Consumer Alerts September 2025
5th of September, 2025Bogus roofing services offered Residents of sheltered and park home housing are being warned that a trader has been going around the South Ribble area offering to re-roof perfectly sound houses and park homes, wanting deposits up front and claiming t...
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Consumer Alerts August 2025
15th of August, 2025Scam gardening services offered Beware cold callers offering garden services knocking on doors in the West Lancashire area. In one incident the elderly householder agreed to the traders, described as two males in their 20's, both with dark hair, tidy...
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Emergency Alerts Test 2025
30th of July, 2025The UK government is testing the Emergency Alerts system on Sunday 7 September 2025 at 3pm. Your mobile phone or tablet will vibrate and make a loud siren-like sound, even if it’s set on silent. The alert message will confirm this is a test and...
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Courier Fraud Alert
28th of July, 2025We want to make you aware of a serious and growing threat: courier fraud, which has cost victims across the UK more than £21 million in the past year alone. The City of London Police, in partnership with the Metropolitan Police, recently launch...
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Consumer Alerts – July 2025
11th of July, 2025Scam tree services offered Reports have been received regarding cold callers offering tree and shrub cutting services in the Hyndburn area. In one instance the traders claimed the overhanging branches were dangerous, wanted cash and claimed mor...
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Fake QR Code Stickers
29th of June, 2025We want to alert you to a rising scam known as “quishing” (QR phishing), where criminals tamper with parking QR codes to trick people into entering payment and personal information on fake websites. What’s happening: Fraudsters are...
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Vacancy for a Parish Clerk 2025
26th of June, 2025This is open to anyone with office skills and an interest in local affairs who can produce an agenda and take the minutes for meetings, (there are just 5 meetings per year) maintain basic accounting records and keep the website updated. This...
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Consumer Alerts - June 2025
14th of June, 2025Beware scam jet washing services The Service has received reports of cold callers knocking on doors Over Wyre and in the Goosnargh area, offering to clean gutters, clean the moss off roofs and jet wash driveways. In one incident the househ...
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News December 2024
10th of December, 2024Every year we are given a sack of daffodils by Chorley Borough Council’s “Streetscene” department to plant around the parish. You may have noticed a good show this last spring around the benches at the end of Lydiate Lane and S...
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Local Government Elections Thursday 4th May - you now need photo ID to vote at a polling station
30th of March, 2023You now need photo ID to vote at a polling station Wyre Council will be holding Local Government elections on Thursday 4th May 2023. For the first time, residents in Wyre will need to show photographic ID to vote at this year's local...
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