Mountain Rescue teams rushed to an incident after a woman had taken a serious slip on a hillside. The casualty had to crawl to be able to call the emergency services. On arrival along Rossendale and ...

Figures compiled by the Centre for Retail Research showed that a number of major chain collapses contributed to a 41 jump in job losses.

On January 1, the country will become the first in the EU to introduce a ban on health and environmental grounds.

One hundred and twenty people have been confirmed dead after a plane caught fire during a landing at an airport in South Korea. The National Fire Agency confirmed the death toll in the southern city ...

Plans to create a new estate with 30 houses in a rural East Lancashire village have been put before the council for consideration. The application, if successful, would see a mix of two, three and ...

A man who had been refused hospital treatment before rampaging around A&E department ended up on the roof of the Nativity scene there. Blackburn Magistrates' Court heard Lee Scott caused damage to the ...

A new ‘luxury’ sauna has opened at a busy Blackburn community centre. The sauna at Bangor Street Community Centre has separate women and men only sessions and will aim to cater for users from across ...

When I spoke to Paul Heaton back in September, after he'd performed a 30-minute slot at Preston's Radio 2 in the Park, I could tell he found ...

A Langho day-care provider, who has a “good understanding of how children learn” has met requirements after a recent Ofsted inspection.

Grant McGeever, is managing director of Rospen Industries in Haslingden, invited Sarah Smith MP to his factory to meet staff.

A Colne teenager has continued to wow his family and friends with outstanding astrophotography. Dom Lloyd first picked astronomy from his great-grandfather and quickly built a collection of high-tech ...

What started as a ‘derelict barn’ in Reedsholme has since been transformed into a “charming” and “rustic” home - and it has its own ‘man cave’. The beautifully converted barn, on Hollin Lane, has been ...