IT'S boom time in East Lancashire's golden gulch - the Ribble Valley.
For a £25 million project to create 1,000 new high-technology jobs there comes on top of startling success by firms like soaraway Time Computers and Ultraframe.
But it is not just business that benefits from this boom, we all do when the local economy thrives.
And every instance of enterprise in East Lancashire deserves to be trumpeted.
For success breeds success and attracts even more new investment and jobs to our region.
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