A two-year-old boy found face down in a canal had run off from his mother shortly before, police said today. The youngster is fighting for his life...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his partner and son. Police said the 34-year-old man was known to the six-year-old boy and his mo...

100kg of horse meat has been imported into the UK and falsely labelled as beef in Lancashire and Liverpool, with 40kg (88lb) of it already sold to the...

A woman who allegedly knocked champion cyclist Bradley Wiggins off his bike with a van has been reported for summons by police. After a formal inte...

The head of the GB cycling team, Shane Sutton, has been taken to hospital in Manchester suffering bleeding on the brain after being knocked of his bik...

Tour de France cycling champion and Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins is recovering in hospital after a collision with a vehicle. Wiggins, 32,...

An 18-year-old had part of her stomach removed and is seriously ill in hospital after drinking a cocktail with liquid nitrogen in it. According to ...

These astonishing pictures show the moment a thief stole an iPhone from the hands of a toddler in a shop in Lancashire. 20-month-old Luella Reid wa...

A murderer serving a life sentence who absconded from prison has been recaptured. David Mitchell, 44, left Kirkham Prison in Lancashire on Tuesday ...

Parts of the UK have been warned to brace for fresh outbreaks of flooding. Meanwhile, families forced to flee their inundated homes after a month's...

Singer, television presenter and actor John Barrowman has been forced to cancel his Blackpool concert tonight because of the severe weather. The 45...

Residents in a flood-hit Lancashire village were starting the mammoth task of cleaning up the damage on Saturday after torrential downpours brought fl...

On first glance this roadside fracas between ice cream vendors 'Mr Yummy' and 'Mr Whippy' seems a moment of comedy more suited to Little Britain than ...

A 14-year-old girl was sexually exploited at a drugs den by a gang of men who treated her with "indignity and contempt", a jury has heard. The teen...

Motorists are having to contend with scores of attacks a year by missile-throwing yobs, it was revealed today. One county police force reported tha...

A man has admitted to leaving his dead father on a couch for five months, living with the body in order to pocket his benefits payments. Christophe...

It looks like snow finally falling for a belated white Christmas, but the blizzard-like conditions decking the walls at the Lancashire resort of Cleve...

Detectives are appealing for information after they found the body of a man who possibly lay undetected in his house for months. P...

Feeling strapped for cash this Christmas shopping season? Get your metal detector out and hope to strike gold - just like Darren Webster, who discov...

A real-life witches cottage is thought to have been unearthed in the heart of coven country, a mummified cat buried alive in its walls. The discove...