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Hippo being renovated (5)

Billie’s looking 'smiles' better thanks to historic hippo makeover

An expert conservator has travelled across the Lancashire-Yorkshire border to collaborate with industry colleagues

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Paintbrushes at the ready as Lancashire Artist of the Year 2024 begins

The search to find and champion some of the best artists in the county has now begun, as Lancashire Artist of the Year 2024 launches today.

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Swoop across three businesses for illicit e-cigarette and tobacco sales

A swoop across three Lancashire businesses saw e-cigarettes sold to underage test purchasers, including one dressed in school uniform.

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Slay Boredom – a weekend of swordsmanship at Clitheroe Castle

A special programme of events will run at Clitheroe Castle Museum this weekend to mark England's patron saint.

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Counterfeiter jailed after selling thousands of false vehicle service booklets

A counterfeiter has been jailed for 31 months after selling thousands of potentially dangerous false vehicle service booklets.

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Princess Royal makes visit to Lancashire

A special visit has been made by The Princess Royal to a Lancashire museum today.

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Museums ready to welcome visitors again after winter clean

Four of Lancashire’s historic mills and houses are ready to welcome visitors for the 2024 season.  

Some of the posters on display in Jeffreys' printing room

Poster fraudster ordered to pay back £500,000

A fraudster jailed for more than three and a half years for creating counterfeit posters has been ordered to pay back more than £500,000.

Nelson Civic Ladies Choir were crowned the winners

Choirs urged to enter singing contest

The search to find Lancashire's top choral singing talent has launched for the third year running.

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Extra financial support for Lancashire's foster carers

An additional £960,000 is set to be given to foster carers across Lancashire.

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Illegal vapes seized following string of raids

Oversized vapes were among items confiscated in a series of recent raids. Non-regulation vapes pose a danger as they may contain different amounts of nicotine to the amounts stated on the packaging.

Some of the items seized in Skelmersdale raid

£50,000 of fake goods seized in Skelmersdale raid

More than 1,300 items of counterfeit clothes and trainers have been seized after Trading Standards joined forces with Lancashire Constabulary to swoop on an address in West Lancashire.