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• Lancaster Music Co-op prepares £100k Arts Council bid to help overcome funding shortfall

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• Warning for patients in Lancaster and Morecambe district as resident doctors set to strike next week

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• Community rallies round as Lancaster charity building remains closed after wall collapse

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• Have your say on multi-million pound Lancaster City Museum revamp plans

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• New owners reveal plans after taking over popular Morecambe pub

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• Morecambe MP "puzzled" at rival's claims over "scaled-back" Eden Project

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• New members of Youth Parliament elected for Lancaster

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