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  Changes to Lidl’s delayed new supermarket in Darwen have been approved by councillors.

• £150k for homeless supported accomodation

  Blackburn with Darwen Council has made a £150,000 grant to keep 100 bedsits for supported accommodation for the homeless in the coming year.

• Man offered stolen chocolate to police officers

  A man has been arrested in Accrington after allegedly offering stolen chocolate to police.

• Ribble Valley priorities include Tour de France ‘but we need more arts and culture too’

  A Lancashire council’s priorities include spin-off tourism successes from the 2027 Tour de France cycle race – but more local arts and culture events are needed too, a councillor believes.

• Opponents given another nine months to leave Darwen travellers’ camp

  The occupants of a controversial unauthorised travellers’ camp near Whitehall Park in Darwen have been given another nine months to vacate the site despite losing a court case over their right to stay on the land which they own.

• Tributes paid to man who died in Blackburn collision

  A family have paid tribute to a man who died in a collision in Blackburn earlier this month.

• Darwen’s Library Theatre renovation given almost £1million funding boost

  Darwen’s Library Theatre renovation has been given an almost £1million boost by the government.

• New East Lancs free breakfast clubs begin

  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.