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Countdown to the launch of the Great Exhibition of the North begins

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Dr Jim Morris with a coin found during the 2017 dig

Dig in again as Ribchester is Revisited

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There have been no trains between Oxenholme and Windermere since Northern launched its new timetable

Trains to Lake District 'will run from July'

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Love Island's Kendall Rae Knight with last year's winner Kem Cetinay on a date at Blackpool's Notarianni's ice cream parlour

Love Island's Kendall comes Home - will Kem be with her again?

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Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP in the driving seat with compo call

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Rain pours but Freckleton Club Day keeps marching on

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New instant roadside breathalysers will not give drink-drivers time to sober up

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The lifeboat Her Majesty The Queen leaves St Annes RNLI lifeboat house after being replaced by the Shannon craft Barbara Anne

Lifeboat sails into sunset after 19 years

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Mark Chapman, 46, Martin Wilson, 42, Craig Wilson, 45 and Cahal Loose, 49 for Benidorm or Bust Car rally.

Blackpool to Benidorm in a seaside themed old banger

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Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP in the driving seat with compo call

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The new breathalysers will give police and instant reading

New instant roadside breathalysers will not give drink-drivers time to sober up

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HM Coastguard Fleetwood.

Coastguard and lifeboat crews mobilised to help boat 'in distress'

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Northern have released a limited timetable around strike action taking place later this month.

Northern release limited timetables ahead of strike action

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The Blackpool North line was one of the worst affected by the timetable disruption

‘We’re working hard to make timetable work’

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New instant roadside breathalysers will not give drink-drivers time to sober up

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Part of Hornby Road (Image: Google).

Car set alight in Blackpool in 'deliberate' attack

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Valeri Belokon

Waiting game for ex-Pool director Belokon in court battle with former wife

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Aaron Whitney. Have you seen him?

Man, 20, wanted in connection to 'serious domestic violence incident' that saw a woman held captive

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Dig in again as Ribchester is Revisited

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Susan Jones

Fylde foster mum’s delight at BEM award honour

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Associate director Alex Summers. (s)

Lancashire Police spotlight child grooming in new theatre resource

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The aim of the Give Up Loving Pop (GULP) campaign is to get more kids active and to rehydrate with healthy drinks such as water or low-fat milk.

Lancashire's football clubs unite to tackle sugary drinks head-on

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Author Ian Williamson

Social media in spotlight at parents’ talk

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Trains to Lake District 'will run from July'

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Paul Maynard on a Virgin Train

Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP in the driving seat with compo call

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The new breathalysers will give police and instant reading

New instant roadside breathalysers will not give drink-drivers time to sober up

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Booths chairman Edwin Booth

Booths free hot drink scheme to be cut

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Paramedics across the north west are going on strike today - and more could follow suit soon

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Council leader County Coun Geoff Driver

More cash for county council reserves now - but £144m "funding gap" still predicted by 2021

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Resurfacing work taking place. Photo: Stephanie Robinson.

Government announces £100m funding boost for Lancashire's road

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Former Fylde Council leader David Eaves

Funeral of former Fylde Council leader David Eaves to take place next week

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David Eaves in the Ansdell ward he represented for 11 years

Tributes to former Fylde Council leader

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Trains to Lake District 'will run from July'

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Booths chairman Edwin Booth

Booths free hot drink scheme to be cut

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A group of five grandparents lock-on at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in London to call fro a halt to fracking.

Grandparents' fracking protest at Department for Business.

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A new healthy town made up of 1,400 homes, a school and a health centre is planned at Whyndyke Farm

Deal is struck over plans for 1,400 homes on the edge of Blackpool

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Paramedics across the north west are going on strike today - and more could follow suit soon

Health
The aim of the Give Up Loving Pop (GULP) campaign is to get more kids active and to rehydrate with healthy drinks such as water or low-fat milk.

Lancashire's football clubs unite to tackle sugary drinks head-on

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Blackpool Tower

Blackpool Tower to turn blue for the NHS

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Pearse Butler

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust names its new chairman

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Jorgie Rae Griffiths

Mystery person donates £44,000 to help Wesham girl Jorgie Rae Griffiths get cancer treatment

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