Three-year-old girl and five-year-old boy die after being taken to hospital following blaze on Friday Two children have died after a house fire in Preston. Lancashire police said the three-year-old girl and five-year-old boy died on Tuesday after they and their mother were taken to hospital on Friday evening. Emergency services had been called to the address in Coronation Crescent at about 8pm following reports of a house fire with several people trapped inside. Continue reading...

Interim manager oversees 2-1 home win in his first match Middlesbrough fight back to beat West Brom; Barnsley win away The Reading interim manager Paul Ince marked his return to management with a 2-1 home win against Birmingham. The former Manchester United and England midfielder – whose son Tom is on loan at Reading from Stoke – was handed the reins on Saturday evening just hours after Veljko Paunovic’s departure following a 3-2 win at Preston. Continue reading...

American shaggy-crested belted kingfisher thought to have got blown across ocean by Atlantic storm It is perhaps the biggest American star to visit Preston in years. A “spectacular” shaggy-crested belted kingfisher has drawn several thousand people to a nature reserve in Lancashire for one of the bird’s few recorded UK sightings in more than 100 years. The North American bird usually migrates to Mexico or the Caribbean for winter but is thought to have ended up in Preston after getting […]

Police treating the deaths of a man and a woman found at a house in Higher Walton as suspicious Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murder after two people were found dead at a house near Preston. Lancashire constabulary said officers found the bodies of a man and a woman at the property on Cann Bridge Street in the village of Higher Walton on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading...