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Coming home or parachuted? Hyndburn battle focuses on local credentials

The fight to be MP for Hyndburn & Haslingden is straightforward according to the polls - but both candidates have moved to stress their local credentials
By Jamie Lopez
Swinging pendulum of Hyndburn likely key indicator of general election result

Sara Britcliffe benefitted from a huge swing from Labour to Conservative in 2019 - but Labour will see it as a key target this time around
By Jamie Lopez
Project Great Harwood: Turning the town into a Lancashire destination

The aim is to turn Great Harwood into a town that rivals, or betters, Clitheroe, Whalley and Skipton as a place for people to visit
Labour candidate Sarah Smith unseats Sara Britcliffe in Hyndburn

In a battle that focused on local credentials, the national picture ultimately proved decisive
By Jamie Lopez
Hyndburn's cultural revival gives its communities a voice

The idea that East Lancashire is lacking in culture just isn't true - and that's especially the case across Hyndburn
By Laura Davis
Boots on the ground: Women’s grassroots football in Accrington

There are many success stories to come from Accrington Stanley Women - a club that still operates independently from the men's team
By Antonia Charlesworth Stack
New Hyndburn MP Sarah Smith's first weeks in Parliament with her four-month old son

"Unusually I have been undertaking this whilst bringing my 4-month old son Elijah with me..."
By Sarah Smith
The story of how Accrington's new Pals sculpture was created

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
By Antonia Charlesworth Stack
Five years of canalside care from Hyndburn volunteers marked with new mural

Hyndburn Towpath Taskforce help keep the Leeds-Liverpool canal glowing - and May marks five years since they've been doing their work
 
By Antonia Charlesworth Stack
Often hidden, often ignored: The woodland homeless of Hyndburn

Just eight were sleeping rough in Hyndburn according to an official count in the autumn. But what about those that no one notices? The Hyndburn Lead visits a woodland in Oswaldtwistle where people have been increasingly living in tents after failing to get the help they desperately need.
By Liam Milton
Labour’s plans for the energy sector are quietly ambitious

It is vital that the green transition brings workers, communities, and individuals together to create a sustainable and inclusive economy.
By  Paul McNamee
Repairing housing is key to Britain’s economic recovery

Labour’s manifesto suggests it understands how a dysfunctional housing sector destroys lives, but do the party's commitments go far enough?
By Hannah Fearn
The classroom crisis can't continue under Labour

The teaching profession has been devalued to the point of absurdity, with staff drafted into classrooms with little or sometimes no qualifications.
By Cherry Casey
A big cash injection is the lifeline the NHS desperately needs

Over the next five years, the cost of maintaining the NHS will inevitably grow with demand. The next government must be willing to spend more to improve it.
By Katie Hignett
Next stop: Fixing Britain's broken transport system

Transport is the UK's largest emitting sector of greenhouse gases, and private cars are the single biggest contributors.
By Hirra Khan Adeogun
New government's asylum reform must end Hostile Environment

The 28-day move-on period was designed to make the refugee settlement process as hostile and unpleasant as possible to “deter” future arrivals.
By Zoe Gardner
On climate, the Tories were all talk. Labour must walk the walk.

A clean energy transition is crucial, but other environmental issues press on. 
By Diyora Shadijanova
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