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Last week’s cancelled World Fireworks Championship event won’t be rescheduled, say Blackpool Council.

A Fleetwood councillor is trying to stage a last-ditch bid to save a much-used children’s play area and multi use games area in Fleetwood.

A Blackpool resident raised concerns at a council meeting about the three-weekly bin collection and food caddies – and said it was leading to an increase in rats around people’s homes – including his own.

Police have charged 33 people and seized significant quantities of drugs, cash and weapons as part of a major operation in Blackpool. 

A council debate raised questions about the actual attendance figure for the 2026 Blackpool Illuminations switch-on event amid unfavourable comparisons with figures for Lytham Festival.

Blackpool councillors have unanimously refused proposals to open a controversial Parrot Experience attraction after agreeing that it would be “detrimental” to the resort.

A Blackpool councillor has called for a long-term strategy to help bring about the return of international flights to the town’s airport.

A decision is set to be made on controversial proposals to open a ‘Parrot Experience’ in Blackpool town centre which have attracted an 16,811-name petition and 18 objection notices.

Preston City Council is once again offering additional financial support to help vulnerable pensioners with the rising cost of living, providing eligible households with a one-off payment of £100 towards food and fuel costs.

Preston residents are being urged to double check their bin collection days ahead of changes being introduced next week.

Preston’s City Centre Neighbourhood Policing Team have secured a closure order at a problem address.

Highways bosses are being urged to extend the safety barrier on a busy bridge that forms part of the main route between Preston and Southport – after the side of the structure was struck three times in the space of six weeks.

The Preston city centre site where the Odeon cinema and Tokyo Jo’s nightclub once stood is to return to being a car park – but with the hope that housing will eventually be built there.

A Preston man who caused significant injuries to a young toddler has been jailed.

A list of projects to deliver improvements to our neighbourhoods and community assets has been approved utilising £1.5 million Pride in Place Capital funding for Preston.

Around 3,500 Preston households are to have their bin collection days changed – some for the second time in six months.

A Burnley man has been jailed for seven years after sexually assaulting a woman in a pub in Cheshire.

Two people have been given suspended prison sentences after admitting serious breaches of fire safety regulations at a nightclub in Burnley.

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

A man has today been jailed for being responsible for his brother’s death in Rossendale in 2024.

Pendle is set to receive £220,000 through the Government's Good Food Neighbourhoods programme, helping improve access to healthy, affordable food for local residents.

A new borough-wide debt and benefits advice service will be created as part of Blackburn with Darwen Council’s £3.7m plan to help residents struggling with the cost of living crisis.

Bus passengers across Ribble Valley, Burnley and Pendle are set to benefit from new routes, more frequent services and better connections across the network.

Major refurbishment work at Rawtenstall Library is continuing, with the building now expected to reopen in early 2027.