An inquest into his death opened today (6 January) at Preston Coroners Court where a medical cause of death of drowning was ...

A man's body has been found by police searching for a swimmer who went missing in a Lancashire river. The man disappeared after getting into difficulty in the River Ribble by Ribchester Road in ...

Police and fire search teams are continuing to search a Lancashire river after a swimmer went missing. The man disappeared from the River Ribble by Ribchester Road in Dinckley near Ribchester at about ...

An inquest has opened into the death of a 23-year-old man who drowned in the River Ribble over Christmas. Amin Ul Haq Khan, ...

Mystery surrounds the appearance of hundreds of yards of artificial grass alongside the River Ribble, amid warnings that it poses a major pollution risk to the watercourse. Did you know with a Digital ...

Lancashire County Council landscape specialists have called for changes to the appearance of a huge flood defence scheme that will see new river walls line parts of the Ribble. Did you know with a ...

WILDLIFE in the River Ribble is under threat by pollution from untreated farm slurry, it has been claimed. Animal fertilisers washed into the river by heavy rain uses oxygen in decomposition, leading ...

STORM Hannah failed to stop volunteers from clearing plastic and other rubbish from the Settle to Long Preston stretch of the River Ribble last Saturday. Local organisations including the Ribble ...

A river trust has won a national wild salmon conservation award for its plans to protect the endangered fish and reduce flood risk in Lancashire. The Ribble Rivers Trust has been honoured for a ...

The River Ribble Pilot project has been endorsed as a leader in Europe during a conference aimed at improving water management. The river is being used as a pilot in river basin planning in order to ...

It once looked like they had gone for good but, a decade on from a controversial move to rewild the River Ribble, Tony Greenbank looks back on one of nature's success stories. Did you know with a ...