Luke Beardsworth on Muck Rack

Luke Beardsworth

Verified
Hoghton
As seen in: Blog Preston, The Blackpool Lead, The Lancashire Lead, The Lead (Newsletter), The Lead Magazine, The Southport Lead, Medium, MSN UK, The Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star (UK), Substack, Cynon Valley Leader, Wales on Sunday, Wales Online, Manchester Evening News and
director @almaonlineuk / senior editor (north) @theleaduk / editor @blogpreston / journalist, advisor and doer / @parkrun volunteer
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Luke

Contact Luke, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

The Blackpool Lead needs your help

|
By Luke Beardsworth 
| The Lead Magazine
Hello and welcome to The Blackpool Lead. I hope you’re having a peaceful Easter Bank Holiday and Storm Dave has left your home unaffected. The Blackpool Lead was the first local newsletter started by The Lead and, as such, holds a special place in all of our hearts. Despite starting from scratch a little over two years ago, we regularly break stories that leave the other journalists covering Blackpool playing catch up. And we always do it in more depth.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

The Lancashire Lead needs your help

|
By Luke Beardsworth 
| The Lead Magazine
Hello and welcome to The Lancashire Lead. I hope you’re having a peaceful Easter Bank Holiday and Storm Dave has not proven to be as disruptive as an amber warning from the Met Office might suggest. The Lancashire Lead is two years old this month. For those of you who don’t mark the passage of time with the sending of newsletters, that might not be surprising. But it’s two years that have blown by.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Father’s body went undiscovered for 28 hours until family took matters into their own hands - now they want answers

|
By Luke Beardsworth 
| The Lead Magazine
Hello and welcome to The Lancashire Lead. For three minutes an SOS alert from an iPhone sat open in the Lancashire force control room. It came from the car of Nadeem Hussain who had died after the car he was driving crashed down an embankment. Police say he died on impact. That SOS message was closed after three minutes by Lancashire Police after they could not connect to Nadeem’s phone as there was no answer.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 101 licensed articles (5,223 Total)

Actions

Share this page

Get in touch with Luke

Contact Luke, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified