A veteran Labour MP has taken aim at proposals to cutback the Personal Independent Payment known as PIP. Sir Mark Hendrick, the MP for Preston, has written to the Secretary […]

The leader of Ribble Valley Borough Council has resigned from the Conservative Party and joined Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Coun Stephen Atkinson appeared on the platform of a Reform UK […]

Preston City Council have been given £30,000 to encourage residents to become more active through cycling, wheeling and walking. They received funding from Lancashire County Council to improve the city’s […]

A Preston health expert is calling for Government changes to help protect against the annual winter crises which causes huge pressure on the NHS. Various hospital trusts declared critical incidents […]

A proposed new regional bank will have its headquarters in Preston, it has emerged. The North West Mutual – which describes itself as an “ethical” bank – has been in […]

Preston’s road network once again creaked and groaned with bumper-to-bumper traffic for 36-hours this week. The latest M6 closure, due to a lorry crash which took out the central barriers […]

A leading academic lawyer from Lancashire who chaired three key government bodies has died aged 74. Professor Margaret Brazier, known as Margot, died peacefully in Manchester Royal Infirmary on 4th […]

The organisation responsible for making Lancashire’s devolution deal a reality has pledged to be “prudent” with public funds. The commitment came as the new Lancashire Combined County Authority (CCA) held […]