All news on the topic: Lancashire

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Teacher who murdered adopted baby bought £450,000 home weeks after child’s death
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.
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Teacher handed whole life order for murder and sexual abuse of adopted baby son
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.
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Last man jailed over Sophie Lancaster killing approved for release on licence
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.
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Fire engulfs Warburton’s factory in Burnley, staff evacuated safely
A huge fire is tearing through a Warburton’s factory – with a Netflix star offering to rescue staff in his helicopter.
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UK sees spike in seismic activity after latest quake hits Lancashire coast
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.
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UK’s ’biggest ever’ fly-tip exposes links between waste crime and drug trafficking
Glittering Dubai skyscrapers, lorry loads of cash… and pigs snuffling through a heap of stinking rubbish on a Lancashire farm.
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Former prisoner found guilty of murdering father-of-three in Lancashire
Lenny Scott, 33, from Prescot, Merseyside, was shot after leaving the gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on February 8 last year.
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Drug dealer jailed for 8 years over death of 86-year-old man in e-bike crash
A drug dealer who killed a great-grandfather after hitting him while performing a wheelie on his e-bike has been jailed.
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Boy, 4, killed after gravestone falls on him at Rawtenstall Cemetery
A four-year-old boy killed after a gravestone toppled onto him has been named by his devastated family.
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Two charged over crash that killed baby and left mother seriously injured in Bamber Bridge
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.
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Prison boss accused of relationship with inmate and accepting luxury car bought with drug money
A prison governor was gifted a £12,000 Mercedes by her imprisoned drug dealer lover, a court heard.
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Jamie Cooper, 33, flees from transport van near Preston; police urge public not to approach
A police manhunt is in progress after a prisoner overpowered officers and escaped from a van transporting him to court on Wednesday - the public is advised ’do not approach’.
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Woman terrified to go to the toilet after snake slithers out in bathroom in Burnley
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.
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Southport knife killer pleads guilty to murdering 3 girls at Taylor Swift dance class
Axel Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, changed his plea on day one of a trial at Liverpool Crown Court where he was charged with the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9; Bebe King, 6; and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7.
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Woman’s body ‘found inside old ambulance near children’s play area’
The body of a young woman who died ‘suddenly’ has been found near a children’s play area in Blackpool, Lancashire.
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Ex-Tory candidate with ’cavalier attitude’ towards democracy jailed for electoral fraud
Mohammed Navid Afzal had been scolded by a judge at Burnley Crown Court, where his own lawyer said the 41-year-old man, from Accrington, Lancashire, ’accepts this is a serious offence’
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Childminder sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing baby boy
A childminder who admitted shaking and killing a nine-month-old baby boy she was supposed to be looking after has been jailed for 12 years and seven months for manslaughter.
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Childminder admits killing baby boy
A childminder has admitted shaking and killing a nine-month-old baby she was supposed to be looking after.
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A boy playing football in the street was shot in the head while retrieving his ball
The 11 year old suffered a fractured skull and was taken to Alder Hey hospital for surgery. He is now recovering. The incident happened at about 7.20pm on Monday
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Urgent lockdown in Darwen town centre after grenade found near Wetherspoons sparking huge emergency response
A grenade has been found in Darwen town centre, leading to an emergency lockdown and the arrival of a bomb disposal unit.
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Tory suspended over 3am call demanding money saying he was locked up by ‘bad people’
A Tory MP has been suspended from the party while officials investigate claims he misused thousands of pounds of campaign funds.
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Teen arrested over motorbike crash which killed two dogs and left woman in hospital
Lancashire Police were called to the crash in Leyland, Lancashire, in which a woman was injured and two dogs were killed after a teenager allegedly ploughed into them on a motorbike
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Twenty Lancashire councillors quit Labour Party in protest over ‘bullying’ claims
The 20 Lancashire councillors claimed the national Labour Party no longer represented them