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Dan Whelan Towns such as Bolton, Cheadle, Preston and Southport were awarded a share of £186m from the Government’s £3.6bn Towns Fund, but the Budget stopped short of allocating significant new money for North West projects.  Among some of the disappointments was the Government’s rejection of a £70m funding request for the Eden Project North leisure attraction in Morecambe, while hopes that the region would be chosen as the home of the newly established Infrastructure Bank were dashed w...

SEARCHES for homes to buy in a Lancashire town have surged in the space of a week, according to a property website.

Searches for homes to buy in Morecambe have surged by 71% in the space of a week, according to a property website. Rightmove, which released the figures, suggested viewers of ITV police drama The Bay, which recently started a new series, have been browsing to see what was for sale in the town where the show is set and filmed. Searches for properties listed for sale in the Lancashire seaside town jumped by 71% between January 18 and 24, compared with the seven days before. Rightmove said Morec...

SEARCHES for homes to buy in a Lancashire town have surged in the space of a week, according to a property website. Rightmove, which released the figures, said that an influx of people have started searching for properties in seaside town, Morecambe, with figures jumping by 71 per cent between January 18 and 24, compared with the seven days before. The property company believe it could be linked to ITV police drama The Bay, which recently started a new series and that people have ...

A TV series written by a Northern Ireland man has helped spark a property boom in an English seaside town. Searches for homes to buy in Morecambe - the setting for ITVs The Bay ­- have surged by 71% in the space of a week, according to a property website. Rightmove, which released the figures, suggested viewers of the police drama, which recently started a new series, have been browsing to see what was for sale in the town. The Bay is written by Armagh man Daragh Carville. It follows DC Lisa...

Ottawa-based wildlife photographer Michelle Valberg tells this story of when she was in search of the wild muskoxen known to roam the frozen tundra of Banks Island in the Northwest Territories. She spent days driving a snowmobile in -50C temperatures, expecting to come across the shaggy-haired mammals, whose numbers can run in the tens of thousands.  The flat lighting conditions made it difficult to decipher the contours of the vast land, but Valberg remained hopeful each time her sled came ov...

24 Dec 2020, 08:17 The man behind the eagerly anticipated Eden Project North in Morecambe talks about his lockdown chickens, working while walking along Cornish country lanes, and his mantras to live by. Why did you choose a career in property? I didn’t really! I am just lucky to be working on a series of place-based projects across the world that aim to change our relationship with the planet and the lives of those people who come into contact with those places. Who was your mentor and what ...

Neil Tague The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership has committed £1.2m to help cover costs as a planning application is progressed for the Morecambe attraction. The investment from the LEP will fund the next stage of design work, further developing the content of the project and conducting the environmental impact and sustainable transport work required for planning consent. Eden aims to complete this work in time to submit a planning application in 2021, with the £125m project aiming for an op...