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Lancashire schools reported a record number of suspensions in the autumn term last year, new figures show.

Schools report record number of suspensions - including 585 under 11s

A devolution deal is being signed today in Lancashire

Historic devolution deal to be signed in Lancashire today by minister

Burnley and Padiham MP Antony Higginbotham has spoken about the Autumn Statement

What the Autumn Statement means for people in Burnley and Padiham

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

The Burnley Bus Company has announced its festive timetable

Just the ticket as Burnley Bus Company releases festive timetable

Work will begin on shopping hub in the New Year. Picture – supplied.

Ad Feature New Heritage Quarter will revitalise Colne

ONS figures show women in Burnley were earning an average of £13.48 per hour as of April – 4.9% more than men.

Women in Burnley earn more than men – despite widening gender pay gap in Britain

The Pendle Palestine Twinning Group backs the resignation of Burnley Labour councillors over the Gaza conflict

Pendle group calls for Gaza ceasefire

Dave Fishwick (right) meets with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Enterprise and Markets Kevin Hollinrake at Westminster

'Bank on us' - our Dave advises government on community banks

A newborn baby in the maternity ward at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey on May 22, 2020 in Frimley, United Kingdom. (Stock Image. Credit: Steve Parsons - Pool/Getty Images)

Bereaved families call for inquiry into NHS maternity services

Burnley Library, Burnley. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Burnley given £128k to tackle loneliness

Cost of living support is being rolled out in Burnley

Fresh £300 cost of living support starting today

There are two different network operators in Burnley, meaning costs vary between different areas of the local authority.

Burnley households pay hundreds of pounds in extra charges on energy bills

Heat pumps grant rises to £7.5k as UK Government warned it won’t meet 2050 net zero target

UK government increases heat pumps grant in effort to achieve net zero

A general view of scaffolding at Balbardie Primary School on September 04, 2023 in Bathgate, Scotland, after its buildings were found to contain RAAC. Credit: Getty Images

43 more schools found to have crumbly RAAC concrete

Barry Wright, formerly of Burnley and Pendle, pictured outside Jobcentre Plus before signing up for benefits. He claims he finished an apprenticeship in 2000 through Pendle Training but did not receive his certificate of completion.

Dad forced to turn to benefits after proof of qualification lost two decades ago

Greta Thunberg was among those speaking at the protest in central London. Credit: XR/Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images.

'Oily Money Out': Greta Thunberg joins protesters in central London

Overlooking Burnley. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Almost two dozen new build homes completed in Burnley this year

Burnley MP Antony Higginbotham

Burnley MP Antony Higginbotham column

SELRAP has been working with government ministers, civil servants and Network Rail to reinstate the strategic trans-Pennine Skipton to Colne railway

East Lancashire 'ignored' in transport compensation projects

More than 36.1 million people in England and Wales, including 8 million children, were breathing air with hazardous levels of nitrogen dioxide in 2022, according to research.

Dangerously high air pollution in a quarter of Pendle neighbourhoods

Four British nationals who were being held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan have been released and are set to return to the UK on a flight

Four British men freed by Taliban after being detained in Afghanistan

UCLan Victoria Mill in Burnley

More doctors to be trained at Burnley UCLan

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer pledges to tackle NHS wait times with £1.5bn plan

Dale Vince joins Just Stop Oil activists during a protest by the environmental campaigners in central London. Picture Date: Thursday June 8, 2023. Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Just Stop Oil donor pulls funding over ‘pointless’ further protests

Combustion engine cars would be banned by 2030 but it has been pushed back to 2035. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Government U-turns are going to cost us

Channel 4's Partygate told the story of the lockdown parties inside No.10 Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic. From left, Grace Greenwood (played by Georgie Henley), Alice Lyons (Alice Orr-Ewing), Rory Baskerville (Tom Durant-Pritchard), Annabel D'Acre (Ophelia Lovibond), Josh Fitzmaurice (Hugh Skinner) (Picture: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)

Channel 4's Partygate should leave you raging

Burnley MP Antony Higginbotham

Burnley MP Antony Higginbotham column

Rail campaign group SELRAP has urged the Government to include the reinstatement of the Skipton to Colne railway in the review

SELRAP urges government to 'level up' with new East Lancashire line

Burnley Town Hall

Burnley Council backs call for the Government to remove two-child benefit cap

Rishi Sunak has refused to say whether he's axing the HS2 route from Birmingham to Manchester. Credit: Mark Hall/Getty

Northern leader hits out at PM’s ‘lies’ over rail projects and HS2

Adrian Leather, Coun. Mahmood and Alison Davies in Nelson town centre

New service launched to support Pendle residents into work

Nelson will receive £20m. in government Levelling up funding

Nelson to receive £20m. 'Levelling Up' funding

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with Burnley MP Antony Higginbotham.

Burnley to receive extra £20m. in Levelling Up funding

Rishi Sunak's government will preside over the highest tax rises on record, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. (Credit: Getty Images)

Sunak's government will oversee highest tax rises on record

The UK's first drug consumption room in Glasgow has been given approval. (Credit: Getty Images)

UK's first drug consumption room gets approval to open in Glasgow

According to a leaked photograph, the government is said to be possibly planning on scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester HS2 phase in order to cut down on costs. (Credit: PA)

Labour mayors join forces to urge Sunak not to scrap HS2 Northern link

Chris Packham presented a new documentary this week, pondering whether the campaign influence governments on climate change needs to change (Picture: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)

TV naturalist fights the law, and the law mainly wins

Millions of people are receiving payments to help with high bills amid the cost of living crisis - what further support is coming in 2023?

Cost of living payment: What other support is coming in 2023?

The DWP will pay more than seven million households and HMRC will follow with around 830,000 more, taking the total number of households eligible for the cost of living payment to around eight million.

Cost of living payment: Exact date £300 boost will be paid this autumn

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show 0% of adults in Ribble Valley smoked in 2022

Record low rate of smokers in Ribble Valley

39% of children can't see a dentist - and it's worse for adults

The latest Department for Transport figures show only 41.5 miles of roads in Lancashire were fully resurfaced in 2021-22 – up from 22.4 miles five years before.

Only 41 miles of roads in Lancashire were fully resurfaced in 2021-22

Insulators on an electricity sub station are seen near homes in Manchester.

Homes to save £100s on energy as new scheme begins - are you eligible?

Office for National Statistics show 15.4% of adults in Burnley smoked in 2022

Lower rate of smokers in Burnley

Doreen Thompson adjusts her thermostat at her home as she limits her use of heating to keep up with her increasing energy bills, at her home in south London.

Ofgem chief’s warning energy bills could be ‘even higher’ this winter