All posts tagged "business"

  • Prescot Fiver Fest Continues Till 29 February

    Prescot’s independent shops are taking part in the Totally Locally National Fiver Fest until 29 February. Along with thousands of other businesses across the nation, they are offering an impressive array of £5 offers to entice shoppers...

    • Posted February 24, 2020
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  • Station Coffee House Named Prescot’s Best Restaurant

    Station Coffee House has been named ‘Prescot’s Best Restaurant’ in a Facebook competition run by Prescot Online. The artisan eatery opened in 2016 in the long-disused station house of Prescot Rail Station and quickly gained a reputation...

    • Posted June 27, 2019
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  • Whiston Entrepreneur Wins Major Award

    A businesswoman from Whiston has been named Enterpreneur for Good at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards North. Julie Anne Parker of Million Stars Sustainable Events received the prestigious regional award on Thursday 15 November at a ceremony...

    • Posted November 29, 2018
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  • Bakery Becomes Second Prescot Eatery to Smash Crowdfunding Target

    A Prescot bakery has raised £30,000 in one month to open its next premises in the town centre. The Albion Bakehouse set a target of £30k to raise through a crowdfunding campaign, where members of the public...

    • Posted August 3, 2018
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  • Why Prescot Is on the Up

    They’re building a theatre in Prescot. It will be an authentic replica of a cockpit design by Inigo Jones, the famed 17th-century architect. Its existence will hark back to the late Elizabethan Prescot Playhouse, the first free-standing...

    • Posted May 29, 2018
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  • Shakespeare-inspired Micropub to Open Valentine’s Day

    Prescot’s first micropub will open on Wednesday 14 February. The Bard micropub at 57 High Street officially welcomes its first customers at 4pm on Valentine’s Day. The opening day theme will be ‘Shakespeare in Love.’ Inspired by...

    • Posted February 9, 2018
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  • Prescot Family Man Making Waves in Tech

    This is a sponsored article. Clocks, cables, Edward Lear and William Shakespeare—all things Prescot is known for. But could technology be the next big thing for the town? Local entrepreneur Darren Galvin thinks so. Husband to Steph...

    • Posted February 28, 2017
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  • Arthur the Sea Lion Meets Knowsley MP

    A sea lion named Arthur had a private audience with Knowsley MP George Howarth last week. One a much-loved intellectual and public figure, the other a politician, the two met at Knowsley Safari Park, where Mr Howarth...

    • Posted March 24, 2015
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  • Prescot Bakery on Shortlist of Six in National Competition

    An independent baking company in Prescot has reached the finals of Hotel Indigo’s Flavours of the Neighbourhood competition. After a public vote, The Albion Bakehouse, a home-based business run by Prescotian Nina Halliwell, made a shortlist of six...

    • Posted February 28, 2015
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  • New Poundbakery Opens in Prescot (Plus – Get a Free Pasty!)

    Poundbakery has opened its first shop in Prescot. The bakery, advertising “tasty baking at tasty prices,” replaces Sayers, which closed its cafe and prepared for refurbishment earlier in January. The new store will have no cafe. The...

    • Posted January 30, 2015
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