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Beware of the 12 online frauds of Christmas

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WITH around 50% of us expected to buy our Christmas presents online, Julie Waddington from Lancashire County Council’s Trading Standards Service is reminding shoppers that fraudsters have many ways of scamming us for money. “In the past 12 months, Lancashire Trading Standards has received over 1,000 complaints about online traders, from scams to faulty goods,” …

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£150K Funding boost for Lancashire food banks

LANCASHIRE County Council has handed out £150,000 to help people who cannot afford to eat. The money has been given to 22 groups across the county as Food Poverty Grants, to help them ensure they have everything they need to continue supplying food to people who need it most. Some of the groups getting funding …

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500,000 fund to warm up Lancashire’s coldest homes

LANCASHIRE County Council is providing half a million pounds to help warm up the county’s coldest homes this winter. Last winter, emergency hospital admissions due to respiratory illness rose by nearly 25% compared with other times of the year, and research shows there is a link between these illnesses and living in cold conditions. Many …

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