The Latest Breaking News from Preston

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

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.

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

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.

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

The pies from Gornalls bakery are the stuff of local legend

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

Kelly-Ann May Sinclair — who helped arrange the disposal of her overdosed friend Blake Riley's body at Preston in Queensland — will spend at least six months in prison for interfering with a corpse.

A new section of the King Charles III England Coast Path is now open

Dad-of-three David Massey, 41, converted his garage into a 1940s-inspired hideaway, complete with submarine doors and a whisky bar, so he can reminisce about 'happy times'

David Massey spent £20,000 building a man cave in the style of Winston Churchill’s bunker with real submarine doors and reinforced steel walls