Marton Moss has now been officially designated as a conservation area in a move which it is hoped will help preserve some of the earliest evidence of settlement in Blackpool.
Reducing Blackpool's Stanley Park Golf Course to nine holes is among the options being considered by leisure chiefs who have been running the facility since its previous operator went out of business.
Detailed designs will be developed for the Eden North project in Morecambe after it was handed the final piece of funding needed to launch the next phase of the scheme.
A new report published by UK100, a local government network that supports clean energy, has found that Blackpool had more people living in areas with unsafe air pollution levels than anywhere else in the North West.
From the Toxteth riots to the ravages of the West Pennine Moors fire last summer Chris Kenny has spent 40 years in the fire service. He tells Fiona Finch about his career and why the county should be very proud of its fire and rescue workers.
The Government agency in charge of regulating the UK's oil and gas says it will not review the fracking earth tremor limit despite calls from a Lancashire energy firm to do so.
Proposals to use land on Marton Moss in Blackpool as a travellers site have been approved after councillors received reassurances from the head of the family living there.
