Just 30 out of 1,500 rape complaints a year result in convictions
Only 30 of 1,500 complaints of rape and serious sexual assault in Lancashire each year result in convictions.
Only 30 of 1,500 complaints of rape and serious sexual assault in Lancashire each year result in convictions.
An East Lancashire creative hub is to host a free Christmas event on Wednesday, December 6, for people to do their festive shopping.
Former Labour minister Jack Straw is stepping down as chair of Blackburn and Darwen Youth Zone after eight years.
Blackburn with Darwen Council is to sell almost 14 acres of farmland it owns near a village for housing.
Burnley Council is set to debate a motion calling for 'an immediate ceasefire to stop the killing of civilians in the Israel-Hamas conflict'.
Councillors have been recommended to approve the legal and financial details necessary for the upgrade of the playing fields at a grass roots football club.
A senior councillior in Darwen has said schools opting out of being polling stations means the elderly face climbing 'half a mountain' to vote in his ward.
Blackburn's annual Festival of Light Christmas lantern parade has been cancelled and replaced by a smaller event.
The first pictures and a prospective opening date for a controversial new £12.6 million leisure centre in Hyndburn have been revealed.
Government plans to reform the running of football and introduce restrictions on vaping have been welcomed by the leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council.
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