Two local companies are on Santa's 'good' list after they agreed to sponsor this year's East Lancashire Hospice Christmas fayre.

Linda Wykes and her family didn’t know what to say when they heard her cancer was terminal.

East Lancashire Hospice, a charity close to the hearts of East Lancashire residents was crowned 2BR's Charity of the Year

“When you're diagnosed with cancer, you think life ends. For me, it meant I started a new one.”

Billy the pony and Daisy the duck turned a few heads when they came to visit their owner Julie Walton in hospice.

“Unless you’ve heard the words ‘you have cancer’ you can’t understand how it feels.

For Barbara and Alan Bibby, the hospice’s CNS nurses and Hospice at Home services were invaluable.

Mum-of-two Jakki Stone was a fighter to the end when battling terminal cancer.

Devoted husband Tim Phelps pledged to raised money for the hospice, where his wife Nicola Jayne was cared for in her final months.

A father of two and his group of friends have completed the gruelling three peaks challenge in memory of his mum.

A group of eight friends braved the heady heights of Ben Nevis to raise funds for East Lancashire Hospice in memory of their friend’s father.

A park became a party scene as music fans danced the night away for a good cause.