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Published on October 7, 2016 at 5:15 pm
Exciting times are ahead for Ski Rossendale as the work towards becoming a new national centre for the British Ski and Snowboard Park and Pipe Freestyle squad.
Park and Pipe is a form of freestyling skiing and snowboarding which involves the use of halfpipes for aerial tricks and terrain parks for jump obstacles.
Published on October 7, 2016 at 4:44 pm
Ski Rossendale is working towards becoming a centre for the new and totally unique reduced risk training centre for our British Park and Pipe freestyle squads.
Should this further development reach final approval funding for the project will come from Sport England.
A Planning application has been submitted to Rossendale Borough Council for the specific requirements.
Published on October 7, 2016 at 3:45 pm
Latest tourism data from Visit Lancashire shows Rossendale’s tourism offer is appealing to even more people and continuing its upward trend.
The latest data, for 2015, shows that Rossendale saw over 1.3million tourism visits to the area, increasing 2% on last year, outpacing average growth of 1.7% (64.38m visits) across Lancashire as a whole.
Filed under: tourism
Published on October 7, 2016 at 3:15 pm
Residents are invited to get involved, debate and help shape the future of health and social care in East Lancashire at an upcoming engagement event.
NHS and local councils in Pennine Lancashire, which is made of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen, are working together to change the way health and social care is delivered in the area.
Published on October 6, 2016 at 3:28 pm
Double Paralympic silver medallist Tom Hamer has officially opened a new £30,000 climbing area in Rossendale.
After cutting the ribbon, the 18 year-old, who took home silver medals in the S14 200m freestyle and SM14 200m individual medley in Swimming at Rio, was the first visitor to scale the wall at Grip & Go in Haslingden on Saturday.
Published on October 6, 2016 at 11:38 am
Hundreds of visitors descended on Blackburn Cathedral last week to celebrate the best of local health and social care.
The celebration of innovation event gathered together health and social care professionals, third sector organisations, service users and members of the public to highlight the work that has taken place over recent years, as well as offering a chance to hear about some exciting new developments.
Filed under: health
Published on October 4, 2016 at 11:00 am
Rossendale Council has today launched their resident survey to help set the council’s objectives and priorities for the next three years. We want to know what matters to you and your family where you live and how we can work together to shape public services in challenging times.
We want to hear from our residents and partners on what is important in making Rossendale a great place to live, what they think needs improving where they live, how the council and communities can work together to improve issues in areas as well as an service transformation ideas our residents might have.
Filed under: consultation | council | engagement | resident | survey | views
Published on September 30, 2016 at 1:12 pm
Nest Lancashire, the support service for young victims of crime, bullying and harassment in Lancashire has launched its website on Friday 30 September. The website, which can be found at www.nestlancashire.org offers information and guidance to young people aged 10 to 18 who have been left hurt or upset following a crime or incident.
Published on September 30, 2016 at 9:08 am
Rossendale residents and representatives of local community groups are invited to attend their local Neighbourhood Forum meeting to find out more about local services and activities and events in their area.
There are four Neighbourhood Forums in Rossendale covering the different areas and meetings are open to all local residents. The Neighbourhood Forums are informal community meetings to allow networking and information sharing and any agreed action points.
Published on September 27, 2016 at 5:16 pm
A FAMOUS face from Corrie’s cobbles will be making his way to Blackburn Cathedral to celebrate the best of health and social care on Thursday (29.
Gareth Berliner, who plays ‘Macca’, has been performing stand-up comedy across the UK and internationally for eight years, taking his successful solo shows to comedy festivals.