TWO East Lancashire businesses have scooped top honours in the North West annual tourism awards. The Old Shippon at Mellor was named best Self Catering venue in the region while Clough Bottom Farm Cottages in Clitheroe scooped the title for
A SPECIAL ‘partnership’ team has been formed to take the borough out of the 100 most deprived places in the country. Hyndburn Borough Council has said that achieving this goal by 2018 is only possible by forming stronger links with other agencies
PARISHIONERS at a Helmshore church face a desperate bid to raise £80,000 for repairs to the bell tower. The tower at St Thomas’s Church, in Helmshore Road, is currently closed because of problems with damp. As a result the church has
A FAMILY business in East Lancashire beat off stiff competition from a Michelin-starred restaurant in London’s Mayfair to be crowned Gordon Ramsay’s Best Chinese Restaurant 2010. The Yu and You Restaurant in the Ribble Valley went head to head
ONE of Blackburn Market’s longest-serving family businesses has quit after 52 years blaming the ‘appalling’ way the facility is being managed. And market traders' association chairman Chris Appleby said the loss of FA Smith and Sons butchers
A COUPLE who ran a firm where an apprentice was left with a permanent disfigurement to his hand after a circular saw accident have been left with an £18,000 legal bill. Rookie joiner Simon Davies, 20, was making a cabinet at Village Pine in
CALLS from the public reporting crime have led to £1m of ill-gotten gains being seized by police. So far this year, 255 criminals have been arrested and charged as a result of 1,297 ‘actionable’ calls to Lancashire Crimestoppers. The anonymous charity
“I NEVER thought I would get another chance. It's taken me four years to get over it.” Jonny Lloyd believed his dreams of making it as a pop star were over when he was disqualified from the X-Factor in 2006. The Whalley singer's band
A PE teacher is facing jail and the end of his career after admitting a sex attack on a woman as she slept. Richard Duffy, who is now suspended from his job at Colne Primet High School, broke in to his victim’s home in July before sexually asaulting
LANCASHIRE’S taxpayers have been left with a bill for almost £900,000 following the decision to scrap Britain’s school rebuilding programme. It has been revealed bosses had already spent £893,000 on the Building Schools for the Future programme
PERFORMERS from across East Lancashire will be coming together on October 1 to celebrate the area’s annual ‘Oscars’. More than 300 people will gather at Ewood Park, Blackburn, for the NODA North West district three awards with 23 societies battling
EXTRA grit bins are to be installed in Rossendale as highways chiefs look to improve the winter maintenance service in the Valley. On Friday Lancashire County Council’s highways officers were spotted removing a grit bin from Brearley Street
TRIBUTES have been paid to an 18-year-old Stonyhurst College student who has died at his home in Holland Jules de Maes Janssens took his own life at his home in Joppa last month — a year after his mum Jacqueline’s sudden death, his family said. His
FIFTY two staff at NHS East Lancashire have been classed as “at risk” of losing their jobs, a new report has revealed. The Trust, which provides health services for 386,000 people in Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Ribble Valley and Rossendale, has already
MUSIC and passion were most definitely in fashion at Pendle Hippodrome for opening night of this week’s musical Copacabana. The Barry Manilow-penned show tells the tale of aspiring songwriter Stephen, desperate to write the show of his dreams
Lucas Tyler Gilheaney’s parents must be absolutely heartbroken. Their little boy, who died suddenly, was described as a healthy baby who was ‘no trouble’. Seven-month-old Tyler was discovered by his horrified dad William in the couple’s bed
I READ the statement made by Burnley College regarding the veil. I fully endorse the statement made – why should the Muslim women wear this? We cannot know whether it is a man or women, as well as there being a total lack of communication
I APPLAUD Burnley College for making a stand on security over headgear and in my opinion it is high time other institutions with security cameras made the same decision – hospitals, airports, schools, banks, building societies etc. What good are these
A JILTED teenager told his friends he had ‘sliced’ his ex-girlfriend’s throat just hours after he had stabbed her to death, a court heard. Gulamyr Akhter, 19, allegedly stabbed A-level student Asha Muneer, 18, who grew up in Brierfield, more
SOLDIERS from East Lancashire’s frontline army battalion are to return from Afghanistan within days. The 1st Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment has completed its six-month tour of duty, which left three soldiers dead and many more seriously wounded
As part of an interfaith project, Aysha Khanomon, of local charity Positive Start, has secured an exhibition by local artist Christine Dawson. She worked with Muslim men and women to break the stereotypes of Muslims in a humooous and creative manner
We bought our son a Rovers tee shirt from the Club shop for his birthday. Not the Council motto Arte et Labore...but a translation...Craft and Graft. Quite liked it! I’ve gained a degree from Lancaster University twice. Motto:- 'Patet omnibus
A local group are asking residents, community groups and children to help plant 6000 bulbs, including daffodils, crocuses and snowdrops, as well as over 120 fruit trees in the recently repainted promenade at Victoria Park, Haslingden. Just turn up and
FIREFIGHTERS were pelted with stones and bricks when they turned up to put out a blaze in woods. The crew, from Blackburn Fire Station, were attacked by youths after arsonists started a rubbish fire in an area off Fishmoor Drive in the town. Yesterday
A DARWEN woman jumped 14,000 feet from an aeroplane to raise money for six-year-old cancer sufferer Madison Allan. Vicky Crompton, 25, joined four other people in a charity skydive to raise cash for the Lower Darwen girl’s continuing treatment
JUNIOR Hoilett is looking to gain inspiration from ‘seaside saviour’ Brett Emerton after insisting it only takes a second to achieve a dramatic shift in personal fortunes. Blackburn Rovers’ Canadian starlet Junior Hoilett has suffered a highly frustrating
PLANS to replace three health centres across East Lancashire, at a cost of around £25million, have been scrapped. NHS East Lancashire chiefs have gone back to the drawing board over replacements for Clitheroe Community Hospital and Great Harwood and
A FLASHER is being hunted after schoolgirls were targeted in the street in Accrington and Clayton-le-Moors. Parents have been warned to make sure children are using well-populated routes to school after two incidents happened off Whalley Road within
A FORMER police officer who went from fighting crime to fighting flab is now policing other slimmers at a weight loss group. Dave Alexander, 51, had problems with fluctuating weight for several years before ballooning following his retirement from
BURNLEY striker Chris Iwelumo says he would play on one leg for the chance to face world champions Spain next week – insisting he has never contemplated making himself unavailable for Scotland despite a niggling hamstring problem. Iwelumo
A WOMAN who tried to hold up an off-licence with an air rifle because she was desperate for a drink has been jailed. Wearing a dressing gown, Karen Wilkinson entered Garden Village Store in Darwen and pointed the gun at Shoaib Iqbal, demanding
A WOMAN was raped as she walked home along a canal footpath late at night. The 23-year-old woman, from Burnley, was approached by a man as she walked along the canal band off Colne Road between 10.30pm and 11.30pm on Tuesday. The man
A PERVERT who fled Britain after police found 10,500 child porn pictures at his home was caught with the help of a Dutch landlord. Dennis Bowskill, 44, absconded the day before he was due to appear at Burnley Crown Court in March to enter pleas
A WOMAN was subjected to a serious sex attack on a canal bank in Burnley. Police said the woman was approached between 10.30pm and 11.30pm on Tuesday on the bank off Colne Road. A man engaged her in conversation before forcing her to some grass land
A MAN whose body was found in a flat died from a single stab wound to the heart — and police are treating the death as a 'domestic murder'. Forensic tests have confirmed the victim as 27-year-old James Christopher Todd. His body was
LANCASHIRE Telegraph comedy award winner up Tom Wrigglesworth makes a return to East Lancashire with a gig in Burnley tonight. We caught up with him. THERE aren’t many Yorkshiremen who can boast the reception Tom Wrigglesworth receives when
The last time we chose a new Leader was in 2007. Gordon Brown was elected unopposed. There were vocal complaints that there had not been a proper contest. There can’t be that complaint on this occasion. We had a contest and a
