This category relates to all things to do with politics in Preston.
Traveller group sets up on Waverley Park as council begins action to remove
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]