A LANDMARK arts project is set to make waves from Moscow to St Petersburg after Russian TV cameras visited East Lancashire.

Eye-catching attractions like The Halo, overlooking Haslingden, and the Singing Ringing Tree, on the outskirts of Burnley, have been showcased by film crews from the country’s Channel One station.

Colourfields, using the former cannon battery in Blackburn’s Corporation Park and Atom, in Wycoller Country Park, near Colne, were also filmed.

The features, funded by the Northwest Development Agency and Lancashire Economic Partnership, are part of the Panopticons series across East Lancashire.

Channel One covers a host of former Soviet bloc countries and their visit comes after the project was trumpeted by officials from Mid Pennine Arts, at a major urban development conference in Riga, Latvia.

Arts chief Nick Hunt, from the gallery based in Yorke Street, Burnley, was a special envoy to the World Urban Development Congress when he explained about the motivation behind the showpieces.

He said: “I was delighted at the invitation to present Panopticons on a world stage.

“It gave me the chance to talk about the project in context to the wider programme of regeneration and change that is taking place across Pennine Lancashire.

“I think Panopticons kick-started this process but there is real momentum now and we are looking forward to the next stages of the area’s transformation.”

Mr Hunt also informed delegates about the Pennine Squared initiative, to create new public areas in Accrington, Bacup, Blackburn, Burnley, Clitheroe and Nelson.

An estimated 170million people, throughout Russia, the Baltic states and into Asia, have the chance to see the Channel One documentary.