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Blackburn builder died after being given 'excessive dose' of insulin when doctors failed to change records
Sylwester Wasilewski was found unresponsive with an untouched meal next to his bed
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Popular farm shop has been operating for six months without planning permission
The business has applied for retrospective permission
Burnley FC fans to use 'vomitory' to get to seats at Turf Moor
The word comes from the Latin for ‘to spew forth’
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Plans submitted to demolish and rebuild listed Victorian building in Fleetwood
The Dock Street building has been vacant for several years
Baking boost for Warburtons crumpets as Burnley expansion gets go-ahead
More than a million crumpets are made every day at the site
Blackpool's Grand Metropole Hotel named in 13 latest asylum hotel closures
The government has closed another 13 hotels housing asylum seekers, including the historic Grand Metropole Hotel on Blackpool Promenade
'New chapter' Iconic Lancashire asylum hotel will now be returned to community, says government.
‘The news that the hotel has closed in its current form marks the beginning of a new chapter’ The iconic Grand Metropole Hotel in Blackpool will no longer house asylum seekers as it is returned to the local community under new government plans.
See the exact time solar eclipse will happen where you live on interactive NASA map
Across Lancashire more than 91 per cent of the Sun will be obscured
Lancashire police appeal for witnesses after two 11-year-old girls sexually assaulted
‘We know there were some people in the area who we haven’t yet spoken to, and so we are publicly appealing for witnesses today’. Police appeal for help after two 11-year-old girls are sexually assaulted in Lancashire town.
Date Perseid meteor shower will reach its peak this week - and the best time frame to look for the Perseids
You could see up to 100 meteors per hour during the Perseid meteor shower.
Gang 'wielding knives and weapons' chase after group of youngsters amid Blackburn and Burnley 'postcode wars'
British Transport Police officers were called to the scene
Concerns about missed opportunity to diagnose boy, 5, before tragic death
Archie Pickersgill died on February 6
Five women and a man arrested following drugs raids in West Lancashire
Raids were carried out at three addresses
Brazen but bungling thieves ram raid Accrington jewellers in dramatic CCTV clip
The three men make repeated attempts to crash through the window
Solar eclipse: How to make pinhole projector at home as stocks run low on special glasses
A partial solar eclipse - with around 90 to 96% coverage - will be visible from the UK on Wednesday.
Passenger dies after car crashes into wall in Rufford
The male driver was also injured
Man in his 40s mugged and slashed with machete while riding e-bike in Preston
Three men, aged 18, were arrested and taken into custody...
Leyland factory worker makes appeal to former colleagues after cancer diagnosis
John Yates hopes former workmates can shed light on possible exposure at the site
Major Blackburn cemetery expansion planned as burial space runs out
The project will create thousands of new plots designed to meet local faith needs
Student police officer appears in court accused of rape and kidnap
Mohammad Hassan is alleged to have bundled a woman into her car, drove off with her, and sexually assaulted her