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Police and council partners in Blackpool have secured two partial closure orders following reports of crime and anti-social behaviour.

Security fencing measuring seven-and-half feet high is to be installed along part of the Bonny Street Market site in readiness for the market reopening.

Members of a Blackpool drug-supply gang have been given custodial sentences totalling more than 63 years.  

A 50-year-old man had died after the e-bike he was riding collided with a parked car in Fleetwood.

Residents in an Over Wyre village are fighting against plans to build 79 new homes on a greenfield site.

The new owners of Guy’s Thatched Hamlet in Bilsborrow have been confirmed.

The landscape of Blackpool is continuing to change as a cordoned off area of Charles Street and Cookson Street is levelled off to make way for the town’s landmark £65 million Multiversity campus.

A call has been made for a Fylde coast park to be restored to the way it used to be, when it was a huge attraction for youngsters, families and visitors.

Preston’s MP has written to the Culture Secretary urging government support to bring a major venue back to the city.

The backlog in the assessment system for determining the support required by Lancashire children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is on course to be cleared in less than two months.

Parking restrictions are to be widened close to an expanding school in suburban Preston.

The Harris in Preston has announced that it has welcomed a new intern through the DFN Project SEARCH supported internship programme.

There are more than 1,000 empty properties in Preston that could be providing desperately needed accommodation for a range of residents.

The first major shake-up of bin collection rounds in Preston for more than a decade is set to take place next month.

A Lancashire volunteer police officer who works as a long‑distance lorry driver in his day job has been commended for his exceptional bravery and quick thinking following a serious collision on the M6 near Staffordshire.

A banqueting suite is set to open in a Preston neighbourhood after getting the go-ahead from city planning officials.

Blackburn with Darwen Council has told the government the best structure for local government after Lancashire devolution in 2028 is three new all-purpose councils for the county.

A padel club in Nelson says it’s seen more than a hundred players taking to the courts in the early hours during Ramadan.

Burnley College is bidding to become one of the UK’s Technical Excellence Colleges for Advanced Manufacturing.

Residents in Accrington are being invited to a special event celebrating ten years of progress at Accrington Stanley.

Darwen residents are being invited to help shape the future of the town’s library.

Work is poised to start on Phase Three of the repurposing of Great Harwood’s historic Mercer Hall.

Senior councillors have approved the appointment of Star Academies to occupy the first building of Blackburn’s proposed £45million town centre Skills and Education Campus.

A mother and son from Darwen who plotted to smuggle 14 kilos of cocaine into the UK have been jailed, following a National Crime Agency investigation.