The Lancaster and District branch of Samaritans is urgently looking for new volunteers. As well as listening volunteers who help to respond to people in distress who contact Samaritans, the […]
Plans for Lune Bank Gardens On Show This Week
Lune Bank Gardens, 1905 Skerton-based Friends of Lune Bank Gardens group want to know what local people think about their ideas for bring the Gardens back into use after years […]
Delight from bee keepers and campaigners as Government rejects renewal of neonics use
There’s good news for local beekeepers today, as the Government has just rejected plans to allow bee-harming pesticides back into our fields – to the delight of numerous campaign groups. […]
County Council Cut Plans Revealed: local libraries, children's centres face the chop
Photo: Alexandrr P. Kapp (Updated 14th May 2016): Lancashire County Council‘s Cabinet has agreed to seek people’s views on plans to change the way frontline services are delivered and save […]
Hill’s Pet Nutrition cat food pouches recalled over vomiting and diarrhoea risk
Hill’s Pet Nutrition is conducting a voluntary recall of limited production lots of certain Hill’s cat food pouches. The earliest these products were available for sale in the UK and […]
Prize-Winning Poet Kim Moore back at Spotlight Next Week, with Ron Sowcroft, comedian Kriss Foster and more
Kim Moore Lancaster’s popular Spotlight Club is back at The Storey on Friday 20th May, offering a heady mix of music, poetry and comedy. Come along at 7.00pm to grab […]
Lancaster Comics Day Challenges Comic Creators to Create Local Heroes
Art by Nick Miller Are there aliens in your dustbin? Is a gorilla living in your ginnel? As part of Lancaster Comics Day on Sunday 5th June 2016 at Lancaster Library, organisers are […]
Local Cinema Round-Up for the 11th to the 19th May 2016
For up to date local cinema links and day-by-day listings of what’s showing on local screens every week visit the Virtual-Lancaster Cinema Page. Read on for the weekly round-up, and […]
New county councillor elected in Lancaster East
Lizzi Collinge, local Labour Party members and some of her election team. Photo via Facebook A new county councillor has been announced for Lancaster East, following the by-election held on […]
Clive Grunshaw re-elected as Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner
Following the Police and Crime Commissioner elections carried out across Lancashire last Thursday , Clive Grunshaw has been re-elected to the post of Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire. Following […]