Buy it in Lancashire and Bring Back a Billion! // Lancashire friUp

friUp // Issue #106 // Fri 30 Nov 2018

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BUY IT IN LANCASHIRE AND BRING BACK A BILLION!

Lancashire Business View has launched a major campaign to bring £1bn of business back into the county.

And it is calling on organisations large and small to sign up to the pledge: “If you can buy it in Lancashire, buy it in Lancashire!”

The campaign was officially launched at the Lancashire Business Day dinner organised by the independent magazine and held at Ewood Park in Blackburn on #LancashireDay, 27 November 2018.

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TOTALLY FRANK

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This week Frank McKenna explains why Tony Blair is still a class-act and encourages parents to ignore ‘advice’ on how to show affection to your kids, in his latest Downtown blog.

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THEN AS NOW

This week as transport problems deepen in Manchester, Jim reports on a Downtown event where Network Rail bosses spoke frankly about the challenges of their job. Jim also finds some striking similarities with the political drama playing out a hundred years ago.