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Traveller group sets up on Waverley Park as council begins action to remove

Caravans have parked up on Waverley Park Pic: Blog Preston A traveller group have set up camp on a city park in Ribbleton. Part of Waverley Park, or Ribbleton Park, is occupied by a number of caravans and vehicles. The […]

2 weeks ago
“It’s quite an emotional moment” – Preston Youth Zone progress on new city centre site takes shape

Preston Youth Zone partners, patrons, trustees and board members were invited to look around the new site in the city centre, opposite Preston Bus Station. Known as The Vault, the […]

3 weeks ago
Unclaimed benefits: Lancashire Welfare Rights Service is helping people unlock thousands of pounds

More than £770,000 has been secured for pensioners in and around Preston in unclaimed benefits including £173,880.54 of which was a lump sum payment. In Chorley, £19,498.85 has been awarded […]

3 weeks ago
Moor Park teenager stabbing is ‘not surprising’ says leading anti-knife crime campaigner from the city

Byron Highton delivers his sessions across the country following the death of his brother Jonjo One of the UK’s leading anti-knife crime campaigners and school educators, who has campaigned since the death of his brother more than a decade ago in Preston, says he is […]

3 weeks ago
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New Preston city centre HMO planned – as council tries to ban new ones

Councillors are being recommended to approve the conversion of a city centre house into bedsits – while plans are being drawn up to ban similar changes. Proposed changes to Preston […]

3 weeks ago
Moor Park retirement apartments on former depot site set for approval

Proposed retirement complex, Moor Park Avenue, Preston Plans to build a block of retirement apartments next to Moor Park are set to be granted planning permission. Preston City Council’s planning committee will meet on Thursday (April 3) […]

3 weeks ago
Preston to seek merger with Lancaster and Ribble Valley in local government shake-up

Approach to Preston Railway Station. Credit: Mark Ashmore Preston should merge with Lancaster and Ribble Valley as part of a forthcoming shake-up of local government, the city’s councillors are set to argue. All three political groups on Preston […]

3 weeks ago
The legacy of Preston’s most radical MP 

Henry Hunt MP Pic: Preston Digital Archive Henry Hunt was a radical. By radical I mean that he advocated for the universal suffrage (the right to vote), parliamentary reform and the rights of working people. But who was […]

3 weeks ago
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