As Lancaster City Council prepares to consider not one but two supermarket proposals next week, campaigners are again reminding us of how the ‘system’ works in the favour of some […]
Open house at Melling sheltered housing
Lancaster City Council is holding an open day at Melling House Sheltered Housing Scheme for people to have a good look round before applying for a place. A number of […]
Fake DVDs seized from Morecambe Market stall
PC Rob Brookbanks and PCSO Philip Meeks with some of the counterfeit DVDs seized from a Morecambe Market stall at the weekend. Police seized over 800 counterfeit DVDs from a […]
Gillow lands top folk act Gren Bartley for May line-up
Gren Bartley Lancaster’s Robert Gillow has lined up more fine folk music for May, and we have the full details. Included in the line up is top act Gren Bartley, […]
Morecambe Council condemns Heysham Link as “completely inappropriate”
Geoff Marsland says the proposed M6 Link is “completely inappropriate” Morecambe Town Council has voiced its opposition to the planned Heysham M6 Link, passing a strongly-worded resolution against the proposed […]
Counting the Cost of ‘Big Oil’
Oil’d from Chris Harmon on Vimeo. Last year’s Gulf Oil Spill released 205 million gallons of oil — such a huge amount, it’s hard to get your mind around. To […]
People’s Picnic Party Planned for Priory Green
A People’s Picnic Party is planned on the Priory Green (by the Headless Woman statue) for egalitarian fun and frolics this Friday afternoon. While the national media goes into a […]
Stone the Crows – It’s Wray Festival
Yet again the famous Wray Scarecrow Festival takes over the picturesque village with scarecrows of all sizes, scary, comical and satirical populating the streets, gardens and greens. And during the […]
Remembering Chernobyl: 25 years on
25 years ago this week I and thousands of others got caught out in the Chernobyl rain that fell on Lancaster and much of Northern Europe and came home with […]
Adult College July Craft Fair – Book stalls now!
A Craft Fair will be held at the Adult College on Saturday 2 July (10am – 3pm) and if local craftspeople would like a stall there they need to get […]