Our guide to the best events in and around Lancashire this month.

A Bolton woman is bringing shows and exhibitions to life for people with visual impairments

The town will be filled with sparkle and wonder into the new year

Bistrotheque comes to Manchester

The Oyster & Otter is a neighbourhood pub and restaurant, ideal for diners and drinkers alike with plenty of room to spread out and relax over something suitably refreshing.

The town stars in the Dolittle film coming out next month - but it's a place that does an awful lot

A scheme to improve the health of a whole town is showing real results in Fleetwood

Communities across the county are celebrating success in the Lancashire Best Kept Village awards

Blackburn is often described as a town with a cultural divide but it's a community united by pride and compassion

Emma McClelland from Manchester is leading the fashion industry to a more inclusive future

Nature has the power to change lives and more people than ever before are moving to nature as a prescription for their health and wellbeing, writes Ellen Sherlock from Lancashire Wildlife Trust

Stride into the new year with this glorious walk on Longridge Fell and enjoy the spectacular views

We looked through our archives to see what we recommended to you in previous years in this month.

Liverpool Ramblers chair Pat Sullivan previews Festival Of Winter Walks activity in Lancashire.

This scenic walk by the water at Bretherton passes some important historic sites.

It's panto season in the seaside town.

After success with Sweet Charity, The Producers and West Side Story comes the show whose anthem, Let Me Entertain You, never does anything less . . .

You can mess around with the Ugly Sisters' gender; drop all that Dandini or Fairy Godmother nonsense; put Cinders in a pair of Doc Martens; AND still have a Ball in this clever, compact and thoroughly-comic version of the traditional tale.

Miss Marple comes to Blackpool in Leslie Darbon's stage adaptation.