Top stories of the week

The driver of the BMW that was wrecked in a "catastrophic" crash on the M6 has "unbelievably" survived the horror collision, police have said.

Sir Ian McKellen has spoken of how regional theatre in Lancashire helped nurture a "passion for acting which has never faded" as he prepares to embark on an 80-date tour of the United Kingdom.

A cattle shed housing 600 robotically-milked cows could be coming to Chorley.

Young people have the wrong idea about golf and it’s time to change their minds, say Chorley Golf Club.

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Lancashire’s street lights will no longer be inspected at night when they are lit.

Today we mark 100 years years since the end of the First World War. Much has changed in the last century and this Remembrance Day we look back at what those soldiers who were lucky enough to return home came back to.

According to a recent survey, most people over the age of 55 don’t consider themselves to be at risk from deadly meningitis, despite the risk increasing in older adults. Fiona Evans looks at a new national campaign to improve adults’ awareness of the disease’s signs and symptoms.

Cask ale sales are “nose-diving’ but it can be brought back from the brinkReporter Charlie Bullough talks to beer expert Pete Brown about the rise and fall of the hand-pulled pint

A developer has failed for a second time to be granted permission to build houses on land in Chorley which is not currently earmarked for the purpose.