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Bolton Coroner's Court

Tragic death of woman after losing her partner

Fourteen colleagues from our Redrow North West division took part in The Great Tommy Sleep Out.

Housebuilder team sleep out for veterans' charity

David Madden (inset) was interviewed for a new documentary about the Freckleton Air Disaster, where he watched most of his classmates get killed 80 years ago.

'I ran through a burning doorway as my classmates got killed'

An artist’s impressions of how the aircraft could look

Jobs available at BAE Systems in Preston, Samlesbury and Warton

The Red Arrows are heading to Blackpool

Everything you need to know about the Red Arrows and Blackpool Air Show

Defence secretary Ben Wallace who has given the go-ahead for a flying prototype aircraft to demonstrate the new 6th generation Future Combat Air System

Flying prototype of new combat aircraft gets go-ahead from Government

Abi Stansfield at WorldSkills UK

WorldSkills 2022: Lancs engineer set for Shanghai showdown at ‘skills Olympics’

Khadijah Ismail (left)

Lancashire engineer on transforming a Nepalese village and female empowerment

Janet Waine of Aqua Safety

Woman of the Year contender

Residents across the borough felt the tremor

Experts confirm cause of mystery 'tremor' that shook buildings across Wigan

Sophie Harker

'I decided I wanted to be an astronaut on a family holiday to Disney World': Lan...

Jodie, right with her husband mikey

Heartbreak as Wigan woman dies in Butlins holiday tragedy

Eddie Webb, centre, with colleagues during a meeting in the board room at Sanderson Watts Associates.

Sanderson Watts: Wigan's 'cutting-edge' nuclear specialists

The three RAF Tornados fly over Warton

Thousands look skywards to bid farewell to the Tornado

A Yemeni man walks on the rubble of a petrol station after it was hit by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, this year

'Cracking down on arms trade would be a meaningful way to honour the war dead'

Typhoon P2E Warton test flight

UPDATED: Union warning as BAE Systems axes 371 Lancashire jobs
Up to 371 jobs are being axed at defence giant BAE Systems in Lancashire as the group said it was slowing production of its Typhoon jet fighters.
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