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It began quietly, as an email to 40 friends. But when a steady stream of customers began coming through the door before the family-owned Chagrin Hardware had even opened for the day on Saturday, it was clear that it had turned into much more than that.

Thebestof Lancaster is launching a major campaign to show love locally for our great businesses.

This is a fun campaign with a serious message, and it’s designed to make thousands of business owners across the country feel great about the work they do every day because their customers will be showing them their ‘love’.

Young people can enjoy a monster half-term treat at The Dukes this February. How to Make a Monster Movie in Five Days is a crash course in filmmaking for 11 to 14-year-olds which takes place from February 13-17.

Lancasters long-running monthly literary cabaret, Spotlight are organising a youth project in conjunction with Lancaster City Council and Arts Council England

When it came to growing veg, Roald Dahl certainly knew his onions, as one Forton family can prove. The popular children’s author was a valued customer of Robinson’s vegetable seed and plant suppliers.

An Oscarwinning Hollywood actress who once trod the boards at The Dukes in Lancaster appears on the big screen there this Christmas.

Even giants have to do a spot of Christmas shopping as hundreds of people visiting Lancaster city centre have discovered.