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£10.98m cuts unveiled by Lancashire County Council

5:16pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

JOBS look set to be in jeopardy across Lancashire children’s homes and young people’s services as part of a major cuts package.

Incidents up for life-saving North West team

3:10pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

PATIENTS in life-threatening emergencies in the North are getting more help in the first few critical minutes thanks to a dedicated community first responder desk.

Lancashire Council of Mosques chair to fight £9k benefit theft charge

IN COURT: Salim Mulla

9:00am Wednesday 1st September 2010

ONE of Lancashire's most prominent community leaders is being prosecuted for alleged benefit fraud.

44 Lancashire Police warrant cards went missing

ID: A warrant card

1:17pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

AT LEAST 44 police warrant cards have been lost by, or stolen from, Lancashire officers in the past two years.

Fears of massive defence job cuts across Lancashire

DEFENCE REVIEW: BAE Systems’ contract for the Eurofighter Typhoon accounts for thousands of jobs at the firm’s Samlesbury site,

9:00am Thursday 26th August 2010

DEFENCE bosses are preparing for thousands of job cuts across Lancashire, according to an MP.

Kendal man's marathon in memory of murdered Lytham mum

Kelyvn James is running the Langdale Marathon in memory of his mother who was murdered in January.

7:00am Thursday 26th August 2010

A KENDAL businessman is taking on a gruelling challen- ge in memory of his mother who was brutally murdered by her husband earlier this year.

£150,000 raised at Sheridan Suite charity dinner

7:20pm Tuesday 24th August 2010

A North West MEP was among those who helped raise a staggering £150,000 for the Pakistan Flood Relief over the weekend.

Retirement home for Lancashire police horses

WORK HARD: A police horse

4:00pm Tuesday 24th August 2010

THE mounted police unit has set up a ‘retirement fund’ for its horses once their careers are over.

Lancashire crackdown on school run parkers

NO PARKING: Parents who stop on zigzag lines could be fined by traffic wardens under new rules

8:30am Monday 23rd August 2010

EDUCATION chiefs have declared war on parents who drop their children off directly outside the school gates — by giving traffic wardens the power to issue fines.

Speed cameras in Lancashire to stay on our roads

DRASTIC MEASURE: Coun Tim Ashton

9:42am Tuesday 17th August 2010

THE man in charge of Lancashire’s roads has revealed he rejected the opportunity to switch off all of the county’s speed cameras.

Heavy rain warning for Lancashire

5:52pm Thursday 12th August 2010

THE Met Office has warned of heavy rain and thunderstorms in parts of Lancashire this evening.

Lancashire Muslims begin Ramadhan fast

2:07pm Wednesday 11th August 2010

MUSLIMS across Lancashire are starting their Ramadhan fast from today.

Duke of Lancaster soldiers capture Taliban town

ACTION: Troops from Somme Company, the 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment preparing to board RAF Chinooks

3:13pm Tuesday 10th August 2010

NORTH West soldiers have seized a key enemy stronghold from the Taliban after an 11-day mission in Afghanistan.

North West ambulance response times 'too slow'

OPPOSITION: Union bosses have hit out at the targets faced by ambulance crews

1:42pm Tuesday 10th August 2010

THE North West Ambulance Service is one of the slowest in the country for response times to life-threatening emergencies.

Mixed picture on Lancashire parking fines

1:32pm Tuesday 10th August 2010

THE number of parking tickets dished out in parts of Lancashire has almost doubled, according to figures.

Lancashire farmers quizzed over cloned embryos

5:20pm Saturday 7th August 2010

LANCASHIRE farmers have been sent legal notices asking them to guarantee their products are not derived from cloned embryos, it has emerged.

Plans to cut Lancashire fire automatic alarm call-outs

10:38am Thursday 5th August 2010

LANCASHIRE's fire chiefs have been told they could be putting lives at risk after unveiling drastic plans to cut automatic alarm call-outs.

Lancashire solicitor’s Facebook warning

COMMENTS WARNING: John Woosnam

11:34am Thursday 5th August 2010

A LANCASHIRE law firm says it's seeing a big increase in the number of defamation cases being brought due to comments posted on Facebook.

North West soldiers seize Taliban stronghold

North West soldiers seize Taliban stronghold

2:50pm Wednesday 4th August 2010

WITH VIDEO: Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment soldiers have helped drive the Taliban out of the Sayedebad area of southern Afghanistan.

Lancashire roads boss: Speed cameras will be cut

REVIEW: Speed cameras

1:30pm Tuesday 3rd August 2010

THE MAN in charge of Lancashire’s highways said he was ‘absolutely sure’ the number of speed cameras on the county’s roads would be reduced.







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