- PM picks up shopping on way home
- Rhyming plea over library closures
- British passenger 'fell from liner'
- 1,000 people expected in marches
- Towns regeneration contest launched
- Met and FBI call 'taped by hackers'
- New cancer cases 'up 30% by 2030'
- Protesters attack Syrian embassy
- Widespread snow looms for weekend
- PM accepts White House invitation
- I feel fantastic, says Robin Gibb
- Paedophile jailed over porn seizure
- Three die in Legionnaires' outbreak
- John Terry loses England captaincy
- Redknapp has 'back to the wall'
- No pub assault charge for Downing
- Ex-PCSO jailed for rape of girl, 12
- Facebook stalker guilty of murder
- 21 years for street killer husband
- BT in 'ultra-fast' broadband pledge
Entertainment
Book review: The Secret Children by Alison McQueen
James MacDonald is a son of the British Empire, a rich tea planter in India with a distinguished family history ... the lives of his two beautiful daughters should be mapped out for comfort and wealth.
Book review: Selection of OUP children’s books
February sees an exciting new selection of books from the classy stable at Oxford University Press Children’s Books.
Book review: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Draw the curtains, throw a log on the fire and cosy up with one of the most bewitching books likely to come your way this year.
Book review: Educating Jack by Jack Sheffield
Shoulder pads, pixie boots, Curly Wurly bars, ET, Dallas, Cagney and Lacey, Boy George and the Falklands War ... who could forget the 1980s?
Artists put on show of dedication
WORK by artists from Silverdale Art Group is currently on display at the Heron Theatre, Beetham, near Milnthorpe.
Designer chairs on display
AN exhibition of designer chairs is to go on display at a Lancaster gallery.
Howdenjones return to Dukes
LANCASTER duo howdenjones make a welcome return to The Dukes next Saturday, performing songs from their new album Plaything.
Book review: Matron on Call by Joan Woodcock
One minute you can be saving someone’s life, the next stemming a simple nosebleed or getting to grips with an aggressive drunk ... there’s never a dull moment in a busy hospital casualty department.
Popular guitarist set for Kendal gig
ONE of the most talked about guitarists and songwriters in the North West will be bringing his intriguing brand of blues to Kendal this weekend.
Book review: The Map by T.S. Learner
Mystery, history, war and mysticism are always a potent mix but place them in the capable hands of thriller writer T.S.Learner and they become a work of pure alchemy.
Book review: An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo
General Charles Gordon, better known as the legendary Gordon of Khartoum, is the unlikely hero of a powerful and emotive new novel from a writer noted for her socialist feminist crime stories.
Zumba coming to Halton
ZUMBA, the Latin-inspired, easy-to-follow, calorie-burning, dance fitness craze is coming to Halton.
Book review: The Greek Myths by Robin Waterfield
What is the famous riddle of the enigmatic Sphinx and why did the powerhouse known as Hercules have to perform those twelve superhuman labours?
Lively Lavelle mixes up a DJ thriller at library
James Lavelle most definitely rocked Lancaster library on Sunday night with a house music-led DJ set that incorporated plenty of his trademark sounds.
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Book review: Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times by Sarah Bradford
The Abdication crisis, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the Swinging Sixties, the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall ... not since Queen Victoria has a British monarch lived through a period of such momentous events and profound change.
Win chance to see Chemical Brothers
RENOWNED more for their festival headline slots and arena-sized global tours, electronic music pioneers The Chemical Brothers take to the big screen in Lancaster next month.
Book review: The Istanbul Puzzle by Laurence O’Bryan
You don’t need to have visited the ancient and mysterious city of Istanbul to soak up the terrific atmosphere in Laurence O’Bryan’s superb debut novel.
Book review: Perdition by James Jackson
As war approaches, the toughest battles ahead are often those fought in the mind...
Book review: The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams
The shadowy streets and alleyways of Spitalfields in early Victorian London are dens of vice, filth and poverty.
Spring into dance with Ludus classes
NEW Year, new resolutions, a new start – that’s the promise of Ludus Dance as it sets out its stall of new dance classes for 2012.
Going gaga for the first lady of folk
The “Lady Gaga of freak folk” comes to the Yorkshire House in Lancaster next month.
Dukes shows off with snow
IT may not have been a white Christmas but a Lancaster theatre is promising plenty of snow.
Book review: The Child Inside by Suzanne Bugler
Since she lost her stillborn daughter ten years ago, Rachel Morgan has felt herself to be outside life, looking in.
Artists put the Bay on display
LANCASTER’S Maritime Museum is inviting people to an exciting exhibition inspired by the sands of Morecambe Bay.
Book review: Selection of Macmillan Children’s Books
As a new school term gets underway, the youngest members of the family are heading off to the library to find the pick of the new crop of books.
Book review: Dickens’s Victorian London by Alex Werner and Tony Williams
‘Wealth and beggary, vice and virtue, guilt and innocence, repletion and the direst hunger ... the great heart of London throbs in its Giant breast.’
Book review: The Duke is Mine by Eloisa James
When a girl’s betrothal springs not from love or greed (the two usual suspects) but from a curse, you know this story is not going to be a run-of-the-mill romance.
Rap up warm to rock the next three months
A musician with 40 albums under his belt, a superstar DJ, a lad with a lisp and some stories to tell, a female chart topper and an “exquisite” American duo all appear at Lancaster library over the next three months.
Edinburgh Fringe show comes to Lancaster
AN acclaimed show, which enjoyed a six-night run at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, comes to Lancaster later this month.
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Weather for Lancaster
Saturday 04 February 2012
Today
Light snow
Temperature: 1 C to 3 C
Wind Speed: 22 mph
Wind direction: South east
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 3 C to 7 C
Wind Speed: 12 mph
Wind direction: West
