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Complaints against Lancs police on the up
6:30pm Monday 15th March 2010
COMPLAINTS against Lancashire police have increased by a third.
Eight extinct Lancashire species revealed
4:44pm Monday 15th March 2010
EXPERTS have revealed eight species that have become extinct — with a warning that East Lancashire's natural heritage is being 'destroyed'.
Milnthorpe man dies on Andorra skiing trip
10:32pm Sunday 14th March 2010
A MILNTHORPE man has died while on a skiing trip in Andorra.
Lancashire rated one of best police forces
12:21pm Thursday 11th March 2010
LANCASHIRE has been hailed as one of the best performing police forces in the country.
Volunteers needed to watch over rare birds in Lancashire
10:23am Thursday 11th March 2010
VOLUNTEERS in Lancashire are being called to help watch over the Ribble’s rarest wildlife.
North West anti-terrorism hotline launched
10:20am Monday 8th March 2010
A CAMPAIGN will be launched today to urge people in the North West to support the fight of terrorism at a neighbourhood level.
Lancashire County Council defends £748m pension deficit
8:50pm Sunday 7th March 2010
COUNTY council bosses have defended their pensions record after it was revealed their scheme had a deficit of £748million.
Lancashire's life-saving gift to Chile
2:46pm Friday 5th March 2010
A ‘TRAPPED person locator’ from Lancashire has been donated to firefighters in Chile.
Ex-pupils and staff gather for Carnforth High School's 50th anniversary do
5:48pm Friday 5th March 2010
MORE than 300 former pupils of Carnforth High gathered to share their memories of the school at its 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday.
16,400 people with dementia in Lancashire
2:28pm Friday 5th March 2010
ALMOST 16,400 people in Lancashire are being treated for dementia, new figures have revealed.
24,000 Lancashire civil servants to strike
12:36pm Thursday 4th March 2010
AROUND 24,000 civil servants in Lancashire are set to strike next week over proposals to cut redundancy payments.
Arnside teenager has designs on a career in fashion
5:15pm Thursday 4th March 2010
A STUDENT has beaten off competition from thousands of applicants to study at London’s College of Fashion.
2,700 drug abusers in Lancashire
6:50pm Tuesday 2nd March 2010
LANCASHIRE has more than 2,700 drug abusers, with one in nine of those addicted to cocaine, it has been revealed.
Complaints over Lancashire police 'bullying'
10:32am Monday 1st March 2010
A THIRD of all complaints lodged by Lancashire police employees about their colleagues are for bullying or inappropriate behaviour.
North Lancashire swimmers' fears over pools
4:20pm Friday 26th February 2010
SWIMMERS in north Lancashire face the loss of three community pools after a cost-cutting council decision.
Children in Need cash snub to Lancashire
8:20pm Thursday 25th February 2010
NO Children in Need cash has been given to Lancashire despite almost £1million being handed out in the North West.
Sums equal success for South Lakes card firm
4:48pm Wednesday 24th February 2010
A MATHMATICAL problem has equalled an award for a South Lakeland greetings card business.
Milnthorpe publishers to appear at national show
11:10am Wednesday 24th February 2010
SOUTH Lakeland guidebook publishers Cicerone - which is based in Milnthorpe - will be at the Outdoors Show at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham from March 26 to 28.
Lancashire's coldest winter in 30 years set for more misery
3:00pm Tuesday 23rd February 2010
THE COLDEST winter for more than 30 years will be capped off with more miserable weather, forecasters have predicted.
Lancs water bills cut
11:28am Tuesday 23rd February 2010
EAST Lancashire water customers' bills will be cut by £16 next year and there will be further reductions over the next five years, utility bosses have said.
Council tax freeze by Lancashire County Hall
6:39pm Friday 19th February 2010
COUNTY Hall has voted to freeze council tax in the first Conservative budget for almost 30 years.
Lancashire drivers urged to lower CO2 for Lent
6:42pm Friday 19th February 2010
DRIVERS are urged to consider lowering their CO2 emissions for Lent.
The River Eea to be discussed at Forum meeting
11:13am Friday 19th February 2010
A TALK about the River Eea’s declining fish numbers will be the focus of the next Grange, Cartmel and Lyth Valley Neighbourhood Forum meeting.
Call for more ethnic minority organ donors in Lancashire
4:30pm Thursday 18th February 2010
THE secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques is backing a campaign to get more Asians and black people in the county to become organ donors.
Talk toilets in South Lakeland
5:30pm Thursday 18th February 2010
SPENDING a penny could cost the taxpayer £39 million over the next 30 years unless changes are made soon.
Supermarket plan for South Lakes village revealed
8:00am Thursday 18th February 2010
THE supermarket chain Booths has announced plans for a sq 9,500 sqft store in a South Lakeland village, which could potentially create 60 jobs.
GALLERY: Heavy snow shower hits East Lancashire
4:18pm Thursday 18th February 2010
A gallery of the latest snow to hit East Lancashire is now online.
'Friendly fire' probe after Duke of Lancaster Regiment soldier's death
12:40pm Tuesday 16th February 2010
UPDATE: An investigation has been launched into the death of a British soldier killed in Afghanistan amid suggestions he could have been the victim of "friendly fire", the Ministry of Defence said.
Former QLR chief: I knew nothing of alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees
5:20pm Monday 15th February 2010
A FORMER Army commanding officer insisted that he knew nothing about alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees by his men.
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