Education

Stuart Flinders may be best known as a BBC presenter on north west TV.

For three days Preston is set to be transformed with an arts spectacular for all age groups. Fiona Finch previews this weekend’s Lancashire Encounter and learns how culture could help regenerate the city

Lancashire student Travis Frain survived last year’s Westminster Bridge attack. Now he tells Fiona Finch why lessons must be learned from his and other survivors’ experiences. and why he’ll be part of a special conference this week.

Is your school choir the best one in the county?

A university student has taken the county’s authority to court to win access to his children’s social services records.

Some groups of migrant and refugee children, whose first language is not English, are making better progress in school than the Lancashire average, a council committee has heard.

Garstang Ladies Hockey Club will make history this weekend when double Olympic medallist Hannah McLeod helps mark their return home to the market town after more than 20 years.

Lancashire is acutely suffering from a national teacher shortage – and the Government needs to raise salaries to make the job more attractive.

Do you ever dream of discovering hidden treasure? Are your eyes peeled as you walk across fields looking for a glint of bronze or silver in the ground ? For some people finding such treasure is not the stuff of children’s storybooks but a dream  which comes true.