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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

DELIGHTED: Steve Finnigan

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

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

PARTY: John Shannon, right, with pupils Jenny Casson and Joe Sykes, and ex-heads Geoff Lord, left, and Paul Legon

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

STUDY SET: Lucie Jones, who is going to the college where Stella McCartney and Jimmy Choo studied, with one of her designs

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

‘STAY AFLOAT’: Coun AFLOAT’: Coun Peter Williamson (right), with Francoise Nott and worried swimmers

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

CHARITY: Children in Need's Pudsey logo

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

Janette Phillips

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

The view this morning from Kirk Hill Road, looking over Haslingden.

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

FREEZE: County Coun Geoff Driver

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

STILL WAITING: Coun Salim Mulla with his wife Sayeeda, who is waiting for a kidney transplant

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

TOILET TALK: Ben Hickman and Brenda Woof of SLDC and Visiontwentyone team

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

Supermarket plan for South Lakes village

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

The view this morning from Kirk Hill Road, looking over Haslingden.

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

Kingsman Sean Dawson of 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday

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

‘OUT OF LOOP’: Colonel Jorge Mendonca

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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