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Burnley Labour parliamentary candidate Oliver Ryan in Cliviger

High praise for historic Cliviger sheep trials

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Ken Livingstone suffering from Alzheimer’s, family announces

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office (Getty Images)

Liz Truss claims from fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Burnley's Labour parliamentary candidate Oliver Ryan

Labour's young star reveals dream of becoming town's next MP

The Labour Party has confirmed that Alan Haworth died on holiday in Iceland on Monday morning - Credit: Gov/Wiki

Labour politician Lord Alan Haworth dead at 75

Calico Homes leaseholders in the Brunshaw area of Burnley are facing a 400% increase in their home insurance premiums

Calico leaseholders face 400% insurance hikes

Coun. Asjad Mahmood, leader of Pendle Borough Council.

Council vows to save all three leisure centres in Nelson, Colne and Barnoldswick

UKIP deputy leader Rebecca Jane stood in Boris Johsnon's former seat in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election

Rebecca Jane reflects on Boris seat by-election

UXBRIDGE, ENGLAND - JULY 21: Conservative Party candidate, Steve Tuckwell (C), celebrates winning the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election as Labour Party candidate Danny Beales (3rd L) looks on July 21, 2023 in Uxbridge, England. The by-election was called when former Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as the MP ahead of the Privileges Committee finding he had misled Parliament over Partygate. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Burnley's Rebecca Jane reflects on Boris seat by-election experience

Keir Mather. Credit: Getty

Johnny Mercer launches attack on Keir Mather - what was said

Lancashire County Council's late chairman Keith Iddon was remebered by colleagues as the most likeable of councillors

Councillor remembered at meeting he was due to be leading

Burnley MP Antony Higginbotham has backed plans to remove ticket offices from Manchester Road Train Station

Burnley MP backs plans to remove rail ticket offices

Andy Dixon, Chris Oakley and Peter Bryson from SELRAP, Tracey Brabin ( Mayor of West Yorkshire). Susan Hincliffe (Bradford City Council Leader who also chairs the West Yorkshire Combined Authority Group), Louise Haigh (MP for the Heeley constituency in Sheffield ) and John Grogan.

SELRAP campaign to reinstate rail line still on track

Sir Keir Starmer heckled on stage by green protesters who demand ‘no more U-turns’ from Labour leader

Watch: Sir Keir Starmer heckled on stage by green protesters

Teachers promised £2,400 bonus by Labour to cap ‘mass resignations’

Labour plan to offer teachers £2,400 bonus to cap mass resignations

This weekend is the Great Get Together celebrating Jo's ‘More in Common’ values, seven years after her murder.

Husband of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox to remarry

Glenda Jackson has died aged 87 (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)

Tributes paid to actress and MP Glenda Jackson who died aged 87

Labour shadow minister Bambos Charalambous suspended

Swansea West MP Geraint Davies was suspended over inappropriate behavious allegations. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Female MP says she was warned to “watch out” for Geraint Davies

Labour now has 21 councillors on Burnley Council, two short of the 23 needed for a majority

Burnley Council coalition collapses

Burnley Town Hall. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Burnley Council coalition talks continue

It was a good day for the Liberal Democrats at the Pendle Borough Council elections

Lib Dems and Labour strike back in Pendle Council elections

Coun. Afrasiab Anwar, leader of Burnley Labour Party.

Labour is on the up in Burnley following council election, says party leader

Local elections 2023: Where are they taking place in May 2023 and why isn’t my council having them?

Where are local elections taking place & is my council holding them?

Almost 200 elderly people living alone in Burnley have no central heating.

Almost 200 elderly people living alone in Burnley have no central heating

Labour currently has town hall control with 19 councillors, but is four short of a ruling majority

Burnley Council Elections preview

Deputy leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner MP will speak at this year's Burnley May Day Festival

Angela Rayner to speak at Burnley May Day Festival

Labour MP Diane Abbott attends a Stand Up to Racism rally outside Downing Street. Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty

Diane Abbott has Labour whip withdrawn after “deeply offensive” letter

Oliver Ryan, Labour parliamentary candidate for Burnley.

'We have a lot more in common than that which divides us'

The next general election is set to take place towards the end of 2024

Autumn 2024 outlined for next UK general election

A tranche of the additional road repair funding for Lancashire has already been set aside for surface dressing work

Extra £5m of pothole and road repair cash en route to Lancashire

Lancashire's 15 councils are finally on the same page over their devolution demands - but is the current Tory or any future Labour government in tune with them?

Labour would offer Lancashire no-strings devolution minus a mayor upfront

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer publishes tax details

Former PM Boris Johnson leaving his home for the Commons Privileges Committee

Boris Johnson Privileges Committee: what we learnt from hearing

Boris Johnson will give evidence this week on whether he misled parliament during the Partygate scandal

Watch live as Boris Johnson faces MPs at Privileges Committee

Former prime minister Boris Johnson leaves his home in London. Mr Johnson will give evidence as to whether he knowingly misled Parliament over partygate at a hearing of the Commons Privileges Committee in Portcullis House in central London. Picture date: Wednesday March 22, 2023. Credit: PA

Boris Johnson’s Partygate hearing - Who is on the Privileges Committee

Mobile phone ‘Armageddon alert’ date set: UK primed for new public warning system siren test

‘Armageddon alert’: UK primed for mobile phone public warning siren

Eddie Izzard changes name to fulfil a dream she’s had for over 50 years - find out what to

Eddie Izzard changes name to fulfil lifelong dream

Rishi Sunak talks to local business leaders during a visit to a Coca-Cola factory in Lisburn, Northern Ireland yesterday (Picture: Liam McBurney/WPA pool/Getty Images)

New figures show 54% of people in the UK would vote to remain in EU

Debates at the Pendle Council budget setting meeting

Political row as council tax goes up in Pendle

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

There are only two Lib Dems on the county council, but one of them - John Potter - says the group has been proved right after warning at last year's budget meeting that new schools were overdue in North West Preston

Councillors clash over tax ‘freeze’ claim, free school meals and pothole repairs

Tearful Nadine Dorries confirms she’s standing down as MP amid Boris Johnson tirade - watch

Nadine Dorries quits as MP in tearful tirade - watch

Former Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O'Mara

Former MP Jared O’Mara guilty of expenses fraud to fund cocaine habit

Rod Stewart tells Sky News phone-in Tories should ‘give Labour a go’

Free School Meals For All bill reading delayed in Parliament