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The artistic talents of a Halton schoolboy saw him beat off competition from hundreds of rivals and design a Christmas card fit for the Queen. Ten-year-old Will Lakin has been chosen as the winner of the Mayor of Lancaster’s Christmas card competition and has won a VIP tour of Lancaster Town Hall with nine of […]
A Liberal Democrat councillor in Kendal has won cross-party support to tackle the rise of families living in poverty in South Cumbria. Lib Dem and Labour councillors on South Lakeland District Council voted in favour of Cllr Phil Dixon’s motion which calls for the Government to urgently review its benefits and welfare strategy. The motion […]
Police are appealing for witnesses following the report of a robbery. Police were called to the incident at Curry’s PC World in Queen Katherine’s Avenue, Kendal, at 6:22pm today (17th December). It is described that four men entered the premises and demanded a number of mobile phones from staff before leaving in a blue car. […]
Residents will be consulted about their views on the long-term use of common land at New Road in Kendal early in the New Year. South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) has always stated that the landscaping scheme completed earlier this year would lay the groundwork for the eventual long-term use of the site, which would be […]
Police are warning businesses to be vigilant following reports of forged £20 and £50 notes being passed across the county. Businesses have been targeted indiscriminately from newsagents to hotels across the county including reports in Coniston, Grasmere, Ulverston, Silloth, Allonby, Abbeytown and Carlisle. Reports are of forged Scottish £20 and Irish £50 notes, however English […]
Local MP Tim Farron has written to the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to make the case for HS2 trains to stop in the county. Currently the high-speed trains from London are set to pass through the county without stopping, meaning passengers on the West Coast Main Line will have to change at Preston to get […]
Lancashire Police has seized close to 1,700 cannabis plants with an estimated street value of more than £3m after raiding an address in Fleetwood. Police were called around 4.20pm on Friday (December 14) following reports a drugs set-up had been found at the former Store Twenty One store in Lord Street. Officers attended with two men, both […]
Detectives are appealing for information after a man was left with a serious facial injury following an assault in Morecambe. Police were called around 5.50pm yesterday (Sunday, December 16) to reports of a disturbance outside The Boardwalk pub in Marine Road West. It is believe a number of people had been arguing inside the pub […]
Local MP Tim Farron has called for the Department for Health to apologise for causing “severe distress and anxiety” after 475 women in Westmorland and Lonsdale were wrongly told they had missed breast cancer check-ups. The Independent Breast Screening Review found that the blunder, which affected 67,000 women across the UK, was down to health […]
Detectives investigating a murder in Fleetwood have charged a man. Stephen Derbyshire, 33, of Hawthorn Drive, Fleetwood, has been charged with murder and common assault. He is due to appear before Blackpool Magistrates’ Court this morning (Monday, December 17th) Police launched a murder inquiry on Sunday, December 9th after Michael Hart was stabbed on Broomfield […]
