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Chorley sits to the south of Preston and while a borough and town in its own right then a lot of Prestonians go back and forth. Chorley Council is the council for the district.

Chorley parks ‘record breaking year’ winning eight Green Flag Awards

Day two of the 2023 Chorley Flower Show at Astley Park Pic: Paul Heyes Eight of Chorley’s parks and open spaces have been awarded the coveted Green Flag Award, a welcome increase from last years six parks. Astley Park, Withnell Linear Park Nature Reserve, […]

8 months ago
Royal Preston Hospital bosses issue advice amid IT outage affecting GP surgeries

Royal Preston Hospital Emergency Department Pic: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Preston residents are being asked to use Preston and Chorley’s accident and emergency services appropriately amidst the worldwide IT meltdown which has hit parts of the NHS. The two departments […]

8 months ago
Chorley mum’s leap of faith engineers exciting new career opportunity

Amy Quinn at her graduation Pic: UCLan Amy Quinn has achieved a BEng (hons) Civil Engineering First Class degree, graduating on her 39th birthday, from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Her determination to prove to herself that she’s capable of bigger and better things pushed her […]

8 months ago
Two Preston bus services linking city to Burnley and Leyland to see more evening buses

The 152 is one of a number of services seeing evening timetable changes Pic: Ian Simpson/Preston Flickr group Two evening bus routes in and out of Preston are set to see later and more frequent evening journeys. Lancashire County Council is pumping additional funding into the 152 service […]

8 months ago
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Cost of transporting pupils with special needs and support to families biggest pressures on Lancashire County Council budget

County Hall in Preston. Pic: Blog Preston The cost of transporting pupils with special needs to school and providing financial support to the families of vulnerable children were amongst the biggest pressures on Lancashire County Council’s budget […]

8 months ago
Red Arrows spotted flying past Preston

The Red Arrows putting on their display Pic: Sonia Bashir The Red Arrows were spotted zooming past the city’s southern edge during Sunday afternoon. Eagle-eyed Sonia Bashir was up in the attic to see the fly-past around 4.30pm. Taking part […]

8 months ago
£111,000 refurbishment on The Missionary Training Centre in Chorley

The Missionary Training Centre in Chorley. Pic: B&E Refurbishment works are taking place on The Missionary Training Centre in Chorley and are due to be completed soon. The £111,000 project on The Preston (England) Temple began at the […]

8 months ago
Controversial Whittle-le-Woods housing estate paused while plans are expanded

Town Lane development site A bid to finalise controversial plans to build hundreds of new homes in Chorley has been delayed. Redrow Homes has already been granted outline planning permission for its long-proposed development […]

8 months ago
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