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Preston North End host Queens Park Rangers as they look to bounce back from back to back defeats in the league last week.

Preston City Council has successfully defended an appeal against its decision to refuse permission for the building of a single house in Barton.

Lancashire will have to tackle underlying social problems such as poverty and poor housing if it is to reduce the rate of infant mortality in the county.

Preston Slimming World members are helping to highlight the links between obesity and cancer, while raising cash for the charity

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She has faced transphobic abuse, put her entire life on hold and isolated herself from friends because of depression over her appearance.

Neighbours of an elderly man found dead at an address in Preston have spoken of their shock at the grim discovery.

A man who threatened to attack people after being 'wound up' in a pub has been ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work.

Firefighters tackled a blaze in a suspected stolen van that was found on the M61 last night.

For author Alice Broadway writing her young adult trilogy was therapy at one of the most difficult times in her life.