Surrounded by heart red balloons, big poster pinups of local sports celebrities and volunteers in ‘ I Love Preston’ t-shirts handing shoppers with recyclable brown bags that boldly read ‘ […]

Angry local campaigners rallied against the planned closure of the Avondale Unit at the Flag Market on Saturday. The rally, planned by Save the Avondale For Everyone (SAFE), protested against the […]

The Continental still has a few places left on their two day ‘No Drama’ workshop, starting tomorrow. It gives 11-16 year olds the chance to create their own piece of theatre from […]

ALL community support officers have been told that their jobs could disappear as soon as March 2011. Lancashire Police currently employs 409 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), and every one […]

We covered the Comprehensive Spending review throughout the day in the form of a live blog, bringing in images, audio, video and content from our audience, both in the form […]

We asked you on twitter what your thoughts were on today’s spending review. Here’s the best of them. @djbentley liked – no new trident, £2bn extra for social care, pupil […]

I’ve made a map using data from the Guardian Datastore, which looks at the percentage of each local authority that’s employed by the public sector. Preston features pretty high, coming […]

Protesters in the town centre