A 52-YEAR-OLD mum-of-four died after an exploratory operation went wrong. An inquest heard that Jamila Bi Zahoor underwent a laparoscopy at Royal Blackburn Hospital and tissue samples were taken to establish whether she had tuberculosis. But hours later
AN NEW acting school is opening in Blackburn. The Stirling Academy will be holding two-hour sessions once a week from February 26. The sessions are part of a 16-week course open to anyone aged over 16. The acting academy was set up last summer by actors
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has urged people to read a new book by a Blackburn clergyman. Canon Chris Chivers, of Blackburn Cathedral, has published a collection of letters to his young songs, Dom and Greg, in which he calls on the Church of England to focus
A WOMAN who stole £2,700 from her boss - who was also her uncle - was given a six-month community order. Burnley magistrates had heard how Rachael Carter, 23, who was a bar supervisor at the pub her uncle ran, helped herself to the cash from the till
A TEENAGER went round and attacked a man he thought had burgled his home, a court heard. Burnley magistrates heard how Stephen Whitehead, 18, set about Gavin Wilkinson with a broom handle after arriving at his home at 5am. A police officer who turned
ENTRIES are still available for next month's Ribble Valley Trophy - and organisers Pendle and district motor club would be delighted to hear from anyone wanting to compete. The inaugural event is scheduled for March 3-4, and the organisers are promising
A DISABLED worker from Blackburn has been awarded more than £3,000 in compensation after claiming his employer had not protected him properly at work. Craig Rigby, of Blackamoor, worked at Remploy - a national provider of employment opportunities for
AN Oswaldtwistle businesswoman has been honoured after serving as a magistrate for 20 years. Carolyn Horman received her award at a ceremony attended by five top judges and Lord Shuttleworth, the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, at Preston Crown Court
A TILL roll which had details of more than 100 debit and credit card details was found in a street. Bosses of Greenwoods Suit Hire, King William Street, Blackburn, have apologised. The fully intact till roll was found in Old Bank Lane near Royal Blackburn
A PROMISING young cricketer spent a night in the cells after police intervened in a row with his girlfriend. Burnley magistrates heard how Matthew Nutter, 21, was abusive to an officer and told them he did not want the police involved. Nutter, who plays
A mental health hospital will be built in East Lancashire, it has been confirmed. Councillors did not object to the plans, which will close overnight mental health hospital wards. The Joint Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen Health Overview
ROSSENDALE company bosses John and Yvonne Malley are going downhill fast - but it's all in a good cause. In March the joint MDs of First Business Support will be among 50 skiers and snowboarders taking part in the Heartfeat 2007 Ski Challenge to raise
BARROWFORD pensioners celebrated the opening of a new luncheon club in the town on Tuesday. The Mayor and Mayoress of Pendle, Councillor George Adam and Rose Adam, officially opened the new club at the Civic Hall, Maud Street. The new club, run
A GANG of youths who daubed graffiti on a shop in Burnley have been forced to clean it off. Police launched an investigation after a number of incidents of graffiti in the Pike Hill and Briercliffe areas of the town. A group of youngsters were warned
A FORMER town centre pub that has stood derelict for more than four years could be revamped as a community aid centre. Bosses at Blackburn with Darwen Council for Voluntary Service have submitted plans to convert the Boulevard pub, next to the railway
A NEW crime-reduction scheme is set to be launched on a troubled Hyndburn estate. Neighbours will be encouraged to look out for each other in a bid to keep crime down in the Within Grove area of Huncoat as a new Neighbourhood Watch unit is created.
AN American businessman is stranded in East Lancashire after his wallet was stolen - with his Green Card inside. And the former Darwen man, who is now thousands of pounds out of pocket, is desperate to get home to his sick wife and son who are ill with
SIX cats were dumped on a busy roadside in sealed cardboard boxes in an "appalling" act of cruelty. RSCPA officers were called to a lay-by in Wilpshire Road, Rishton to rescue the distressed animals. Some of the cats had managed to escape from the boxes
A BLACKBURN car dealership has pledged to help the Rosemere Cancer Foundation's Ray of Hope appeal to raise £650,000. The money - £180,000 has already been promised - will be used to buy equipment to allow the Rosemere Cancer Centre, based at the Royal
COUNCILS across East Lancashire are preparing to pay out millions of pounds to staff to end wage discrimination between men and women. Some staff will also have their pay slashed, while others, mainly women in care assistant and home-help-type roles,
So how many times has that been raised at one of your open-air meetings, Jack?' is a question I've been asked a few times these last nine months. The "that" is reform of the House of Lords, and the answer is not many times, if any times at all. This
DEVELOPERS are to launch an appeal after plans to build an £18million hotel and residential development in Rawtenstall were refused - putting a question mark' over the town's regeneration. Rossendale councillors went along with planning officers' recommendation
A thief who stole seven motorbikes from the Burnley and Padiham area in a six-week spree kept his freedom. Burnley Magistrates heard how Robert Tunesi, 32, who also broke into a car, left his helmet and was caught through DNA. He was later arrested
By Sheila Brennan. Large and small varied frames Warm memories and cherished names Bright young faces playing games Are there in my photographs. They hold many happy memories On golden sand and sparkling sea Picnics past and woodland rambles
Vicky Gill of Chorley Harriers was sixth in the Trial Race for the World Cross Country Championships held at Bath on Saturday. With only four places in the team up for grabs following the pre-selection of Jo Pavey and Hayley Yelling, the odds are against
A VETERAN Pendle councillor has quit the Liberal Democrats and accused group members of bullying. Coun Kathleen Shore, who has represented the Clover Hill ward of Nelson for 22 years, made the shock announcement yesterday that she would now sit as an
A MUM is demanding tougher safety measures on a rural road in Darwen following a series of accidents and near-misses. Linda Mason says children awaiting school buses at the junction of Johnson Road, and Eccleshill Gardens, and walkers who use the benches
A PAIR of teenage tearaways have been given three-year Anti-Social Behaviour Orders for making lives a misery for people living in a Blackburn community. Yasar Latif, 18, described by police as the ringleader, and 16-year-old Imran Raziq were said to
LOCALS at a popular country pub in Hyndburn have appealed to the new owners and the local council not to allow the venue to be closed. Plans have been submitted to the borough council by the Weston Castle pub group to convert the Shoulder of Mutton Inn
It's question time with Lenny Henry as he talks about his favourite comedy creations, his wife Dawn French, being a dad and what makes him laugh.
HYNDBURN Council has welcomed news that more than 200 jobs could be created after Kleeneze announced it was moving a factory to the area. The mail-order cleaning products company is relocating from Bristol to two sites in Clayton-le-Moors and Church
LAST Saturday's game was a very frustrating one for everyone at Accrington Stanley. In my view, Chester came with one thing in mind - not to concede - and they did a good job in frustrating us. I said after the game that they were very negative and
A RANGE Rover was stolen after thieves broke into a house while the occupants were sleeping upstairs. Keys for the £8,000 vehicle and property worth £2,000 were stolen during the raid. Police said thieves targeted the home in Victoria Court, Chatburn
ONE of East Lancashire's best loved residents has turned 100 - and vowed to continue with her charity work. Alice Horne from Oswaldtwistle, who was made an honorary Freeman of the Borough in Hyndburn in 2005, said: "It doesn't feel any different turning
THE body of Victor Docherty, the East Lancashire man who fell to his death from the fourth floor of a London hotel, has been brought back home. Plasterer Mr Docherty, 36, from Lumb, was in London at the weekend to carry out some work. Mr Docherty, a
A masked thief stole a car when the owner left the engine running to defrost his windscreen. A thief wearing a balaclava and dark clothing stole the grey Renault Laguna from Glencoe Avenue in Hoddlesden at 8.50am on Wednesday.
Lancashire has seen only light snow showers today, despite weather forecasters predicting 5cm of snow would fall on the county. The Met Office forecasts a mixture of sleet and snow in the early evening, followed by moderate snow overnight. The intermittent
BURNLEY will go to the polls next week to decide who will replace disgraced ex-councillor Mozaquir Ali in Daneshouse with Stoneyholme And for the first time a candidate for the England First Party will be standing in the town. The candidate is Steven
DOZENS of firms on a Clitheroe industrial estate are linking up to fight crime. All businesses on Link 59 Business Park will use e-mail to keep in touch with police, and hold regular breakfast meetings to discuss issues such as security. The Business
Blackburn and Darwen Schools won five of the eight team titles on offer at the Lancashire Schools' Cross Country Championships on Saturday morning. Even accounting for home advantage with the races being held in familiar Witton Park, it was a stunning
A THIEF in a stolen car led police on an 80mph chase at night - and even switched off the lights as he tried to escape officers. Police gave up the chase because it became too dangerous for the public, but James Clynes, 22, was eventually caught after
PENDLE'S MP Gordon Prentice has called for vehicle insurance to be displayed in windscreens to drive illegal motorists off the road. The Labour backbencher has called on the Home Office to introduce windscreen insurance discs after saying the cost of
A GROUP is attempting to raise awareness of Fairtrade products to help people in developing countries. Hyndburn Fairtrade Group is campaigning for the borough to become a Fairtrade district and wants more local shops, cafes, restaurants and offices to
BURNLEY fans will always wonder 'what if' when they look back on the career of Brian Laws. The Sheffield Wednesday manager joined the Clarets in 1978 as an apprentice from Tyneside, and within a couple of years was named Player of the Year at Turf
A BANNED driver got behind the wheel of his mother's motability car to take her to the doctor's in an emergency, a court was told. Burnley Magistrates heard how Jeffrey Johnston, 51, may have been rumbled by a neighbour who could have alerted police
ABOUT 300 jobs have been secured in Burnley after one of the town's biggest manufacturers won a major new contract to supply car parts. Futaba-Tenneco UK Ltd (FTUK) has scooped the multi-million pound deal to supply Toyota with components for its new
An inquest has been opened into the death of an 18-year-old who died when the car he was a passenger in collided with another vehicle in Preston Road, Longridge. Matthew James Hesketh, of Woodplumpton Lane, Preston, died at the scene of the crash.
REIGNING SD34 road rally champion Terry Martin began his title defence with a top ten finish on the Shaw Trophy. The Blackburn driver was a leading light on the Northumberland-based event until an accident robbed him of his two headlamps - and a certain
MEMBERS of the Upper House of Parliament will no longer be made peers and the House of Lords will change its name under proposals set out by the Leader of the House and Blackburn MP Jack Straw. Mr Straw wants to cut the number of peers to 540, and include
TWO teenagers involved in a taxi-office melee in which a worker was hit in the face with a bottle have been warned they could face jail. Burnley magistrates heard how Joe McRandal, 19, who attacked victim Mohammed Maqsood and threatened to kill him.
BLACKBURN defender Andre Ooijer today insisted I'll be back!' after targeting the start of pre-season training as the date for a possible return. The Dutch international will not play again this season after breaking his fibula and suffering ankle ligament
A TEENAGER was treated for shock and hypothermia after jumping into the canal to try to rescue her dog. The girl, believed to be 16 years old, leapt into water at Swinden Playing Fields, Cravendale Avenue, Nelson around 2pm yesterday. Fire crews said
A BLACKBURN man has been questioned after a man died from a suspected allergic reaction to the drug ecstasy. Police believe the 23-year-old Robert Flanagan had a fatal reaction to the drug at his flat in Leicester Road, Deepdale, Preston, at about
CREWE boss Dario Gradi is considering a move for Clarets defender Steve Foster - and could use former Liverpool defender Jon Otsemobor as bait. Sources close to the Railwaymen suggest that Gradi is considering a move to take the 26-year-old back to Gresty
THE government has revealed details of corruption probes into BAE Systems. It comes two months after the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) dropped an investigation into a BAE arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Over that inquiry, the Attorney General said there was
FRANK Sinclair is set to leave Burnley and sign for Huddersfield Town today. The 35-year-old former skipper will move to the Terriers initially on a loan deal now that the emergency loan window has opened. Sinclair, who was one of Steve Cotterill's
AT A recent rally and lobby of Parliament organised by the TUC, the atrocious record of privatisation in Britain was spelled out, including horrific deaths on the railways, MRSA and other infections in our hospitals as cleaning standards are pushed down
RE N Momoniat's letter "Refuse system a puzzler". It would appear the writer is saying every household waste bin in his street has been emptied weekly over the last three months. I wrote a letter quite a while ago stating that the collection of brown
I WANT to say a big thank you to three men who helped me on February 1. My tyre was completely flat and two men (all I know is that they were owners of a new Indian takeaway in Accrington) stopped to help. They could not fix the problem but another
M HIBBERT (LT, January 30) is right, the Colne/ Blackpool South trains do need upgrading, as does the track. However, there is a vast difference between Colne and Gannow Junction and that in Leeds and Bradford with its massive commuter traffic in both
THE smoking ban at the Turf Moor is long overdue. Many grounds have banned smoking for the past two years and Burnley FC has lagged behind. We are three James Hargreaves stand season ticket holders and recently had to endure three people in front of
COULD someone tell me why the owners of powerful, nasty dogs insist on letting them run free in Roe Lee Cemetery? Have these people no consideration for others? I am fed up of being harassed and chased by dogs whose owners have no control over whatsoever
FORMER Claret Brian Laws will not make room for sentiment as he takes his Sheffield Wednesday side to Turf Moor on Saturday. Laws has plenty of happy memories from his playing days at Burnley and his previous visits as a manager. But he is under no
MORTEN Gamst Pedersen is an injury doubt for Blackburn Rovers' trip to Everton this weekend. The in-form winger, who has scored six goals since the turn of the year, including both in the 2-1 win against Sheffield United last weekend, picked up an injury
TURKEY coach Fatih Terim is on a collision course with Blackburn manager Mark Hughes after admitting he is considering picking Tugay for next month's Euro 2008 qualifiers with Greece and Norway. Terim stunned Hughes by bringing Tugay out of international
ACCRINGTON Stanley assistant boss Jimmy Bell has expressed his delight at the news that Portuguese defender Mauro Alexandre Da Silva Almeida has received international clearance to play for the club. Almeida, who signed for Stanley in the January transfer
A TEENAGER has told how she feared for her life as a gang of four set upon her in a brutal street robbery. Police have slammed the thugs who mugged the vulnerable teenager and beat her in Blackburn town centre. Charlotte Harris, 16, said she thought
THE waiting is over: the fearsome dragons are back. If, like me, you can't get enough of the fiery charm of Peter Jones, the hard stare of Duncan Bannatyne and the school ma'am-like pursing of the lips a-la Deborah Meaden - you'd have loved last night's
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy was the victim of a road rage attack after a motorist stopped at traffic lights and punched him in the face. Police said a HGV driver turned the vehicle to block the path of a Peugeot 206 being driven by the teenager. The incident
A SPECIAL school has been branded "outstanding" in an Ofsted report. Inspectors say Newfield school is "a shining example of how meticulous care and attention paid to an individual's needs lead to exemplary progress in learning, resulting in outstanding
AN investigation into a sex offender's alleged links with a Darwen school will be completed "as quickly as possible", education chiefs have pledged. As exclusively revealed by the Lancashire Telegraph, Kathleen Tyson, head of Holy Trinity Primary School
