Protests are planned throughout Lancashire as Lancashire County Council faces a vote on plans to cut £179.1m from its budget over the next three years. According to their budget proposals, […]
Lancaster Anti-Cuts Protesters Pour Scorn on Lib Dems
They gathered yesterday, upward of a thousand of them, with their banners and placards and anti-cuts slogans, in a cold car park off a bottleneck in the Lancaster one-way system. […]
Lancaster Protest March Against Cuts On Saturday 4 December
72% of the cuts being brought in by the Con-Dem coalition will come from women’s pockets, claim a new Lancaster group ‘Women Against the Cuts’ who will be joining the […]
Petitioned MP Ollerenshaw Promises Public Cuts Debate
Cornered at his constituency surgery at Lancaster Library yesterday, Lancaster’s MP Eric Ollerenshaw received a letter petition from local people protesting about unfair cuts to services and jobs. To a […]
500 School Students March in Lancaster Anti-Cuts Demo
Local school students rallied and marched in their hundreds today in Lancaster to protest against the cuts in education such as the abolition of the Education Maintainance Allowance (EMA), which […]
“Bring Down this Unelected Government!” Anger Grows as Cuts Protests Planned:
‘Bring down this unelected coalition government’, was the message repeated again and again at a packed meeting on Thursday evening organised by Lancaster & Morecambe Against the Cuts. www.lmatc.org.uk/. Union […]
Local Stop the Cuts Poster Released
Lancaster and Morecambe Against the Cuts have released a poster for next Thursday’s (18th November) public meeting at Lancaster Town Hall. Around 25 local people from diverse political backgrounds, trades […]
Council Tax freeze recommended for 2011
There will be no increase in Lancaster City Council’s element of Council Tax next year, if recommendations from the council’s Cabinet are approved. But the lack of any rise will […]
Local “Against the Cuts” group sets first Public Meeting
Lancaster and Morecambe Against the Cuts has announced its first public meting will take place on Thursday 18th Novmber at Lancaster Town Hall. The meeting will hear the case against […]
Lancastrians Protest Public Spending Cuts as Job Losses Loom
About 300 demonstrators flocked to a Lancaster Town Hall yesterday evening to protest public spending cuts. The gulf between rich and poor grew considerably wider yesterday as massive cuts to […]