Politics

Cash earmarked for Guild Wheel improvements is to be reallocated to a project revamping Preston city centre.

A LANCASHIRE MP has spoken out after being cleared following a six-month police probe into her reporting of election spending.

New social spaces for the University of Central Lancashire could be completed by autumn 2017 after planning permission was granted by Preston City Council.

Loft living is coming to Preston with the aim of revitalising the city centre like Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield.

Access to a new development of 600 homes has been described as a “death trap”.

Thousands of children are still living on the breadline in Blackpool, which has one of the worst levels of child poverty in Lancashire, new figures reveal.

A scheme to widen roundabouts along a major arterial road has been slammed for poor planning.

A village library near Preston will shut later this month as part of a raft of closures.

An action group is calling on residents of South Ribble to contact their local councillors over proposals to build an Ikea store on land between Lostock Hall and Farington.

Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle has written to Defence Secretary Michael Fallon to urge him to reconsider the decision to close Fulwood Barracks.​

Furniture giant Ikea could be opening a new store near Preston, the flagship name of a major new retail park.

Morecambe MP David Morris has reacted to the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA.

Residents will get their say on a major new housing and employment development after consultation was approved by South Ribble planning bosses.

A councillor has spoken of his ordeal after jurors cleared him of allegations he attacked his ex-partner by thrusting a cup of tea into her face.

Lancashire was today welcomed into the Northern Powerhouse “family” after the signing of a landmark agreement.

A campaign to grow the county’s economy by £50m by 2018 has been launched.

The first shots in the defence of Fulwood Army Barracks have been fired.