Sandra Perkins wanted to be a registrar. She tells Fiona Finch how decades later she realised she could still achieve her dream by becoming a civil celebrant.
A debate over the future of a committee which examines rights of way issues in Lancashire led to a row about what the group has achieved in its near 20-year history.
Around 6,000 square metres of new industrial space is set to be created in Lancashire if the government gives the go-ahead to an EU-funded project to boost the county’s small and medium-sized businesses.
The education status of more than 2,000 16 and 17-year-olds across Lancashire is unknown – in spite of the fact that it is a legal requirement for them to be undertaking some form of study or training until their 18th birthdays.
Over 1,100 tonnes of salt was saved by Lancashire County Council last winter after it reduced the minimum temperature which had to be forecast before deploying its gritting lorries.
Ten school bus services are set to come off the road across Lancashire – because they have not been used by pupils entitled to free transport for the past two years.
A mother who has been campaigning to protect a short break service for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has welcomed a pledge by Lancashire County Council to reconsider the scheme’s future.
Three sub-regional groups will be set up to oversee child protection activity in different parts of Lancashire when a county-wide safeguarding board is established in the autumn.
Parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Lancashire are “frustrated” that they are yet to see the fruits of a major overhaul of the system on which they rely for help, councillors have heard.
