Archive January 2009

Lancaster City Council is raising awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide with a simple-to-enter competition and a chance to win a free carbon monoxide alarm for your home.

05/01/09

This news item has an image associated with it, automatically thumbnailed. Some extra summary text here to see summary text flows around a thumbnail image, if there is lots of summary text and a thumbnail image.

08/01/09

A local retailer pleaded guilty at Lancaster Magistrates Court last week (Wednesday, 7 January) to a charge under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act.

12/01/09

The new Platform Spring and Summer 2009 brochure is now available and packed with details of the exciting and varied programme of concerts and events on offer over the next few months.

12/01/09

A unique journey of music, song and chat reliving the swinging sixties comes to the Platform in Morecambe on Saturday February 7, with Gerry Marsden and the new Pacemakers.

14/01/09

Award winning comedian Jason Manford has announced he is adding an extra date to his UK tour for those people who are unable to see him in Morecambe later this week.

14/01/09

Former members of the Boomtown Rats, Garry Roberts and Simon Crowe will be in concert at the Platform with their new band, The Rats, on Saturday January 31.

14/01/09

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears, has decided that Lancaster City Council’s resolution to grant planning permission for the Canal Corridor North planning application will be tested at a public inquiry.

14/01/09

Lancaster City Council has launched its annual Visitor Guide to the area.

14/01/09

Anyone with an interest in the provision of more allotments in the district is invited to attend the next meeting of Lancaster City Council’s Allotments Task Group.

14/01/09

Lancaster City Council is stepping up patrols in Morecambe’s Happy Mount Park in response to a recent spate of vandalism.

15/01/09

Could your street benefit from a spring clean?

16/01/09

Wrestling is in the news thanks to the success of movie ‘The Wrestler’ - which earned Mickey Rourke a Golden Globe for best actor and is hotly tipped to win him an Oscar.

19/01/09

Proposals to close Hornby High on August 31 2009 will be discussed by Lancaster City Council’s Overview and Scrutiny committee later this month.

19/01/09

Lancaster City Council is sad to announce the death of Honorary Alderman Arthur Briggs MBE.

21/01/09

A Lancaster off licence will not be authorised to sell alcohol on the weekend of January 24 and 25 because of a two day suspension of its licence.

21/01/09

Every year fireworks being used for antisocial behaviour are a blight on many people’s lives. For the past few years, however, agencies such as the Lancaster City Council, Police and Lancashire Fire and Rescue, have worked together on Operations ‘Bright Sparx' and are now in the happy situation of finding that it has worked.

22/01/09

Lancaster City Council is offering a variety of sports and arts activities to keep youngsters aged from 4 to 16 busy over the half term holidays (February 16 - February 20).

26/01/09

Lancaster City Council has begun an assessment of its 37 conservation areas.

27/01/09

Simon Yates, one of the world’s most famous and accomplished mountaineers, brings his lecture and slideshow ‘Beyond the Void’ to the Platform on Friday February 13.

28/01/09

Top marks have been awarded to Lancaster City Council’s two visitor information centres following a mystery shopper visit by the North West Development Agency.

28/01/09

Lancaster City Council has endorsed evidence from the Local Government Association to a Parliamentary Select Committee on the Icelandic banking crisis.

29/01/09

Formidable Scottish trio, Lau, will perform at the Platform on Saturday February 14.

29/01/09

This spring the Dome has some fantastic entertainment on offer from children’s shows to magic, ballet and rock music.

30/01/09

Love is Like a Red, Red Rose, a St Valentine Day concert by the Kenmore Trio, will take place at The Platform in Morecambe on Sunday February 15 at 3pm.

30/01/09

Magistrates have upheld a decision by Lancaster City Council’s Licensing Regulatory Committee to revoke a taxi driver’s licence for letting down the tyres of a policeman’s fast response vehicle.

30/01/09