A “grotesque” paedophile who plotted to rape a five and seven-year-old has been jailed. Robert Metcalfe, of Cowgill Street, Earby, appeared before Preston Crown Court on Tuesday charged with three ...

A Blackburn soft play that has continued to reinvent itself since the pandemic has won the Lancashire Telegraph’s Best Family Indoor ...

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The venue is being run by new owners and management who invited people across the town to a special event over the weekend.

Builders have mostly used the technology in residential construction as they look to innovate to tackle an affordable housing crisis.

Labour and the Tories are seeking to defend seats from Reform amid opinion poll momentum for Nigel Farage’s party.

White Lotus star Jason Isaacs, Stephen Fry, Richard Curtis, Aisling Bea, Carice Van Houten and Nabhaan Rizwan have jopined other well-known faces to sign a new petition asking the government to take ...

Blackburn's new Popeyes eatery is now confirmed to open later this year. The Louisiana fried chicken chain's drive thru and restaurant on the frontage of the Haslingden Road headquarters of the Issa ...

Emergency services have been called to an airport after a plane crash. Firefighters, police and paramedics were called Barton Aerodrome in Eccles at around 5pm today, April 29. Two people were ...

Armed police have descended on Bacup after a man in his 50s was stabbed this afternoon, April 29. Officers were called to Bolt Street just before 1pm to reports of an assault. When emergency services ...

Helicopters have dropped water on large fires burning on the slopes of South Africa’s Table Mountain as police investigated whether arson was the cause. Table Mountain National Park first reported the ...

Trains are being held up between Bolton and Blackburn this afternoon, with all lines blocked.