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Blackpool Council is urging eligible residents to get protected this winter, with free flu vaccinations available, for those eligible, at walk-in clinics across Blackpool and the Fylde Coast. 

Train operator Avanti West Coast has confirmed it is reducing its four daily weekday services to and from Blackpool to just one a day from next week.

Cleveleys is to get a big new illuminated ‘welcome’ sign to greet people coming into the town centre.

A man has been jailed after a six year old girl was fatally struck by a flat-bed truck as she stepped off a bus in Bilsborrow.

Up to 150 people who face being alone on Christmas Day are to be treated to a festive roast dinner – thanks to a big-hearted family and kindly volunteers.

Blackpool South MP Chris Webb has called on the Government to immediately provide funding for two new specialist SEND schools in Blackpool.

A Fylde coast man is on a mission to raise awareness about the dangers of skin cancer.

Alanis Morissette will headline Lytham Festival in 2026, a year after adverse weather forced the last-minute cancellation of her scheduled performance.

Chorley Council has issued an Emergency Prohibition Order on residential flat due to the landlord failing to meet legal housing standards.

A joint operation between Lancashire Police and British Transport Police to break down county lines drug dealing in Preston led to several arrests and the seizure of drugs.

The government has indicated that local elections due to take place in Lancashire next year will go ahead – in spite of calls from four of the county’s councils to cancel them.

Officers from Preston’s Neighbourhood Policing and Prosper Partnership Team have carried out a multi-agency operation to tackle illegal and abandoned vehicles.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a collision in Preston left a man with serious injuries.

A sexual predator who assaulted a woman before going on to try and rape her 12-year-old daughter has been jailed.

Councillors have kicked out plans for a new housing estate on the outskirts of a Preston village – in spite of claims locals backed the development because of the new facilities that would come with it.

A new medical centre is set to be built in Preston, becoming the new base for an established GP surgery whose patient numbers are surging by 20 percent each year.

The boss of a teaching union has told staff striking at a school in Rossendale over the use of a maths teacher based 300 miles away in Devon that they are defending one of the core principles of the profession – the relationship between teacher and pupil.

North-West NHS bosses fear this is the worst flu season in the region in recent years, as cases and hospitalisations rise in time for Christmas.

Blackburn with Darwen’s political boss has warned that the creation of a powerful elected Metro-style Mayor for Lancashire is essential to ensuring the borough and county get the full benefits of devolution.

More than 1100 knives have been taken off the streets across Lancashire’s East Division as part of Sceptre, a national week-long initiative to tackle knife crime.

The cost of repairing and refurbishing Blackburn’s King George’s Hall has soared by 50 per cent from £9million to £13.5m.

A man has been convicted of attempting to kill a man in Blackburn earlier this year.

A man has been found guilty of killing Kirk Marsden in Blackburn.

A man who lured a child to a house in Blackburn before sexually assaulting her has been jailed.