Preston News from the BBC

The latest News in Preston, Lancashire

• Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:27:52 GMTGroup focuses on drugs job loss
  A group set up to respond to the loss of 1,200 jobs at AstraZeneca in Leicestershire is to meet for the first time later.
• Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:12:45 GMTNick Park hints at 3D animation
  Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park tells the BBC that he would like to make a Plasticine animation in 3D.
• Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:42:36 GMTBurglars steal from 60 golf clubs
  Police investigating 60 burglaries at golf clubs across England release new CCTV footage of two men they believe are responsible.
• Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:53:46 GMTShopkeeper stabbed in arm in raid
  A Brighton shopkeeper stabbed in the arm after chasing two thieves says he is glad he stood up to them and would do so again.
• Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:41:07 GMTEx-councillor laundered drug cash
  A former councillor from Lancashire is jailed for four-and-a-half years for helping a drug dealer launder more than £300,000.
• Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:24:30 GMTThe anatomy of a cut
  With all parties committed to cuts in public services, how is a cut actually made? Who decides on it, who enforces it and how do the rank-and-file react?
• Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:46:47 GMTBulger murderer returned to jail
  Jon Venables, one of the killers of two-year-old James Bulger, is returned to prison after breaching the terms of his release.
• Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:52:04 GMTEvery parent's nightmare
  The abduction and murder of toddler James Bulger provoked shock and outrage that two children could be responsible of such an act.
• Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:48:01 GMTFirm closes with 1,200 job losses
  One of Leicestershire's major employers is to close its research operation in Loughborough with the loss of almost 1,200 jobs.