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In Lancashire there are five prisons - HMP Garth, HMP Kirkham, HMP Lancaster Farms, HMP Preston, and HMP Wymott. In the past five years, claims against Lancashire prisons totalled £2,317,066.80, with ...

Jurors have ruled that a lack of planning ahead of a granddad's release from prison "may have contributed to his death". Bill Bissett, who was serving a six and-a-half year sentence at HMP Wymott near ...

Helen Spree, 61, was the chair of the independent monitoring board (IMB) at HMP Liverpool before her arrest for misconduct in public office and conspiring to convey prohibited articles into prison.

The chair of the independent monitoring board at HMP Liverpool has been charged amid a probe into the smuggling of drugs into the prison. Helen Spree, 61, has been charged with a number of ...

With the rise of the ready-for-anything, giant tote, and the recent popularity of a Birkin dupe, we look at the evolution of the It bag and ask what our choice of bag reveals. If you're the sort ...

“My 15-year-old son died. And yeah, my life just spiralled from then really.” We’re inside HMP Downview – one of 12 female prisons in England and Wales. “I feel like I needed help more ...

Bill Bissett had been jailed for six and-a-half years in 2020 after being found guilty of sexually abusing five young boys and spent the majority of his sentence at Wymott Prison near Leyland. He was ...

As reported last week, locals opposed to the so-called “super prison” in the village of Ulnes Walton – which already houses the Garth and Wymott lock-ups – were trying to secure £10,000 ...

People in Ulnes Walton, near Leyland, already live near HMP Wymott, where inmates include sex offenders, as well as the adjacent high security jail HMP Garth. The Ulnes Walton Action Group (UWAG ...