Trading Standards help pubs and clubs make age checks during festivities
Revellers can expect to be asked for proof they are old enough to buy alcohol or tobacco over the festive period following a campaign by Lancashire County Council Trading Standards Service to ensure...
View Article60 take part in Christmas baby and child service
More than 60 people took part in a baby and child remembrance service at Ormskirk hospital. Salvation Army band members provided music for the informal service which was led by the Rev Martin Abrams,...
View ArticleSHARES Pupil Parliament visit The Birchwood Centre and present gifts...
SHARES Pupil Parliament visited The Birchwood Centre today to present gifts collected by Skelmersdale and Upholland Primary Schools. The staff at Birchwood have sent the following feedback after this...
View ArticleFall in teenage pregnancies locally
Latest released data from the Office of National Statistics indicates an ongoing reduction in the numbers of teenage pregnancies in St Helens. The latest quarter’s data showed that in July-September...
View ArticleMost improved award for A&E waiting time performance
The outstanding progress staff made towards meeting waiting times in A&E has won Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust an award for Most Improved Trust in the North of England. A&E at the...
View ArticleOpen Auditions for Legally Blonde
CASTING OPPORTUNITY. Plastersine, the theatre production company that took you back to the fabulous 50’s with ‘Grease’, moved you to tears with ‘Les Misérables’, and sent you on a bizarre, colourful...
View ArticleLancashire County Council response to local government finance settlement
Lancashire County Council has responded to measures announced by the government to address rising social care costs. Councils can currently apply a 2% social care precept to council tax to help towards...
View ArticleWest Lancashire pharmacy opening hours over Christmas and New Year 2016/17
Residents in West Lancashire are being reminded that if they should fall ill over the Christmas and New Year bank holidays, that help is at hand in the form of several local pharmacies. Your local...
View ArticleInnox wrap up successful 2016 by supporting Christmas Jumper Day
After a successful 2016, Innox Trading Ltd have written another line into their story by raising money for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day 2016. Innox Trading Ltd operate Chemist-4-U, an...
View ArticleChocolate Orange Challenge 2016 sees over 7,000 donations
A mountain of chocolate oranges stood proudly in the town hall assembly room earlier this morning, ready to be delivered to hospitals and hospices across the North West. Around 7,000 Terry’s Chocolate...
View ArticleMayoral engagements, week commencing Monday 19 December
19 December 2016 11.30am Elm Tree Community Primary School, Skelmersdale The Mayor and Consort will visit Elm Tree Community Primary School 19 December 2016 7.00pm St. Anne’s Church, Ormskirk The Mayor...
View ArticleChristmas and New Year recycling and waste collections
With Christmas and New Year to look forward to, there’s always that little bit of confusion in households about recycling and waste collections. There will be three weeks of affected dates over the...
View ArticlePedestrian injured following collision in Cleveleys
We are appealing for witnesses after a woman was injured following a collision in Cleveleys. The collision happened at around 10am on Friday (December 16) when the woman, 71, was walking her two dogs...
View ArticleMan wanted in connection with assault in Skelmersdale
We are appealing for the public’s help to trace a man who is wanted. Andrew McNair, 24, of Willow Hey, Skelmersdale is wanted in connection with an assault which happened on Saturday, December 17. He...
View ArticleAppeal for information made after elderly woman is robbed in Atherton
An appeal for information has been made after an elderly woman was robbed whilst she was withdrawing money outside a supermarket in Atherton. The 72 year old woman had been taking money from an ATM...
View ArticleCampaign promotes benefits of breastfeeding
St Helens Council’s Healthy Living Team has launched a new campaign to promote breastfeeding and its benefits for mum and baby. The campaign, called ‘Your Story Your Milk’, has been developed following...
View ArticleWest Lancashire residents reminded to use A&E responsibly over Christmas
With Christmas merely days away, health chiefs in West Lancashire are urging local residents to consider how they use 999 and A&E over the festive period. As many prepare to tuck into turkey,...
View ArticleHow to report stray dogs at Christmas
West Lancashire Borough Council has made arrangements for residents to report stray dogs between Christmas and New Year. If you need to report a stray dog between 24 December 2016 and 2 January 2017...
View ArticlePublic speaking at Council meetings
Residents who want to give their views on an item on a Borough Council agenda are being reminded that they have that chance. People living in West Lancashire have the chance to speak on certain agenda...
View ArticleHow building a dalek helped my chronic pain
A father with chronic pain surprised staff and patients at Southport hospital when he toured the wards with his homemade, life-sized dalek. Kevin Howard has been using the pain service for 14 years...
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