East Lancashire News from Monday, October 19th, 2026

A car driver who ran over a man in Accrington town centre has been sentenced to life imprisonment. 

A contractor is being sought for a £1.3m scheme to improve the paths leading up to Darwen’s much-loved Jubilee Tower.

A major employment development on the site of a former abattoir has been given the green light paving the way for dozens of new industrial and warehouse units on a long-vacant brownfield site in Great Harwood.