A call has gone out for the city to show its usual community spirit. www.lep.co.uk/news/weather...

The party's parliamentarians have been responding to the PM's imminent departure. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

Politicians want to keep the congestion-busting route on the government's radar in case the cash ever materialises to make the longstanding vision for it a reality. www.lep.co.uk/news/traffic...

The move will also give a boost to the county's specialist ability to battle countryside blazes in its own backyard. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The potential impact of the huge units on the landscape was too much for councillors to countenance. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

A planning inspector will make the final call after a public inquiry which heard that Chorley Council doesn't have any grounds to object to the proposed development. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

A journalist made for the medium of television, who used it in a way that only the best can to make remarkable programmes - and a difference. RIP. news.sky.com/story/trailb...

Councillors will be advised to approve the controversial development - but almost 300 locals have made clear their opposition. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The city authority says it is laying the foundations to provide more of the social housing residents need - over 20 years after it stopped directly providing dwellings in the local market. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

Extra capacity will have to be drafted in from unaffected parts of the county to enable the continuation of urgent and routine testing during 20 days of walkouts in East Lancashire. www.lep.co.uk/health/lanca...

A planning inspector has ruled councilors were right to reject the "unplanned expansion" of Broughton. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

A hard deadline has been set for the departure of the energy firm that has occupied the site for nearly a decade. www.lep.co.uk/news/environ...

The firm behind the redevelopment says the government funding was needed just to get the scheme off the ground. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

Road safety concerns have held up consideration of what the cinema chain and landowner insist is an entirely theoretical plan to convert the site into a storage facility. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

Waste material from one part of Moor Park is helping to improve another. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The confusion is over regarding the landmark's official moniker. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The company claims it has faced payment problems for as long as it has worked for the authority. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

Planning bosses have ruled that the new-look kiosks won't be out of keeping with the area - and will help preserve a piece of Preston's heritage. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

Families are flouting the rules even after after a week of water-related tragedies - and a borough councillor says it's up to the utility firm that owns to site to take action. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The community group that pushed for the project feels that its role wasn't properly recognised - but the city council says it's disappointed by the claims. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

It's a chance to showcase Lancashire, be the county's friendly face - and get a front row seat at a global sporting event. www.lep.co.uk/news/people/...

Just days before his departure, he launched a project intended to make services fit for the future. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The authority is pouring more money into maintenance work, but won't be lobbied by councillors about where it's spent - and so data will determine the priorities, even if the results sometimes confuse the public. www.lep.co.uk/news/traffic...

A huge crowd gathered to witness the ribbon-cutting - and then be amongst the first people to walk across a much-missed landmark. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The authority looks set to be run by a minority Labour administration for the final two years years of its existence. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

Labour's Matthew Brown has been re-elected leader of Preston City Council by a comfortable majority over his Liberal Democrat challenger John Potter.

The talks would have seen the government respond to Lancashire's mayoral demands - but now the county will have to start discussions afresh with a new face. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The opposition move follows the local elections in which Labour lost overall control of the authority - but it looks set to fail. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The authority says the three facilities it placed under review and which are currently operating will remain open - but the prospects for two others that have been closed since the onset of the pandemic are less certain. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The city authority says a delay in the delivery of the new wagons needed for collecting food waste has had a knock-on effect across its refuse service. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The city council has repeatedly refused the development because of its rural location. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The long-awaited - and perhaps unsurprising - consultation results have been published. But since the survey of public opinion was taken, investment has been promised to keep the homes open and now some day facilities will be trialled for broader community use. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The garden village plans - which would have resulted in the loss of three farms - were roundly condemned and kicked out by councillors. But the developer behind the proposal has hinted at an appeal amid claims the decision was taken prematurely. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The city's steakhouse saga continues - but the chain insists the outlet will be built. www.lep.co.uk/business/con...

The authority's leader for the last eight years has won the backing of his shrunken party to remain in the role after last week's elections - while his deputy is set to be a predecessor who held the top job more than three decades ago. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The authority is entering a new era for what will be the final two years of its existence - but what, if anything, will change? www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The final word here on the result from Chorley last night - with all the reaction from across the political spectrum. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

Labour was already too dominant to lose its grip on power, but it did have a bruising night as Reform surged to become the official opposition in the borough.

He will sit as an independent while an investigation is carried out. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

In two-tier council areas like Lancashire, public awareness of which authorities are responsible for what can be limited - and that matters come election time when residents might reflect on the services they receive before deciding where to place their cross. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

It's the simplest of pre-election pieces - but always one of the most effective. Give the parties vying for votes 300 words to make their pitch to the public. The result is usually far more illuminating and less politically combative than the contents of all those leaflets and social media posts...

If you're still undecided about which way to vote in Preston tomorrow, here's a few timely highlights from the hustings debate held last week - for anyone who didn't make it through the full, ahem, two hours...

The party says the move is a matter of "fairness", but opposition leaders have condemned what they say is a meaningless and unpleasant "stunt". www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

Even having caught only brief glimpses of this year's #WorldSnookerChampionship, John Virgo's sad absence was keenly felt. He would surely have been in raptures at the deciding final frame - creating new commentary classics - but Dennis Taylor did an admirable job. Goodnight, JV.

A major overhaul of the waste collection service didn't go to plan in some parts of the city, leaving the council playing catch up. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

With a promise of taking banking back to the future to make finance more accessible, the city council has now invested a total of £1m in the embryonic venture - but councillors remain deeply divided over whether that's how the authority should be spending its cash. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

The author of a study into how hospitals perform during staff walkouts says capacity on the wards beyond the doors of the emergency department should be permanently expanded - to match the space created in preparation for strikes. www.lep.co.uk/health/royal...

Preston's very own version of Question Time might just help you make up your mind about how to vote. There'll be bitesize highlights in the coming days - but, with a week to go, there's plenty of time to check out the full debate. You know you want to... www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

It will be the tallest tower block in Lancashire - but councillors were content that it will not look out of place on Preston's skyline. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...

An attempt to get the iconic events recognised as part of the UK's cultural heritage has been spurred by the looming abolition of the council that looks after them. www.lep.co.uk/news/politic...