Marcus Smith has defied expectations by winning a place on the bench for the British and Irish Lions’ first Test against Australia, but Owen Farrell and Henry Pollock miss out on selection.

Abbott was suspended by the Labour Party in 2023 after a letter comparing different forms of racism but was readmitted a year later.

Tess Howard, who competed for Team GB in the Paris 2024 games, has joined Dr Alice Porter to make school sports clothing ...

A former East Lancashire MP with an autistic son has been appointed a patron of a charity supporting children with special education needs ...

Burnley’s Turf Moor has been ranked as the best in the country for matchday food. A study by ticket comparison site SeatPick analysed Google reviews for all Premier League grounds, focusing on ...

Dion De Neve on his first game for Rovers and why English football is different from what he was used to in Belgium ...

The Royal Lancashire Agricultural Show is set to return tomorrow. The three-day event will take place at Salesbury Hall in Ribchester from Friday, July 18 to Sunday, July 20. It promises a packed ...

A mum “hates to think” about the potential injuries her son would have suffered if it had not been for the work of the North West Air Ambulance ...

Students made the most of their chance to celebrate their school leavers prom at an "idyllic" event. Pupils of St Joseph’s RC High School in Horwich had an evening celebrating their next chapter in an ...

A teenager will be sentenced later this year after pleading guilty to class A drug offences. Sakifur Rahman, 18, appeared at Burnley Crown Court on Tuesday (July 15) charged with possession with ...

This week's pub is in a village in East Lancashire and has had a stellar year since we last spoke to them. Paul Wright runs the Hapton Inn, in Hapton, after previously running the Griffin's Head in ...

The Blackburn child who has a heart condition must be picked up from the school but was later seen attempting to make his own way home.