Chorley’s new MP will be decided in the early hours of Friday morning. Five candidates are standing in the constituency with main parties broadly not represented because of the tradition […]

Four schools across South Ribble and Chorley are closed today for the general election. The school buildings are being used as polling stations as the public heads to the polls […]

The trust which runs Preston and Chorley’s hospitals has offered to pay staff to quit as part of efforts to make huge savings. Bosses at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (LTH) are […]

A supermarket worker has been hailed as a life-saver and helping a choking toddler. Quick thinking Antony Bainbridge stepped in when a panicked mum ran to the customer service with […]

A man has been charged following the discovery of 12kg of cannabis in a car on M6 near Chorley. Officers from the Road Crime Unit signalled for a BMW 3 […]

A police chase and a drug bust was the end result of police proactively stopping a vehicle on the M6. Police stopped a BMW 3 series to stop as it […]

The prospect of a rise in school bus fares in Preston appears to have sparked a scathing response at one of the city’s bus stops. The Local Democracy Reporting Service […]

Two of the Lancashire candidates vying for votes in the general election have clashed over whether the county should have an elected mayor. The Labour and Conservative hopefuls contesting the […]