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July 2024

  • A campaign poster for Shockat Adam in a window

    Who are the pro-Gaza independents who unseated Labour MPs?

  • An election poster attached to the front of a shuttered shop, with women walking in front of it

    ‘Don’t take us for granted’: Muslim voters send message to Labour over its Gaza stance

  • Two women in hijab walk past a Palestinian Lives Matter sign on a gate

    Labour cannot afford to be complacent over pro-Gaza vote losses

  • Wes Streeting

    Senior Labour figures admit stance on Gaza cost party seats

June 2024

  • Children with abandoned / stolen car, Everton, Liverpool 1981<br>Children with abandoned / stolen car. Tommy White Gardens Everton, Liverpool 1981

    ‘Some people refused to leave their flats’: Britain through the Thatcher years – in pictures

    Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s, Mike Abrahams travelled the country photographing National Front marches, prison life and people’s everyday struggles

November 2023

  • A prison van outside Blackburn magistrates court

    ‘Stripped to the bone’: Lancashire courts in chaos as Raac adds to crisis

    A day at Blackburn magistrates court highlights the confusion after closures in Blackpool and Preston

August 2023

  • Anthony Stinson

    Man sentenced to life in jail for murdering woman on her doorstep in Blackburn

    Charlotte Wilcock was smoking a cigarette by her front door when she was subjected to a brutal attack by Anthony Stinson

January 2023

  • Philip North

    Cleric opposed to ordination of female priests becomes bishop of Blackburn

    Philip North’s appointment approved by King Charles after previous attempts stopped by protests

June 2022

  • Hospital cleaner

    ‘I feel like a second-class citizen’: outsourced hospital staff join strikes

    OCS workers at Blackpool and Blackburn call for weekend pay in line with NHS staff

May 2022

  • People gather for prayers on the pitch at Ewood Park

    Blackburn Rovers become first UK football club to host Eid prayers on pitch

    Hundreds of people congregate at Ewood Park to mark end of holy month of Ramadan

April 2022

  • Kelly Hartigan-Burns

    Police failed woman who killed herself in Blackburn cell, inquest finds

  • Pretty fly … Mohammed Afzal, ‘Birdman of Bank Top’

    ‘You hear all the languages’: one small square of Blackburn – in pictures

January 2022

  • A law enforcement vehicle sits in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.

    ‘We were terrified’: Texas rabbi and congregants detail hostage drama

  • The Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas

    Texas hostage taker had criminal and mental health history in UK

December 2021

  • Jordan Monaghan

    Blackburn man guilty of killing two children and woman six years apart

    Jordan Monaghan smothered daughter and son in 2013 and gave new partner a fatal overdose in 2019

October 2021

  • Sculptor Sam Holland with her depiction of Labour MP Barbara Castle, portrayed holding a copy of the Equal Pay Act 1970, which stands in Jubilee Square, Blackburn.

    Statue of pioneering MP Barbara Castle joins recent memorials to prominent British women

    Depiction of veteran Labour MP latest in series of sculptures of significant women, including Diana Princess of Wales

August 2021

  • (From left) Ayaz Hussain, Zamir Raja and Feroz Suleman

    Seven men jailed for life after Blackburn student killed in botched hit

    Sentences include 34 years each for orchestrator and gunman who mistakenly shot Aya Hachem, 19

June 2021

  • A person in a mask walks past a sign for a walk-in Covid test centre in Blackburn

    Covid cases have peaked in Blackburn, official figures show

    Infections in England’s worst-affected council area fall steadily since 7 June, says PHE
  • Andelieb Tufail outside a vaccination tent at Blackburn Cathedral

    ‘I’m gutted but it’s for our safety’: Blackburn faces up to further Covid restrictions

    News of delay to lifting of lockdown dampens mood at vaccination centre in coronavirus hotspot
  • The entrance to the Covid-19 vaccination centre at the cathedral in Blackburn. The town received extra doses in May.

    NHS says it can’t provide extra Covid vaccines in Blackburn despite infection rate

    Town’s director of public health says ‘unjust’ decision could lead to local hospital being swamped within four weeks
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