Public consultations are set to take place on proposed £1.2million savings to care funding in a fresh blow to those living in residential homes across East Lancashire.

A man who owns four homes stands accused of making his fortune from drug dealing and now faces having his assets seized – including a king’s ransom in cash and jewellery.

A new purpose-built centre is to be set up at Leighton Hospital to care for victims of rape and serious sex attacks.

Health bosses have set up a crisis care centre and sent patients to a private hospital in a bid to cope with a crippling nursing strike.

Eight care homes for older people are being shut by a council under plans for a massive shake-up over the next five years.

A care home worker who admitted assaulting a 104-year-old woman in an argument over slippers has been given a conditional discharge.

A solicitor who snatched his baby from two care workers before going on the run has been jailed for 20 months.