Crime

The "unexplained" death of a man was being investigated by police in Preston today.

A businessman bludgeoned a 29-year-old student turned high class escort to death with a pestle, a court heard.

A multi-millionaire businessman accused of murdering his girlfriend during "rough sex" has admitted manslaughter by gross negligence.

A retired police detective from Ashton-on-Ribble put behind bars for smothering his emaciated mother to death could have got away with the murder, a court heard.

A 93-year-old woman who suffered serious injuries after a car collision in Clitheroe has died.

A man with a “heavy, gruff voice” wearing purple plastic gloves held up a Morecambe petrol station at knife point before making off with cash.

Former Lancaster student Laura Clayson now faces life in prison after taking part in an anti-deportation protest.

A man who strangled his former wife in a fit of "pent-up jealousy" after she refused to sleep with him one last time for £100 has been jailed for at least 16 years.

A school information and communications technology (ICT) technician has been jailed for grooming and sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl.

The family of a Preston woman who disappeared two weeks ago are growing increasingly concerned for her welfare.

A former Lancaster University student has been found guilty of breaching terror laws and now faces life imprisonment.