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The Grand National is the highlight of the year at Aintree. Check out our expert tips, big-race predictions and who we think will win the 2024 Grand National.

The Grand National is the highlight of the year at Aintree. Check out our expert tips, predictions and who we think will win the 2024 Grand National.

LETTERS in local newspapers, including our Hear All Sides pages, are always fascinating but never can there have appeared a more unusual denial in a…

December was a cold month for most, but it was an even colder one for these criminals who were thrown in the cells for committing offences across…

Two lone female dog walkers out by the Leeds Liverpool canal were victims of unprovoked attacks by homeless Joseph Eccles last November.

A 53-year-old homeless man is to be sentenced after pleading guilty to randomly attacking female dog walkers in East Lancashire

WE recently featured a photograph in Looking Back of the Beechwood on Livesey Branch Road in Blackburn taken in 1969. This prompted local historian Barbara Riding to get in touch regarding the original Beechwood House which had stood on the same site and had links to one of the town’s most prestigious families. Dating back to the 1800s, Beechwood House was built for George Whiteley, whose father together with Joseph Eccles, built and ran Albion Cotton Mill near Ewood. George Whiteley ...

WE recently featured a photograph in Looking Back of the Beechwood on Livesey Branch Road in Blackburn taken in 1969. This prompted local historian Barbara Riding to get in touch regarding the original Beechwood House which had stood on the same site and had links to one of the town’s most prestigious families. Dating back to the 1800s, Beechwood House was built for George Whiteley, whose father together with Joseph Eccles, built and ran Albion Cotton Mill near Ewood. George Whiteley ...