Photo: WTML As if the much-despised plans to frack Lancashire weren’t bad enough in the government’s bid to industrialise our countryside, the ridiculously-expensive HS2 train line looks to threaten the […]
Quay Meadow discoveries to go on display in Lancaster
The Lancaster and District Heritage Group will be on display in Lancaster’s St Nicholas Arcades Shopping Centre from tomorrow, Friday 14th October, to the 28th November 2016. The display will […]
Bus Users’ Group Meets as service cuts bite and doubts are raised about Lancaster’s new Park & Ride scheme
Original image via Stagecoach (Mash-Up via Internet) The next Lancaster District Bus Users’ Group meeting is at 2.00 pm in Lancaster Library, on 20th October, announced as local press report […]
‘Cuadrilla men followed us and filmed our children’, parents claim
Tina Rothery At a well-attended meeting at Lancaster Friends Meeting House yesterday, Lancaster residents started organising the local response to Secretary of State Said Javid’s recent decision to allow Cuadrilla […]
Police forces unite in country’s largest rural policing operation
Dozens of police officers and volunteers took part in a major clampdown on rural criminals last week. Operation Checkpoint is the largest rural policing operation of its kind in the […]
2015 Winter Flood Stories inspire powerful new Lakes Festival Comics Exhibition, “Five Bridges”
Art by Mike Medaglia for the “Five Bridges” floods exhibition Ahead of Kendal’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival this weekend (14th – 16th October), some of the event’s Exhibitions are now open, with others to […]
Tuesday Night Jazz Finale at Lancaster’s Robert Gillow
Local jazz couple Sue Parish and Jon Moore (pictured) will be closing their popular and long running series of Tuesday night jazz sessions at the Robert Gillow Pub by bringing […]
Lancashire anti-frackers march on landowner’s home
Around 2000+ protesters assembled yesterday (Saturday) at the site on Preston New Road near Blackpool where Cayman Islands company Cuadrilla proposes to start hydraulic fracking. Watch video On Thursday Secretary […]
Government forces fracking onto Lancashire
Demonstrators protesting today’s decision The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid today allowed Cuadrilla’s appeal against the county council’s decision to refuse permission for fracking at the […]
Local Cinema Round-Up for the 5th to 13th October 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 […]