The Latest Breaking News from Skelmersdale

At Skelmersdale music venue E Rooms, community really is everything

The Independent is teaming up with the Music Venue Trust to shine a light on the UK’s grassroots music venues – and the people fighting to keep them running

The Independent UK · Sep 22

CCTV footage released after 70,000 pints of Guinness stolen in brazen heist

Detectives investigating the theft of more than 70,000 pints of Guinness worth £115,000 have released CCTV footage of two men they wish to speak to. Around 880 barrels were stolen when two HGV trailers were taken from a depot in Runcorn, Cheshire, on Monday 31 August. Footage shows two lorries…

The Independent UK · Sep 8

‘My son was everything you are not’, mother tells killer of ex-prison officer

Elias Morgan shot Lenny Scott outside a gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire.

The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2025

A community woke to a senseless murder as they ask an-all important question

A murder investigation has been launched after Dylan Bragger, 15, was stabbed to death last night

Liverpool Echo · Jun 30, 2023

Tributes paid to 'gentle giant' teen who was stabbed to death in savage attack

Lancashire police were called to Digmoor Road in Skelmersdale at around 9 pm on Thursday, June 29, following reports of a stabbing.

Daily Record · Jun 30, 2023

Men who set up illegal streaming of Premier League matches jailed for 30 years

A Skelmersdale man was jailed for five years and two months

Liverpool Echo · May 30, 2023

Suspected drug dealer named as man, 41, in custody

It comes after officers raided properties in Skelmersdale and Kirkby

Liverpool Echo · May 24, 2023

Man, 20, killed as Audi smashes into tree and another fighting for his life in hospital

A 20-year-old man died and another was injured when an Audi A1 collided with a tree in Skelmersdale, West Lancashire, at around 10.45pm on Friday night

Daily Mirror · Apr 15, 2023

Woman in agony taken off NHS waiting list after medics get her weight wrong by SIX STONE

Jennifer Newby, 29, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, was in crippling pain for months before being taken off the NHS waiting list after doctors recorded her weight wrong by six stone

Daily Mirror · Mar 25, 2023

The bloodthirsty vigilantes who murdered a young dad - but made a colossal mistake

"What they did in February last year was nothing short of atrocious"

Manchester Evening News · Feb 9, 2023