Transport

A pedestrian was hospitalised after a crash on a busy Lancashire road.

Tributes have been paid to Preston man John McDougall following his death from injuries he received in a motorbike crash in Australia.

A KEEN Preston North End fan is fighting for his life after being involved in a motorbike smash in Australia.

A two-car smash closed the busy Deepdale Road in Preston this morning.

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

Lancashire’s subsidised bus services could be thrown a 12-month lifeline, despite the county council’s need to cut public spending.

TRANSPORT Secretary Chris Grayling has confirmed the majority of the preferred HS2 route from Crewe to Manchester and the West Midlands to Leeds.

The Government has set out its preferred route for the northern section of HS2.

Bus passengers could end up paying the price for a shift in traffic congestion caused by Preston’s revamped city centre.

Traffic is at a standstill on the M6 with an overturned lorry covering all four lanes.

Traffic is building up on the M55 after a wheelbarrow fell off a flatbed truck and hit the central reservation, police said.

Network Rail insists it remains on track to complete the upgrade of Blackpool’s rail lines by May 2018.

Police are trying to trace a man following a theft on a train.

A car smashed into the front of two homes in Fleetwood.

ONE of Lancashire’s smartest shopping streets has been branded a highway of haves and have nots.

A car crashed into the filling station shop at Forton services.