A Blackburn NatWest branch is among 53 banks set to close across the country this year. A notice on the NatWest website says the Blackburn Eanam branch, at Copy Nook will permanently close on 12 May.

Marian Heys, of Baxenden, died unexpectedly but very peacefully surrounded by her loving family on January 11, aged 82. A ...

An Accrington-based charity which helps to positively impact the health and wellbeing of residents has secured a grant to ...

Hyndburn Council will consider plans from the Salford-based housebuilder, which aims to regenerate a 1.5-acre brownfield site that had previously contained railway sidings and an engine shed.

A paedophile who pretended to be a teenage boy to lure a 13-year-old girl into meeting him before he went on to rape her has ...

A “deceitful and perverted” Accrington man raped a young girl, 13, after pretending to be a 16-year-old boy online.