Act on cancer signs, urges award-winning East Lancashire GP

AN award-winning cancer GP from East Lancashire is urging men to get themselves more clued-up on prostate cancer – as the condition is set to become the most common in the UK. Dr Neil Smith is leading the fight to raise awareness of the cancer for clinical commissioners in Blackburn with Darwen and East Lancashire as part of an awareness month in March.

The hearing was at Burnley Crown Court

A 47-YEAR-OLD man hanged himself on the day he arrived back from a two-week holiday in Crete, an inquest heard. Nigel Wilson, of Orpen Avenue, Burnley, was found dead by his partner in the garage of their home on September 28 last year, a hearing at Burnley Crown Court heard.

The hearing was at Burnley Crown Court

A 47-YEAR-OLD man hanged himself on the day he arrived back from a two-week holiday in Crete, an inquest heard. Nigel Wilson, of Orpen Avenue, Burnley, was found dead by his partner in the garage of their home on September 28 last year, a hearing at Burnley Crown Court heard.

Lancashire mother documents her son’s cancer battle

Mother documents her three-year-old son’s heartbreaking decline after 19 rounds of chemo for liver cancer leave him so weak he can’t walk, talk or even bear any attention A mother has shared a heartbreaking photo diary, showing the devastating decline of her three-year-old son after months of gruelling chemotherapy. Charlie Proctor has gone from a bouncing toddler to being so frail that his mother Amber Schofield, 22, from Accrington, Lancashire, can fit her fingers around his legs.

UK confirms two more cases of bird flu on turkey and pheasant farms

British authorities say they have confirmed two more bird flu cases on farms in northern and eastern England, meaning there are now four areas where restrictions are in place across the country to reduce the spread of the disease. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs said it had confirmed a case of H5N8 avian flu in a flock of about 1,000 pheasants at a farm in Wyre, Lancashire, in northern England on Friday.