The largest tremor yet from Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site has been felt in Preston. The seismic event happened at 8.30am on Monday 26 August and registered at a […]

Fracking has been suspended at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site after a tremor last night. A spokesman said the quake was “the equivalent to a bag of shopping being dropped” […]

Where reports of the earthquake have been logged across mainly the western side of the UK Pic: LastQuake The largest earthquake in the UK for a decade was felt as […]

Specialist members of Lancashire’s fire and rescue services have joined the relief effort in Japan. As details of the disaster unfold, trained teams have been sent from countries worldwide. Seven […]

I was in the staffroom at school. It was a marking day for the admissions exams, so there were no students around. There were only three other teachers with me […]

A UCLan graduate has spoken about how people in Japan are in fear of an impending nuclear crisis. Martyn Terpilowski, 33, who graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in […]

A Preston-born woman living in New Zealand has spoken of her shock at the devastating earthquake which hit the country’s second-largest city, Christchurch, yesterday. The earthquake struck just before one in […]