All news on the topic: Lancashire

A Woman has been found dead in a pond in a public park amid as police launch an unexplained death investigation.

Johnpaul Digweed, 36, was serving a 25-year prison sentence for supplying vast amounts of drugs when he was found dead in his cell at HMP Garth in April 2024

Police have detained a man after he allegedly stole an Amazon delivery van loaded with £1,000 worth of parcels.

Police have uncovered a huge cannabis farm containing more than 1,500 plants inside a former church in Nelson, Lancashire.

Pamela Gwinnett raided £300,000 from the life savings of Joan Green and was sentenced before fleeing to Tenerife, where Sky News tracked her down.

Police have warned the public not to approach a man with a potentially ‘contagious health condition’ who has vanished from hospital.

A man who blew up his childhood home in the mistaken belief he had been cut out of the family inheritance has been jailed.

Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for breaking windows and throwing red paint at a branch of Barclays Bank in Lancashire.

Southport killer Axel Rudakabana has been transferred to Broadmoor secure hospital, the Ministry of Justice has said.

A teenage girl who risked her life trying to save a 15-year-old boy from drowning has been given one of the UK’s highest awards for bravery.

A teacher who murdered his adopted baby son bought a £450,000 new-build home with his boyfriend to reinvent themselves just 22 days after the tot’s death.

A teacher will die in jail for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby son. Teacher Jamie Varley, 37, has been sentenced to a whole life order for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby, Preston Davey.

The last ‘feral thug’ still behind bars for kicking and stamping Sophie Lancaster to death for being dressed as a goth has been cleared for release.

A huge fire is tearing through a Warburton’s factory – with a Netflix star offering to rescue staff in his helicopter.

The tremor struck shortly after 11:23 pm and was felt across Lancashire and the southern Lake District, including the towns of Kendal and Ulverston, within 12 miles of the epicenter.

Glittering Dubai skyscrapers, lorry loads of cash… and pigs snuffling through a heap of stinking rubbish on a Lancashire farm.

Lenny Scott, 33, from Prescot, Merseyside, was shot after leaving the gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on February 8 last year.

A drug dealer who killed a great-grandfather after hitting him while performing a wheelie on his e-bike has been jailed.

A four-year-old boy killed after a gravestone toppled onto him has been named by his devastated family.

Two individuals have been charged in connection with a car crash that resulted in the death of a baby boy and seriously injured a mother last year.

A childcare worker is too scared to use the bathroom in her own home – after opening the lid to discover a snake in the water.