Andrew Chamberlain

Pendle Council this month submitted designs for a huge £4.4million burial ground to be built on fields in a residential area of Nelson, Lancashire.

The coastal resort of Blackpool has suffered deeply in recent decades ever since holidaymakers began swapping the Lancashire town for cheap package holidays in Europe in the 1960s.

The coastal resort of Blackpool has suffered deeply in recent decades ever since holidaymakers began swapping the Lancashire town for cheap package holidays in Europe in the 1960s.

Shocked parents were given two days' notice of the closure of £36,000-a-year Moorland School in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, in an email on Wednesday evening.

Moorland School went into liquidation last year and was stripped of its licence to enter students for the qualifications.

Detectives revealed today that a breakthrough in DNA technology has led them to trace the father, who is now helping them establish the mother's identity, which remains unknown.

Gary Anderson leapt from the first-floor window with tiny Cyrus in the only secure place for him, so he could keep his hands free to break his fall.

EXCLUSIVE: Saeed Postchi was told his five-bedroom home was too tall and 'not built in accordance with the plans'.

Children born in Britain are now expected to live longer than ever before, with ONS figures saying baby boys can hope for 86.7 years while girls could get a total of 90.

The garden of the Bradford home had been lovingly-cared for but it has now been ripped out and replaced with concrete slabs with the property now on the market.

Fed-up homeowners claim they are unable to sit in their gardens for fear of being splattered with bird poo and can no longer hang washing out to dry because of the gulls circling above.

Fly-tippers illegally dumping mountains of rubbish at the front of the former John's Snooker and Pool Bar in Clayton Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, are making residents' streets an 'eyesore'.

Bury Council's planning committee will decide next week if Orchid Care Limited, a children's residential care business, can change the use of the home in Rudgwick Drive, Brandlesholme.

Caroline McDonald said CID officers called at her home to say her cat, Jo-Jo, had entered Axel Rudakubana 's family home and back garden as they searched for the poison.

Helen Flanagan claimed she is 'really struggling financially' and cannot even afford a £10 taxi to take her son to nursery, but was banned from driving at Wirral Magistrates' Court.

Fifteen banking deserts have been discovered in the UK as brick and mortar branches continue to vanish from our high streets, figures reveal. 

EXCLUSIVE: Villagers living close to the site of Labour's touted 'super-prison' fear their skies will soon be swamped by 'drug drones'.

Publicans of the Eagle and Child pub had argued the circular-shaped tent, outside bar, pergola and toilet block were an 'essential part of the business.'

Karen Kimblin, 63, died after the Nissan car she was driving collided with a Mercedes travelling in the other direction on St Helens Road in Bolton on June 22.

Bolton Council has agreed to offload the Church Wharf area to developer Watson Homes who plan to build 414 new homes over the next four years - generating £81.6M to the north west economy.

Lynn Worgan, 66, crashed into Christopher Allen's Audi TT when she took her eyes off the road for up to five seconds while repeatedly tapping the buttons to activate the heated steering wheel.

Every weekend, thousands of boozers, many wearing fancy dress, flock to the Otley Run, in Headingley, Leeds, in a bid to sup a pint in each of the 18 pubs on the route.

Prof Amit Patel, hailed as one of the brightest doctors of his generation and a pioneer of stem cell transplantation, suffered internal bleeding following a procedure which should not have been performed.

Prof Amit Patel suffered massive internal bleeding following a procedure for a rare condition and a coroner said Prof Patel's death was caused by 'failures in his care' and his death was 'avoidable'.

Ticketholders have raised questions about its handling of the situation and branded it 'ridiculous' that they were left waiting in their seats for hours before being told to go home.

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the summer holidays MailOnline visited five coastal Britannia hotels to see what residents thought of sharing their historic buildings with the UK's worst hotel chain.

Sylvia Harrop accused the Labour Deputy Leader of breaking party rules by beginning her campaign to become an MP two months before her rivals in the run-up to the 2015 General Election.

Mandie Gorst said she has been sworn and spat at - and almost mowed down by motorists who ignore her pleas to keep to the 20mph speed limit outside Lytham Hall Primary School, Lancashire.

Blundering developers mistakenly uprooted the 15-metre tall mature tree line to make way for the three towering buildings in Fulwood, near Preston, Lancashire.

Paul Burrell sparked astonishment this week with claims that his Cheshire home is apparently haunted by the former Princess of Wales - even though she never visited the property.

EXCLUSIVE: Broken fridges, settees and dirty mattresses have been discarded against the perimeter walls of the lavish Dubai-inspired complex in Bolton.

Seven members of the first Rochdale gang brought down for raping and trafficking young children have been released - including ringleader Qari Abdul Rauf who has been pictured back in Rochdale.

EXCLUSIVE: Cash strapped Britons across the UK have reported being charged sky-high prices at Christmas markets helping some stall owners 'earn over £80,000 in just two months'.

The government-backed garden village initiative was announced by then-Chancellor, George Osbourne back in 2017 as a sign of their support for devolved, locally-led development.

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Kalman, 76, and his wife Margaret, 73, hoped for a peaceful retirement in the picturesque 1930s family home where they have lived for the last 37 years.

EXCLUSIVE: The proposals have been put forward to help recruit and retain teachers, with thousands going on strike in recent months over pay, and others leaving the profession altogether.

EXCLUSIVE: For Sarah Ahmed (pictured), 35, and her wheelchair-bound daughter, 13, potholes and flooding on their rode in Bolton, Manchester make simply getting out of their front garden a daily battle.

Noelle Obcarskas, 64, waged a bizarre YouTube hate campaign against neighbours posted videos of unusual behaviour including parading her pet turkeys along the street.

Noelle Obcarskas said it was 'a travesty of justice' that she was found guilty of harassment in her absence, and she should have been allowed to fight to clear her name.

A woman who died after being savaged by two Rottweilers was a dog lover herself - who had recently married.

Angela and Ian McKie say they have done nothing wrong and only asked to be let off paying for half a meal once on the island, but ended up settling the full bill after they were threatened with jail.

Stranded passengers have been left to sleep on beds laid out on the airport floor and others are warned not to travel as an air traffic control glitch has caused hundreds of flights to be cancelled.

Dozens more flights have been grounded today on top of 1,200 cancellations yesterday after National Air Traffic Services (Nats) suffered a 'technical issue'.

EXCLUSIVE: Almost 1,000 flights were grounded and cancelled with thousands more delayed after issues hit Britain's National Air Traffic Services (NATS).

Passengers including Olympian Steve Backley trying to get home to the UK amid the air control chaos are being forced to make extraordinary new arrangements.

EXCLUSIVE: Charlene Downes vanished just hours after happily telling her mum she would not be late home as she headed to meet two pals.

Joanne Healey, 59, pleaded guilty to harassment and was sentenced to a 12-month community order and fined £80 by Wirral Magistrates' Court following the incident in October 2022.

Adrian Thornton was put in an induced coma after being shot in the head by Dirk Raats, 71, in Saint-Herbot, Brittany. The bullet lodged in the 52-year-old's brain.

Dutch national Dirk Raats, 71, was formally charged with the murder of Solaine Thornton, 11, and the attempted murders of her parents Adrian and Rachael Thornton on Monday evening.

Solaine Thornton, 11, was killed as she played on a swing with her sister in the garden of their home in the small hamlet in Saint-Herbot, in Brittany, western France at about 10pm on Saturday evening.

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Winward was caught on CCTV pushing pensioner Simon Procter, 70, to the ground and then pummelling him in a ferocious attack at his home in Morecambe.

More than 1,000 people contributed to an appeal for Eleanor Williams after she claimed she was trafficked and abused by an Asian gang in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

A spiritual medium found the body of mother-of-two Nicola Bulley. Jason Rothwell, 33, was seen in pictures pointing to the waters where Lancashire Police massed yesterday.

All roads near to where missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley went missing more than three weeks ago in Lancashire have been sealed off, reports at the scene suggest.

The woman in a red coat walking a white dog on a lead in St Michael's on Wyre north of Preston is being sought as a potential witness rather than a suspect in any crime.

Ms Bulley vanished five days ago while walking her dog, springer spaniel Willow, on a towpath by the River Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire.

Lancashire Police said the witness, who was walking a white fluffy dog in the area, was 'currently being spoken to'.

In his controversial memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex said Diana's former butler was 'milking' her death for money when he published his 2001 book A Royal Duty.

US prosecutors said Damien Murphy and his friend Anthony Kirby, both 36, were detained over their extremely disruptive behaviour aboard a flight home to Manchester from Mexico

Susan Dempster and friend Hilda McDougall, both from Glasgow, have still not been reunited with their luggage after almost two weeks. It went missing after their flight to Glasgow was cancelled.

The mother has told of her outrage after Year 4 pupils at the Coleshill Primary School, in Birmingham, were shown the risqué video during a sex education lesson.

England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford 's wife Megan was seen smiling as she arrived in Doha, wearing a jumper and accompanied by a toy of her husband in England kit.

Wives, girlfriends and family members of the footballers were seen piling into Manchester airport this morning to catch a short flight to London before heading to Qatar

The England winger appeared in the dock of Manchester Magistrates' Court on Monday wearing a grey sweatshirt and grey jogging bottoms where he was denied bail until a crown court appearance.

This is first picture of the man charged with the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, as he appeared in court today over her death, watched by the little girl's grieving family.

Chilling pictures showed 'beware of the dog' warnings plastered all over gates around a property in Carr Lane, Milnrow, where a child was mauled to death shortly after 1pm on Sunday

PC Ernesto Ceraldi, a serving officer for 21 years, pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm on the victim, who is in her 40s, after previously claiming he had consensual sex with her.

The ex-boyfriend of missing mother-of-two Katie Kenyon made no plea as he appeared in Blackburn Magistrates' Court today charged with her murder.

Businessman Tony Ford, pictured with PM Boris Johnson, bought 100 lateral flow kits - costing £299 - and was stunned to be charged an extra £59.80.

A former prisoner who served 36 years for the murder of a bookmaker in Toxteth four decades ago may be 'one of the biggest miscarriages of justice of all time'.

Bella-Rae Birch was brutally killed by the vicious 'American Bully' at home on Bidston Avenue in Blackbrook, St Helens, Merseyside during a horrific attack on Monday afternoon.

Bella-Rae Birch, just 17 months old, was attacked by the family pet on Monday afternoon at home on Bidston Avenue in Blackbrook, St Helens at around 3.50pm on Monday afternoon.

A dark-clothed and masked gang tried to murder a schoolgirl, 15, as she waited to catch the bus home in a brutal drive-by shooting on electric bikes.

Bobby Hardman, 34, has today been named as the man charged with assault, after Charissa Brown, 36, died after she was rushed to hospital in Bury on Wednesday.

Officers responded to a 'concern for welfare' call 24 hours before Charrissa Brown was rushed to hospital on Wednesday in Bury.

Blackburn council has launched a formal review into the deaths of two children after their father Jordan Monaghan was today jailed after being found guilty of murdering them, and his girlfriend.

Jordan Monaghan is accused of killing his children in 2013 and is also accused of murdering his partner Evie Adams in 2019 which he denies and is on trial at Preston Crown Court.

Jordan Monaghan, 30, attempted to revive both three-week-old Ruby and Logan - aged 21 months - after they had both stopped breathing, Preston Crown Court heard.

Jordan Monaghan, 30, of Blackburn, who is also accused of smothering his two young children, is said to have bought the potent prescription drugs tramadol and diazepam himself.