Politics

Three friends who set up a charity are planning their 11th trip overseas to offer humanitarian aid to refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war.

About 60,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest outside hospital each year in the UK and only one in 10 will survive. Reporter Fiona Finch joined a new county course which aims to help save more lives. .

Plastic items like toys and garden furniture are not currently being recycled in Lancashire and will end up in landfill, the county council has said.

Lancaster’s Judges’ Lodgings museum is to be reopened by Lancashire County Council.

A call is being made to have all political parties represented on a proposed committee for a major Lancaster development.

Plans have been approved for 76 new homes in Halton.

Plans for a new parish council to be set up in Heysham are being discussed.

Lancashire leaders have welcomed news of a crackdown on fixed odds betting terminals (FOBT), as the Gambling Commission recommends the maximum stake is cut to prevent problem betting. When the review was first launched, we spoke to key figures in Preston about whether changes were needed on our high street...

​Tributes have been paid to Labour former whip Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton, who has died aged 77.

Lancaster City Council have ended its partnership with developers British Land for the Canal Corridor site.

During a post-Brexit trade visit to Turkey, Morecambe and Lunesdale MP David Morris visited a refugee camp near the Syrian border.

Councillors called for a community led approach to plans for the Canal Corridor development site in Lancaster at a public meeting this week.

A Lancaster county councillor has written to the government asking for more money to deal with a “growing crisis in children’s social care”.

Lancaster City Council hired a temporary legal officer at a cost of more than £80 an hour for over a year, the Lancaster Guardian has learned.

Two Lancaster residents have spoken out after being branded “unreasonably persistent complainants” by the city council.