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Gawthorpe Hall credit Lancashire Museums - Simon Critchley

Museums ready to welcome visitors again after winter clean

Four of Lancashire’s historic mills and houses are ready to welcome visitors for the 2024 season.  

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Loving homes needed for children aged three and older

Loving homes are needed for children in Lancashire and Blackpool, especially for those aged three and older.

Some of the posters on display in Jeffreys' printing room

Poster fraudster ordered to pay back £500,000

A fraudster jailed for more than three and a half years for creating counterfeit posters has been ordered to pay back more than £500,000.

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13 Lancashire pharmacies to offer MMR vaccines as measles cases continue to rise

Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines will be made available for children in a number of local community pharmacies as part of a regional initiative.

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Public invited to drop-in session to discuss £600k revamp of Castle Street in Clitheroe

A drop-in session will take place in Clitheroe next week offering residents and businesses a sneak preview of exciting plans for a £600,000 revamp of Castle Street.

An image of County Hall in Preston city centre

Funding for new road safety schemes announced

For those of you following the story about the announcement from the Department for Transport of £38m new funding for safer roads across England, here is some more information about the proposed schemes in Lancashire.

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Signs of future development at Lancashire Central

Marketing signs have been erected at Lancashire Central, the major strategically important employment site, which is set to attract new businesses and thousands of jobs to the county.

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Vital new bus service set to be restored

A much-needed, cross border bus service is set to return to the Ribble Valley.

Leader of the county council Phillippa Williamson plants a tree at the Samlesbury Enterprise Zone.

Trees planted at Samlesbury Enterprise Zone

Thousands of trees have been planted at Samlesbury Enterprise Zone, as part of landscaping and ecology work on the site.

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Lancashire's waste recycling is set to be revolutionised

Preparations are being made for a quiet revolution, which is about to take place in waste recycling in Lancashire.

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Council backs Combined County Authority for Lancashire

County Councillors have backed plans to set up a Combined County Authority (CCA) in Lancashire.

Lancashire's incoming High Sheriff, Helen Bingley OBE JP DL

Lancashire's new High Sheriff whose main priority is helping people and supporting communities

Helping and reaching out to communities is uppermost in the mind of Lancashire's new High Sheriff.