Prosecutors consider taser charges

POLICE have searched the offices of Deputy Speaker and Lancashire MP Nigel Evans in connection with allegations of rape and sexual assault, it was revealed today. The offices of Nigel Evans have been searched by police over allegations of rape & ...

Two men from Lancashire have been charged with endangering an aircraft after a passenger jet was diverted mid-flight, police said. Taxi driver Tayyab Subhani, 30, and restaurant worker Mohammed Safdar, 41, both from Nelson, will appear in court ...

Police in Lancashire apprehended one of the two men who escaped last week when a car rammed into the prison van which was taking them from prison to court. Stevie McMullen, 31, from Salford, was arrested along with two other men suspected of taking ...

Police are investigating after graffiti was painted on to the wall of a Muslim prayer hall at a cemetery in Lancashire. The writing was discovered in the Pleasington cemetery on Tower Road, Blackburn earlier. Ch Supt Bob Eastwood said the ...

Police say three generations of one family from Blackburn, Lancashire were involved in the fatal plane crash at Caernarfon Airport. A five-year-old boy and his grandfather who was piloting the plane are described as being in a "serious" and ...

The 81-year-old from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was arrested this morning after attending a police station in Lancashire by appointment. A statement from Lancashire Constabulary said: "The offences are alleged to have been committed in the Manchester area ...

An eight-year-old boy is to undergo facial surgery after being attacked by dog in Lancaster, police have said. He was attacked in the front garden of a house on Lupton Place at about 20:00 BST on Wednesday, police said. The child suffered puncture ...

Police have named a man from Lancashire who died when a light aircraft crashed in North Wales. Iain Nuttall was 37 and from the Blackburn area. A young boy and a second man are seriously ill in hospital after the accident. Air accident investigators ...

A weather warning is in force for Lancashire and Cumbria this afternoon for heavy rain. 45mm expected by the end of the day, 60mm locally in places. Local flooding has already been reported and Cumbria police report a number of road collisions in ...