An EU Frontier Zone in Lancashire?
A personal report: how Brexit messed up transport between the UK and Northern Ireland, and waiting for a barcode in...
Read moreDetailsAndrew is a veteran news reporter, born in Yorkshire and now based in Lancashire. After reporting the Irish troubles in the early seventies for the Daily Mail, he worked on hard news for the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, the Independent and the Independent on Sunday. He has conducted radio and television investigations into the fate of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, CIA sabotage of Leyland exports to Cuba, corruption in ammunition supply at the Ministry of Defence, breaking UN sanctions in Serbia for Marks and Spencer, the Owen Oyston Affair and Royal Navy espionage in Japan. He has also worked in road transport since 1960.
A personal report: how Brexit messed up transport between the UK and Northern Ireland, and waiting for a barcode in...
Read moreDetailsSarah Pochin stands as Reform UK candidate, six year after Brexit caused her husband’s family firm to collapse
Read moreDetailsEx-MEP John Stevens will stand against the big three Brexit parties to offer Runcorn and Helsby a vote for Rejoin...
Read moreDetailsA new production of The Birthday Party in Bolton has revived memories of Pinter’s 1959 visit – when the leading...
Read moreDetailsThe legacy of Jan Needle, author of Wild Wood and screenwriter for A Game of Soldiers, Truckers, Grange Hill and...
Read moreDetailsThe intriguing life of the former Conservative MP for Blackpool North and founder of the Northern Party, known for his...
Read moreDetails“Greater Manchester would have to contribute to the costs of HS2 if it wanted any concessions on transport, a demand...
Read moreDetailsRemembering other dark days at Manchester City, the era of Peter Swales and John Maddock
Read moreDetailsCourts on three continents hammered Valeri Belokon for money laundering but a London high court judge awarded him £31.7mn
Read moreDetailsNight raid by special forces shuts down the Latvian bank that lifted Blackpool Football Club into the Premier League
Read moreDetailsA new book exposes the shocking interplay between the police, criminals, undercover journalists and the BBC
Read moreDetailsA plaque marking the birthplace of William Lever, the Soap King, has been torn down. Can we really judge the...
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