A TEN-YEAR-OLD hero who saved his family from a blaze at their Blackburn home has been nominated for a national TV bravery award. Carl Wilkinson, a pupil at St Thomas' CE Primary School, Blackburn, has been nominated for ITV's Children of Courage Awards
THE Football Association have confirmed they are now scrutinising the referee's report into last Saturday's tunnel bust-up following the 2-1 defeat to Leeds United. An FA spokesman confirmed they had received match official Mike Dean's version of events
THE company behind Blackburn's former lap dancing club faces being disbanded. Proceedings to strike Hopecroft Design off the official list of limited companies has been launched by Companies House, the department responsible for keeping a register of
THE alleged tunnel bust-up last Saturday was an accident waiting to happen. Ever since the Cricket Field Stand was built to house the home and away dressing rooms, it's been an unusual feature of Turf Moor, which may now be the only ground in the country
AT last, football's coming home. The win at Wolves seems like a lifetime ago, but could there be a better game to whet the appetite again than Leeds United at home? Probably not - and when you throw in the return of Robbie Blake and Ian Moore in front
HEALTH bosses were today slammed as "crazy" over a plan to strip crucial medical back-up from one of East Lancashire's two main hospitals. Trust chiefs are considering moving the intensive care and high dependency units from either Blackburn's Queen's
BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes expects Craig Bellamy to be fit for Saturday's clash with Birmingham City. The Welsh international has made a rapid recovery from the knee injury that forced him out of Rovers' recent win against West Brom. And, providing he
A "DESPICABLE" drug addict who stole a teddy bear from a shrine to a toddler killed in a road accident has been jailed. Andrew Fancy, 28, was sent down for eight months yesterday for snatching the toy from a memorial to three-year-old Levi Bleasdale in
MUSIC mogul Anthony Wilson gave school pupils the chance to air their views on controversial plans that could shape the future of East Lancashire at a debate yesterday. The man behind bands like New Order and The Happy Mondays,recently co-authored Dreaming
A FORMER Accrington restaurant boss is offering a taxi service with free wine for passengers. Ray Peake ran Callum's Bistro, Abbey Street, for 14 years before he gave up the business last September to try his hand at something new. He recently set up
A NEWLY selected steering group has pledged to attract cash to transform an Oswaldtwistle park. Earlier this year, Hyndburn Council's cabinet approved the selection of Rhyddings Park as the pilot for a scheme to hand over control of the borough's parks
DIY and gardening chain Homebase has re-submitted its planning application to build a superstore in the centre of Clitheroe. The company wants to take over the Rectella site in Queensway and transform it into a superstore employing between 60 and 70 people
ADE Akinbiyi expects be on the receiving end once again when he returns to former club Crystal Palace this weekend. The Burnley striker was booed mercilessly by baying Leicester fans on Tuesday night, but responded with a matchwinning goal that sent Steve
A DARWEN man punched another man in the face resulting in him needing surgery. Preston Crown court was told that David Ryder was left with permanent scarring to a lower eye lid. Danny Flynn, 21, of Hodder Grove, had pleaded guilty to unlawfully wounding
BACUP manager Brent Peters will blood his three new signings as his side looks to get back to winning ways against Silsden tonight, kick off 7.45pm. Borough, who are without a win in their last two games, will field former Radcliffe Borough trio Bernard
HARRY POTTER will cast his magic over film buffs when his latest adventure becomes the first movie shown at Blackburn's new multiplex. Bosses at Vue, the cinema chain behind the 10-screen complex behind Blackburn Railway Station, have confirmed they will
A "DANGEROUS" sex offender who went on the run from an East Lancashire psychiatric hospital has handed himself in -- 300 miles away in London. Today Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans said it was "mind-boggling" and "very, very disturbing" that Roland Chamberlain
TWO people were arrested yesterday after police found 20 cannabis plants in a house. Officers raided a house in Cotswold Mews, Highercroft, Blackburn, after tips were passed to Crimestoppers from the public. A man, 40, and a woman, 48, were arrested on
IN response to the article (LET September 30) regarding Hyndburn Council, which said the council was to send out letters to its staff thanking them for not taking as much sick leave as they had the year before! How can the council justify the tax payers
FOLLOWING my cycle accident recently I expressed my thanks to all for medical help, which was overwhelming. During my subsequent hospital treatment, which was wonderful, I heard of the death of one cyclist with a fractured skull. Also the death of another
YOU recently published a letter which addressed the issue of bullying in schools. In the letter our sports education company was mentioned (Teamtheme) as a recent 'stage' for a bullying occurrence. It was implied that Teamtheme did not respond to the
BRITISH soldiers are complaining about "shoddy" uniforms made in China after an East Lancashire firm lost the contract to supply them, an MP has claimed. Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle produced a camouflage jacket in the House of Commons which he said had 19
PROMISING young winger Keith Treacy has signed a full professional contract with Blackburn Rovers. Dublin-born Treacy, who turned 17 last month, joined the Academy in the summer after being spotted playing for Belvedere, a schoolboy team in his home town
GARY Harkins scored twice as Blackburn Rovers reserves came back from two goals down for the second successive league game to grab a point at Christie Park last night. Reduced to 10 men following the sending off of Jemal Johnson, all looked lost for Glyn
RAFA Benitez. A tactical genius or just another foreign manager who's squeezing the passion out of the Premiership? Opinion seems to be divided on Merseyside. Speak to some Liverpool fans and I'm sure they'd tell you the Spaniard deserves a knighthood
GIANT display fireworks are being "fired like weapons" at buildings and people in Pendle, police claimed today. Officers warned youths were playing a dangerous game and revealed they fear someone will be killed in the run up to Bonfire Night. Spent fireworks
AS pantomime season is almost upon us, it was perhaps appropriate that Leeds United turned up at Turf Moor on Saturday lunchtime with not one, but two pantomime villains of their own. Centre stage, of course, was Robbie Blake. When his name was read out
When I analyse a game what I like to do is look at the performance of the players individually and collectively and make a judgement on what I've seen. That way I can reason what went wrong when we lose and what we did well when we win. What I hate to
A 34-YEAR-OLD Oswaldtwistle man who appeared to be winning his battle against heroin addiction died after taking a fatal dose of the drug. An inquest heard that the seven months Kevin Emlyn Ainsworth had managed to keep off heroin would have reduced his
A FIVE-week-old baby died in his mother's arms after they both fell asleep while he was being fed, an inquest heard. The hearing was told that while the cause of death was sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death, the incidence was increased when babies
A GROUP of schoolboys were threatened by a hooded robber who said he would club them with a hammer unless they handed over their mobile phones. Police said the incident was linked with a spate of thefts in Burnley in the past month. It happened in Thompson
A MAN who keeps falling out with his mother was abusive to officers and kicked a police car, a court heard. Burnley magistrates were told Allan Stuart Bailey, 31, who in the past has taken to the garden shed after trouble at home, headbutted the vehicle
BURNLEY'S former county courthouse is to be knocked down as part of plans for a major new shopping centre. Developers Henry Boot will buy up the building to make way for the 250,000 sq ft complex. The red-brick courthouse has been empty since the court
INTRODUCING video evidence is a sensible idea - so that'll be why FIFA have ignored it then! What are we playing at? All the money in football, the richest sport in the world, and we can't introduce the technology to get decisions right. The issue is
THREE hot new Lancashire bands appear on Power Overload, a blistering new CD featuring twenty of the best breakthrough acts from the north west. Preston-based The KBC and Chorley bands The Deadbeats and Former Bullies contribute tracks to the compilation
BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes expects Craig Bellamy to be fit for Saturday's clash with Birmingham City. The Welsh international has made a rapid recovery from the knee injury that forced him out of Rovers' recent win against West Brom. And, providing he
ADE Akinbiyi expects be on the receiving end once again when he returns to former club Crystal Palace this weekend. The Burnley striker was booed mercilessly by baying Leicester fans on Tuesday night, but responded with a matchwinning goal that sent Steve
HEALTH bosses have admitted they "under-estimated" the need for parking spaces at Darwen's £7.3million health centre. Four months after the building opened, two senior managers said parking was a problem and something needed to be done. Discussions are
A FATHER has told how his life was turned upside down by sex allegations made against him by two 15-year-old girls. Darren Disson, 45, of Hermitage Street, Rishton, said he had lost his home, his partner and his son and had been forced to live in a Birmingham
TOURISTS looking for the exact centre of Britain were today urged to keep travelling to the Ribble Valley, not a Northumberland town which has claimed the honour. After the Lancashire Evening Telegraph reported that posh department store Harrods was offering
JIM'LL Fix It is coming back to our screens this Christmas in a desperate bid by the BBC to win back the satellite TV generation. The Beeb is struggling to keep its head above water as Sky continues to spawn channel after channel. There's something for
