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The starting gun for the restoration of the west wing of Burnley’s ‘jewel in the crown,’ Towneley Hall, is set to be fired.

Towneley Hall: Next stage of major renovation work due to begin

Roads in Burnley, Pendle and the Ribble Valley are set to be resurfaced

The local roads set to benefit from £61m. resurfacing works

A budget working group and committees had put forward ideas ahead of setting the new budget in March

Disagreements over spending plans at Ribble Valley pre-budget meeting

Burnley Town Hall. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Readers letter: Burnley Council should publicise wages of officers

Lancashire county councillors have been complaining about each other - but their overall behaviour has been praised

All the complaints against councillors in 2024 - including from each other

Council Car Park Charges

Row erupts over last-ditch attempt to stop parking charge rises

Platinum selling artist TeeDee will headline the Nelson Christmas Light Switch On with a DJ set

Over 800 school children enter Nelson Christmas Light Switch On competition

Lancashire County Council members get £2,000 a year to hand out to local community groups

More than £120K of Lancashire community funding so far unaccounted for

Up to 45 homes could be built on the land off Ridge Avenue, Burnley.

Brunshaw homes plan approved

Annie Valentine is sick of people putting rubbish in the recycling bins.

'It grinds me down...it's not low-level crime when you live with it'

Previous floods in Padiham

Relief for residents as flood defence scheme back on

The Shakespeare Hotel, Wytham Street, Padiham

Former Padiham pub set for controversial transformation

The Shakespeare Hotel, Wytham Street, Padiham

Former Padiham pub set for controversial transformation

Gary Hough, 62, looks up to the skies outside his home surrounded in seagull

'Horrified' residents invaded by 'apocalyptic' swarm of seagulls

Coun Karen Bruce claimed that a Pop Tart was to blame for a dramatic toaster fire that nearly torched her kitchen.

I put a Pop Tart in toaster - my kitchen almost went up in flames

Philip Waller, 65, returned from a shopping trip last week to find that a broadband firm had erected the pole outside his house in Barnsley, South Yorks. Lee McLean/SWNS

Watch: Broadband pole was put outside my home but I had it taken down

1000s of households to get direct payment worth £125 - how to apply

Michael Perkins is fighting for right to park on his own drive in Warndon, Worcester

Watch: Council ban owner of 'eyesore' motorhome from parking on drive

Burnley Town Hall. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Councillors vote to raise council tax by maximum amount

£70,000 Investment Secured for Hapton

Example of an Applethwaite development.

Burnley Council urged to green light controversial housing development

Cllr Glynis Campbell Sinclair was spotted cleaning her windows while on camera during a meeting of Highland Council's Inverness Area Committee Picture: Highland Council / SWNS

Councillor cleans her home's windows during live-streamed meeting

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