Environment

An “ugly” new bridge has been slammed for bringing down the character of a picturesque award-winning Lancashire village.

Three anti-fracking protestors are being released from Preston prison after being freed on appeal.

More than 100 supporters gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice ahead of the hearing on Wednesday.

Three fracking activists have had their sentences reduced to conditional discharges today in their appeal hearing at the Court of Appeal.

Staff on Lancashire trains are to wear body cameras to record any trouble on the railways.

London fashion icon Dame Vivienne Westwood visited Cuadrilla's fracking site to show support for campaigners hoping to stop the shale gas industry.

An application to build 52 new affordable-to rent homes on a green field site has been submitted to Preston Council.

Dame Vivienne Westwood's son Joe Corré addressed the crowd gathered at the gates of the Little Plumpton site, where shale gas exploration company Cuadrilla this week began fracking the two wells it has drilled there.

Dame Vivienne Westwood has joined protesters and danced in the road outside a fracking site after the controversial process got under way in Lancashire.

Fracking has begun on the Fylde despite two lock-on protests at Cuadrilla’s drill site, which caused the police to shut the A583 in both directions.

As Cuadrilla announced the starts of fracking operations today, protesters were out in force, closing the A583 and promising that the fight "just got serious".

Fracking protesters have said their fight has just "got serious" as the controversial process is due to get under way in Lancashire.

Police closed the main A583 between Preston and Blackpool at rush hour this morning as protestors staged a demonstration on the first day of fracking.

Shale gas exploration company Cuadrilla said it planned to start fracking today, after a legal bid to stall operation on safety grounds was thrown out by a High Court judge.