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Month: February 2012

February 13, 2012
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Fuel Bills Blues: Big Switch turns up the heat.

Many hands make lights work. Which? & 38 Degrees Big Switch Two new schemes are underway to help with keeping warm and paying fuel bills. Both are aimed at the increasing […]

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Lancaster woman’s plea for return of treasured photo

Lancaster Police are appealing for the public’s help to reunite a woman with her purse containg the photograph of her toddler son who has passed away, after it was stolen […]

February 13, 2012
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The Really Heavy Greatcoat: Murdoch

  The Really Heavy Greactcoat is a long-running cartoon strip which ace artist Nick Miller and I created years ago and published in alternative Lancaster magazine On The Beat and […]

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Lancaster set to join ‘No Second Night Out’ project to tackle homelessness

Lancaster City Council looks set to join other Lancashire councils in a county-wide partnership to tackle homelessness, part of an ongoing roll out of the No Second Night Out campaign […]

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Proposed charges for replacement bins look set to be thrown out

Lancaster City Council’s Cabinet will be recommended not to introduce new charges for the replacement of bins and boxes at their meeting next week – even though the cost of […]

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Motorway Work news for Lancaster area

Works on the M6 motorways will travel plans for some time, the Highways Agency has warned. Locally, daytime investigation work is being carried out on the A683 Caton Road between […]

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Could Morecambe be set for a cash windfall?

A new fund to help support much loved seaside towns like Morecambe create new jobs and prosperity was launched today by Government Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Chief Secretary Danny […]

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“Ice Network” hits M6 traffic, drivers warned to slow down

Drivers using the M6 in Lancashire and Cumbria between junction 33 and 39 are being advised to stick to lane one as the Highways Agency works to clear the network […]

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Lancaster Police issue motorway weather warning

Lancaster Police are warning motorists to slow down and drive to the conditions as freezing weather has caused a number of accidents on the M6 motorway. “We are experiencing difficulties […]

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Icy pavements – just what is the Council’s strategy?

(Updated 13:30): Local pedestrians are furious about what’s perceived as a confused strategy from Lancaster City Council about the gritting of pavements, after overnight rain and freezing conditions turned some […]

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