The Latest Breaking News from Ashton

Council seats were up for grabs in areas including Ashton, Brookfield, Cadley, City Centre, Deepdale, Fishwick and Frenchwood, Garrison, Greyfriars, Ingol and Cottam, Lea and Larches, Plungington, Preston Rural East, Preston Rural North, Ribbleton, Sharoe Green and St Mathews

37 seats were contested across the wards including Ansdell and Fairhaven, Ashton, Carnegie, Freckleton Village, Heyhouses, Kilgrimol, Kilnhouse, Kirkham, Lytham East, Lytham West, Medlar with Wesham, Park, Rural East Fylde, Rural North Fylde, Staining, Warton and Wrea Green with Westby

Seats were contested across Ashton, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Lonhdendale, Mossley, St Peter's, Stalybridge North and Stalybridge

Controversial issues such as the Godley Green garden village plans in Hyde, and regeneration projects for Ashton-under-Lyne’s outdoor market and Stalybridge town centre may prove to be pivotal in some wards where campaigning is at its fiercest

Only 5.34 per cent of eligible voters turned up to poll stations in Ashton for the by-election back in December 2022

The school building the project is aiming for completion in Autumn 2024.

Colette Fazackerley, 40, was pronounced dead on Easter Sunday (April 9) after police were called to reports of a woman near the train tracks, close to the Ashton Cricket Club

Mum-of-three Colette Fazackerley, 40, was found dead on the railway line in Ashton-under-Lyne

Colette Fazackerley was last seen two days before outside a bar in Ashton-under-Lyne

Motorists parked outside of Ashton Gate Stadium on Raynes Road found fake parking tickets on their cars that told him they had 'parked like a c***'.

Drivers returning to their cars by Bristol's Ashton Gate Stadium found obscene messages left like parking tickets on windscreens complaining that they had left their cars badly positioned