A Lancashire couple who admitted locking up a 10-year-old boy in a converted coal bunker for more than a year are due to be sentenced.

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Couple locked boy in coal bunker

The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles are in East Lancashire for the latest leg of the Diamond Jubilee tour.

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Royal party takes barge journey

James Anderson goes for an X-ray on his thumb after parrying a catch during Lancashire’s match against Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford.

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Anderson requires X-ray on thumb

How Lancashire textile firms are competing with Asia

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UK textile firms weave new fabric of success

A father suffocated his six-month-old son before hanging himself at a house in Lancashire, an inquest hears.

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Baby son was suffocated by father

A couple from East Lancashire, who need to keep their heating on day and night because of their son’s disability, say trying to get help to pay their heating bills is “a minefield”.

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Family’s heating bill ‘minefield’

A Lancashire detective is forced to resign after an investigation into the handling of the 2003 murder of Blackpool teenager Charlene Downes.

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Downes detective forced to resign

Eight people are charged with sexually abusing children in Hampshire, Lancashire, Berkshire and parts of London over an 21-year period.

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Eight charged over alleged abuse

The loss of more than 1,400 BAE job cuts at Warton and Samlesbury in Lancashire could lead to a “skills exodus”, says a Fylde business leader.

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‘Skills exodus’ after BAE cuts

An energy firm which has been test drilling for shale gas in Lancashire says it could create up to 5,600 jobs across the UK.

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Shale gas ‘to create 5,600 jobs’

The head teacher of a Lancashire secondary school resigns after teachers took strike action over the behaviour of pupils.

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Strike school head teacher quits

The funeral of a Briton killed in a shark attack off the Seychelles is due to take place at the same Lancashire church where he was married less than a month earlier.

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Funeral for shark attack victim

The wife of a Lancashire man who died in a shark attack during their Seychelles honeymoon pays tribute to him.

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Shark victim was ‘caring husband’

Ten years ago this week the Lancashire town of Oldham was engulfed by violent race riots.

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VIDEO: ‘Oldham worse’ 10 years after race riots

The family of murder victim Jane Clough say she was denied her wish to be an organ donor by Lancashire Police.

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Murder victim’s ‘donor blunder’