The Leylandii trees around the former playing fields of Mount Carmel preparation school in Aughton Park Drive, Aughton have been removed and only stumps remain. In November 2015 West Lancashire Borough Council approved planning permission by McComb Property Co to build a pharmacy, medical centre and convenience store on the unused playing fields. Aughton Surgery are planning to move into
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Lancashire Police are trying to trace two young boys who found the body of a woman in woodland in Skelmersdale. It is believed the boys – thought to be around 10 years old – were cycling close to Lathom High School on Summer Street at around 3pm Sunday 9th September when they saw the woman. They alerted a nearby walker
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West Lancashire Borough Council has put a revised Local Plan out for consultation. The plans show a huge increase in housing and will affect some of the best farming land and green belt in the heart of West Lancashire. The revised thirty year plan proposed by the Labour administration will see swathes of prime farming land turned into housing estates.
Read morePolice are appealing for help from the public to identify these two people. They would like to speak to them regarding an incident on a Southport to Preston bus. On Wednesday, July 12th at around 7:10pm when a woman, 56 and her daughter, 39, were on the X2 Stagecoach bus. When it stopped near to the New Fleetwood Pub in
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