Top stories of the week

War veteran John Orr was given a serenade from his choir friends as he celebrated his 102nd birthday.

Preston’s legendary shooting star, Sir Tom Finney has been immortalised with a new constellation named in his honour.

Some 500 angels will ascend on Bamber Bridge this Christmas.

We say the eyes are the windows to the soul, so it follows that windows may well be the soul of the home. We look at how these over-looked features can pull the style of your household together.

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In that pre-Christmas TV lull, between the end of the big Autumn dramas and the beginning of the festive schedules, the programme guides are a wasteland of nonsense, but this week a little gem of documentary really stood out.

A family has paid tribute to the people of Preston after their elderly relative was helped by complete strangers following a serious fall in the city centre yesterday afternoon.

The Ribble Valley constituency will once again be contested by former deputy speaker of the Commons, Nigel Evans, who has held the seat since 1992.

More traveller caravans are pitching up in Preston than a decade ago.

A Preston cyclist has spoken of how she cheated death on one of Britain’s most notorious mountain roads after her brakes failed and she crashed into a rock.