READY FOR TAKE OFF
To mark the 20th anniversary of Lancashire Business View we will be delving into our archives throughout 2025. Here’s a look at our very first issue
“Welcome to Lancashire Business View – the magazine that will set new standards for reporting on industry and commerce in Lancashire.”
That was the opening sentence penned by launch editor Andrew Calvert, with the cover story proclaiming ‘Take off’.
Setting out Lancashire Business View’s mission he added: “It aims to both inform and entertain.
“There will be news and views on the
issues that really affect Lancashire and key information that will help businesses prosper.
“There will be entertaining features on the individuals behind the news and the companies whose achievements all too often go unsung.”
The first issue’s cover story was an exclusive in-depth report on the health of the county’s manufacturing.
And the edition also included a report on the “renaissance of Rossendale” which described
the borough as “one of the county’s rising stars”.
Lancashire business leaders were quizzed about their thoughts on the government’s housing policy.
Businesses winning global orders were highlighted in a feature on export success and trade links with China were also examined.
Andrew signed off saying: “We hope Lancashire Business View will be an indispensable read for anyone with a serious interest in business.”
Two decades later that remains our intention.
IN THE NEWS January
• New Year’s celebrations all over the UK fall silent for two minutes as a mark of respect for those who died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
• Britain’s tallest self-supporting sculpture, the ‘B of the Bang’, is unveiled in Manchester by Linford Christie
• Ellington Colliery in Northumberland, the last remaining operational deep coal mine
Here are some of the headlines that attracted attention in January and February 2005
in the North East and the last in the UK to extract coal from under the sea closes
February
• Tony Blair becomes the longest-serving Labour Prime Minister, exceeding the combined record of Harold Wilson’s two spells in power
• Clarence House announces that The Prince of Wales is to marry Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at
Windsor Castle in April. She will be styled ‘HRH The Duchess of Cornwall’
• The ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales comes into force
• British Nuclear Fuels, which runs the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria, says no nuclear material had gone missing from the site, despite an industry audit that revealed almost 30kg of radioactive plutonium was unaccounted for
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