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Police have released images of a man they want to speak to into an investigation into criminal damage at the Royal British Legion monument in Accrington.

Images of man police want to speak to over crosses damage

Moor Park Chapel, which stood facing Garstang Road before the streets behind were developed

BBC picks Lovat Road for Coronation Street

Dignitaries, veterans and current Armed Forces personnel gathered outside County Hall a flag raising ceremony to mark Armed Forces Day.

Lancashire County Council raises special flag for Armed Forces Week

Captain Mark Livingstone receives his General Service Medal from the Princess Royal during her visit to 13 Air Assault Support Regiment Royal Logistic Corps in Colchester

Chorley soldier honoured for Somalia peacekeeping mission

Corporal Leanne Carr receives her United Nations Medal from the Princess Royal during a visit to 13 Air Assault Support Regiment Royal Logistic Corps in Colchester

Soldier from Morecambe receives UN medal

Preston War Memorial is unveiled in Market Square in June 1926, with huge crowds gathered around the new monument and surrounding streets

Preston War Memorial's 100th anniversary

The Duke of Lancasterâ€™s Regiment parade through Leyland Town Centre to receive the Freedom of the Borough from the Mayor of South Ribble, Councillor Paul Wharton-Hardman BEM

Duke of Lancaster's Regiment to march through Preston - here's when

58 pics of British soldiers training with anti-tank weapons and drones

Some of Lancashire's most haunted buildings

17 of the spookiest buildings in Lancashire - and their tragic tales

The military party and others at the graveside of Pte George Hall (Crown Copyright)

Lancashire soldier's grave is finally found in Belgium

Accington singer Maelor Hughes pictured in the music video for 'Poppies'

Lancashire singer releases song to honour the Accrington Pals

The WW2 bomb found by Adam Makewell and his son Cameron Makewell in the River Ure in Yorkshire.

Moment teenager crashes underwater drone into live 500kg WWII bomb

The arrest of Jason Savage. Chilling footage shows a Muslim convert who dubbed himself 'Lone Wolf' carrying out reconnaissance trips as he plotted terror attacks in Birmingham.

Muslim extremist convert plotted terror attacks in chilling video

Ukrainian artillery systems

Lancashire firm lands £14m deal with BAE to help repair Ukrainian guns

Watch as War Horse memorial gets purple poppy coat to remember fallen service animals

Watch as War Horse statue gets draped in beautiful purple poppy coat

Paul Foster

Breaking General Election South Ribble: Labour wins seat from Conservatives
Voters in South Ribble have made their voices heard as the consituency turns from blue to red.
Vanessa Sims

Mary Lamb, 65, suffered a chest infection, stomach bug and was 10 minutes away from hypothermia - but she finished three peaks challenge.

Watch: I climbed 3 peaks in wheelchair...I was 10mins from hypothermia

Mary Lamb left 'battered and bruised' after 'climbing' the Three Peaks

Blackpool hosted a number of special events to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday

Watch as hundreds of people commemorate D-Day in Blackpool

A landing craft approaching Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6 1944, a scene that the film Saving Private Ryan re-created.

Watch: D-Day war film streaming for free for limited amount of time

Maps and planning documents detailing top-secret plans were donated to House on the Hill museum.

Watch: Top secret D-Day documents from Normandy found in old car boot

Thousands have evacuated their homes due to a wildfire in La Palma

Thousands evacuated from La Palma as wildfire blazes

Yevgeny Prigozhin (right) with Vladimir Putin

Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin? Exiled Wagner Group leader breaks silence

A member of Wagner group stands guard in a street in the city of Rostov-on-Don

Breaking Russia uprising: ‘Soon we will have new President’ says Wagner Group

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

‘Betrayal’ - Vladimir Putin reacts to Wagner Group rebellion in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago

Breaking Russian mercenary group plot to remove Vladimir Putin

Trooping the Colour takes place on Saturday, June 17

Met Office weather forecast for Trooping the Colour ceremony
This weekend will see a historic first Trooping the Colour ceremony for King Charles - but what is the Met Office forecast?
Sam Johnson

King Charles in front of The Flying Scotsman at Pickering Station

King Charles making several major changes to Trooping the Colour

Members of the Royal family on Buckingham Palace balcony including the Prince and Princess of Wales. Image: Simon James Smith

Trooping the Colour 2023: Buckingham Palace balcony line-up

King Charles has decided to ride in Trooping the Colour, the first time in 30 years (Pic:Getty)

How to watch Trooping the Colour 2023 - BBC announce full details

Trooping the Colour is a high-precision military parade (image: Getty Images)

Trooping the Colour 2023: Everything you need to know

King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the coronation on May 6.

King Charles makes major change to Trooping of the Colour ceremony

Three soldiers fainted during the Colonel’s Review at Horse Guards Parade in London today

Prince William speaks out as soldiers faint during rehearsals

Ukraine War: What is the Victory Day parade in Russia, what did Vladimir Putin say about the west?

What is Victory Day in Russia & what did Vladimir Putin say?

Prince Harry's memoir spare

Bloodsoaked copies of Prince Harry memoir Spare sell for huge sum

Soldiers from the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment undertake their final inspection parade in Episkopi, Cyprus

Duke of Lancaster's Regiment to be part of historic Coronation this weekend

An early morning rehearsal of the coronation took place in London

Morning rehearsal of King Charles’ coronation takes place in London

D-Day veteran Joe Cattini has died aged 100

Breaking One of Britain’s last D-Day veterans Joe Cattini dies aged 100

28th October 1914: British soldiers lined up in a narrow trench during World War I. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

World War One medals found in bin bag saved from incinerator

SAS helicopters touched down on the roof of Blackpool Sixth Form College as part of a training exercise on Monday night (March 7). Picture by Simon Fogg

SAS helicopters touch down on roof of Blackpool Sixth Form College

The SAS chopper seen flying without lights over Bury as part of training operations in March 2022. Picture by Mark Stevenson

SAS helicopters to conduct training exercises over Lancashire

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visit a a military facility

Russia's chilling warning to 'London' after Volodymyr Zelenskyy visit

President Zelensky to visit the UK for the first time since Russian invasion - everything we know so far

President Zelensky to visit the UK - everything we know so far

Rescuers gather at the site of a plane crash in Pokhara after an airplane crashed with 72 people on board in Nepal

40 people dead as aircraft crash-lands near Nepal airport

Harry, Duke of Sussex, appeared on CBS late night talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday evening (US time)

Harry addresses Taliban controversy on Late Show appearance in US

A resin model of a sculpture illustrating the WW1 Christmas Truce football match is pictured during a photocall inside the remains of St Luke's Church in Liverpool

The Christmas Truce: how did it start and what happened?

Giffoine plot up for sale situated on the south west of the Channel Island of Guernsey overlooking Gannet Rock

Former Nazi encampment in Guernsey goes up for sale

A poster for the Hinge of Fate exhibition at Lancaster City Museum which runs until next February, 2023.

Hinge of Fate exhibition at Lancaster museum

The Queen lying in state in Westminster Hall.

Royal guard faints next to coffin during Queen’s lying-in-state period

Prince Philip in Lancaster with a military official for the silver jubilee in 1977. From Mr R Walker, Slyne.

In pictures: Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in Lancaster in 1977

Troops from the 1st Regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery

Soldiers on the streets of Bolton to help curb the spread of the Indian coronavi...

Mass testing should help to get a grip on coronavirus

There is a pathway out of lockdown

How to explain World War Two to children - life for soldiers, and the Holocaust

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) of staff working on the maintenance on one of the organisation's 23,000 memorial and cemetery sites around the world. CWGC/PA Wire.

Soldiers’ graves in war cemetery in Iraq repaired

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) of staff working on the maintenance on one of the organisation's 23,000 memorial and cemetery sites around the world. CWGC/PA Wire.

Soldiers’ graves in war cemetery in Iraq repaired

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