Sneaking into the Grand Theatre this Friday is the ‘local heat’ of the Miss England pageant. You won’t find the Miss Morecambe & Lancaster competition listed on the Grand’s website. […]
Lancaster Guardian offices to close?
(with thanks to Sue Parish): Media web site HoldtheFrontPage reports Johnston Press is proposing to close the Lancaster Guardian’s office in Common Garden Street with the loss of three jobs […]
County Council to run consultations on M6 Link changes
Artist’s Impression: How the new bypass will look. Lancashire County Council will be holding additional public consultations on design changes to the Heysham-M6 Link. The latest consultations will update local […]
Music and poetry, please: Spotlight Club line up announced
Ann Wilson, aka Ann the Poet. Photo: Richard Davis (http://www.totallywired.com) This month’s Spotlight Club – a regular eclectic feast of poetry, performance and music – features South Cumbrian-based poet Ann […]
New Booths Approved for Scotforth
Lancaster City Council’s planning committee approved a new Booths supermarket development application on 3 May, to be built on Lawson’s Bridge field in Scotforth. It was considered alongside another bid […]
Taxi Drivers claim ‘Browbeating’ by Local Authority during holiday
All 109 Hackney cabs in the Lancaster Council area received a letter before Easter requiring them to report to the Council’s Vehicle Maintenance Unit in Morecambe for inspection on Thursday […]
The Procurement Zone
This Virtual-Lancaster reporter notes that Shoe Zone, the shoeshop in Marketgate, is selling very high heeled (2″+) fashion shoes in sizes for little girls aged 6 and upwards in their […]
Heysham Link will make our traffic problems worse, Professor warns
Former city councillor John Whitelegg, a Professor of Sustainable Transport, has hit out angrily at claims from the construction company, Costain, that the proposed M6 Link will improve the economic […]
Interview: Jo Gillot
Not long ago now Jo Gillot quietly self released her second EP of songs, The Lido. Named after the Ruislip waterhole which inspired it, the seven track EP takes the […]
Police appeal after Lancaster Co-op theft
Police are appealing for information after money was stolen from the Co-op on Chapel Street last month. At around 5:24pm on the 19th April, three men entered the Co-operative food […]