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At the start of May 1945, the Second World War was all but over. The Allied Forces had been circling Nazi Germany from all sides for months, while Adolf Hitler had killed himself in his bunker on ...
Voters cast their ballots across Lancashire on Thursday in an all-out county council election. Lancashire County Council is Conservative-controlled, but in recent months saw a number of big names ...
Voters in Lancashire have had their say in the 2025 local elections. All 84 Lancashire County Council seats were up for grabs in the areas of Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster ...
London (AFP) – Andrew Flintoff has revealed his pride at seeing 'Field of Dreams' protege Adnan Miakhel, a refugee from Afghanistan, make his first appearance for Lancashire’s second team.
Warburtons, which was founded in Bolton back in 1876 when it was still proudly part of Lancashire, has launched a new TV ad which sees Olivia Colman deliver a brilliantly deadpan performance ...
Miakhel appeared in the first two series of the BBC show that saw England legend Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff return to his home town of Preston in Lancashire to build a team around young boys ...
Vietnam was the first “living room war,” seen on TV and through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. They felt ...
A total of 437 candidates will be standing at this week's Lancashire County Council elections – which are set to be the last ever held for the authority. The hopefuls will be battling it out for 84 ...
The Gallipoli campaign was fought during World War I and took place in Turkey. At dawn on April 1, 1915, Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, part of the British 29th Division landed on a beach to the ...