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Jailhouse rocked...

BUSY,,,Lancaster Castle

7:58am Thursday 7th August 2008

Lancaster Castle prison has hit the top 20 - as one of the most overcrowded jails in England.

You're not swearing any more

You're not swearing any more

9:07am Wednesday 6th August 2008

‘WHO’S the nice gentleman, who just happens to be an orphan, in the black?’...

It's off the rails

9:13am Wednesday 6th August 2008

A FURIOUS rail traveller has hit out after his bicycle and most of his belongings were stolen when he missed a connection at Lancaster.

It's a load of rubbish

It's a load of rubbish

9:18am Wednesday 6th August 2008

A FATHER-OF-FOUR is outraged that council tax payers may be left with rubbish piling up outside their houses while their trash is ‘monitored’.

Laura aims to be top of the glass

Laura aims to be top of the glass

10:52am Wednesday 6th August 2008

SEXY specs wearer Laura Casson is in line to win a top modelling contract - after being selected to compete for the title of Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2008.

Farm hosts barbe-do

10:56am Wednesday 6th August 2008

A CHARITY barbecue is planned on a farm near Morecambe - in a bid to raise more than £5,000.

Personal details for sale

10:53am Wednesday 6th August 2008

THE personal data of thousands of Lancaster and Morecambe citizens has been sold to private firms.

Police hunt city fraud pair

WANTED...Margaret Higgins and Patrick Wallace

8:42am Thursday 7th August 2008

Police in Lancaster are hunting for a couple who are wanted on warrant.

Local motorsport hero dies

John Walker in Formula 2000  in his car with James Hunt

4:06pm Wednesday 6th August 2008

WELL-KNOWN Lancashire motor racing champion John Walker has died.

Church fails safety test

Church fails safety test

9:23am Wednesday 6th August 2008

AN HISTORIC city church has fallen silent…because it doesn’t meet fire safety standards.

Hundreds back promenade revamp scheme

9:14am Wednesday 6th August 2008

MORE than 800 people have thrown their weight behind a website campaign backing the redevelopment of More-cambe’s ‘key’ Central Promenade area.

Frit, frit hooray

Frit, frit hooray

9:11am Wednesday 6th August 2008

VOLUNTEERS are ready to stage a Frit party... to save a rare butterfly.

Village enters champions' league

DIGGING FOR VICTORY: Heysham in Bloom volunteers are ready for the battle.

7:56am Tuesday 5th August 2008

A FIGHT for yet another floral gong is about to get underway in a picturesque village.

Come fly with me...

7:52am Tuesday 5th August 2008

A WELL known Lancashire trout fishery is inviting local people to attend a free-to-enter ‘Festival of Fly Fishing’.

Gwen is number one

Gwen is number one

7:47am Tuesday 5th August 2008

GWEN Parry-Jones has taken over as station director at Heysham 1 power station - becoming the first woman to lead a nuclear civil operational site in the UK.

It's art Jim... but not as we know it

7:49am Tuesday 5th August 2008

THE VIRTUAL world of the internet has been adopted by bosses at Lancaster City Museum to showcase previously unseen water colours and drawings.

Body found in missing man hunt

11:39am Monday 4th August 2008

A body found at the border with Cumbria is believed to be that of a missing Carnforth man.

Sisters do it together

Kirsty and Kerry Humphreys

7:56am Wednesday 30th July 2008

TWIN sisters who got first class degrees have graduated together from Lancaster University.

Cops hunt missing man

11:52am Saturday 2nd August 2008

Police in Morecambe are appealing for information that will help find a man who has been missing from home since Wednesday.

Teens saved from tide

5:32pm Sunday 3rd August 2008

FOUR teenagers had to be rescued by Morecambe lifeboat after getting stuck on rocks on Saturday.


UK News

More games protests, say Tibet pair

Two British Free Tibet campaigners have left China after protest

Updated 7:25pm Thursday 7th August 2008

Two Britons arrested after staging a Free Tibet protest outside China's showpiece Olympic Stadium have predicted the games will be disrupted by more demonstrations.


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