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The Eighty-Six festival: why the Melbourne tram line that inspired Courtney Barnett is throwing a party

Local and international acts including Built to Spill, Bright Eyes and Warpaint will cram venues along the 86 route for a new festival that showcases the city’s long musical lineage

The Guardian - AU

Not magical, certainly a mystery: my five-hour train trip became an 11-hour viral ordeal. No wonder people fly

Our plight when a rail firm cancelled our train mid-journey and sent us all to Scotland by taxi sparked a national debate – as it should, says stand-up comedian James Nokise

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds left stranded after Avanti train cancelled mid-journey

The train, travelling from London to Edinburgh, was aborted three hours into its journey

The Independent UK

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‘No one knew anything’: rail passenger’s 11-hour London to Edinburgh odyssey

Comedian James Nokise tweets long train and taxi journey after track fault that also stranded school group

The Guardian - UK

Train passenger describes ‘insane’ 11-hour journey to Edinburgh

Avanti West Coast ordered taxis for hundreds of passengers on Monday night after a train from London to the Scottish capital terminated at Preston.

The Independent UK

Fleetwood Town owner jailed for 13 years over £15m fraud as club makes statement

Andy Pilley, who took over the League One club in 2004, learnt of his sentence at Preston crown court on Tuesday afternoon having been found guilty of four different charges relating to the sale of energy supply contracts

Daily Mirror

Drivers stuck for HOURS after huge tanker overturns and spills 20,000 litres of milk all over M6

The collision closed the M6 in both directions and caused travel chaos on nearby roads and motorways

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Major motorway closed after gallons of milk spill onto carriageway after tanker crash

The M6 - the longest motorway in Britain - was shut in both directions between junction 31 for Preston, Lancashire, and junction 32 - the M55 link - following the accident

Daily Mirror

Nicola Bulley’s partner shares theory about what happened before she died

Paul Ansell tells inquest in Preston, Lancashire his partner was an ‘incredible’ mother to her two children

The Independent UK

Nicola Bulley inquest shares 14 revelations about her death

The inquest which was held at County Hall, Preston, has helped to shed light on the events leading up to the death of the mortgage advisor in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire.

Daily Record

Nicola Bulley’s partner shares theory about what happened before she died

Paul Ansell tells inquest in Preston, Lancashire his partner was an ‘incredible’ mother to her two children

The Independent UK

Nicola Bulley's family 'hopeful and confident true facts will be established at inquest'

A two-day hearing into the mum-of-two's death started at County Hall in Preston on Monday morning.

Daily Record

Nicola Bulley was alive when she fell into river and 'no evidence' she was harmed, inquest hears

Dr Alison Armour, giving evidence at an inquest at County Hall in Preston, said there was "no evidence" she was harmed before falling into the River Wyre.

Daily Record

Man handed terminal diagnosis when rib pain turned out to be tumour now cancer free

Steve Brown, from Preston, was told his treatment for kidney cancer that had spread would become palliative but he remained positive and continued to go on long walks as he "fought" the illness

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Manchester Evening News

Probe into tragic death of mum Nicola Bulley begins today

The inquest, expected to last two days, will begin today (June 26) at the County Hall, Preston

The Week

Top chef tells vegans to ‘f*** off’

A chef has come up with a novel response for vegan diners hoping to eat in his restaurant. John Mountain, 55, a chef originally from Preston, who now runs Fyre restaurant in Perth, western Australia, has a “simple message” for anyone seeking a vegan meal, said The Times. “F*** off,” he told…

Daily Mirror

Mum given year to live after noticing foot 'felt heavy on clutch' while driving

Louise Chambers, from Preston, told how her foot "felt a bit heavy on the clutch" while she was driving on a family holiday and went to see a doctor where she was told she had terminal cancer

Daily Mirror

'My life's been ruined after freak accident in B&Q with runaway trolley'

Tara Shawbrook was injured while visiting a B&Q store in Bamber Bridge, Preston, was taken to the hospital and has since been diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder - but got no compensation

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'I'm 100 years old and believe the secret to my long life is my love of gin'

Beatrice Peters turned 100 on Tuesday and celebrated the milestone birthday with a drop of gin and a telegram from King Charles III at the care home in Preston, Lancashire

Glasgow Live

Blind man 'in near miss with freight train' after falling onto railway tracks at station

A blind man who was travelling from Glasgow to Manchester is suing after he fell onto the tracks just moments before a high speed freight train approached the spot.

Manchester Evening News

Blind man fell onto the tracks at Manchester Piccadilly as freight train approached

Abdul Eneser is taking legal action against Network Rail, alleging there was no tactile paving on the platform's edge

The Conversation

Voices of Preston's Windrush generation – when I first arrived, I said: 'Really? I thought there were no slums in this place!'

From the earliest arrivals of what would become Preston’s “Windrush generation”, the status of the Caribbean diaspora was hotly contested in this post-industrial Lancashire town, as elsewhere. Discrimination and prejudice dogged the daily lives of people from the Caribbean who made their home here.

Daily Mirror

Man attacked by friend's five dogs who began to 'eat' him and 'tore his ears off'

Henry Sherridan from Preston said the five eight-stone dogs were 'riled up' at the time when he began shouting, and pounced on him tearing his ears off and leaving him close to death

Manchester Evening News

Pie 'superfan' travels from Kent to Lancashire to spend £150 on pies

The pies from Gornalls bakery are the stuff of local legend

Manchester Evening News

Huge delays on M6 and M61 on bank holiday weekend

There are delays of more than 30 minutes on the M6 near Preston and tailbacks on the M61 from Chorley

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