ONE of Lancaster's most successful firms has announced new plans to expand its base. SWS UK, formed 20 years ago with a workforce of just four people, now employs more than 200 manufacturing, office, sales and installation staff. And it is to get even
THE UK's leading pizza restaurant is coming to Lancaster. Pizza Hut plans to create up to 270 new jobs in Lancashire early by opening seven new outlets one of them in Lancaster. Other new restaurants due to be open before the end of January will be
A FORMER leading MP and campaigner on human rights issues is to speak in Lancaster Cathedral. Lord Alton of Liverpool, a Liberal MP for 18 years and a crossbench peer since 1997, has campaigned throughout his career against abuses of human rights, particularly
MORE than 200 architects across the world reckon they have come up with THE project which will put Morecambe back on the international map. That is how many firms have expressed an interest in putting in plans for the redevelopment of the key' central
THE self-proclaimed George Fox Six' a group of students prosecuted by Lancaster University have won the backing of the local Labour Party. The students stormed a conference in the George Fox building last year and were convicted of aggravated trespass
BOFFINS at Lancaster University are taking part in a £500,000 study into how people react to proposed wind farms They will look into factors influencing what has been called the Not In My Back Yard' attitude towards renewable energy installations.
Lancaster City 1 Vauxhall Motors 0 FROM the smallest seed can rise the largest acorn, or so the saying sort of goes. And it may just be true down at the Giant Axe as Phil Wilson's quiet revolution took another step towards the promised land on Saturday
THE mighty miracle workers of Morecambe fought back from the dead of 3-0 down with 32 minutes left to earn an amazing 3-3 draw at Canvey Island. The Shrimps looked buried as their away day curse appeared to be striking again in the land of jellied eels
Rochdale 27 Vale of Lune 16 Vale of Lune's five-match winning sequence in North 2 West ended at Rochdale in an encounter that contained a number of controversial incidents at crucial stages. In the first half a Vale rolling maul appeared to have been
BURGLARS made off with nearly £5,000 worth of cigarettes after evading nearly every security measure to raid an Ulverston garage. Police said they suspected professional burglars were behind the Monday night break-in at the Canal Head Services after
KENDAL Town Reserves are set to meet Wetheriggs United to decide the destination of the first trophy of the season the Westmorland FA Invitation Trophy. Town Reserves are hosts to the reigning league champions in the Invitation final at Parkside this
WORLD-class fell-runner Rob Jebb won the Kendal Duathlon in Kendal on Sunday. No surprise there but he also managed to lower his own course record despite appalling weather. He posted a winning time of 1 hour 1second a minute and a half margin over
WHAT a season it's been for Ben Greenwood. The young Nether Kellet cyclist rounded it off in style when he took the National Hill Climb Championship on the infamous Rake course at Ramsbottom. Greenwood, already holder of Under-23 road race and time
