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12:42pm Friday 19th March 2010
VIETNAMESE police are visiting Lancashire this week to see how suspects are treated in custody.
Speed awareness course threshold raised in Lancashire
5:33pm Thursday 18th March 2010
MOTORISTS travelling at up to 10mph over the speed limit are to be offered courses rather than points and fines.
Aerospace boss to be Lancashire High Sheriff
3:30pm Thursday 18th March 2010
ONE of East Lancashire’s most high-profile businessmen has been chosen as the county’s next High Sheriff.
Lancashire petrol station operator: Petrol price hike is not our fault
10:26am Thursday 18th March 2010
ONE of Lancashire’s biggest petrol station operators has told drivers: ‘We are not to blame for price rises’.
Lancashire drug experts warn of after effects of ‘legal high’
9:47am Thursday 18th March 2010
LANCASHIRE drug support experts are set to warn youngsters about mephedrone in schools.
Lancashire police officer arrested on suspicion of money laundering
9:00pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
UPDATE: Two people have been charged by detectives investigating alleged money laundering that led to the arrest of a policeman.
Fighter jet work takes off at Samlesbury BAE plant
11:09am Wednesday 17th March 2010
AEROSPACE giant BAE Systems has started manufacturing work at its East Lancashire site on the first world-leading fighter jet for the British government.
'Dawn to dusk' Ribble Valley patrols to catch irresponsible dog owners
11:50am Tuesday 16th March 2010
A CRACKDOWN on dog owners who let their pets foul at 20 Ribble Valley beauty spots has been launched.
Complaints against Lancs police on the up
6:30pm Monday 15th March 2010
COMPLAINTS against Lancashire police have increased by a third.
Eight extinct Lancashire species revealed
4:44pm Monday 15th March 2010
EXPERTS have revealed eight species that have become extinct — with a warning that East Lancashire's natural heritage is being 'destroyed'.
Lancashire rated one of best police forces
12:21pm Thursday 11th March 2010
LANCASHIRE has been hailed as one of the best performing police forces in the country.
Anger over plans to close 3 waste recycling centres in East Lancashire
12:00pm Thursday 11th March 2010
COMMUNITY leaders have reacted angrily over plans to close three waste recycling centres as part of cost-cutting measures by Lancashire County Council.
Volunteers needed to watch over rare birds in Lancashire
10:23am Thursday 11th March 2010
VOLUNTEERS in Lancashire are being called to help watch over the Ribble’s rarest wildlife.
Woman's 'lucky escape' in Samlesbury crash
4:10pm Wednesday 10th March 2010
UPDATE: A woman from East Lancashire had a lucky escape after the car she was travelling in flipped over on the motorway near Samlesbury this morning.
North West anti-terrorism hotline launched
10:20am Monday 8th March 2010
A CAMPAIGN will be launched today to urge people in the North West to support the fight of terrorism at a neighbourhood level.
Lancashire County Council defends £748m pension deficit
8:50pm Sunday 7th March 2010
COUNTY council bosses have defended their pensions record after it was revealed their scheme had a deficit of £748million.
Lancashire's life-saving gift to Chile
2:46pm Friday 5th March 2010
A ‘TRAPPED person locator’ from Lancashire has been donated to firefighters in Chile.
16,400 people with dementia in Lancashire
2:28pm Friday 5th March 2010
ALMOST 16,400 people in Lancashire are being treated for dementia, new figures have revealed.
24,000 Lancashire civil servants to strike
12:36pm Thursday 4th March 2010
AROUND 24,000 civil servants in Lancashire are set to strike next week over proposals to cut redundancy payments.
2,700 drug abusers in Lancashire
6:50pm Tuesday 2nd March 2010
LANCASHIRE has more than 2,700 drug abusers, with one in nine of those addicted to cocaine, it has been revealed.
Longridge landlady takes put pubs crisis to the top
1:00pm Tuesday 2nd March 2010
A LANDLADY who claims the costs of running a pub are spiralling out of control is at the centre of a Government debate.
Complaints over Lancashire police 'bullying'
10:32am Monday 1st March 2010
A THIRD of all complaints lodged by Lancashire police employees about their colleagues are for bullying or inappropriate behaviour.
Lancashire thugs set dog on pregnant deer
5:19pm Friday 26th February 2010
Thugs in Lancashire set a dog on a pregnant deer and filmed the defenceless animal being savaged and killed on mobile phones, police have said.
Children in Need cash snub to Lancashire
8:20pm Thursday 25th February 2010
NO Children in Need cash has been given to Lancashire despite almost £1million being handed out in the North West.
Lancashire's coldest winter in 30 years set for more misery
3:00pm Tuesday 23rd February 2010
THE COLDEST winter for more than 30 years will be capped off with more miserable weather, forecasters have predicted.
Lancs water bills cut
11:28am Tuesday 23rd February 2010
EAST Lancashire water customers' bills will be cut by £16 next year and there will be further reductions over the next five years, utility bosses have said.
Council tax freeze by Lancashire County Hall
6:39pm Friday 19th February 2010
COUNTY Hall has voted to freeze council tax in the first Conservative budget for almost 30 years.
Lancashire drivers urged to lower CO2 for Lent
6:42pm Friday 19th February 2010
DRIVERS are urged to consider lowering their CO2 emissions for Lent.
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