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The forthcoming Preston Youth Zone, as viewed from the bus station opposite (image: Elephant Visual)

Search for 'patrons' to help with the running costs of Preston's new Youth Zone

The future of a large part of the Cuerden site, which was earmarked for an IKEA store until 2018, could be decided by county councillors this week

Axed IKEA site at the centre of legal row as development decision looms

Larches House, pictured prior to its recent renovation

Housing bid for garden of historic Preston property thrown out by councillors

Inspectors visited over the summer

The 54 ways the Royal Preston and Chorley hospitals have been told to improve

The new building that will, if approved, re-house the Royal Preston's existing Day-of-Surgery Admissions unit (image: Gilling Dod Architects, via Preston City Council planning portal)

Royal Preston plans new surgical unit to help take pressure off A&E

Scans and other medical tests should be carried out within six weeks - but thousands of patients in Central Lancashire are waiting longer (image: Pixabay)

Thousands waiting longer than they should be for medical tests in Central Lancs

How Leyland Market will look after its revamp

Popular market's stallholders ‘will move out’ during major refurbishment

The white cottage-style property at Bourne Brow Farm should have been demolished before the new dwelling behind it was built in 2011 - but now it can remain (image: Google)

Preston cottage that should have been demolished is now ‘lawful’

Barton resudents are heading to the polls in November to vote on an issue close to home

Part of Preston to vote on future housing plans in referendum on Thursday

Best songs written by artists connected to Preston according to readers.

Best songs written by artists from or connected to Preston

I visited the Jungle World play centre in Tomlinson Road, Farington Moss, Leyland and it was amazing

I visited the Jungle World play centre and it was amazing

New Longton All Saints

20 pictures of your cute kids from the Post's First Days school special i

Lostock Hall Primary School

20 pictures of your cute kids from the Post's First Days school special

20 super cute pictures of reception pupils across Preston

Alston Lane Catholic Primary School

20 pictures of your cute kids from the First Days school special

The Charnock Hotel was nestled away in a Preston side street for a century-and-a-half

'Haunted' pub eyed up to become bedsits in bid launched days before Hallowe'en
A former Preston pub where pints were pulled for more than 150 years is set to be converted into bedsits.

The coverings have started coming off at the Harris Museum ahead of the removal of the scaffolding

Harris Museum set to show off spruced up exterior after year of work

The former nine-hole Goosnargh golf course has not seen play since the summer of 2019

Holiday village 'will ruin Preston countryside where deer roam', residents warn

Preston's 'Mother' mural isn't going anywhere

Oh, Mother! Preston's popular new mural can stay after council decision

Preston Faith Covenant members Jeremy Dable (left), representing the Jewish community, and Muslim community representative Mukhtar Master at an event designed to bring all parts of Preston together

Gaza war: Preston should channel peace in its own communities, faith leaders say

Interiors shop unexpected closure shocks customers

Some residents have baulked at the idea of a new sports pavilion being built in the middle of Ashton Park

Football plans for a Preston park 'could be scaled back' over public opposition

The services would be built just off the new junction 2 of the M55 at the top end of the recently-opened Preston Western Distributor

'Handy for a pee, but a bit pointless': your reaction to new motorway services

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie - ultimate experience with musical megastar

Roebuck Primary School - Acorn class

School reception class photos - how to view, buy and get copies of the paper

Can Preston's regeneration vision come to fruition without HS2? (image via Invest Preston)

‘Everyone wants to come to Preston anyway’: push for revamp in spite of HS2 loss

The block could be three storeys high - a major sticking point for locals (image: RPS Design Group via Preston City Council planning portal)

Dismay over Preston shops and flats development approved in spite of opposition
Cottam residents have been left feeling like they were “not listened to” after plans for a neighbourhood centre in the area were given the green light - in the face of dozens of objections.

John Griffiths claims that Ashton Park is under-used at the moment

‘Empty’ Preston park needs football revamp to revitalise it, junior coach claims

South Rd, Bretherton, Leyland PR26 9AB. "Friendly staff, hot tasty food with lots to choose from. I can't fault this place."

Landlord's goodbye - when the famous buffets and Sunday carveries will stop

A Preston teacher says that soaring absence rates could be reduced by air filters in every class

'End the hotbed of disease in schools': call for clean air in classrooms

The A582 would become a dual carriageway for its full length under the plans

New South Ribble to Preston dual carriageway 'to be funded with former HS2 cash’

The Harris had been set to reopen next year - but not anymore

Harris Museum to stay shut longer than planned because of refurbishment delay

John Gilly Gillmore during his hospital radio days

BBC Radio Lancs legend John Gillmore talks career highlights ahead of final show

Midge Hall station (image: Google)

Station where trains stop but passengers can't get off could be reopened

The Darkinson Lane underpass in flood (image: Keith Taylor)

Brand new Preston link road underpass 'keeps getting shut by flooding'

Cllr John Potter says that the NHS requires the money to ensure all cancer sufferers get the treatment they need in a timely way

Call to 'do right' by cancer patients and ensure they are treated quickly

Phil Woodford could not get a thrombectomy, because his stroke happened at the weekend

'Lifesaving' stroke treatment at Royal Preston for the first time of a weekend

Piles of vegetation at the side of the lake

This is why pumps have been running at a popular beauty spot

The Shankley Hotel had been supposed to welcome its first guests in spring 2018

Preston’s Shankly Hotel attracts interest from possible buyers

The Samlesbury Hotel says that it thought it was hosting veterans - not the far right

Hotel’s horror after ‘men with metal baseball bats’ guard far-right rally

The Mother mural took just five days to complete

'Does Banksy need planning permission?' Prestonians leap to defence of 'Mother'

Safety concerns have kept the Preston Western Distributor Road's speed limit at 50mph

Permanent speed limit agreed for Preston Western Distributor Road

Teenager flooded with job offers after calling out 'rude pub manager'

As recommended by the people of Lancashire.

Best box sets to watch this Autumn according to the people of Lancashire

The Prime Minister wants to ban the American XL Bully by the end of the year. Image: Adobe Stock

Lancashire reacts to banning of XL Bullies

Two years of work to tranform Preston City Centre almost complete

16 to 18-year-old students at four colleges in Lancashire can apply for new science and tech bursaries

Bursaries for Cardinal Newman and Runshaw students to study for defence careers

Photo: Alfredandco.

20 pictures of dream summer weddings based in the heart of the Ribble Valley

Work has begun to transform the former Morrisons store near Deepdale Retail Park into a Tesco (Credit: Google)

Speculation surrounds opening date of new Tesco store near Deepdale Retail Park

The huge signs in the window of Deepdale’s Wilko store read ‘Wilko administration sale, 1000s of reductions throughout the store’.

Shelves empty in Preston Deepdale Retail Park Wilko store

Cllr Jo Hindle-Taylor wants to provide Soith Ribble's hedgehogs with more opportunities to move around

'Hedgehogs this way': call for safe routes to reduce roadkill incidents

The Clayton Hall landfill site, pictured during damping down after a fire in 2021

'Rotten eggs' landfill stench to be kept at bay after time extension granted

The Guild Hall was due to be back in business in November

Blow to Preston Guild Hall comeback as 'crumbly concrete' suspected in the roof

The site and lauout of the proposed affordable housing estate near Sidgreaves Lane in Cottam (site: Mosaic Town Planning, via Preston City Council planning portal )

More than 100 affordable homes planned for major new Preston estate

A previous Preston Weekender on the Flag Market

Preston Weekender: is it still on or cancelled over the Guild Hall's closure?