Local Democracy Reporting Service

The rate of hospital discharge delays is down, but some people are still not leaving the wards as soon as they should

The most common reasons for hospital discharge delays across Lancashire

Lancashire fire brigade had a busy time last year

Lancashire firefighters stopped most house blazes from spreading last year

Utility companies can be fined if they do not stick to conditions about their roadworks sites - including how long a route is dug up (image: Andy Mellin)

Huge rise in roadworks across Lancashire - with hundreds of jobs overrunning

How are County Hall's coffers coping?

Autumn date set for Lancashire County Council financial healthcheck

County Hall's move to a new patments and accounting platrform has caused problems

Council's accounts delayed by system that has also 'caused wage problems'

Lamvashire County Council leader Phillippa Williamson is celebrating "fantastic news" about devolution

Lancashire devolution deal edges closer as minister 'expresses her commitment'

Whittlefield Primary School in Vurnley is in line for drainage repairs (image: Google)

All the schools that are due to be renovated in Burnley and East Lancashire

Mass vaccination centres are seeing "limited numbers" through the doors

'Why bother?' Apathy blamed for Lancashire's low Covid booster rates

There is concern over the safety of social housing in Lancashire in the wake of a tragedy in Greater Manchester

'Check Lancashire's social housing to ensure it's safe', councillor demands

Lancashire County Council's gritters are set for a re-route

Less gritting and longer grass on the cards as county council seeks £84m savings

Drivers ignoring signs outlawing certain manoeuvres could be in line for a fine from next year (image: Google)

Lancashire roads bosses want power to fine drivers making banned turns

Railway Street in Adlington in full bloom (image: Google)

Lancashire's hanging baskets and Christmas bunting 'saved' after lamppost U-turn

The number of people seeing an NHS dentist in Lancashire in the past two years has fallen sharply - from just under two thirds to just over a third

Drop in Lancashire NHS dental visits means check-ups not done often enough

Dr. Sakthi Karunanithi, Lancashire County Council's director of public health

'Be prepared': Lancashire public health boss issues winter warning

A sign at the Chorley household waste recycling centre caused confusion

Confusion over whether waste recycling centre staff can help to unload cars

Filling potholes in winter can prove a challenge when conditions are wet and cold

How Lancashire will make winter pothole repairs last longer

A single site to analyse all of Lancashire and South Cumbria's routine pathology samples might not come to pass

‘No guarantees’ over Lancashire blood test hub as boss announces retirement

Phil Woodford could not get a thrombectomy, because his stroke happened at the weekend

Two years until "game changing" stroke treatment available 24/7 in Lancashire

The new McDonald’s drive-thru in Nelson is expected to create 20 full-time and 40 part-time jobs

Nelson town centre McDonald’s on the way after land sale is completed

County Hall spent less than it planned lasy year - but it's not counting on being in the same position again

Here's how Lancashire County Council will spend 'leftover' £30m

The chief executives of five Lancashire hospital trusts have written to pathology consultants to thank them for their "dedication" after they were irked by comments made about them by the man leading moves to overhaul testing services in Lancashire and South Cumbria

Hospital bosses ask manager to "reflect" on claim consultants silence some staff

Currently, all blood tests and other pathology samples are processed at local hospital sites across Lancashire

Lancashire hospital consultants' anger over 'intimidation' claim

The proportion of Lancashire residents with high blood pressure - and who were having it properly controlled - fell during the first year of the pandemic

Here's how hundreds of heart attacks and strokes could be avoided in Lancashire

Who should lead the questioning of Lancashire County Council's policies - the party which is in charge or the opposition?

Lancashire County Council cabinet and policies to go under the microscope

-County Cllr Peter Britcliffe wants to recognise the work of Lancashire's volunteers during his time as county council chairman

New county council chair says he would only want to have been born in Lancashire

Fifteen Lancashire County Council highways staff have been left suffering the ill-effects of using vibrating equipment like pneumatic drills (image: Simin Zoran/Adode Stock)

Everyday tasks "difficult or impossible" for road workers after vibration injury

Former Lancashire County Council leader Geoff Driver was arrested nearly five years ago - but still doesn't know if he will ever be charged over allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and witness intimidation

No sign of quick conclusion to probe involving ex-Lancashire leader Geoff Driver

Children whose schools have taken part in hatching projects will no doubt have made firm friends with the fluffy new arrivals - but what happens to them next? (main image: Adobe stock)

Warning to Lancashire schools about the 'unseen side' of chick hatching projects

Urgent blood tests would still be analysed at hospital sites under the plans - but routine work would be carried out at a base in Samlesbury

'Super lab' plan for all routine blood tests in Lancashire is put on hold

Within sight of the building where Lancashire's on-street parking fees are set and penalty charges are processed, the pay and display sign on Pitt Street in Preston bears the wrong phone number (all images: Neil Cross)

Lancashire street's parking confusion as drivers given wrong phone number to pay

One of Lancashire County Council's parking enforcement officers on patrol - the authority generated £1.89m in parking fines in 2020/21

REVEALED: Burnley, Pendle and Ribble Valley's most-ticketed roads

Councillors will not have to attend County Hall for anything but the most important decision-making meetings during January

Lancashire County Council returns to online meetings as Covid cases rocket

Ian Watkinson, Lancashire's representative on the executive committee of the National Education Union, believes a "firebreak" around the Christmas holiday could help stem the spread of Omicron...

Call to keep Lancashire children off school longer at Christmas to slow Omicron

Margaret MacDonald (middle of front row), regional operations manager, Guardian Homecare, pictured with staff from the organisation, which is one of those that has been invited by Lancashire County Council to trigger a review of the price it charges for services

'Gobsmacking': Lancashire County Council invites care firms to ask for more cash

Former Lancashire County Council leader Geoff Driver was one of four men arrested in May 2017 on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and witness intimidation - and the Crown Prosecution Service has been considering a file of material on the matter since August 2018 (image: Neil Cross)

REVEALED: Legal bill in investigation into former Lancashire leader Geoff Driver

Lancashire County Council's cabinet member for environment and climate change will be at COP26 in Glasgow

COP26: this is why a Lancashire representative is attending the climate summit

The Ministry of Justice wants to move this public bus stop to a prison car park

Horror at plan to move Lancashire school bus stop INSIDE proposed new prison gro...

Lancashire County Council has been able to keep its vehicles on the road during eh current crisis

'No risk' to vital Lancashire County Council services from fuel delivery crisis

Mental health services are changing across Lancashire and South Cumbria

'One stop shop' for mental health services coming to Lancashire

Several of Lancashire's pop-up cycle lanes popped off again pretty quickly

Lancashire's pop-up cycle lanes were monitored before being ripped out, say high...

Dr. Sakthi Karunanithi wants the vaccine-hesitant to "have a chat" with people who know what they are talking about

Lancashire's vaccine rate slows as residents urged to 'ignore rubbish on social ...

Lancashire County Council will take on responsibility for issuing tickets for on-street parking offences from September

Major change to Lancashire's parking ticket regime from September

Lancashire County Council leader Phillippa Williamson said that the authority needed to be sure it had "partners" in any bid for the UK City of Culture title

Cash crunch over Lancashire's City of Culture bid as clock ticks down to deadlin...

Burnley had the highest number of self-isolating pupils in the whole of Lancashire between June 28th and July 4th.

Almost 1,700 Burnley pupils forced to self-isolate in one week

Ian Watkinson, Lancashire's representative on the executive committee of the National Education Union

Call for air filters in every Lancashire classroom as pupil isolations leap by a...

The number of Lancashire schoolchildren told to self-isolate topped 9,200 last week

Thousands of Lancashire children are self-isolating, as one school shuts for sec...