Environment

A Chorley teenager who was banned from her school prom after attending an environmental protest has headed to the European Union as part of her fight against climate change.

Campaigners calling for improvements to one of Garstang’s most dangerous pavements have triumphed – after councils and the Community Academy came together to raise funds to pay for the work.

Longridge Town Council is to launch a campaign to cut the town’s use of plastic - after heeding a plea from a local primary school pupil.

Pupils at a Lancashire high school are taking to the streets to pressure its council to declare a ‘climate emergency’.

A Leyland woman has shared a video of her dog's reaction to cannabis in a warning to others about the drug's dangerous effects on pets.

A new scheme is set to make it easier for Lancashire residents to recycle their plastic waste.

An “eyesore” telephone exchange is to be given a makeover after complaints from neighbours.

Single-use plastics are set to be eradicated from the operation of South Ribble Borough Council by 2025.

Football clubs are being urged to adopt returnable cups at their stadiums to cut plastic waste, in a move which campaigners say is supported by fans.

County councillors will visit a proposed fracking site in West Lancashire before deciding whether the development can go ahead.

Campaigners battling plans for 100 new homes on farmland near Penwortham are urging locals to submit objections before tomorrow’s appeal deadline.

Communities across Lancashire and the North West hit by the December 2015 floods are set to benefit as £62 million of extra funding is announced for flood defences across England.

A county council officer is to visit  Longridge - to see for himself the traffic problems  which the Town Council  says have been created by new housing developments.