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Campaigners opposing the underground cabling, which will run through Penwortham

Underground windfarm cabling plan for Lancashire given go-ahead

From the left, Clitheroe Blackburn Northern Hockey Club Jez Palmer, club captain Hannah Laverty, club secretary Clare Thompson and England Hockey awards night sponsor Duncan Bennett of Notts Sports

Clitheroe Blackburn Northern is England's hockey club of the year

Lancashire Game and Country Festival

Villagers lose booze battle over festival farm at Scorton

The Issa Foundation is the charitable group set up in 2016 by the family of EG Group founders Mohsin and Zuber Issa.

Billionaire Issa Brothers reject proposal for Muslim cemetery site

Lancashire residents earlier this yearprotesting against the closure of Park Pool in Ormskirk and Nye Bevan Pool in Skelmersdale

Fears that council will close two Lancashire swimming pools reignited

96 Marsh Lane, Longton

Plans to demolish house on 'millionaire's row' and create mini estate

31 per cent of adults still calling shotgun to bag the front passenger seat

Rules of common car game 'shotgun' revealed - how many do you know?

Paterson and Tobin warn that a backlash has been organised against net zero and climate policy

Breakdown in climate consensus can be tackled with strategic political thinking

Billionaire brothers Zuber and Mohsin Issa who own Asda

Lancs residents say Issa brothers plans for new cemetery are unwanted

Sir Keir Starmer addressing the Usdaw conference in Blackpool

Labour leader is back in Blackpool as crucial by-election looms

"The Issa Foundation cemetery isn't wanted and it isn't needed!”

Foundation respond to criticism on plans for cemetery: story so far

CWU protesting against Capita outside the India Mill Centre.

Watch as CWU protest against Capita for not paying Real Living Wage

RAF Scampton could be transformed into housing for asylum seekers - but locals aren’t happy

Row as historic RAF base could be used to house 1,500 asylum seekers

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged health leaders at an emergency meeting to take "bold and radical" action to alleviate the winter crisis in the NHS. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

How to watch Prime Minister’s Questions live

Kwasi Kwarteng has cut his trip to the International Monetary Fund in Washington, USA short.

Will Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announce a budget U-turn today?
The chancellor has been facing mounting pressure from the opposition as well as from his own party MPs.
Dennis Morton

‘If your telescope is really good, perhaps you’ll even make out the swirling clouds of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere’ (Photo: JPL/NASA/Getty Images

Jupiter will be in 'opposition' this week and will appear bright in the sky - he...

Meetings are once again being held in person at County Hall - but how should they be conducted?

Call for an end to "toxic" Lancashire County Council politics

Labour leader Keir Starmer will address the nation tonight - here’s how to watch

(Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

MPs have voted against maintaining food hygiene and animal welfare standards in ...

We carried out a survey to gauge the opinions of the North West.

Majority of readers in North West critical of Boris Johnson’s handling of crisis

The Preston New Road fracking site around the time when Cuadrilla were test fracking for gas

Opposition to fracking reaches its highest point, official survey says

Cuadrilla chief Francis Egan

Opposition continues to increase as the future of shale gas drilling in the UK i...

Jupiter and its moons will be visible without a telescope (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how to see Jupiter and its moons without a telescope tonight

Generally brightly coloured and featuring cartoons, should confectionery packaging be redesigned to lessen its appeal? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Should sweets and soft drinks be sold in plain packaging to protect kids? Have y...

Cuadrilla's site at Preston New Road

'Opposition to fracking on the increase'

Coun Cullens, who is theLeader of the Opposition and Leader of Conservative Group at Chorley Council, is vacating his role on May 2

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2019: Chorley Conservatives shake-up with group leader and two f...
Chorley Council’s Conservative group is saying goodbye to decades of experience after it was revealed the current leader and two previous leaders will not stand for re-election
Tom Earnshaw, Reporter

More people are now against fracking, a government poll has found

More people are now AGAINST fracking, new government survey suggests

May finally livens up her speech

Labour is finding right target

Will you be voting in the local elections?

Readers' letters - April 11

CGI plans of the site on land off Garstang Road, Barton.

North Preston's housing boom keeps on roaring with more than 70 new homes on the...

1995 library filer of Chris Moncrieff. Photo by Peter Smith/PA

Labour's going downhill fast

1995 library filer of Chris Moncrieff. Photo by Peter Smith/PA

Is this the end for self-destructive Labour?

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