Scaly residents at Blackpool Zoo will be feeling a little cosier this winter thanks to their enclosures being equipped with £5,000 worth of kit seized from a cannabis farm raid.
The careers guidance and work experience on offer to school and college students in Lancashire must not be reliant on future government funding decisions, one of the county’s leading headteachers has said.
Chloe Doherty, of Staining, is working with Blackpool Victoria Hospital to set up a series of meet-ups for members of the community, incorporating various activities with important information on health and wellbeing.
The children of Blackpool’s newest school, Armfield Academy, gave a warm and musical welcome to the VIPs visiting the Lytham Road school for its official opening.
To celebrate the anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birthday, each class at St Wulstan’s and St Edmund’s Catholic Primary School in Fleetwood, chose one of Roald Dahl’s books to read and learn about.
The working week is on average 11.5 hours longer for working parents in the North West, according to new research by Churchill, who are spending this added time cleaning, tidying, cooking and driving.
Latest statistics show one-in-10 of us are dyslexic. For Dyslexia Awareness Week, the British Dyslexia Association is focusing on schools and businesses empowering people with the learning difficulty as Education Reporter SONJA ASTBURY discovers
Batman’s enemy Joker may be no-one’s idea of a role model, but youngsters from some of Blackpool’s most deprived areas are using the villain’s tale to help them overcome adversity.
