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HOLIDAY LANGUAGES AT UCLAN With the British summer showing no signs of making an early appearance, many of you will be looking to get away for a well-earned break. With this in mind, the University of Central Lancashire and the Worldwise Learning Centre are looking to help you get more out of your holiday this summer with these interactive and practical language and culture workshops in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Classes take place on: 20, 22, 27 and 29 June from 6pm - 8.30pm at UCLan, Preston.
What’s included: • Ten hours of class with a University tutor • Online access to Rosetta Stone, the world-leading language learning platform • Access to language learning resources • All the essential skills including meeting and greeting, finding your way, ordering food and drink • Useful cultural hints and travel tips
To register or find out about additional year-long part-time language courses email worldwise@uclan.ac.uk or call 01772 894248 Fees: £70 per person or £120 for two when you register with your partner or friend. Please contact us for available discounts and concessions.
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WE STILL HAVE SPACE, WHY NOT JOIN THE ADVENTURE. BE PREPARED ... FOR FUN AND FRIENDS.
If you enjoy being creative, playing games, going on visits and discovering the world around you then you’ll love what we do at Beavers for girls and boys aged 6 to 8 years. MORE FUN: MORE ADVENTURE. For Cub Scouts, aged 8-10½ years, there’s never a dull moment. From local visits and weekend camps to creative activities and outdoor activities, our programme is packed with adventure. You’ll learn new skills, make new friends and most importantly, have fun! MEET THE PEOPLE WHO INVENTED If you’re aged 10 ½ to 14 years and enjoy trying new activities, learning skills and making friends, you’ll like what we do at Scouts. Let us know so we can look to bring you that adventure! Beavers 6 to 8 years old Cubs 8 to 10 ½ years old Scouts 10 ½ to 14 years old Explorers 14 to 18 years old For more information or to book a taster session contact 01772 977354, join@prestonscouts.org.uk or fill out our online form at www.prestonscouts.org.uk/join/ Preston & District Scouts Facebook PrestonScouts Twitter:- @PrestonScouts Website :- www.Prestonscouts.org.uk
Nicola Haworth, who runs the hotel with husband Andrew, said that the opening had been a great success. “We have never staged anything like this before, but the hotel seems the perfect setting to show off all the paintings,” she said. Work was exhibited in the hotel’s grand entrance hall, the panelled lounge bar, up the stairs and along a first-floor corridor. Visitors will be able to linger and enjoy it all the more because there’s plenty of free parking.” Matthew Wilcock, the winner of the BBC TV contest, The Great Pottery ThrowDown, was the special guest at the opening of the Preston Art Society annual show. The exhibition had moved to its new out-of-town venue for the first time. Matthew, who teachers pottery at Giggleswick School, told the visitors that he was hugely impressed by the standard of work on display. “There are paintings here by some very talented artists,” he said. “Perhaps next time there might be some potters’ work too.
3 JUNE 2016 National Fish & Chip Day 2016 is designed to bring everyone together to celebrate the nations tea time favourite and in honour of national Fish and Chip Day, Tonys Top Chippy, Longridge will be giving away a family portion of fresh fish and chips to the 10th 50th & 100th customer on Friday 3rd June 2016. (*family portion 4 x large fish and chips, terms and conditions apply) Opening Times: 11.30pm-1.30pm and 4.30pm-8.30pm
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Family Fest 26th June | Flag Market Preston City Centre | PR1 2PP
Lancashire Science Festival
Free Dog Micro chipping Date: Wed 18 May | Location: Moor Park Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm The Dog Control Team will be in Moor Park (Where Moor Park Ave meets St Paul’s Road), offering free dog micro-chipping to all residents of Preston
Free Admission. 30th June- 2nd July 2016. The multi-award-winning Lancashire Science Festival has reached fifth year in 2016. This successful three day event attracted over 10,000 visitors in 2015 and helps inspire the future generation of thinkers in all things science. UCLAN Foster, Darwin and Greenbank buildings Preston PR1 2HE Tel: 01772 894 288
Fulwood Methodist Church Free Admission. (01772) 718741 Spring Plant Sale May Saturday 21st - 10am-12noon Farmers Market June Saturday 25th - 10am-2pm Watling Street Road, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 8EA. Tel. Preston
Penwortham community Centre Kingsfold Drive, Penwortham, Preston, PR1 9EQ 01772 750533 Monday - Alzheimer's Singing for the Brain Group 10.00am - 12 noon Tuesday - Homestart - Carer & Toddler Group 9.30am - Noon (Term Time Only) Thursday - New Tricks Dog Training Academy 7.00pm - 9.30pm For information on any of the above events or to make enquiries about hiring the centre for an event of your own please call.
Spring Field Fell Walking Club Walk days Saturday every two weeks. 3 grades of walk. 07/05/16 BASSENTHWAITE
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A – 11Miles B – 9 Miles C – 8 Miles
Bus pickup Blackpool to Black bull Preston. www.springfieldsfellwalking.com | Contact enquires@springfieldfellwalking.co.uk Phone 01772 728718
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Pram Walk Dates: 3,10,17,24,31st May Time: 10-11am
Moonlight & Memories Walk 4 Jun 2016 - 5 Jun Sat-Sun 10pm-3am St Catherine's Hospice | St Catherine's Park Lostock lane, Lostock hall |PR5 5XU Tel: 01772 695290
Race for Life Pretty Muddy 18 Jun 2016
Downturn Abbey Murder Mystery Dinner 13 May 2016
PR1 8JT Cancer Research UK's Race for Life is a series of women-only events raising money for research into all 200 types of cancer. It is a 5K muddy obstacle course where women of any ability can climb, jog and walk around the obstacle course. Sign up now! Avenham Park | South Meadow Lane | Preston | PR1 8JT
Longton Open Gardens
Join Manchester Murder Mysteries in Sunday the grand 18th century surroundings of July 17th 2016 Bartle Hall manor house country hotel for a three course dinner and interactive murder mystery experience. Flowers, art, and ukulele music all feature in this year’s Longton Open Gardens on Sunday July 17th when gardens of all shapes and sizes open to the public, raising money for charity. Bartle hall, Lea lane, Bartle, Preston PR4 0HA
Tel: 01772 690506
Hutton Art Group has a display in St Andrew’s Church Hall from 1pm to 5.30pm and light lunches will be served in the WI Hall on School Lane from 12noon to 1.30pm. The 17th Open Gardens will raise money for the Walmer Bridge-based Friends of Mulanje Orphans (FOMO); the Nyumbani Hospice for Orphans in Kenya; Tabor India Fund, Jireh Women and Christian Aid . A £5 programme gives entry to all gardens which are open from 1pm to 5.30pm. Children are admitted free.
***Please always check with the event organiser before setting off.
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Programmes are available from Blundell’s Hardware, Longton; Tithebarn Nursery, Hutton ;Embleys’ Nursery, Much Hoole and 16 Franklands, Longton. For further information contact Liz Henfield on 01772 612951
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In supporting us you enable us to not only help assist in the reduction of food waste but also to alleviate the strain of food poverty across the local community, specifically through providing an alternative to foodbanks, setting up a cafe the welcomes everyone through its doors irrespective of whether or not they can afford to pay. In addition to enhanced food security, we’ll provide food related courses and employment opportunities through the Food Hub, coinciding with our aspirations to spread healthy and sustainable food messages. Filling a need (and some bellies!) We need your support to help us fund the start up costs for all this to happen. Once these costs are met the project will be run as a business and will become financially sustainable.
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Any excess funding or profit will be invested back into the project and be used to fund free courses and workshops for people who can’t afford to pay. We hope to raise £25,000 but will make a start with whatever we get, our anticipated funding requirements include: Staff time to set up the project and develop a business plan. A deposit for the venue and legal costs. The development of a website for the project. Equipping the venue with basic resources needed to start trading (As much as possible will be donated by our wider partners). Payment for the Food Champions to set up the pop-up cafes in the disadvantaged communities of Preston. If you can help please contact Kay on - 07718 901 813
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standing company policy of delivering the highest standards possible at all times. ‘Our service is simple. If your double glazing has misted up we can replace the glass at a fraction of the cost of a new window, in any type of frame, and with a new 25 year guarantee. But it’s not just about saving people money, although that obviously helps. Whilst a number of tradespeople perhaps don’t focus on customer care as much as they should do, we make sure we turn up when we say we will, do the job the customer requires and leave their house as clean as a whistle. Locally Cloudy2Clear service the Blackburn, Preston & Ribble Valley
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ENTERTAIN MENT FILM • MUSIC • BOOKS
Film - Cinema
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS Out 17th June 2016
Music - Album Release
MUMFORD & SONS Release date: 17th June
THE BOOZY BIRDS ARE BAD AND UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS AGAIN!
JOHANNESBURG - 4TH ALBUM FROM THE MUMFORD & SONS
Written by Jennifer Saunders, the mastermind behind the original show, who also plays Edina, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie stars Joanna Lumley as Patsy, also reprising her classic character. A series of Hollywood cool-kids join them on the big screen, including Rebel Wilson (the Pitch Perfect franchise), Cara Delevingne (Paper Towns) and Kim Kardashian West (Keeping Up With the Kardashians). So what happens.......After stirring up a media storm at a fashion event, Edin a and Patsy flee to the French Rivera and cause lots of mischief and drama. The girls are let loose in the luxury jungle of glitz and glamour and of course start to become attached to the Mediterranean lifestyle, deciding to trade their city life for beach life ..... will they or wont they?.
"Johannesburg" the 4th album from Mumford & Sons and is set to be released on 17th of June. The album was recorded in Johannesburg while the band were on tour and features their touring partners Baaba Maal, Beatenberg and The Very Best. The band combine their folk melodies with African music, the sound is totally different to anything else out there at the moment, The first single, “There Will Be Time,” is available now and the new album has 5 new tracks.
Book - Book Release
SHADOWS OF PHOTOGRAPHS Author Bio - David McMichael is a doctor. His family now grown up, his main leisure interests are writing, people, history, fell walking, the countryside and wildlife, and all forms of the arts. Peter Waring, in early 1940, soon after the outbreak of War, is posted as Medical Officer to an R.A.F. Bomber Station in Suffolk. As the nation, on the brink of disaster, battles for survival, new to the job he has to learn to cope with the turmoil all around him. But Peter has his own personal conflicts, a legacy of a turbulent adolescence, of family tensions and revelations, and now is confronted by new uncertainties. He is to have his own battles ahead. Covering mainly the period 1940 to 1941, it is the story of the men and women of the R.A.F., and of ordinary citizens, at a critical time in Britain's history. It is, too, a love story with numerous strands. And it is the story of how one man comes to understand his past, thereby learning to deal with the present and the future.
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Prices correct at the time of print. T’s & C’s apply. Offers subject to availability. Includes £25 dinner allocation per guest.
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