With many local football fans preparing not just to sit and watch the World Cup live on new big screen TVs but watch it as a spectator at the event […]
Walk your way to a healthy lifestyle
If you’re looking to improve your health, meet new people and enjoy the best scenery our district has to offer, then you might want to join the area’s new Health […]
Food Safety Week: Tips to avoid food poisioning
To mark the start of Food Safety Week (7 – 13 June), Lancaster City Council’s Public Health and Safety Team is reminding people in the Lancaster District about the importance […]
TB cases still rising in North West
The Health Protection Agency North West, in partnership with NHS North West, is urging people to be aware of the symptoms of TB as new provisional data published this week […]
New Down's Syndrome group launches in Lancaster
A new Down’s Syndrome Family and Carer’s Group has just launched in Lancaster for families and carers of people with Down’s Syndrome. The first meeting is on Sat 6th March […]
Icy Pavements: Should Councils Have Done More?
The Department of Transport has advised local MP Geraldine Smith councils should, perhaps, done more to clear pavements and roads during the recent snowy weather. Earlier this week, Geraldine asked […]
Winter Vomiting: Don't Visit Your GP, Urge Agency
The Health Protection Agency North West is advising people with norovirus infection (winter vomiting) not to attend GP surgeries or hospital Accident and Emergency Units to avoid the risk of […]
Herbal Medicine to be Outlawed?
New European Union regulations require all those who practice herbal medicine to be authorised persons and therefore state regulated practitioners from 2011, but Britain’s the Department of Health consultation on […]
Take Up Swine Flu Vaccine, urges HPA
The Health Protection Agency North West is strongly recommending that anyone who is offered vaccination against H1N1v (swine flu), available from today, should seize the opportunity to protect themselves and […]
University of Cumbria funds African water pump
University of Cumbria students have helped pay for an ingenious style of pump generating clean water for African villages. Playpumps, the brainchild of the One Foundation, are sited at schools […]