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Blackpool’s Illuminations attracted in two-in-every-five visitors to the resort in late summer and autumn last year.

Blackpool and the Fylde College has been chosen to provide major new courses linked to Britain’s defence industry and potentially “highly-skilled, well-paid jobs”, thanks to a £10m investment.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced the new eagerly-awaited driving test centre for Blackpool will open later this week.

A prolific burglar who targeted businesses across Blackpool and St Annes town centres has been jailed for four years and six months following a series of break-ins that caused significant damage and financial loss.

A well-known Blackpool nightclub is set to reopen under new management.

Tributes have been paid to a teenager from Poulton who drowned while swimming in the Lake District.

Blackpool Council has appointed a team with ‘lived experience’ as it looks to create better quality adult social care after a damning “inadequate” CQC report last year.

The future of the much-loved Fleetwood to Knott End Ferry has been cast into doubt after a new statement from Wyre Council.

Police are investigating after a large cannabis grow was discovered in Preston.

Preston City Council’s series of new waste and recycling initiatives begin next week

The family of a man who died in a collision in Rivington have paid a heartfelt tribute to him.

A long-running Preston nightclub has closed temporarily ahead of a possible rebrand.

A man has been arrested after a police chase through Preston ended in a crash involving several vehicles.

Eighty-three candidates will battle it out for places on Preston City Council at the local elections next month.

A teenage boy has been charged after a fire at a nightclub in the grounds of the Park Hall Hotel near Chorley.

Police are appealing for witnesses and footage after a man in his 30s died following a single vehicle road traffic collision in Rivington.

Thirteen new East Lancashire free breakfast clubs are among 116 which have opened this week across the North-West as the government overhauls school dinners nationwide.

Urgent demands have been made for flooding to be tackled on the M65 in east Lancashire, ‘before any more loss of life or injuries’.

A predatory paedophile from East Lancashire who sexually abused two young girls has been jailed for 26 years.

Pendle Council’s leader says he ‘resents’ implications that public consultation about how a £1.5m government grant should be spent in towns and villages has not been robust.

Hyndburn MP Sarah Smith and the council’s Labour group have backed a union proposal for the staff of the East Lancashire BT offices scheduled for closure in the Blackburn telephone exchange.

Police are appealing for witnesses and footage after a man died in a collision in Blackburn.

Two people have been arrested as part of an investigation into the death of a man from Blackburn.

Five men who ran or assisted in running the ‘Max’ drug line, based in Bradford, bringing drugs across into East Lancashire, have been jailed.