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2 days ago

Pictured: Boy, 15, who drowned in river despite passers-by making desperate efforts to save him - as family warm others of open water dangers

Police were called to help assist Lotus Bowker, 15, from Kirkham, Lancashire, who had got into difficulty in the water close to Garstang Cricket Club at 2.33pm on Saturday, May 17.

4 days ago

Drought declared in the UK after driest spring for nearly 100 years as water levels in rivers and reservoirs run low

The Environment Agency (EA) said Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire, and Cumbria and Lancashire have moved from 'prolonged dry weather' to 'drought' status.

5 days ago

Kings of Leon cancel UK and European shows after singer’s ‘freak accident’

Caleb Followill says shattered heel needed ‘significant emergency surgery’, which would stop him performing

The Kings of Leon frontman, Caleb Followill, has announced that the band have cancelled thei…

7 days ago

Jimmy Anderson: ‘I know my body has got a certain amount of deliveries left in it’

The Lancashire bowler, 43 in July, talks about life on and off the pitch, and why cricket was never about money for him

Sir Jimmy Anderson is running late, five, then 10 minutes past 10 before he arr…

10 days ago

‘Something has gone very wrong’: how the carers scandal was exposed

A Guardian investigation revealed how hundreds of thousands of people were plunged into debt – and some criminalised – for looking after their loved ones

One February afternoon in 2016, Sir Robert Dev…

12 days ago

Jay Slater inquest is HALTED as his sobbing mother pleads for 'answers' over his death - and coroner launches bid to bring last people to see him alive to court

Apprentice bricklayer Jay Slater, 19. from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared in Tenerife last summer sparking a major manhunt before he was found dead about a month later.

13 days ago

Mother-of-four, 35, who smuggled dozens of MDMA pills into a festival inside Kinder eggs is jailed

Sian Bullock, 35, from Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire smuggled the Class A drugs inside Kinder Egg containers as she made her way through security at Creamfields festival in August 2023.

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