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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.

Blackpool South MP Chris Webb has hailed a major £1.8m Government boost for the town’s SEND schooling provision.

One of Blackpool’s smallest libraries has been shown to generate huge economic and social value for local residents, according to a new report.

Shops selling non-compliant vapes, illicit tobacco, and supplying age-restricted products to children in Blackpool have been shut down by public protection officers.

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.

The hunt will begin within months for the person who will spearhead preparations for the next Preston Guild – even though the event itself is another six years away.

Vandals have left drivers at risk of inadvertently breaching the rules at a controversial bus-only zone in Preston – by turning around a key warning sign.

Preston Caribbean Carnival has been awarded a significant grant from Arts Council England to support the delivery of its 2026 programme.

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.

A man has been disqualified from driving for a year and jailed for eight months for dangerous driving to avoid police.

A contractor has been appointed to deliver the next stage of the complex repair project on Haslingden Old Road.

A registered sex offender has been jailed for breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.