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As Preston celebrates 20 years as a city and Blackburn (unsuccessfuly… unfortunately) bid to become one of the Queen’s platinum jubilee cities, Downtown in Business joined forces with Lancashire Business View at Samlesbury Hall recently to ask a specially invited panel what impact, if any, city status brings.

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Lancashire loses out again

The failure of Lancashire’s politicians to act in a co-ordinated and cohesive fashion has cost the county once again, as Rishi Sunak chose to select areas with Combined Authorities and elected mayors to invest the bigger chunks of cash that he announced in his budget last month according to Downtown in Business Chief Executive Frank McKenna.

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