Updated: 4/4/11. Readers will be pleased to know that Twiggy has been safely returned. Thanks for your help! ********************* Have you seen Twiggy? She is a small grey striped tabby […]
Idiot Johnson Interviewed by Tom Bramhall
Idiot Johnson is the stage name of Mr Jonathan Tansley, Lancaster based singer / songwriter and general music lover responsible for 2010’s debut CD Girl On A Train. In preparation […]
Historic Prison HMP Lancaster Castle closes this week.
After 56 years as a category C prison, accommodating between 200-300 prisoners, depending on the policies of the day, HMP Lancaster Castle is closing this week. Conservative Justice Secretary Ken […]
Lancastrians In London TUC Anti-Cuts March: Personal Report
They say it was half a million at the Great TUC Anti Cuts Protest March in London last Saturday. Half the march never even made it to Hyde Park. For […]
Budget Day Anti-Cuts Rally Planned in Lancaster
Wednesday 23 March is Budget Day and Lancaster & Morecambe Against the Cuts plan a rally in Dalton Square, Lancaster, at 6pm. Let’s make lots of noise on Budget Day. […]
Campaigners warn on third nuclear station for Heysham and safety plan failures for Nuclear Waste plans
A locally-based anti-nuclear campaign group is warning that a third nuclear power station at Heysham will be built by EDF Energy unless local residents unite to oppose the decision. Lancaster […]
Housing Benefit Cuts – The Knives Are Out
Updated 20 March 2011 Last week Lancaster City Council wrote to Housing Benefit recipients warning them of forthcoming cuts to their benefits. Here is how it works. Local Housing Authority […]
William Penny’s Residents Bless Parking Scheme as Flat Blazes
Residents of the William Penny’s sheltered housing scheme block of flats in Regent Street, Lancaster, were evacuated today as fire broke out in a basement flat. Fortunately the elderly resident […]
Spending Cuts Crisis: Get To London for 26 March
Lancastrians packed into Lancaster Town Hall to hear RMT leader Bob Crow, Right to Work speaker Chris Banbury and Green Party member Gina Dowding speaking about the spending cuts on […]
International Women’s Day Celebrations in Lancaster
It’s International Women’s Day (IWD) on Tuesday 8 March and the Lancaster Women @ The Gregson (WAGs) have again initiated a series of events to mark it. At 8pm will […]