Environment

Three anti-fracking activists have been greeted by supporters as they left prison after six weeks.

Three anti-fracking protestors are being released from Preston prison after being freed on appeal.

More than 100 supporters gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice ahead of the hearing on Wednesday.

Three fracking activists have had their sentences reduced to conditional discharges today in their appeal hearing at the Court of Appeal.

Staff on Lancashire trains are to wear body cameras to record any trouble on the railways.

London fashion icon Dame Vivienne Westwood visited Cuadrilla's fracking site to show support for campaigners hoping to stop the shale gas industry.

Dame Vivienne Westwood's son Joe Corré addressed the crowd gathered at the gates of the Little Plumpton site, where shale gas exploration company Cuadrilla this week began fracking the two wells it has drilled there.

D-day is looming for litter louts and people who allow their dogs to foul public places.

Dame Vivienne Westwood has joined protesters and danced in the road outside a fracking site after the controversial process got under way in Lancashire.

Lancaster University has launched a partnership with the Environmental Industries Commission to support innovation and grow business which reduces carbon emissions and delivers clean growth.

Fracking has begun on the Fylde despite two lock-on protests at Cuadrilla’s drill site, which caused the police to shut the A583 in both directions.

Fracking protesters have said their fight has just "got serious" as the controversial process is due to get under way in Lancashire.

The death of one of Blackpool Zoo’s beloved tigers sparked an outpouring of grief among readers.

Police closed the main A583 between Preston and Blackpool at rush hour this morning as protestors staged a demonstration on the first day of fracking.