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Lea
News and information about Lea. It sits right on the Western frontier of Preston as you head out towards Lytham and Blackpool and is part of the sprawling area known as Ashton-on-Ribble.
Campaigners delighted by Ashton Park row back but ask: “How much money has been wasted?”
Campaigners who have spent the last year trying to block a revamp they say would have ruined their local park have reacted with delight to the news the contentious project […]
A long section of Blackpool Road is closed and an 18-year-old receiving treatment after a crash. Police are at the scene of the collision on Blackpool Road, in Ashton-on-Ribble, after […]
Controversial plans to build new football facilities on a Preston park have been kicked into touch by councillors as the city grapples with the rising costs of a raft of […]
A Labour Party member who was announced and then swiftly dropped as a council by-election candidate – only finding out through social media – has hit out at the decision, […]
The next stage of a new social housing development in Lea has been completed. Community Gateway Association has taken on 25 new properties in the Savick and Ainsdale scheme. Begun […]
It’s a year since the Edith Rigby Way opened to connect Preston Docks to the M55 – without needing to go through Preston itself. Costing more than £200million and taking […]
A new “home from home” nursery is due to open in Preston in mid-August. Natures Nursery Barn is set in East Barn in Clifton Fields – between Lea and Freckleton – and is […]
Teams of businesses and charities competed in the Preston City Games golf tournament at Ashton and Lea Golf Club on Friday, 5 July. Preston City Games is a sporting festival […]
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- M6 closed as emergency services work at scene of major crash near Junction 32
- Women in her 40s rushed to hospital after M6 crash between van and lorry
- Tributes paid following death of ‘compassionate and caring’ Myerscough College staff member
- M6 open after crash between junction 31A and 32 but hours of congestion ahead
- M65 near Preston was closed overnight after crash
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