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SLIDESHOW: Cancercare’s Santa dash in Lancaster

Hundreds took part in the Santa dash around the city centre in aid of the CancerCare charity.

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SLIDESHOW: Pictures from Lancaster’s Christmas lights switch on

Thousands visited the city centre over the weekend to attend the Christmas lights switch on event.

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Police are appealing for witnesses after a crash on Mellishaw Lane.

Three hurt after smash in Morecambe

A man suffered serious injuries and two other people were hurt in a crash on Mellishaw Lane.

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Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward

Investigation into fire at Morecambe flats

An investigation has been launched after a fire broke out in flats on Euston Road.

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Gift shop

Where are the best gift shops?

With Christmas around the corner, we all need a little inspiration.

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Chorley lights switch-on

Top 10 things to do in Lancashire at the weekend

Here is a list of upcoming events this weekend.
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Jeanette Morgan with some of the poppy armbands she has made. So far she has had requests for up to 1200 of the armbands. Teams pay a suggested donation of 50 pence per armband so Jeanette could raise up to �600 for the Royal British Legion poppy appeal.

Morecambe woman’s poppy armband pledge

Youth football players in Morecambe and Lancaster will be sporting poppy armbands in matches this Remembrance weekend thanks to a local business woman.

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Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill visits Trumacar Primary School, in Heysham.

British Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill visits Heysham primary school

One of Britain’s greatest ever Olympians has visited a Heysham primary school.

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Abandoned baby otter rescued from garden

Abandoned baby otter rescued from garden

A baby otter has been rescued from a garden after apparently being abandoned by her parents.

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'The Heavyweight House of Pain' Stixx, seen here after a successful title defence at the Winter Gardens in September, is retiring from professional wrestling.

Emotional Morecambe farewell to wrestling champion on a nine-year winning streak

A champion wrestler who has been undefeated in Morecambe for almost nine years is hanging up his trunks and boots.

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Missing: Sarah Mansfield

Updated: Missing 15-year-old girl found safe

Police say they have found a missing teenager after an appeal for help.

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Acre Moss Lane

Garage blaze being treated as ‘suspicious’

Police and fire officers are investigating a blaze in a domestic garage in the early hours of Friday.

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The first traffic using the Bay Gateway.

Wonderful to be home in three minutes – the first motorists use the Bay Gateway

After 68 years of waiting it all came down to a workman in a helmet and hi-vis jacket removing a row of traffic cones.

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LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Manchester has built a LEGO model radiography machine which will be donated to help staff explain treatment to children at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.  

Pictured Sarah Stead, Paediatric Specialist Radiographer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Reece Holt, a young patient who was treated with radiotherapy for a brain tumour at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

Lego the building blocks to recovery after brain tumour

Legoland Discovery Centre in Manchester has donated a specially built Lego radiotherapy machine to The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre to help staff explain

to children how radiotherapy works. AASMA DAY talks to the mum of a Lancashire lad battling a brain tumour about how Lego has helped him in his recovery

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MESSAGES: Court

Man jailed over text abuse

A MAN who breached a suspended sentence order for a deathly road chase by sending abusive messages to his ex has been jailed for nine months.

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The Bay Gateway: Exclusive preview of the new road

Watch out world – the new Heysham to M6 link road is all set to put Lancaster and Morecambe on the global map.

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Tony and Julie Wiles are still coming to terms with the suicide of their son just over a year ago. A special memorial fountain has been built in the garden for their son Stevie

Devastation of an unexpected suicide

In the second part of our series looking at the county’s high suicide rates and the work being done to prevent suicide Michelle Blade reports on one family’s struggle to come to terms with the loss of their much loved son and brother.

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Mental health care facility The Harbour in Blackpool

Lancashire’s battle against suicide

On the second day of our series on soaring suicide rates in Preston and across the county Fiona Finch examines the roles of the NHS in preventing suicide.

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Stuart Currey in hospital with one of his daughters.

Morecambe dad-of-four suffers horrific injuries in garage accident

A father-of-four was folded in two when he was dragged underneath a van in an horrific garage accident.

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Stuart Currey in hospital.

Morecambe garage pleads guilty after dad-of-four’s horrific accident

A father-of-four from Morecambe suffered life-changing injuries at work when he was dragged underneath a van as he cleared out an MOT pit.

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