lamps


A man offers to pay for the street lamps in his village to be switched on after they were turned off in a money saving bid.

Eight areas are earmarked for a £1m street lighting improvement programme in Merseyside.

EU plans to phase out the use of traditional light-bulbs need to be a shining example for the rest of the world to follow.

Residents of a Bolton street waiting for their five-year-old street lamps to be switched on are promised light by Christmas.

A councillor pledges an increase in his county council allowance to pay for some street lights to be turned back on in his town.

A plan to reverse a decision to turn off thousands of street lights is thrown out by councillors.

A man is in hospital with serious injuries after his car hits a lamp post, wall and lands upside down in a petrol station.

A big street light switch-off by a council risks plunging a county into 18th Century blackness, claims an MP.

A council starts switching off more than 9,000 of its street lights in an attempt to save money.

A council threatens a schoolboy with an £80 fine for putting up lost cat posters on lamp posts.

An inquiry rules that a fatal garage blaze was probably due to fuel vapour ignited by a lamp or other equipment.

A Sinn Fein MLA says he is unhappy Irish tricolours are being flown from lamp posts in Dungiven to commemorate a dead hunger striker.

A rare Chinese vase valued at £50,000 in mint condition sells for £25,000 after a hole was drilled in its base so it could be used as a lamp.

Ford Focus cars have headlights or rear lamps removed in a spate of thefts in a Northumberland town.

A council is to turn off more than 9,000 street lights instead of a planned 5,000 to save even more money.

A rare Chinese vase worth £50,000 is listed to sell for just £6,000 after it was converted into a lamp.

Police in Bannockburn investigate after solar lamps, a wind chime and a vase are stolen from a graveyard.

Meet the people willing to fight to the bitter end to keep their old lamp-posts/cobbles/trees/railings.

About 20 street lamps have been left switched on for 24 hours a day, causing anger among residents.

Iconic Savile Row is to revert to the era of old Victorian gas lamps - with a modern look.

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