the middle of the market, we’re not going for the high-end multi-millionaire yachtsmen or women.

“This event is designed for the people who tow their boats behind their cars, not to mention the kayakers, surfers, wakeboarders and scuba divers.
These are the people who do it for the fun of it. “It’s going to be a must-visit for boat owners, water sport-lovers or families looking for a great day out. “Eighty 80 per cent of the people who come to Anglesey are repeat visitors, which means they probably have access to a boat and certainly have access to the water with all the available slipways. “I’m really excited by the potential of the event and how it can be the start of something even bigger.”
It was a sentiment endorsed by Phil Scott, who is chair of the Destination Anglesey Partnership and a Director of the award-winning RibRide Adventure Boat Tours, who are based in Menai Bridge.

He said: “Anglesey is defined by its coastline so this is the perfect place for the event to be held. “We’re also very lucky to have Snowdon very close to us, and we always think of Anglesey as the best place to visit Snowdonia from. “RibRide has just recently been honoured as the best tourist attraction in North Wales at the Go North Wales Tourism Awards and we have also been named as the number one boat tour in the UK on Trip Advisor.
“The success that we’re enjoying is a good pointer to the huge potential of staging the All-Wales Boat and Leisure Show here on Anglesey.” Jim Jones, the Managing Director of North Wales Tourism, is equally excited.
He said: “Maritime tourism is on the up here because North Wales generally and Anglesey specifically has so much to offer. It’s second to none.
“We already have fantastic attractions on the Menai Strait, includingRibRide and the brilliant facilities at the National Outdoor Centre for Wales, Plas Menai, which excels in delivering the ultimate in water sports courses and outdoor adventure activities. “North Wales is undoubtedly the European capital of adventure tourism and marine tourism is a big part of that.

“There is so much confidence in the industry, so much investment going into North Wales, and we’re now reaping the rewards.
“The plan to stage the All-Wales Boat and Leisure Show at the Anglesey Showground heralds another economic boost for the region and underlines that we are now in a golden age for tourism.”

Lancs Leisure

This new exhibition at Storiel brings together some of Brenda Chamberlain’s paintings and drawings which are held at Storiel and Bangor University art collections. On view are three oil paintings ‘Chapel and Ruined Abbey, Bardsey’, ‘The Fishing Net’ and ‘Still Life with Fish; ‘Doves’, a large mixed-media work; a charming ink sketch ‘Girl with Siamese Cat’, and various other pencil and ink studies on paper. These works date from between 1949 – 1953. An oil painting ‘Grey Breast’ shows how during the early 1960’s her paintings became more abstract.

Brenda Chamberlain (1912-1971) was born and educated in Bangor. She knew from a very young age that she wanted to be an author and an artist. After leaving school Brenda spent six months in Copenhagen, where the paintings of Gauguin influenced her early works, before she then attended the Royal Academy Schools in London. She returned to north Wales, to Llanllechid with John Petts where they set up the Caseg Press in 1937.
Brenda also lived and worked on Bardsey Island between 1946-62, spent many winters with friends in Germany and lived on the Greek island of Hydra(1962-67). Wherever she lived she would paint, write and keep illustrated journals.

Although she had lived in numerous places, she rarely painted landscapes. It was people that fascinated her, and she would draw them at every opportunity. During her lifetime Brenda Chamberlain twice won the Gold Medal in fine Art at the National Eisteddfod and held several exhibitions in London and Wales.

To discover more about her life and see her work the exhibition can be seen at Storiel until 6 April. Storiel is open Tuesday – Saturday – 11:00 – 17:00.

Lancashire News, Lancs Leisure

A historic Accrington park is set to have a large new £120,000 play area installed soon. Milnshaw Park, opened as Accrington’s first park in 1880, will soon boast a brand new play area for local children to enjoy, when a brand new facility is opened there in the summer.

Local children were asked what they’d like to see in their park and as a result the project will see an aerial runway, basket swing, large rotator, swings and a ‘skynet’, a pyramid shaped large net and a climbing wall installed. For the younger children there’ll be a colourful climbing structure in the shape of a train, with a slide at one end.

The Hyndburn Green Spaces Forum, working closely with Hyndburn Borough Council have secured a grant from the Lancashire Environmental Fund for £30,000 with Hyndburn Council providing the remainder to help deliver this dream. Councillor Paul Cox, a member of Milnshaw Residents Association, said; “Providing the new play area within Milnshaw Park compliments other recent improvements to the park including a large multi-use games area. This new addition is part of a long term plan to improve the park for the local community and one we’ve been working on for many years. Huge thanks to local children and community groups like the Milnshaw Residents Association and Hyndburn Green Spaces Forum, who have helped us to deliver this vision”.

Tom Dunne, Chair of Milnshaw Residents Association; said; “It’s great that the park will soon have a new and improved play area for local children to enjoy.”

Cath Holmes from the Hyndburn Green Spaces Forum, said; “This is fantastic news for one of Hyndburn’s much loved green spaces and the children in the area.”

Lancashire News, Lancs Leisure

Ellerbeck Narrowboats was established in March 2005. Owned and run by Lucien Burkhardt and Adam Pope. Adam is a long term served engineer in all types of diesel and gas powered engines whereas Lucien has an administration background, so Adam concentrates on carrying out the work and Lucien concentrates on running the business. Adam and Lucien started P B Mechanical Services from a larger than normal garden shed from their then home in Swinton, Manchester. Lucien left his job as an Insurance Underwriter and Adam left his as a Service Engineer to set up the business in January 2002.

Initially the business was set up to trade as Corgi registered domestic and commercial gas engineers. It wasn’t until one day when Adam and Lucien were out fitting one of their re-manufactured BMC engines that the customer showed them a copy of Waterways World magazine with an advert that L&L Cruisers Ltd in Chorley was up for sale. They decided to give the sale agents a call to arrange to have a look as it was only 20 miles from Swinton so keeping all of their existing customers was possible. They met the previous owners, explained their predicament, and the previous owners offered them a deal to rent the workshop for six months, decide if they liked it and then buy the workshop, the rest of the business.
This was a fantastic offer, one they could not refuse to investigate. They moved into the workshop in October 2003 and agreed to purchase the workshop after the six month rental period. So in April 2004 Adam and Lucien owned a canal side workshop. One of there customers was a couple from New Zealand who purchased a boat to live on in England. The boat needed quite a lot of mechanical repair work, in turn Lucien and Adam became good friends with the owners of narrowboat “Aroha”.

In March 2005 the owners of “Aroha” decided to move off the boat to live in Scotland and offered Adam and Lucien the opportunity to use “Aroha” as a weekly hire boat. As L&L Cruisers Ltd was one time a big narrowboat hire company this seemed a good idea. This lead to the creation of Ellerbeck Narrowboats.

The weekly hire boat business went well, with lots of happy customers, but complications arose when “Aroha”‘s owners decided that they needed to sell her. With the purchase of the rest of L&L Cruisers Ltd looming, which included the day boat hire business, Adam and Lucien couldn’t afford to buy “Aroha” and provide the necessary deposit for the next stage of buying the boatyard. It was decided the the weekly hire business would no longer be in operation from January 2008. It was an amicable decision and Adam and Lucien are still good friends with them today. In April 2008, Ellerbeck Narrowboats daily and evening hire began operation. Today you can enjoy a day on the canal with your friends, family or work colleages. Ideal for family days out, friends, reunions, birthdays, anniversaries, work outings, etc.

Ellerbeck Narrowboats are available to hire during the day or for the evening. They are easy to handle, so no previous experience is necessary. Ellerbeck pride themselves on our training and are RYA Inland Waters Helmsman certified. When you arrive we will conduct a safety brief, demonstrate how the boats works, offer everyone in the group bouyancy aids and will offer to come out with you to show you how to steer the boat, turn it around, moor up, tie up and explain the rules of the waterways. We are in the middle of a 12 mile stretch of canal between locks as the boats are not permitted to travel through the locks. A detailed explanation of how to hire a boat from the initial enquiry to the time you get home from your day out can be found by visiting www.boatstohire.co.uk/boat-hire

Lancashire News

Local people are being asked their views about how they want the Borough to develop in the future. Following initial consultation last year 2018, the Council has been preparing the next stages of the new Local Plan. Local people are now being asked to take part in further consultation on two key documents, to spark debate and discussions in order to plan ahead for the Borough.

Councillor Miles Parkinson, Council Leader, urged people to take part, saying; “The Council has to maintain up-to-date plans to support growth, so there is enough land for homes, jobs and the infrastructure necessary to support them. We’re urging as many people as possible to take part in the debate and help shape the plan which will take the Borough up to 2036.”
Cllr Parkinson added; “The Council is putting forward draft policies for distribution of growth around the Borough and the amount of housing and employment land to plan for each year.

A key element of the growth strategy builds on the Council’s existing commitment to develop the Huncoat Garden Village. We are also seeking views about sites which might be considered for allocation later in the process. At this stage no decisions have been taken and so it is important that as many people get involved as possible and have their say about this.”
The consultation is open now and will run until Monday 8 April. Six public drop-in events will also take place around the Borough during March where people can see a presentation, view information boards and discuss the documents with Council Officers.

Events as follows:
• Rishton Conservative Club – Monday 4 March (3.30pm-6.30pm)
• Clayton-le-Moors Arthur Wilson Centre – Wednesday 6 March (3.30pm-6.15pm)
• Accrington Town Hall – Thursday 7 March (3.30pm-6.30pm)
• Great Harwood Churchfield House – Wednesday 13 March (3.30pm-6.30pm)
• Oswaldtwistle Hippings Vale Centre – Thursday 14 March (3.30pm-6.30pm)
Huncoat Primary School – Tuesday 26 March (3.30pm-7.30pm – joint event with the Huncoat Masterplan)

See a short video explaining the key points of the local plan and how you can get involved in the consultation on the Council’s website here: https://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/hyndburn-local-plan-consultation-video-2019/

You’ll also find more information about the consultation on the Councils website at www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/localplan or call Planning on 01254 388 111.

Nottingham News, Notts Sport

In the days that preceded Forest’s tinderbox fixture with Derby County, there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that it would produce anything but a home win. In recent years I’ve approached the game with a glass half empty mindset, which is understandable considering that our last victory was in 2015 courtesy of Nelson Oliveira’s solitary strike at the Bridgford End.
But there was an undercurrent of supreme confidence in the River Trent and for once I was grateful to have been swept away by it.

It wasn’t down to the fact that the Rams had embarrassed themselves in their previous home game against Millwall but owing more to the tactics of Martin O’Neill of late. The Irishman has not only instilled a real confidence and belief amongst his players but has shown that each opponent warrants a different approach to the game; as I wrote at the beginning of his tenure at Forest, horses for courses.

The usual moans and groans emanated on social media when the current Forest side was announced on Monday, with two players being the specific target of disgruntlement, Ben Watson and Daryl Murphy. Personally, such is my confidence in the management team of late that I didn’t care who started the game, I just knew we’d be victorious. As for the aforementioned, they were instrumental in the game itself. Watson marshalled the space in front of the back four and Murphy held the ball up well before running the channels intelligently. Collectively, it was great team performance which again shows the confidence in the management by the players.

You’ve all heard reference to the twelfth man before but a minute prior to kick off the Reds unveiled a seventeenth. Another breathtaking display by the Forza Garibaldi supporters lit the touch paper for this fixture and in my opinion was the catalyst for the early goal. Six huge banners bisected by a centrepiece which read “The Rebel City” were draped down from the upper tier of the Trent End. Each one bearing a stunning picture of men and women who dared to make a difference. Those iconic images of Eric Irons, Helen Watts, Alan Sillitoe, DH Lawrence, Brian Clough and Ned Ludd were a fitting prelude to such a contest. Indelible proof that plastic flags and clappers have no place in the City of Legends!

And, as I mentioned previously, the rebel ghosts were the inspiration for Yohan Benalouane’s opening goal after just 77 seconds. The man in the mask wrote himself into Forest folklore as he slid home from close range to send the crowd into raptures.

An early goal can be blessing or a curse in such a fixture, but Forest were keen to build upon it. O’Neill’s men played with real intensity and should have scored twice more through Murphy and Yates. In contrast, Derby were limited to just a single opportunity in that first half. Waghorn’s superbly timed run wasn’t to be matched by his finish and you got the sense that the Rams would offer little more. It was always going to be a big Ask to replicate the energy levels and chances created in the second half, but Forest never looked in trouble. Yes, Derby had the lions share of possession in the second period but could find no way through a well organised Forest defence. Alex Milosevic and Yohan Benalouane looked impenetrable at times, Milosevic never seems to be dragged out of position and closes the spaces in the most unassuming of manners.

It would be remiss not to mention the contribution of my two candidates for player of the season thus far Joe Lolley and Jack Colback, both were brilliant as per usual. As the final whistle blew, I looked around our famous old ground to see red scarfs being waved in all four stands. I thanked my lucky stars (both of them) that this was our home and not some flat pack stadium subjected to more name changes than Prince.

As for the outcome of the game itself; it was never in doubt!

Nottingham News, Notts Sport

The cold weather at the beginning of February would see the first weekend of the month hit with many postponements and Carlton Town were no exception. Due to the adverse weather conditions they were left with a free weekend as for the first time all season a frozen pitch at Sheffield would prevent this fixture from going ahead.

Belper Town 2 – 1 Carlton Town
So, a week on and with fresher legs the team would travel up into Derbyshire for a fixture that over recent seasons has always produced tight encounters and with the odd goal either way producing a winner. This one was to be no different than any other game from recent times with the home side having the better of the play for the majority of the first half and deservedly leading at the interval. The Millers would rally in the second half and improve on their first half performance but would still struggle to break down the home team. It was only during the final ten minutes when Carlton really pressed and dominated that they would get some reward from the game. A goal by Opoku via a sublime pass from Stovell just before injury time was just reward for the millers persistent in the latter stages of the game after having been two-nil down at the break. A rousing finish to the game would see the home side cling on and Carlton again would return home disappointed at not having got anything from the game.

Carlton Town 2 – 2 Solihull Moors
With players returning from injury and suspensions a mid-week fixture was arranged to give some of the squad an opportunity for game time and match fitness for the next league encounter in three days time. Solihull Moors, a conference league club, whom the previous evening had won and gone top of their division would bring a squad of players for a work-out at stoke lane which in the end would prove to be a good advert for the game. Here was an opportunity for both teams to see what options some of their fringe players would offer them for the remainder of the season and i’m sure that at the conclusion of the game both managers were left with food for thought as they say. It was a pretty even game throughout with both sides at times producing some good combinations and free-flowing football. Solihull were to open the scoring and take the lead into half-time, but the millers would start the second half the better team and be rewarded with an equaliser from the returning centre-half Eddie Clarke. With the game now going from end-to-end and both sides level-pegging the Moors would press on again and ten minutes on from the equaliser regain their lead. However, Carlton’s fighting spirit would continue and with twenty minutes left on the clock see Stovell hit a thunderous shot into the top of the net to bring the teams level. Bartram would hit a post late on in what was a positive work-out and one that should encourage the players to produce a performance on Saturday.

Carlton Town 1 – 2 Spalding United
Three days on from a good and productive performance would see a team that the millers had over-run earliar in the season come to town. Spalding were lying in a similar position in the league as Carlton and this was definitely billed as a six-pointer. The millers never really got out of the dressing room in this one and showed too much respect and time to their opponents. The away side would lead at the interval by a single goal and with not much dividing the two sides ability wise would have more endeavour to go two-up with nine minutes to play. A consolation goal for Motshweni in injury time would reduce the deficit in what quite frankly was an average display from the home team.

Carlton Town 2 – 0 AFC Mansfield
The senior cup was next on the agenda for the millers and a quarter-final against opposition whom had beaten them in the boxing day league fixture see an opportunity to gain revenge. The home side would not disappoint in this one ,but would start slowly and at times struggle to break down the opposition. Stovell, who was a constant threat with his pace and guile would cause the opposition a lot of problems in the first forty-five minutes but the game would stiil be a stalemate at half-time with neither side being able to break the deadlock. Five minutes into the second half would see Keiran Walker finally open the scoring and this now encouraged the home side to keep pressing the opposition. A late goal from Ollie Clark was to confirm the result and put the millers into the semi-finals for the second year in succession. The game would end bitterly though when Broadhead for the visitors would see red by kicking out at goalkeeper Steggles when he had the ball firmly clutched in his hands. A good performance all in all and with an added boost for the team with Ben Hutchinson getting some game time after recovering from a fractured sinus bone suffered in the victory over Pickering Town at the beginning of January.

And so March is upon us and possibly the most important month of the season regarding gaining results. The squad will need to be strong and pull in the same direction even more as the games will come thick and fast ,and with a lot of points to be won at stake, a good run of results with consistency and hard work is now required as we enter the penultimate month of the campaign.

Upcoming Fixtures
2nd March Lincoln United (h)
9th March Sheffield (a)
16th March Pontefract Collieries (h)
23rd March Cleethorpes Town (a)
30th March Morpeth Town (h)

Nottingham News, Notts Sport

Rushcliffe Borough Council has welcomed Nottingham Forest Football Club’s ambitions and plans to develop part of its City Ground stadium that could form part of a wider economic regeneration bringing housing and jobs to the site of its home in West Bridgford. Leader of the Council Cllr Simon Robinson said the club’s plans announced today could play a significant role in boosting the longer term housing options and employment opportunities in Rushcliffe’s Trent Bridge and neighbouring wards.

He said:
“This is a wonderful opportunity for the club and partners in the public and private sector to assist the creation of the largest sports stadium in the East Midlands and regenerate the area for the benefit of the community, city and region. “Forest play such an integral part of life here in Rushcliffe and the plans highlight a chance to bring new jobs and employment to the area that could only enhance our strapline of Rushcliffe as ‘Great Place, Great Lifestyle, Great Sport’.

“We look forward to working with the club to realise their ambitions and see where we can advise to assist creation of facilities that could complement the world class offering at neighbouring Trent Bridge cricket ground.” Rushcliffe Borough Council Chief Executive Allen Graham said:
“This major economic development project could be a great boost for this part of Rushcliffe and our staff teams will wish to work closely with Nottingham Forest officials to advise on planning, economic growth and any other matters.

“Any plans will of course be subject to an independent planning process once any applications are received.”