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Cold Feet (ITV, Mondays, 9pm) is back, and as reassuringly warm and golden as ever. It’s an incredible series really, in that it makes Manchester look as green and bucolic as a forest glade, and the interiors could have come from a John Lewis catalogue.

Almost a fifth of people in the north west who have bought a puppy were asked to collect their dog in a carpark or at the roadside, according to shocking new figures, raising fears that many puppies are being illegally trafficked into the country.

A Lancashire hospice which cares for sick children is celebrating after winning an ‘outstanding’ rating.

An animal which had disappeared from our region is to be reintroduced in a north west beauty spot.

Parents are being urged to get applications in for their child's primary school place, as the deadline looms.

I realise that we are just 11 days into the new year, but I think we can say we have already seen the worst TV show of the year, in the shape of new shiny-floor show The Masked Singer (ITV, Sat/Sun, 8pm).

If recent events in the Middle East are anything to go by, 2020 will be another year of chaos and disorder around the world, so what better way to welcome in the new decade than with lashings of blood and gore, with a side of camp?

It’s a new year, and a new decade, and our team of restaurant reviewers have got a whole list of eateries to get out to and enjoy. But what are the favourites of the last year? Here’s our top places to eat from 2019.

Christmas, is all about family, right? But what happens if you can’t stand your family, or they live miles away and you can’t get to see them? What then?

A Preston dad has received the perfect Christmas present - a £1m Lottery win.

There was one scene in Doctor Foster, that BBC drama hit of a couple of years ago, which really stood out – around a dinner table, family secrets were revealed and you weren’t entirely sure it wouldn’t all descend into an orgy of violence.

The following summary of planned new and ongoing road improvements over the coming week is correct as of Friday 13 December but could be subject to change due to weather conditions or unforeseen circumstances.

Some programmes over the festive period seem designed to make me fume, and Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas (Channel 4, Tuesday, 8pm) was precision-engineered to have me slapping my forehead in exasperation and exclaiming “are you kidding me?!” at the TV set.

Drivers have been warned that a stretch of the M6 in Lancashire will be closed over a weekend in the New Year.

Rail bosses are warning passengers to be prepared as new timetables come into force this weekend.

In that pre-Christmas TV lull, between the end of the big Autumn dramas and the beginning of the festive schedules, the programme guides are a wasteland of nonsense, but this week a little gem of documentary really stood out.