Crime

A 14-year-old boy is recovering after being in collision with a car on Moor Lane in Clitheroe last night.

St Helens Council’s Trading Standards team is warning residents about businesses targeting local people and offering to claim back council tax.

A charity has revealed the devastating affect the recent killer clown craze has had on children.

Lancashire MP Ben Wallace is helping to lead a crackdown on international money laundering.

Police are appealing for information after items were allegedly stolen from a Clitheroe chemist.

Police have begun a series of swoops on businesses and homes across Lancashire looking for potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking.

People tempted to carry knives on the streets of Lancashire have been urged to hand their blades over to police ‘for their own safety’.

Alarming reports of dogs falling ill through poison being left on the grassed areas of Clitheroe Castle park have been posted on the social networking site Facebook.

Police have reopened the road at Portfield Bar between Clitheroe and Whalley following a smash earlier this morning.

Lancashire police has spent more than £500,000 on private hire cars in the past financial year, new figures have revealed.

Ribble Valley residents have the chance to have a free Will written for a charity fundraiser.

It looks like a picture postcard scene as Mel Lawrenson tends her poultry at her rural home at Claughton on Brock, near Preston.

A spate of crimes involving contactless bank cards has prompted Lancashire Police to issue a warning.

A campaign by traffic wardens in Preston city centre has still not cleared the Fishergate shared space zone of illegally parked cars.

A domestic violence victim has revealed how she suffered a decade of abuse before gaining the courage to come forward – only to be told it was too late to pursue an assault charge against her attacker.

A fraudster who faked terminal cancer to avoid facing up to thefts which left a charity days from closure has been jailed for 15 months.

A Ribble Valley Indian restaurant owner has instructed his solicitors to start court proceedings against a customer who claimed to have discovered a mouse in their food while enjoying a curry at the award-winning restaurant.

Is it time decriminalise use of medical marijuana and legalise small-scale cultivation of the drug? Gary Potter, senior lecturer in criminology, at Lancaster University makes the case.

A 60-year-old Clitheroe baker was so drunk behind the wheel she almost fell out of her car and was slurring her words, a court heard.