Lancashire County Council decides the best way to abolish itself

Lancashire County Council will be gone in the next few years - but there's still little agreement on how that should look

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A familiar face was missing from Thursday’s full council meeting at Lancashire County Council: newly-independent Cllr Tom Pickup.

As we were first to report this week, Cllr Pickup has been suspended after his involvement in a far-right Whatsapp group that one critic compared to domestic terrorism. Having seen some…