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More than 20,000 people packed into Blackpool on Friday night to see Olly Murs switch on this year’s Illuminations.

The Reform UK leader of Lancashire County Council has spoken about suggested changes to landfill sites and waste management, which he says will benefit residents and the environment, and criticised recent comments about the changes and potential costs at Pendle Council’s executive.

A Blackpool scheme is helping young people take their next steps into work, training or education. 

Pop superstar Olly Murs is set to light up Blackpool tonight as the headline performer for the world-famous Blackpool Illuminations Switch-On event.

If you go down to Cleveleys seafront this weekend you might be mistaken in thinking you’ve walked onto the set of a Star Wars production.

Residents in Fylde have a chance to find out more about proposals which could bring electric cables through the borough to connect an offshore wind farm to the national grid at Penwortham.

St Annes International Kite Festival makes a return at the end of this week and continues throughout the weekend.

Fylde Council is urging residents to attend upcoming community information events about Ørsted’s proposed East Irish Sea Transmission Project, which could bring electricity cables through the borough to connect an offshore wind farm to the national grid at Penwortham.

As The Harris prepares to welcome visitors back through its doors, excitement is building for its reopening exhibition, Wallace and Gromit in A Case at the Museum.

A bold new initiative aimed at helping to restore civic pride is sweeping its way across Lancashire.

Fewer cancers are diagnosed before they start to spread in Lancashire and South Cumbria than across most other parts of England.

Lancashire’s district councils are being encouraged to start emptying general household waste bins only once every three weeks, it has been claimed.

The leader of the Conservative group on Preston City Council has defected to Reform UK, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) can reveal.

Online applications for Lancashire's primary and secondary school places are now live.

Another deadline by which a decision was due to be made on where to build a new secondary school in Preston is to be missed.

The Reform UK leader of Lancashire County Council has spoken about suggested changes to landfill sites and waste management, which he says will benefit residents and the environment, and criticised recent comments about the changes and potential costs at Pendle Council’s executive.

A £750,000 plus energy-efficiency upgrade a major East Lancashire fitness and recreation hub has been completed.

Suggestions for the use of Blackburn’s landmark Corporation Park Conservatory after its hoped for multi-million pound restoration include a wedding and events venue, a restaurant and creating a new plant and butterfly house.

The sister of a young man killed in a motorcycle crash has paid tribute, calling him her “protector and safe place.”

Two men have been arrested after a five-year-old boy was struck by a car in Accrington.

The Reform UK leader of Lancashire County Council has spoken about suggested changes to landfill sites and waste management, which he says will benefit residents and the environment, and criticised recent comments about the changes and potential costs at Pendle Council’s executive.

Usdaw is urging Debenhams to end what it calls its “anti-union stance” after announcing the closure of its Burnley warehouse. 

A Blackburn businessman has been sentenced following a major operation that uncovered almost 40,000 illegal vapes and thousands of counterfeit products.

An East Lancashire local authority has taken to Facebook to combat ‘fear and intolerance’ after a property in the borough rumoured to be being turned into a house of multiple occupation or “illegal migrant housing” was hit by a possible arson attack.