Centros’ revised draft masterplan for the Canal Corridor North Development Site Following Lancaster City Council’s Cabinet approval of the principles for a five-year extension to the Canal Corridor North development […]
Court Returns Taxi Driver’s License on Appeal
Mr Andrew Kay A two day hearing in Lancaster Magistrates Court last week heard an appeal by the chair of the Lancaster Hackney Proprietors Association (HPA), Mr Andrew Kay, against […]
Catastrophic damage to 'protected' Freeman's Wood – photos
Environmental damage at Freeman’s Wood As our pictures below, taken today, show, there have been multiple breaches of the legally binding Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) which should have protected the […]
Health & Social Care Bill
Yesterday the House of Lords voted for a Mental Health amendment to the Health & Social Care Bill, one of many amendments they are to debate. What with all the […]
Whither Heather? Senior City Council post scrapped in restructuring
The £77,300 p.a. post of Deputy Chief Executive at Lancaster City Council has been scrapped after two years, leaving its occupant, Ms Heather McManus, redundant. It’s not yet known if […]
Centros in secret development deal talks with City Council
An earlier visual for Centros first plan for Lancaster What has happened to developer Centros? In the current issue of Lancaster Chamber of Commerce’s Business Matters we read that Lancaster City […]
Hospital Trust Chief Exec Resigns
Tony Halsall Following on from last month’s warnings by Health watchdog agencies over failings at the ‘red-rated’ University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust (UHMBT) (see previous article), the Trust’s […]
Diversity FM to close down in March
Lancaster & District YMCA, who hold the broadcast license for Lancaster & Morecambe’s community radio station Diversity 103.5 FM has announced the station will close at the end of March. […]
Love’s Labour: Lancaster Shakespeare Festival
The Dukes is playing a lead role in Lancaster’s first Season of Shakespeare which opens today. Shakespeare is England’s best known playwriter and if you have not seen any of […]
In review: The Vagina Monologues
So, done with hearing bishops on the radio wittering on about just exactly how much bigotry against women Jesus would have wanted, I finally went, with some trepidition, to see […]