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A Japanese man who killed seven people in a lorry crash and stabbing rampage in Tokyo in 2008 has been executed.Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa told reporters that Tomohiro Kato was hanged at the Tokyo detention centre earlier on Tuesday.
Japan has…
A teenage asylum seeker, who fled war-torn Afghanistan and settled in Lancashire, has impressed cricketing legend Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff in his BBC documentary.While filming his show Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams documentary for the BBC in his …
Looks can be very deceiving in many sleepy little villages – and those in Lancashire are absolutely no exception.
Innocent looking little laybys in a village in north Garstang are said to have been hit by prostitution, suspected drug dealing and other …
A stunned lorry driver ‘thought he was back in Australia’ after spotting a wallaby on the loose in Lancashire during this week’s heatwave.
As the UK sizzled in record temperatures, Marcio Castanho said he ‘felt like he was in the outback’ when he spott…
Miles have turned into money for local causes, as the Helping Hand #LinkingLeyland Guild Wheel cycle challenge raised more than £11,000.
A 25-mile journey along the beautiful Guild Wheel, the event saw colleagues, friends and family from Leyland Trucks…
A biker has died following a collision with a truck in Westhoughton.
The 33-year-old man, who is yet to be formally named by police, was pronounced dead at the scene despite the best attempts of emergency services. The driver of the truck – a man in hi…
Ukrainian forces have struck and seriously damaged a bridge that is key for supplying Russian troops in southern Ukraine, a regional official said.It comes as Russian shelling killed civilians, including a 13-year-old boy, in the embattled country’s no…
North East food service supplier JR Holland is taking delivery of three new Mercedes 3.5-tonne Slipstream vehicles and four 7.2-tonne Ivecos. JR Holland supplies over 4,000 product lines to customers in the leisure, education, health care and pu…
A BMW that featured in a Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie, GoldenEye, is to feature at a Lancashire festival on Sunday (17 July).The BMW Z3 Roadster is just one of many vehicles that will be displayed at Fleetwood Tram Festival.
The free event will be t…
Eleven official guidelines for the red alert heatwave have been issued by the UK government as a ‘national emergency’ is officially declared.
The Met Office has warned that people’s lives could be at risk as it indicated it is likely that a new UK reco…