With the General Election announced for 6th May, Green Party candidate for Lancaster and Fleetwood Gina Dowding has joined her Party nationwide and issued a challenge to General Election candidates […]
Lancaster Market Safe Until 2015
Above: Market trader Peter Corker presents a copy of the huge petition protesting at the closure of the Market to the Council’s Chief Executive Mark Cullinan on the steps of […]
Greens launch bid for Lancaster and Fleetwood seat
(Updated 28/3/10): Green Party general election candidate Gina Dowding will launch her campaign to win the Lancaster and Fleetwood Constituency next week with a screening of her new campaign video. […]
New ideas needed for Lancaster Market, say Greens
Green Party councillor John Whitelegg is calling on the Council to look at fresh ideas to improve Lancaster Market – including the introduction of a local currency scheme that could […]
March to Save Lancaster Market
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 […]
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 […]
Greens push for revamped, smaller Lancaster Market
Green councillors will argue that Lancaster Market should not be closed tomorrow when a cabinet proposal is put to Full Council – arguing it should continue, albeit as a smaller […]
'Robin Hood' Tax on banks to get Green support?
Proposals for a proposed “Robin Hood” tax on bank operations may get support from the Green Party this week, thanks to its local parliamentary candidate Gina Dowding. This week, Gina, […]
Greens Condemn New Nuke Plans for Heysham
It should come as no surprise to learn that Lancaster’s Greens have condemned plans for a third nuclear power station at Heysham – and indeed, any new nuclear build in […]