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Parents have been urged to check playground equipment at a Lancashire play area after thugs attached razor blades to a slide.

It has been called the 'saddest Christmas tree in Lancashire'.

The NHS 111 service in Lancashire is dispatching ambulances “left, right and centre”, according to a Preston GP.

We say the eyes are the windows to the soul, so it follows that windows may well be the soul of the home. We look at how these over-looked features can pull the style of your household together.

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A pub chef has been jailed for life for "giving a present to himself on his 20th birthday" by stabbing his "lovely and joyful" flatmate to death before having sex with her dead body.

Free to do and open to all with a friendly, inclusive ethos, it’s easy to see why Parkrun has rapidly become the exercise of choice. Louisa finds out why Preston Parkrun is attracting more runners

A Leyland resident says that heavy goods vehicles should not be able to access the M6 by using the town as a rat run.

The family of an 80-year-old widow who was strangled at her allotment have described her death as the actions of "one wicked individual".

The announcement that rail fares are to go up in January has been met with frustration by passenger groups and trade unions.