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Lancashire County Council publishes monthly alerts. Click here to read the latest and keep yourself safer.
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Any of us could foster
Lancashire County Council is asking people to consider what transferable skills they may have gained from careers or life experience to make good foster carers. This could be anything from more obvious jobs like teaching assistants or care workers, to stay-at-home parents or shop assistants with people skills. Any of these roles may have people
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Winter in Lancashire
The County Council’s Winter in Lancashire web page contains everything you need to know, including daily updates, about its work to keep the roads open in poor conditions. It also has advice on how you can stay safe, warm, and well.
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Lancashire Parish Council Conference
November 2023. Councillor Wilson attended the County Council’s annual Parish and Town Council Conference, held in Preston, via online video link. There were several presentations on aspects of County Council work relevant to parish councils, including: 1. Devolution may be coming to Lancashire soon, and if it does it will bring the county more powers,
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New clerk for Tatham Parish Council
April 2023. A warm welcome to our new clerk, Marie Brady. Marie joins us after a year during which councillors have been carrying out the demanding work of the Parish Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer to the best of their abilities. Marie is a resident of Horwich, but has a mobile home near Bentham and
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What happens to your green box waste?
Read the answers from Lancaster City Councillor Dave Brookes, Cabinet Member for Environmental Services, which includes waste collection (note that waste disposal is the responsibility of the County, not the City Council).
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Cost of Rural Living Survey
January 2023. The Rural Services Network and Citizens Advice Rural Issues Group are running a survey to discover how the Cost of Living Crisis is affecting people living in rural areas. Anonymous if you wish and no difficult questions – takes under 5 minutes! Click here to complete the survey.
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New Culture & Sport Fund for Lancashire
December 2022. Lancashire County Council recently launched the Lancashire Culture and Sport Fund. Not-for-profit community sport/cultural projects that could improve the health, well-being or cultural experience of a community, and which meet the eligibility criteria could secure a pledge from the Fund: up to £20,000 for groups or organisations; £5000 for parish councils; £1500 for
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Jubilee Mugs for Tatham’s Children
June 2022. A specially commissioned commemorative Platinum Jubilee mug has been presented by Councillors Osborne and Ray, on behalf of the Parish Council, to every child in the parish aged under 11 years. The attractive and distinctive mugs were designed and hand-thrown locally at Bentham Pottery. Click images to enlarge
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Dark Skies of the Bowland AONB
June 2022. Councillors Osborne and Stone attended a Forest of Bowland AONB on-line presentation by local astronomer Robert Ince. Truly dark skies are increasingly rare in England; light pollution is creeping into almost every corner, diluting the pitch blackness of night and obscuring the stars for much of the population. Though far from being unaffected,
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