Greater Manchester and Lancashire could be the next regions to be put under the Government’s highest tier of new local coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Ministers, councillors and medical experts are expected to hold a ‘gold command’ meeting today to discuss moving the North West areas up from tier two to three. As the three-tier Covid-19 alert … Read more
Murder probe is launched after doctor, 49, and her schoolgirl daughter, 14, are found dead in house fire in Lancashire Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi, 49, and Vian Magrio, 14, were found dead in Burnley Police discovered evidence of fire and smoke inside their house on Thursday Lancashire Police opened a murder inquiry while the deaths … Read more
Lancashire Force orders its officers to IGNORE the NHS Covid app if it tells them to self-isolate – as thousands of police are told they can only download it onto their personal phones (which many don’t carry on duty) NPCC urges police to install app only on own person phones, not work ones Some constabularies … Read more
Lancashire is set to be placed under a coronavirus curfew tomorrow, reports suggest, as revellers in Newcastle enjoy one last night on the town before their own restrictions come into play. Drinkers have flocked to watering holes in the North East this evening after Matt Hancock confirmed the region would be hit by a 10pm … Read more
A priest’s feisty mother told her daughter she ‘couldn’t afford to put any weight on’ as she tried on a very clingy gown in Say Yes To The Dress Lancashire. In tonight’s episode of the TLC show, priest Gemma, who usually conducts other people’s weddings, is about to become the bride – and she’s looking … Read more
Coastguard launch desperate hunt for two teenage boys, 16 and 18, who vanished in the sea off Lancashire coast Search resumes for 16-year-old boy and 18-year-old man off Lancashire’s coast The pair went missing near St Annes Pier in Lytham St Annes on Saturday at 7pm A 15-year-old boy managed to swim to shore and … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has banned households in parts of Manchester, Lancashire and Yorkshire from meeting indoors from midnight tonight. He claimed the new lockdown measures were put in force after repeated rule breaches led to a spike in new coronavirus cases. The councils going back into a partial lockdown are Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Rossendale, Bradford, … Read more
The Speaker of the House of Commons’ pet parrot Boris has taken to squawking ‘order order’ and ‘lock the doors’ on the London to Lancashire train. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who took over as speaker from John Bercow in November, drives or takes the train up to his constituency in Chorley, North west England, every week. … Read more
The Lancashire borough of Pendle warned of a coronavirus outbreak today — after a spike in cases in nearby Blackburn with Darwen. County health officials fear the district, home to around 92,000 people, is at risk of retreating back into lockdown if the disease continues to spread. It had an infection rate of 73 new … Read more
The Lancashire borough of Pendle is at risk of retreating back into lockdown because the coronavirus is spreading out of control there, local health officials have warned. Director of public health for Lancashire, Dr Sakthi Karunanithi, has given an ‘early warning’ for people to wash their hands often, keep social distancing and wear masks in … Read more