Latest figures from Regenerate Pennine Lancashire (RPL) show a big increase in new business start ups.

Help with setting up new businesses comes from "No Limits" which is funded by the Government's Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI).

Speaking from Westminster, local MP Gordon Prentice, said: "I am hugely impressed by the scale of new business growth- and at the way in which everyone is pulling together. It is all about promoting enterprise and generating new jobs and prosperity."

"In Pendle we have 182 new business thanks to this initiative. It is great news."

Note to Editors:

RPL is a company under the control of the East Lancashire local authorities and Lancashire County Council.

The number of business start ups In East Lancashire by Q3 of 2009/10.

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