Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw has hit out at the Government after the scale of potential cuts facing Lancashire Constabulary was revealed earlier today by Chancellor George Osborne. […]
RLI ward closures planned; NHS Trust budget cut by 13%
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMB) has circulated a consultation document to staff outlining proposals to save the Trust £30 million from its annual turnover of […]
Lancaster Paper Mill fined £10,000 after worker's accident
If you needed any reminding about the reasons trade unions and others have fought for the health and safety regulations the current government is trying to dismantle, then the story […]
Local MPs back Agricultural Wages Board abolition; local farm workers face hard times ahead?
Eric Ollerenshaw Both local MPs have backed the Government’s decision to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board – a decision that will potentially affect the livelihoods of many local farm workers […]
Government questions investment in the arts – more trouble ahead for local organisations?
The Dukes’ upcoming Robin Hood is publicly funded – how much more money will it bring into the local area when it opens? Despite delivering a report on the economic […]
Councillors back Altham Meadows as NHS Lancashire plans to refocus dementia care
Altham Meadow, Morecambe. Image: Google (Updated 14:32:: City Councillors have backed local concerns at the proposed closure of Morecambe’s Altham Meadows Dementia Centre, supporting a Labour Party motion at last […]
Signposts charity to close as need increases
Due to funding cuts Signposts (http://www.signposts.org.uk/), the charity which runs the Multi Agency Resource Centre (MARC) on Regent Road in Morecambe, is to close its operations on Friday 26 April. […]
North West MP ignores benefits claimants lack of online access
Warrington South MP David Mowat defends benefit changes in the absence of any comment or available spokesperson from the Department of Work and Pensions on BBC North West Tonight. As […]
Lancaster City Council sets its 2013/14 budget, cuts spending
Lancaster City Council has set its budget for 2013/14, reducing spending by a further 3.3 per cent. The budget protects those services that local people most value and there have […]
Morecambe MP accuses Labour of "scare stories" over hospital cuts
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP David Morris has hit out at anti cuts campaigners who have raised concerns about the future of the Accident and Emergency Department at Royal Lancaster Infirmary, […]