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20mph speeding: ‘Bonkers’ decision to pause new investigations is reversed

Pendle Rise shopping centre in Nelson.

New plans for redeveloped Nelson Pendle Rise shopping centre

The number of young vapers in Lancashire hasd trebled since 2020 (image: Ruslan Alekso)

Eight-year-olds amongst new generation of underage vapers in Lancashire

County Cllrs Rupert Swarbrick and Azhar Ali are taking different approaches to the threatened closure of Lancashire's ticket offices

Councillors clash over closure of Lancashire's railway station ticket offices

Mode Nightclub in Hammerton Street, Burnley

Burnley nightclubs given greenlight to remain open

Mode nightclub, Hammerton Street, Burnley

Police object to Burnley nightclubs' licence application

Important deadlines to be aware of to vote in May elections

Polling station

Everything you need to know about registering to vote in May elections

Lancashire County Council imposes tight rules about the organisations that are allowed to receive grants distributed by its 84 elected members

Call to relax rules limiting the good causes Lancashire councillors can support

Nicola Bulley went missing on January 27

Nicola Bulley: Councillors remove contact details over harassment

Pendle Rise Shopping Centre

Plans to buy Nelson shopping centre moving forward

Lancashire school application deadlines for 2024/25 are set to be confirmed this week.

New timetable for school applications to be agreed this week

The 21-acre site, off Woodplumpton Road, where Prospect Homes want to build 200 properties

200-home development on hold over flood fears

Two hundred properties will be built at Hollins Cross Farm, off Woodplumpton Road, if plans are passed

New 200-home development set to get green light

Prospect Homes wants to build 200 properties at Hollins Cross Farm, off Woodplumpton Road, Burnley.

Decision on new 200-home development deferred

Artist's impression of how the Hollins Cross Farm homes could look

Plans to build 200 new homes in Burnley set to get the go-ahead

Jill Scott celebrates after England's UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final victory over Germany

Jill Scott to be awarded freedom of the city of Sunderland

Greggs has applied for permission to change the use of a vacant former warehouse at North Valley Retail Park into a retail bakery

New Greggs bakery set for Colne

How one of the bungalows in Smithyfield Avenue, Worsthorne, will look

Controversial bungalows approved in Burnley

Business rates Covid support totalling more than £473,000 has gone unallocated in the Ribble Valley

Covid business support totalling £473,000 has gone unspent in the Ribble Valley

On Thursday, October 6, Lancashire County cabinet will be asked to endorse the £900,000 package of measures to support Lancastrians.

Council to agree a £900,000 package of measures to support Lancashire residents

Colne Market Hall

New Colne Market Hall plans include a cinema

Preparation work begins on land south of Rossendale Road

Rossendale Road housing development begins

Now Cross Construction is seeking to build 19 homes on land near to Bowland View in Brierfield

Controversial Brierfield housing plans set to move a step closer

The newly-lit Colne War Memorial

Colne memorials lit up

Burnley councillors said the Woodgrove Road location was "unsuitable"

Burnley care home proposal rejected

Woodgrove Road, Burnley

Burnley care home plans to be debated

Energy bills have already leapt once this year - and they look likely to do so again in the autumn

"Warm hubs" on the way for people forced to flee freezing homes this winter

Nelson Town Hall

Poorer Pendle areas ‘could be left with trousers down’ if they don’t protect gre...

Councillors will next week be asked to approve plans to close a nursery at a Burnley primary school due to reducing numbers of children applying for a place

Burnley school's nursery set to close

Burnley Bridge Business Park

Billionaire Issa brothers' Burnley warehouse plans rejected

A total of 87 homes will now be built on land south of Rossendale Road.

Controversial Burnley housing estate cleared to go ahead

Counting takes place at the Pendle Borough Council elections

Shock Pendle election claim: High voter turnout and postal ballot returns ‘appea...

Burnley Bridge Industrial Park

Billionaire Issa brothers' Burnley warehouse plans set for approval

The mayor making ceremony has been held in person in Clitheroe for the first time since 2019

Red carpet ceremony sees new civic head installed

Plans to build 87 homes on land south of Rossendale Road in Burnley have been deferred.

Plans to build controversial Burnley housing estate have been delayed

Councillors have been recommended to grant planning permission for the scheme on land south of Rossendale Road in Burnley

New Burnley housing estate set to get green light after developer reduces amount...

The Bankhouse Road site in Nelson.

Exciting plans to build new housing for older people in Nelson are gathering pac...

The land at Gibb Hill could now be saved from housing developement

Councillors promise 'no house building' on treasured stretch of Pendle green lan...

Nelson Town Hall

Nelson tyre business at former ambulance station targeted by council enforcement...

Councillors gave the green light to countywide ambitions for devolution

Pendle gives green light to unite for a 'Greater Lancashire'

RVBC leader Stephen Atkinson stated 'this deal is a win-win for everyone'

Devolution bid backed by Ribble Valley Borough Council

Green Party leader Coun.Andy Fewings has called on both Burnley Council and Burnley College to come up with an alternative site for a £12.5M expansion plan for the college

Leading councillor says decision to give go ahead to £12.5M expansion sets 'worr...

Clitheroe Castle

'Deteriorating' Clitheroe Castle needs thousands of pounds' worth of repairs

Residents in Clitheroe pay their respects. Picture by Ken Geddes

Ribble Valley falls silent as thousands remember the fallen

Burnley Council turned down plans to transform a mid-terraced property in Station Road, Padiham, into a house in multiple occupation.

Councillors reject plans to turn Padiham family home into bedsits