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Blackpool has unveiled an extraordinary programme of light-based art as the annual Lightpool Festival gets underway.

Blackpool Neighbourhood Policing Teams have executed two Misuse of Drug Warrants at addresses in the Brunswick area.

Residents across Lancashire are being welcomed into their local libraries to get a hot drink, meet new people and to stay warm as temperatures drop.

Blackpool Council’s finances are ‘on the edge’ the town’s opposition leader has warned after new figures showed reserves have dropped to just £76,000.

A campaign urging people to clean up after their dogs is being relaunched in Blackpool to coincide with the arrival of darker nights when many people walk their pets closer to home.

Thousands of tourists arrive daily in Blackpool by coach – boosting the resort’s tourism economy by hundreds of thousands of pounds each day, new research has shown.

Blackpool Council has been forced to write off almost £1.6m of debt with around half of that due to unpaid business rates.

A new housing scheme for Poulton will see 300 homes built in 2025 after planners gave the full scheme the green light.

The popular free family event, Astley Illuminated, returns next month with magnificent light displays, entertainment and more.

A Preston man has been jailed for raping and strangling a woman following an investigation by Lancashire Police.

Part of Preston city centre is to get a new night-time look with the installation of dozens of distinctive streetlights.

A run-down sports facility in Chorley is set to get a new pavilion which will mean football can once again be played on the site.

More than 50 Lancashire funeral homes have so far been inspected after the government recommended local councils check up on the undertakers operating in their area.

A Chorley traveller community who moved onto greenbelt land in the borough 15 years ago and have been fighting for the right to stay there ever since have been granted their wish by councillors.

Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a man died in a collision on the M61 motorway.

A man has been jailed after numerous shoplifting offences in Preston.

BLACKBURN with Darwen Council has no current plans to sell the site of the closed Daisyfield Pools complex when it is demolished, councillors have been told.

EMERGENCY accommodation for some of Blackburn with Darwen’s most vulnerable homeless people will be retained for another winter.

The Hyndburn Neighbourhood Policing Team, in collaboration with multiple partner agencies, carried out Operation Rally this week.

A driver who crashed a car into a police vehicle after travelling the wrong way on roundabout has been jailed. 

A man has been jailed for 40 months after we found a large amount of drugs and cash in an address in Burnley.

People travelling in and around Rawtenstall are being reminded to plan journeys and allow extra time ahead of roadworks starting this week.

A group of Palestine teenagers received a warm welcome by the borough’s Mayor when they visited Blackburn Town Hall on Monday.

Four members of a drugs gang who conspired to flood the streets of Accrington with heroin and crack cocaine they trafficked from Cheetham Hill have been jailed for just over a quarter of a century.