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SICK DEAL

Shop Worker Jailed for Offering Vape in Shocking Teen Sex Bid

RACE ATTACK

Accrington Man Admits Stabbing Outside Mosque

Man Seriously Injured in Accrington Stabbing as Police Launch Investigation

Tributes Paid to “Kind-Hearted” Mother and Grandmother Found Stabbed in Lancashire

Police Search for Man Following Concerning Behaviour Towards Young Girls

Adil Iqbal’s Sentence Increased: Dangerous Driving Causes Fatal Crash

Sentence Increased for Reckless Driver Responsible for Tragic Crash

Man Receives 12-Year Jail Sentence After Fatal Collision on M66

A robber who threatened to stab two people in Accrington was arrested within 25 minutes

A robber who threatened to stab two people in Accrington was arrested within 25 minutes

A dangerous man who twice attempted to rape a woman been jailed for 11 years and eight months following our investigation.

Can you help? Missing Joanne could be anywhere in the country

Margaret Lake, also known as Mystic Meg, died at the age of 80.

Three men who seriously assaulted and kidnapped an innocent man, wrongly believing he was an Albanian drug dealer, have been jailed

Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a fatal road traffic collision in Accrington – (ID 531665)

Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a fatal road traffic collision in Accrington

Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a fatal road traffic collision in Accrington

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was left with serious injuries following a collision – (ID 531663)

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was left with serious injuries following a collision

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was left with serious injuries following a collision

Four men have been sentenced to 27 years and four months in prison after we discovered an £830,000 haul of Class A drugs and three firear…

A man has been jailed for three and a half years after causing the death of a pensioner in Accrington by dangerous driving

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of pensioner Bill Howard in Accrington

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of pensioner Bill Howard in Accrington

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of pensioner Bill Howard in Accrington

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of pensioner Bill Howard in Accrington – (ID 522351)

A man who sexually assaulted two women and then forged a letter purporting to be from one victim claiming he was innocent has been jailed

Appeal for help tracing movements of pick-up as investigation into machete attack continues

Detectives investigating the death of a pensioner in Accrington have arrested two men on suspicion of murder

Detectives investigating death of pensioner in Accrington arrest two men on suspicion of murder

SICK DEAL Shop Worker Jailed for Offering Vape in Shocking Teen Sex Bid

RACE ATTACK Accrington Man Admits Stabbing Outside Mosque

Man Seriously Injured in Accrington Stabbing as Police Launch Investigation

Tributes Paid to “Kind-Hearted” Mother and Grandmother Found Stabbed in Lancashire

Police Search for Man Following Concerning Behaviour Towards Young Girls

Adil Iqbal’s Sentence Increased: Dangerous Driving Causes Fatal Crash

Sentence Increased for Reckless Driver Responsible for Tragic Crash

Man Receives 12-Year Jail Sentence After Fatal Collision on M66

A robber who threatened to stab two people in Accrington was arrested within 25 minutes

A robber who threatened to stab two people in Accrington was arrested within 25 minutes

A dangerous man who twice attempted to rape a woman been jailed for 11 years and eight months following our investigation.

Can you help? Missing Joanne could be anywhere in the country

Margaret Lake, also known as Mystic Meg, died at the age of 80.

Three men who seriously assaulted and kidnapped an innocent man, wrongly believing he was an Albanian drug dealer, have been jailed

Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a fatal road traffic collision in Accrington – (ID 531665)

Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a fatal road traffic collision in Accrington

Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a fatal road traffic collision in Accrington

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was left with serious injuries following a collision – (ID 531663)

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was left with serious injuries following a collision

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was left with serious injuries following a collision

Four men have been sentenced to 27 years and four months in prison after we discovered an £830,000 haul of Class A drugs and three firear…

A man has been jailed for three and a half years after causing the death of a pensioner in Accrington by dangerous driving

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of pensioner Bill Howard in Accrington

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of pensioner Bill Howard in Accrington

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of pensioner Bill Howard in Accrington

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of pensioner Bill Howard in Accrington – (ID 522351)

A man who sexually assaulted two women and then forged a letter purporting to be from one victim claiming he was innocent has been jailed

Appeal for help tracing movements of pick-up as investigation into machete attack continues

Detectives investigating the death of a pensioner in Accrington have arrested two men on suspicion of murder

Detectives investigating death of pensioner in Accrington arrest two men on suspicion of murder