BBC Children in Need has announced that it has awarded a new grant of £28,858 to a local project working with disadvantaged children and young people in Preston.  The funding will […]

West View Leisure Centre faces an uncertain future after operators GLL announced it will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Staff at the leisure centre in Ribbleton have been warned […]

Police have released CCTV of three youths they want to speak to following a robbery in Moor Nook.At around 4:40pm on August 4 an elderly man was subjected to a […]

A postman has been praised for his efforts to save a Brookfield Estate man who’d had a heart attack. Royal Mail delivery worker Les Furesz was alerted to the situation […]

A lot has happened in Preston over the last seven days. Preston and South Ribble saw a number of new coronavirus cases reported over the last week, and students celebrated […]

A planning application has been submitted to use the old railway in Skeffington Road in Ribbleton as a test tramline. Preston Trampower‘s planning proposal sets out plans to use the […]

The Fishergate Bollard has been turned into an action figure by Penwortham artist Graham Pearce. The Bollard – or lack of the Bollard – features under the heading Car Wars, […]

Police are appealing for help finding a Preston man who is wanted in relation to two assaults of a woman. Robert Irvine, 40, has links to Plungington and Ribbleton. He’s […]