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Preston for teens: A young person’s guide to Preston

9th, October 2011 by

The city centre is the heart of Preston. Most of the main shops are situated down Fishergate, a well-constructed high street and Friargate which is just around the corner. From clothes to café’s, the city centre consists of various different shops that meet the needs of everyone. The city centre has a lively feel and is a place where people congregate, socialise and enjoy their [...]

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Comment: Why we’re backing the ‘Autumn of Action’

22nd, September 2011 by

Earlier this week we announced the chance for local people to apply for funding to help change the areas they live in, we thought we’d explain here why we’re backing this initiative. The saying ‘from small acorns’ most definitely applies here. We like to see the good use of public money, and in three of the most deprived areas of our city it is most [...]

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Opinion: How high speed rail will benefit Preston

20th, September 2011 by

HS2 or High Speed 2 as it is known is a government proposal to build a new high speed, high capacity rail line connecting the North with London. The new high speed line will initially connect London to Birmingham and join the West Coast Main Line nears Lichfield, after which it will be extended further North a few years later to include Manchester and Leeds. [...]

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Preston North End: Cup run alive and play-off assault

18th, September 2011 by

The Preston North End weekly roundup is a new feature here at Blog Preston, in association with The Town End. Each and every week, we’ll bring you all the latest news and gossip from Deepdale, not to mention links to match reports, video highlights and more, all in one place. Aside from a season ticket, it’s the best way to keep up to scratch with [...]

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Friends group set up for Fishwick and St Matthew’s

15th, September 2011 by

Preston Council’s Unity FM Neighbourhood Management Office on New Hall Lane closed its doors in April this year, following central government spending cuts. This has left Fishwick and St Matthew’s residents, businesses and local organisations without an important link and means of communicating with the council regarding local issues and developments. To fill the gap left by this closure, local residents have come together and [...]

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Opinion: Why Preston and Blackpool need local TV

9th, September 2011 by

How many times have you sat down in front of BBC North West Tonight or Granada Reports and ended up watching news items about Manchester and Liverpool and assumed that the reason why you’re watching this is because nothing was happening that day in Preston, Southport, Blackpool, Chorley or Leyland? Speaking as someone who knows how the news works, there probably was plenty of news [...]

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Guest post: Preston North End, where did it all go wrong?

25th, May 2011 by

Smarts, doesn’t it? Relegation seemed inevitable for so long, but having coming so close to avoiding the drop, confirmation of relegation was as quick as it was sudden. One fact often mentioned was that North End were the longest-serving team of the Championship. That tells its own story. Football is all about taking your chances, and it can be argued Preston missed their big moment. [...]

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Yes2AV: ‘Canada is proof that the system is broken’

4th, May 2011 by

On Monday night, Canada went to the polls and gave us a perfect example of why the Canadian and British ‘first past the post’ (FPTP) voting system is broken, unfair and needs to be replaced. Only 39.6% of the vote went to the right wing Canadian Conservative Party while 59.5% of the vote went to centre-left parties. What was the result? An absolute majority for [...]

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Opinion: £9,000 for PowerPoint presentations every week? No thanks.

5th, April 2011 by

This is a cross post from Georgia Smith, a second year journalism student at UCLan. The original entry can be found on her blog here. We’ve all known for a while about the coalition government’s decision to remove the cap from university tuition fees – but today’s announcement from the University of Central Lancashire that they are to start charging students £9,000 a year from 2012 [...]

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UCLan announces £9000 fees

5th, April 2011 by

The University of Central Lancashire has just announced its tuition fees for the academic year 2012/13; £9000. The news comes after other universities in the north west including Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores universities, Lancaster University and the University of Manchester all confirmed their move to higher fees. UCLan now joins 29 other universities across the country in announcing the maximum possible fees for its [...]

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New indoor skate park opening delayed

31st, March 2011 by

Untitled from Arc Skatepark on Vimeo. Anger is growing as teens are ‘left in the dark’ over plans for a new skate park in Preston. It was announced at the beginning of the year that the city’s only indoor skating park would be ready this month. The plans will see a 15,000 ft warehouse on School Street converted, which will also include a café, indoor [...]

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Environment vs. jobs: Lancashire’s shale gas drilling investigated

12th, February 2011 by

Just outside a leafy village, not far from Preston, the horizon is broken by a chunk of towering white plastic – a façade for one of Europe’s first shale gas drills. With the decline of natural gas reserves, shale has become big business across the Atlantic. It now accounts for nearly 15 per cent of the United States’ annual gas supply. The West Bowland shale [...]

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Opinion: Why I want Preston Council to be more open and accountable

11th, February 2011 by

John Potter was elected as councillor of the Cadley ward in the 2010 election. He is a Liberal Democrat. Thursday 3rd February saw Preston City Council (PCC) take the first steps towards becoming more open and accountable to it’s citizens. At the full council meeting I put forward my first notice of motion (NOM) since I was elected as a Liberal Democrat Councillor on September [...]

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