Hyndburn Towpath Taskforce help keep the Leeds-Liverpool canal glowing - and May marks five years since they've been doing their work
The transformation of Accrington Market, with an aim of modernising what it can offer, has had a mixed response. Flood water has not helped...
The Hyndburn Lead launches soon with the first edition landing in inboxes as part of The Lead's northern expansion and 10,000 newspapers delivered for free
The council has had no overall control since six councillors quit in 2021 - but that could change on 2 May
The sculpture, made of the same material as the Angel of the North to give it a rusty brown colour, will sit in the newly-renovated Accrington Pals Memorial Garden
The Conservative MP - whose father lost his seat and admitted to being bitterly disappointed - said the local election results likely indicate a real 'battle' to remain in post at the general election
On the same day Labour regained overall control of Hyndburn Council, a former Conservative candidate for the same authority was found guilty of electoral fraud
The housing crisis is putting thousands of people at risk of sexual exploitation as they struggle to pay spiralling rents.
Britain’s boating community once moved according to the season; now, they are being forced from our rivers and canals by extortionate charges.
Private ownership has been allowed to become synonymous with having the right to feel truly at home at all. A new generation of DIY influencers are bucking the trend, and are making renting - and social housing - appear fulfilling and desirable once again.
Despite its comfortable image, the seaside city faces a unique convergence of every single aspect of the national housing shortage - and 10 new people present as homeless every single day.
The Lead's Leah Borromeo speaks with fellow documentary filmmaker Paul Sng about "Tish" - an intimate, powerful portrait about photographer Tish Murtha and her social realist images of 1970s and 1980s Britain.
When it comes to the housing crisis, our attention is drawn to towns and cities. But the countryside is running out of affordable housing too, with young people and new families paying the price.
Far from being insulated from the ups and downs of the real estate market, social and emergency housing has become tethered to it - and is facing an entirely new crisis of its own.
Shared owners face a triple whammy: rising mortgage payments, rises in the rental charge on the portion of the property they don’t own, and ever-rising service charges. And worst of all? They virtually can't get out.
Landlords in London's artsy warehouse district are following the old playbook: rent out cheaply, let creative tenants liven up the place, then kick them out and cash in. But this time, residents are fighting back.
Residents in Urmston are locked in a bitter struggle with their management company. They are paying "extortionate fees", but have no idea where that money is going.