Paul Faulkner

Transporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to school is forecast to cost Lancashire County Council £8.4m more than it had budgeted for this year.

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Plans by Lancashire County Council to create 15 new children’s homes "do not best serve the interests of vulnerable young people" it is claimed.

Digital displays are set to be installed at dozens of Lancashire bus stops telling passengers when the service they are waiting for is due to arrive.

Being unable to afford food is the main reason Lancashire residents have received help from the government’s Household Support Fund (HSF) since it was introduced more than two years ago.

The leader of Chorley Council has appealed to the government to recognise the borough does not have the space to build “another Buckshaw Village” – and remove the authority from a blacklist which restricts its planning powers.

McDonald’s has moved to reassure residents living close to a proposed new branch in Chorley – after the majority of people who responded to a public consultation objected to the plans.

A pensioner from Walton-le-Dale says the kindness of strangers has spared her having to move house after a giant sinkhole opened up in her back garden.

COUNTY council chiefs look set to double the number of children’s homes it runs in a move the authority claims will reduce its reliance on costly private placements.

Volunteer organisations across Lancashire and South Cumbria have been pushed to “crisis point” by the number of people being referred to them for support by the NHS.