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Festive Fun at East Lancashire Hospice Christmas Fayre
East Lancashire Hospice invites you to its Christmas Fayre on Sunday 16th November — a festive family event filled with gifts, crafts, treats, and Santa’s Grotto, supporting local hospice care.
Blackburn’s Outdoor Action Nominated for National Award
Blackburn-based Outdoor Action Ltd has been nominated for Best Online Retailer in the Great Outdoors Reader Awards 2025 — celebrating local passion for adventure and community spirit.
Festive Fun at East Lancashire Hospice Christmas Fayre
East Lancashire Hospice invites you to its Christmas Fayre on Sunday 16th November — a festive family event filled with gifts, crafts, treats, and Santa’s Grotto, supporting local hospice care.
Blackburn’s Outdoor Action Nominated for National Award
Blackburn-based Outdoor Action Ltd has been nominated for Best Online Retailer in the Great Outdoors Reader Awards 2025 — celebrating local passion for adventure and community spirit.
Over 30 events this week across Blackburn & Darwen – from Remembrance Day tributes to art, music, theatre, and festive celebrations. Discover everything happening 10–16 November 2025.
Blackburn Empire Theatre’s volunteers have been named Group of the Year at the 2025 Community Volunteer Awards, honouring more than two decades of dedication to local arts and culture.
Older Blackburn News
Did you miss out? Here are some of the older stories and news about Blackburn and Darwen
Spies, Secrets and Lies – Cold War Drama Comes to Blackburn Empire
This November, Blackburn Drama Club brings suspense and intrigue to the Blackburn Empire Theatre with their latest production, Pack of Lies.
£20m Pride in Place plan sets out vision for future investment in Darwen
A £20 million Pride in Place plan has been unveiled for Darwen, setting out priorities for investment in the town centre, parks, skills, and community projects over the next decade.
What’s On in Blackburn: Monday 3 – Sunday 9 November 2025
What’s happening in Blackburn & Darwen this week? From Remembrance services and 1940s variety shows to community choir performances, spiritual experiences under Gaia, and candlelit concerts — it’s a week full of reflection, remembrance and inspiration.
Blackburn News Archive
All the archived stories from Blackburn Life – News about Blackburn and Darwen
Boyzlife return to Blackburn in 2021 with their show that brings together Boyzone and Westlife with a full band production show featuring Brian McFadden and Keith Duffy.
Two local theatres are keeping us entertained, even while the doors are closed.
As part of our support for small local businesses, we’ve launched Local Lockdown Lowdown!
When Ryan Groom’s fiancé, Tara-Louise Spencer woke at around 1am this morning, she realised that the latest addition to their family was going to arrive about a week early and quite quickly.
Although shows are being rescheduled due to coronavirus, the team at Blackburn’s King George’s Hall and Darwen Library Theatre are busy finding new opportunities so that people can continue to enjoy everything from comedy to opera.
Morrisons Blackburn are recruiting. Anyone interested in a role will need to be over 18 and bring the following into the store, go to the Customer Service Desk and ask
Blackburn Market’s food traders received hundreds of orders in less than 24 hours, when a new online ordering system was launched in record time.
Our latest update about the latest cancelled and postponed events in Blackburn & Darwen.
Our latest update of all closures and changes for venues, locations and businesses.
Based on the book by Raymond Briggs and adapted for the stage by Pins and Needles Productions, The Bear, brings dazzling puppetry, delicious music, dreamy storytelling, and dozens of laughs to Darwen Library Theatre for two performances on Sunday 29th & Monday 30th March.
Inspired by the most creative decade in music, The Counterfeit Sixties bring the whole decade to life with a show featuring music from over thirty bands and performers including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Dave Clark Five, The Kinks and The Monkees.
Packed with big gags, hilarious stories and poignant reflections about an ordinary man who lived through extraordinary times; Arthur, accompanied by the mellifluous Kirsty Newton tells the story of his own father.
Manchester’s The Slow Readers Club have announced their fourth album, The Joy Of The Return, out on March 20th via Modern Sky UK. The band have also shared their new single, ‘All I Hear’, the first track to be taken from the album.
2020 sees Ribble Valley International Piano Week further broadening its reach as a treasured piano festival in rural North West England.
An unmissable chance to see a world class vocalist up close and personal performing classic hits from across the decades, when Kevin Simm performs at Darwen Library Theatre on Wednesday 22nd April.
The Hallé return to Blackburn this Friday as part of the 2019/2020 Classics Series to celebrate the 250th birthday of Beethoven.
ACT TWO will follow on from Waite and Simone’s first offering as a dancing duo, with more old-fashioned variety – dance, comedy and song! It arrives at Blackburn’s Empire Theatre for a matinee performance on Sunday 22nd March 2020 at 2:30pm.
The Arches is the first winner of a Blackburn Life Award, the new initiative support businesses in the borough. The popular Sandwich and Breakfast Bar topped the public votes in the Best Café or Coffee Shop category!
Starting out as the band behind Ian Dury, the Blockheads are a legendary outfit that has grown in stature from the early days of the Stiff tour in 1977, right up to the present day.
Blackburn Market hosts two new events this week. Flashback & Holme Street Markets.
A new events and themed pop-up markets area at the heart of Blackburn Market has been named Holme Street. The name comes from a long-lost road that used to connect Ainsworth Street to Railway Road in the town.
The Scouse maverick, Pete Wylie, who, along with Ian McCulloch and Julian Cope, pioneered the Eighties art-indie scene brings his show to Darwen Library Theatre on Friday 6th March 2020.
Tickets are selling fast for Lipstick on Your Collar as it heads to Blackburn on Saturday 14th March 2020.
Take That’s Greatest Hits Sing-Along with Re-Take That at Blackburn Empire Theatre
Stephen brings his inappropriate anecdotes to Darwen Library Theatre on Wednesday 11th March 2020.
Starring John Campbell, widely regarded as the world’s best tribute artist and featuring his all-star band at Blackburn Empire Theatre on Saturday 7th March 2020 at 7:30pm
The Hallé return to Blackburn this March as part of the 2019/2020 Classics Series to celebrate the 250th birthday of Beethoven.
Lot’s of choice this week. Dance fans are in for a treat with Spirit of the Dance at King George’s Hall, comedy fans could head to Darwen to see Mark Thomas and those wanting a touch of pop Nostalgia can enjoy BoyzLife in Blackburn.
Jason Manford, who was recently unmasked from behind his singing persona of the Hedgehog, is getting back to his roots with a comedy tour.
Paul Weller is set to return to Blackburn on 7th November 2020 as part of his latest tour.
Blackburn Cathedral Flower Festival has announced a unique opportunity for UK flower fans, as Tom De Houwer confirms a demonstration and installation at the June 2020 event.
The annual Sing Together concert series returns for a record breaking run this March at King George’s Hall.
A Lancashire Beekeeper will be bringing their products and fascinating stories about beekeeping to Blackburn Market this Saturday (22nd February 2020).
The Finest Honey, now based in Darwen, got hooked on the magical world of the honey bee and the incredible product that comes from it…”Liquid Gold”!
Stand-up mischief and storytelling at its best from Mark Thomas at Darwen Library Theatre