Lancashire County Council Trading Standards Service are warning Prestonians to be aware of a fake NHS Covid passport scam. The scam has been duping people into handing over their financial […]

Pupils in Preston’s secondary schools will join others across England in wearing face masks in classrooms to slow the spread of the Omicron variant. The government announced the temporary reintroduction […]

The NHS in Lancashire and South Cumbria has welcomed a significant increase in people coming forward for their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine – and urged others to book […]

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has suspended visiting to its main adult inpatient wards until further notice. The change applies to Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble […]

New Nightingale surge hubs are being set up at hospitals across the country in preparation for a potential wave of Omicron admissions. The temporary structures, set up by the NHS, […]

A UCLan report on UK domestic abuse services provided under Covid-19 reveals that several groups – including Black and ethnic minority groups and those in rural communities – struggle to […]

Cases of Covid-19 in Lower Penwortham North jumped from 196 to 1,192 per 100,000 during the week before Christmas. The numbers show the area is in the worst-hit neighbourhood in […]

An increase in divorce enquiries in Preston has been linked to repeated lockdowns. Vincents Solicitors, based in Winckley Square, says it has received increasing numbers of enquiries ever since the […]