Police responding to late-night reports of a child being assaulted in the street found a mother who had been boozing and her little boy, who was visibly shaking and upset, a court heard.
Lancashire residents will not be told in real-time whether individual roads have been gritted this winter - in case it raises their expectations or encourages them to sue.
With a heritage as rich as Prestonâs it is little surprise so many streets are named after people or places from history as local historian Keith Johnson reports