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The fracking site at Preston New Road

'Unacceptable and unnecessary' - Update on controversial fracking site

Council tax is a local charge collected by councils to fund essential community services (Photo: Pexels)

How your council tax payments are used by authorities across the UK

Work at the new cricket ground in Farington, November 2024

Huge progress in work creating Lancashire Cricket's new home near you

The innovation hub is coming to the Samlesbury Enterprise Zone (image: BDP via Ribble Valley Borough Council planning portal)

How Lancashire plans to 'stop people leaving for better jobs elsewhere'

Long-awaited M55 Link Road sparks new era for drivers on Fylde coast

Long-awaited Heyhouses-M55 Link Road FINALLY opens after 25 years

The final phase of construction on the new M55 to Heyhouses Link Road in Fylde is underway

Final phase of construction on new M55 to Heyhouses Link Road underway

Gift 92 and Selnet staff with Cllr Michael Green at Gift 92's warehouse

Cost of living support ramped up in Lancashire

There has been opposition to plans by Lancashire County Council to introduce pay and display parking fees on Cleveleys and Fleetwood seafronts

Wyre objects to County Council’s parking fee proposals on Fleetwood and Cleveley...

Preston Bus Station

County council announces improvements to bus services across Lancashire

Lancashire hopes to be showing itself off on the world stage again next year

County council commits cash to showcase Lancashire at property festival

There will be 150 charging points at the roadside across Lancashire

New rules to stop non-electric cars parking at charging points in Lancashire

Thornton station looking towards Fleetwood

Are trains or trams the best way to get Fleetwood back on track?

Park Street, Lytham, one of the roads which could be affected if the proposals go ahead

Shock at County Council's parking fees plan

County hall's reserves would have taken a hit if auditors had decided a loan arrangement had been wrongly recorded in the accounts.

County council's accounts get the green light after loan deal caused delay

Drivers who use the short section of bus lane which links Garstang Road to James Towers Way, heading towards the M55 roundabout can expect to beissued with a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN).

Fines warning for Broughton bus lane
People who misuse a bus lane in Broughton will now be face a fine, County Council bosses have warned.
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Today's meeting is at County Hall, Preston

County Council's children's services still under scrutiny

Coun Michael Green

County Council's message to fracking inquiry - don't take our planning powers

Coun Dowding: Public awareness of problems of our throwaway culture is at an all-time high.

County Council to consider banning plastic cups and crockery

Budget cuts are shrinking our bus services

Budget cuts are shrinking our bus services

Roseacre Wood

County council to fight fracking planning appeal

County Hall

Row over Â£1k a day wage for county education chief

County Coun Geoff Driver

County Council's cabinet considers Â£11m new cuts and savings

County Coun Geoff Driver, leader of Lancashire County Council

County Council leader Geoff Driver calls for auditors to investigate payments of...

John Asquith, Operations Manager of Preston Bus

Â£1m boost for county bus services

Andrea Kay

Bus route could return to estate cut-off by cutbacks

Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP Paul Maynard

Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP repeats call for better tram safety
Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP Paul Maynard has hit out at County Hall bosses claiming they are sweeping concerns over tram safety under the carpet.
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County Hall

Refuges spared in big cuts cull

County Hall

Letters - September 13, 2016

Lancashire County Council's deputy leader, County Coun David Borrow

Council chiefs at war in '˜cheek of the devil' row

Yeadon Way, Blackpool

Letters - August 19, 2016

A read-in held by the Friends of Ansdell Library outside the building as part of their campaign to prevent the library's closure

Anxious wait as future of libraries is decided

County Hall

County council among most complained about

Louise McLaren, chairman of the Friends of Ansdell Library

Anger at '˜snub' over libraries

Coun Janice Hanson

County council elects its new chairwoman

Eight-year-old Cara Restrick holds the petition against the closure of Lytham Library with fellow supporters Anne McGettigan, Adam Freeland, Kate Patten, Liz Reddy and Maureen Wilson

Plea for library closures rethink

Paul Maynard speaking in Parliament

Paul Maynard told '˜get your sums right'

Louise McLaren, chairman of the friends of Ansdell library, with a leaflet outlining the case against closure

Booking in for closure protest

Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Council’s plea over nurses’ bursaries

Hoverboard warning

Hoverboard fire risk warning for parents

One in every six adults in Lancashire have never used the internet

The LGA has written a letter about buses

Calls for spending overhaul to save buses

The Number 5 bus en route between Chipping and Longridge

Call to save rural bus routes

Protesters outside the Fracking meeting at County Hall in Preston

‘Fracking would destroy our way of life’ say objectors

Shale debate: Left to right, Bernard Whittle, Janet Thornton, Steve Pye and Mike Damms speak in support of fracking for the North West Energy Task Force in Preston

Bosses tip fracking to boost county

Fracking rigs like this one are a common site in America.

Fracking: County council recommend one approved, one refused

County Hall

Traders celebrate parking victory in council U-turn

Greenpeace activitsts at County Hall

Activists’ 6,000 name claim

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