Lancashire Magazines

OVER 1,000 was raised for disabled children and young people at the Long-Shaw Kids Fund annual Spring Fayre.

YOUNG People are invited to discover the fine art of 'yarn-bombing' at Clitheroe's historic castle.

DOORSTEP clothing collections may not be what they seem with many resulting in only small sums being donated to charity according to evidence gathered by Lancashire County Council Trading Standards Service.

BUS users in Skelmersdale will receive a boost when services from the Concourse to local estates are extended later into the evening.

ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF LANCASHIRE On Sunday 3 June 2012, Dennis Mendoros OBE, DL, Managing Director of Euravia Engineering and special guests on board the historic ocean racing yacht "Sceptre", will join one of the largest flotillas ever assembled on the river, to take part in the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.

ARMCHAIR archaeologists are being urged to grab a spade and get stuck in to help uncover the history hidden in their own backyard.

LANCASHIRE County Council's Welfare Rights Service has celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary by receiving national recognition for the high quality of its work.

Do you think you could join the hundreds of foster carers already discovering the rewards of sharing their lives with children who need a home? Come along to find out more, have a cup of tea and a chat with experienced social workers at an information evening on: Wednesday 16 May 2012, 7 - 9 pm at St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, Higher Walton Road, Walton-le-Dale, Preston, PR5 4HD.

SEVENTEEN schools have been shortlisted for the final of the Chairman's Challenge - an annual competition to encourage healthy, 'green' and safe activities in schools.

ROAD safety on a Preston estate will receive a boost when interactive signs are introduced to help reinforce the 20mph limit.

AN AWARDS ceremony has taken place to pay tribute to people who work or volunteer for Lancashire's Youth Offending Team (YOT).

Lancashire County Council and 22 other local authorities from the north west are using this year's Foster Care Fortnight (14 - 27 May) to highlight the urgent and growing need to recruit more foster carers.

THE Fylde coast is looking its best in readiness to welcome visitors this summer thanks to new directional signs unveiled by Lancashire County Council.

'SOMETHING for everyone' is the promise for young people between the age of 13 and 19 in the Clitheroe area under a new programme of activities to be launched later this month.

'SOMETHING for everyone' is the promise for young people, between the age of 13 and 19 in the Longridge area, under a new programme of activities to be launched later this month.

LANCASHIRE County Council is warning that work to lay a smooth new road surface will mean Longridge Household Waste Recycling Centre will be closed on the morning of Friday 25 May.

Maureen Laycock celebrated 40 years of living in the same Preston home at a special party last week.

GRADUATE trainees will be 'shadowing' politicians to find out more about the role of county councillors in their communities.

THREE volunteers have been presented with awards for their outstanding volunteering achievements for the Home Library Service at a recent event at St Annes Library.

NATIONALLY renowned restaurateur Paul Heathcote MBE has been announced as the new Chairman of Marketing Lancashire today.

Van driver Iqbal Singh (pictured), 39, who was on the run from the UK Border Agency, killed Malcolm Anderson, 54 in the accident on the M6 near Coventry.

A cabinet of professors and diplomats is sworn in in Greece to steer the debt-ridden eurozone state into repeat elections on 17 June

US singer Donna Summer, famous for disco hits including I Feel Love, Love To Love You Baby and Love's Unkind, dies at the age of 63.

The Olympic flame is officially handed over to organisers of the London 2012 Games at a ceremony in Athens.

The Olympic flame is officially handed over to organisers of the London 2012 Games at a ceremony in Athens.

The Olympic flame is officially handed over to organisers of the London 2012 Games at a ceremony in Athens.

Concern over the eurozone debt crisis has continued to weigh on financial markets, with the euro dropping more than a cent against the US dollar,

Britain's Andy Murray is beaten 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 6-2 by 16th seed Richard Gasquet of France in the Italian Open third round.

Spanish banks are being made to set aside billions to protect against losses from a property price crash in the country. What is the impact on UK savers with Santander?

Spain joined Greece in the firing line today as fears about the country's banking sector fuelled another grim session for world markets.

Children from racial and ethnic minorities now account for more than half the births in the US, estimates from the latest census data say.

Facebook shares will begin trading in New York on Friday in one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.

Facebook shares will begin trading in New York on Friday in one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.

Shares in Spanish bank Bankia close sharply lower as it is forced to deny a report of a large amount of withdrawals from the troubled group.

Shares in Spanish bank Bankia close sharply lower as it is forced to deny a report of a large amount of withdrawals from the troubled group.

Robotic arm controlled by thought - Two patients who are paralysed from the neck down are able to control a robotic arm using their thoughts. [BBC Health]

Google 'Knowledge Graph' turns entire internet into one big Wikipedia - Google says this is a 'critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do.' [Daily Mail IT]

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Mind-bending: Controlling your Windows PC with your brain is possible (and the hardware is already on the shelves) - Now we are getting ready to enter the world of thought-control, with headsets that can read our minds now available for as little as £300, and the software to turn our dreams into actions starting to take shape. [Daily Mail IT]

Waste company 'bullying clients' - A waste company stands accused of bullying small businesses by using unfair contracts to ramp up charges, the BBC has learned. [BBC Business]

Greece unity talks hit stalemate - The latest attempts to form a Greek government are said to be deadlocked, raising the prospect of fresh elections and more eurozone uncertainty. [BBC Business]

Google brings instant answers to search results - Type in 'Mona Lisa', and a biography appears right on the page (on the right hand side), type in 'Leonardo DiCaprio' and you get a list of his films, and suggested related searches. [Daily Mail IT]

Sixth of cancers due to infection - One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest. [BBC Health]

New car sales rise 3.3% in April - New car sales in the UK rose to 142,322 in April, up 3.3% from a year earlier, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says. [BBC Business]

Local elections 2012: Bloody nose for David Cameron as Labour on course to gain 700 seats - The PM, who suffered embarrassing losses in his own Oxfordshire constituency, apologised to Tory councillors today as more than 700 were expected to lose their seats in the crushing defeat for the party. [Daily Mail Show Biz and TV]