Clitheroe is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley,Lancashire,England;it is located 34 miles (55 km) north-west of Manchester. It is near the Forest of Bowland and is often used as a base for tourists visiting the area. In 2018,the Clitheroe built-up area had an estimated population of 16,279.
Nigel Martin Evans is a former British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ribble Valley in Lancashire from 1992 until 2024. He was Joint Executive Secretary of the 1922 Committee from 2017 to 2019. He served as First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means,one of the Speaker's three deputies,from 2010 to 2013. He was elected as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means in 2020.
West Lancashire is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire,England. The council is based in Ormskirk,and the largest town is Skelmersdale. The district borders Fylde to the north,over the Ribble Estuary;South Ribble,Chorley,and Wigan to the east;St Helens and Knowsley to the south;and Sefton to the south and west.
South Ribble is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire,England. Its council is based in Leyland. The borough also includes the towns and villages of Penwortham,Leyland,Farington,Hutton,Longton,Walmer Bridge,Salmesbury,Lostock Hall,Walton le Dale and Bamber Bridge. Many of the built-up areas in the borough form part of the wider Preston built-up area.
Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire,England. Its council is based in Clitheroe,the largest town. The borough also includes the town of Longridge and numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. It is named after the River Ribble. Much of the district lies within the Forest of Bowland,a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Blackburn is a constituency in Lancashire,England,which is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by independent politician Adnan Hussain. From 2015 to 2024 it was represented by Kate Hollern of the Labour Party and,from 1979 to 2015,by Jack Straw who served under the Labour leaders of Neil Kinnock and John Smith and the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Preston is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2000 by Sir Mark Hendrick,a member of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party.
Ribble Valley is a constituency in Lancashire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Maya Ellis,of the Labour Party.
South Ribble is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Paul Foster for Labour.
Wyre and Preston North was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created in 2010,it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Michael Carr is a British teacher,lecturer,and politician for the Liberal Democrats. Originally a teacher,Carr became active in politics as a Conservative councillor before joining the Social Democratic Party. After two unsuccessful general election candidacies,Carr won a sensational by-election victory in 1991 to become the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ribble Valley. His victory was short-lived as he lost the seat in the general election that followed a year later,and he twice failed to regain it.
Lancaster and Fleetwood was a constituency created in 2010 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
Clitheroe was a parliamentary constituency in Lancashire.
Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290,then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800,and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament,traditionally known as Knights of the Shire until 1832.
The City of Preston,or simply Preston,is a local government district with city status in Lancashire,England. It lies on the north bank of the River Ribble and has a population of 151,582 (2022). The neighbouring districts are Ribble Valley,South Ribble,Fylde and Wyre.
Catherine Jane Smith is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Fleetwood from 2015 until 2024 when the constituency was abolished,and was elected in the 2024 general election to the new constituency of Lancaster and Wyre. She was a member of the shadow cabinets led by Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer from 2016 to 2021 as Shadow Secretary of State,previously Shadow Minister,for Young People and Democracy.
Seema Louise Ghiassi Kennedy is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at both the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office in 2019. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire from 2015 to 2019,and also served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from 2017 to 2019. She was the first female MP of Iranian heritage to take a seat in the House of Commons.
Katherine Fletcher is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire,from 2019 to 2024. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport and Minister for Women between September and October 2022.
Elizabeth Rachel Collinge,known as Lizzi Collinge,is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale since 2024.
