Plans to build a third prison near a Lancashire village could be decided in the High Court after campaigners launched a legal bid to block the project. People in Ulnes Walton, near Leyland, already ...

Local residents have launched a legal bid to block Labour's plan for a new prison built on greenbelt land as the deputy PM claims the ‘benefits' outweigh the loss of space.

A fire engine on the way to a blaze at a prison collided with a car. Cleveland Fire Brigade said the fire, in a cell at HMP ...

Chorley Council dismissed the plan for a site, which is close to HMP Garth and HMP Wymott prisons, in 2021 but the Government has now given the go-ahead to build on green-belt land. Ms Rayner ...

Jurors have ruled that a lack of planning ahead of a granddad's release from prison "may have contributed to his death".

which is close to the two existing prisons of HMP Garth and HMP Wymott, in 2021. But Ms Rayner overruled objections saying harms including the loss of green belt would 'clearly be outweighed by ...

Lancashire prison staff have lodged 637 assault claims against inmates over the past five years. Accident Claims obtained ...

In the past five years, claims against Lancashire prisons totalled £2,317,066.80, with the highest amount in 2023/24 standing ...

Residents of Ulnes Walton in Lancashire already live near HMP Wymott and high-security HMP Garth. Staff say the thieves made the school car park look like an "elephants' graveyard". The jail on ...

People in Ulnes Walton, near Leyland, already live near HMP Wymott, where inmates include sex offenders, as well as the adjacent high security jail HMP Garth. The Ulnes Walton Action Group (UWAG ...