A police search is underway after an ‘extremely rare’ instance of a man escaping from a prison van on the motorway. Police received reports at 8.54am this morning (19 March) […]

A man seriously injured in an assault in Preston last week has died, police have confirmed. Officers from Lancashire Constabulary were called at about 6.15am on 12 March to a report […]

Two men have been charged after an incident in Ribbleton this week that sparked response from armed police. Police were called to report of a collision between a motorbike and […]

A renewed appeal has been issued over 13 years after a baby boy was found dead in a stream in Kirkham. At 2pm on Saturday, 1 October 2011, police were […]

A search is underway for a missing teenager with links to Preston. Lexie Hurst, 14, is missing from her home in Skelmersdale but is known to have links to Preston, […]

Two men were arrested after armed police were called to an incident in Ribbleton which has left a man in hospital. Police received a report of a collision between a […]

Emergency services in Preston city centre were dealing with two separate and unrelated incidents at the weekend. Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service and Lancashire Constabulary were both on Fishergate at […]

Three blank-firing guns which could have been converted to genuine firearms were handed in to police in Preston. The weapons, known as top-venting blank firing (TVBF) guns, are designed to […]