Over 100 people, including Market traders, Green councillors and Gina Dowding, Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Lancaster and Fleetwood, marched on Morecambe Town Hall earlier today, part of a wider […]
Council joins the 'Big Swap' for Fairtrade Fortnight
Lancaster City Council, along with retailers and businesses throughout Lancaster district, are taking part in ‘The Big Swap’ for Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 (22 February 7th March). Employees at Lancaster City […]
Conservative Candidate backs saving Lancaster Market
Eric Ollerenshaw, Lancaster and Fleetwood’s Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate, has backed the campaign to save Lancaster Market. Proposals to close the Market and relocate stallholders elsewhere in the District will […]
Brewery Malthouse gets listed
The Secretary of State has listed the malthouse of the old Brewery on Lancaster – a derelict complex threatened with demolition by owners, Mitchells, last year. Although the designation is […]
Victim of knife point robbery receives jail apology from attacker
A local woman who was robbed at knifepoint has visited her attacker in prison to receive an apology from him as part of a restorative justice project. Police offered 26-year-old […]
Labour councillors back saving Lancaster Market
Labour councillors will not back the proposal to close Lancaster Market at tomorrow’s Full Council meeting, where plans to offer the building to a single retailer and relocate stallholders is […]
Honey Bee workshop aims to cut losses
North West beekeepers are being urged to attend a free day long seminar organised by the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) in a bid to reduce the rate of […]
Man assaulted on Lancaster Canal towpath
Lancaster Police report that a local man was assaulted on the canal towpath at the weekend. The 30-year-old man, who the Lancaster Guardian reports is now being treated in Royal […]
City Council's Chief Exec explains secrecy on Market plans
Lancaster City Council has just issued a new statement about Lancaster Market, clarifying its position on keeping some details of the plans confidential, clearly concerned that leaks about the plans […]
Local election "Waste" condemned by Liberal candidate
Harry Armistead, the Liberal Democrat candidate for John O’Gaunt in the upcoming City Council by-election, has criticised the Greens for demanding it be held separately to the general election, describing […]