'THE dream is dead' for 400 indoor bowlers in East Lancashire. Members of Blackburn Indoor Bowling Club - which attracts bowlers from Colne, Chorley and Burnley - have had to admit defeat on their two-year battle to find a new home following the closure
MORE than 50 firefighters tackled a blaze at a Rishton mill after youths set fire to 300 tonnes of waste paper. Police are studying CCTV images showing three youths trying to set the paper on fire at Rishton Waste Paper mill, on Riverside Industrial
TATTOO and piercing studios have backed a woman branded ‘unemployable’ by the job centre. Hayley O’Neil, 23, of Accrington Road, Blackburn, was told she would struggle to find work anywhere but a tattoo parlour because of appearance.
AN 18-year-old man has been arrested after a stabbing in Blackburn last night. Police were called to an incident in Surrey Street where they found an 18-year-old man with minor puncture wounds to his back. He was taken to the Royal Blackburn
Cross-dressing dwarves, a kidnapped princess and a less-than-pure Snow White... Jonathan Wilkes tells us why he wanted to create Pantos On Strike, running in Manchester from November 12 to 27 strictly for adults, BOASTING ‘the world’s most offensive
AN investigation is under way in Burnley after a block of 10 homes and shops caught fire late on Saturday night. Several firms, including a taxi office and takeaway, were evacuated just after 10.30pm, when four properties at the top end of
AN AGRICULTURE leader has said a milk price increase by Tesco is not enough to sustain East Lancashire’s dairy farmers. The supermarket giant has upped the price it pays to members of its Sustainable Dairy Group (TSDG) from 26.9p per litre to 28.2p
