A BISCUIT firm which started life in a country kitchen is set to swallow up a former mill to further ambitous expansion plans in Nelson. The former Primrose Mill has been pinpointed by bosses at family-run Farmhouse Biscuits for a new production
THE first British National Party councillor to take up office in a mayoral role has confirmed his wife, who is a BNP borough and county councillor, will be his mayoress. John Cave took up office as deputy mayor for Padiham Town Council following
THE CHAIRMAN of Blackburn market traders has delivered a stinging attack on council bosses as he closes his stall for the final time today. Chris Appleby is set to shut his discount grocery stand after 20 years rather than move to the new market, in
WORK on the £5.6million redevelopment of Marl Pits and Haslingden Leisure Centres is set to be delayed in order to ensure the scheme does not go over budget. Council chiefs in Rossendale said the delay would hopefully only be a few weeks away as they
A LEADING Liberal Democrat has called on Gordon Birtwistle to resign from the Government in protest against the decision not to reinstate Burnley’s children’s ward. Coun Darren Reynolds said the Burnley and Padiham MP should quit as parliamentary assistant
THE MOTHER of a hit-and-run victim has told how her son’s face was so badly damaged she didn’t recognise him in his hospital bed. Blackburn teenager Liam Sears’ jaw was broken in four places and a deep gash was cut at the corner of his mouth
CHURCH’S fielders are upping their game – just to avoid collecting a new club award. Any misfields or fumbles are greeted with crys of “Stan” from team-mates – and that is down to a points system that will earn the worst fielder the Stan Johnson
LANCASHIRE County Council has slashed the number of top directors it employs in an attempt to save £1million. Eight high-earners have left County Hall, leaving the council with 21 people in its management team. The council said the new model would
A BLACKBURN park hit top gear as it hosted a classic car show and country fair. Witton Park was the venue from 11am until 4pm on Sunday. Attractions included displays of exotic animals and birds of prey, plant sales, live music and entertainment
MICHAEL Brown savoured his return to the Lancashire League crease for his hometown club Burnley – and says it was a pleasure to take to the field at Rishton. The Surrey opener, who last month was appointed as Burnley chairman, played in the
THE future of East Lancashire’s economy relies on the success of 200 high-growth businesses, regeneration leaders said today. Regenerate Pennine Lancashire said its strategy for growth involved helping nurture successful firms that are most
96 mins. James Floyd, Adam Deacon, Neet Mohan, Elyes Gabel, Alyy Khan, Katia Winter, Shaheen Khan, Shivani Ghai, Simon Webbe, Art Malik, Saeed Jaffrey, Dexter Fletcher. Director: Menhaj Huda. In 2006, television director Menhaj Huda stepped away
87 mins). Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Christopher Plummer, Lily Collins, Stephen Moyer, Madchen Amick, Alan Dale. Director: Scott Stewart. Vampires sink their computer-generated fangs into a post-apocalyptic vision of
EACH Thursday, only in your Lancashire Telegraph newspaper, our panel of Burnley fans give their verdict on a big talking point of the week. And this season our online readers can get their views published in the newspaper too. A selection
Running time: 111 mins. Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng. Director: Joe Wright. Opposites sometimes attract. Taiwanese director Ang Lee wasn’t an obvious choice to director Brokeback
I am delighted to send my full support to the Newspaper Society’s Local Newspaper Week. For decades, local newspapers have faced fierce competition. First there was the radio, then television, now of course, the internet. But despite
Police in Chorley have issued images of two suspects they would like to speak to. John Kemp, 18, is wanted for questioning on suspicion of burglary and theft of a vehicle. Police would also like to speak to Jason James, 27, about an
EACH Thursday, only in your Lancashire Telegraph newspaper, our panel of Blackburn Rovers fans give their verdict on a big talking point of the week. And this season our online readers can get their views published in the newspaper too.
INDIAN Cinema fans worldwide can vote for their favourite film of the last year to receive a top industry award. The nominations for the International Indian Film Academy Awards have been released for this year’s ceremony, being held in Toronto
I enjoyed this walk at the beginning of May which came about partly by design and partly by accident. I was reading a book over Easter on the old turnpike toll houses and bridges. It stated that there were no working toll bridges left today
They’ve won awards for their Chilean wines and were exploring the country before many larger retailers. This ‘Best Value White’ trophy winner is bursting with citrus punch and strong flavours of lime and grapefruit. Absolutely gorgeous.
The Wine Society was founded in 1874 and is a co-operative for wine lovers. You pay a one-off £40 for a lifetime share and can buy whatever you want. Without the need for supermarket profits prices are keen and this plump, plummy red made with
DUKE SPIRIT, LANCASTER LIBRARY SUNDAY, MAY 22 - DOORS 8.00PM - TICKETS £10.00 The Duke Spirit are a post-punk five-piece fronted by the enigmatic Leila Moss. With a definitive ‘don’t-give-a-damn’ attitude, they simply ooze cool in the geeky
WESTHOLME have had another successful year in the field of sport. The school clinched hockey and netball titles while two athletes got to represent Lancashire in the English Schools Cross Country Championships. Beckie Taylor was first
BURNLEY United Miners rolled back the years to win the Umbro National Over 40s Veterans Cup. The northern champions came from behind to beat southern counterparts, Essex United Vets, 4-2 at Rushton and Diamonds’ Nene Park. Essex took a 10th minute lead
THE ACCRINGTON and District Junior Football League has brought the curtain down on another successful season with its cup finals spread over two weekends at two different venues. Accrington Stanley’s Crown Ground and Shawbridge at Clitheroe FC hosted
FOOD and drink companies across Lancashire are being encouraged to enter this year’s Fine Food Awards. Organised by Food NW, the awards recognise the region’s best produce from chutneys and cakes, to sausages, seafood, sauces and sorbet. Last year
HE may be one of the world’s greatest operatic tenors but Alfie Boe has a confession to make. “I’ve always wanted to be a rock star,” he laughed. “The problem is I can only use the voice I’ve got.” Thankfully for him that voice has served him pretty
A 30-year-old man was yesterday being treated for back injuries after police said he jumped from a balcony at his home. Emergency services were called to a block of flats in Yeadon Close, Accrington, at 3.25am yesterday after the man jumped and landed
A BUDDING chef from Blackburn had a taste of success for a second time. Jake Scott, a pupil of St Bede’s RC High School, was awarded first place at the Young Chef Awards held at Blackburn College. Jake was also named young pastry chef of the year
A TRAINING group has 100 apprentice vacancies – despite thousands of unemployed young people in Lancashire. The North Lancs Training Group, based in Accrington and covering the whole of the county, said it was struggling to fill the roles. Earlier
Relive the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, arguably the greatest cricket tournament on the planet, from the stunning Opening Ceremony to its exciting climax in Mumbai. Follow the unforgettable moments of the tournament, the big scores from the
I wonder what I’d have done with Osama Bin Laden? Maybe, on hearing the news, you snapped out a gut decision. No debate needed; his death so obviously right, despite conflicting details of his demise. Alternatively, you might agree with my
JAY Rodriguez has insisted Burnley will be challenging at the top of the table next season despite the disappointment of their failure to make the play-offs this term. The Clarets had been one of the favourites for automatic promotion in their
A 26-year-old disqualified driver desperate to have his wife and child join him from Pakistan got behind the wheel because he did not want to lose his job. Blackburn magistrates heard Raheem Hussain was stopped as he drove home from his work as a care
POLICE have launched a second investigation into youths targeting hospital staff in East Lancashire. Neighbourhood officers in the Queensgate area of Burnley, have launched a crackdown after complaints about young people at the general hospital in
A LONG-running battle between a headteacher and an East Lancashire primary school has entered a new phase. Peter Cunningham, former head at Sacred Heart RC Primary, Colne, is taking his ex-school and employers Lancashire County Council to an
A BROTHER and his Darwen sister who arranged for drugs to be taken to a prison were thwarted by a sniffer dog. The woman was supposed to have met up with someone outside Haverigg jail in Cumbria to hand over a cellophane ball containing Subutex
SCHOOL bosses are ending a 20-year battle over the upkeep of an unadopted road by taking legal responsibility for it. Lancashire County Council has agreed to start the legal process to adopt Calder Road, on behalf of Alder Grange Community
IVY Hotel came from behind to win the Birtwistle Cup thanks to a wonderful team goal and a stunning individual effort. Peter Hart supplied the finishing touch to a sweeping four-man move before Kamal Elfetesi added the fire works with a superb
PARK take on Church Town tonight looking to complete an Accrington Combination clean sweep after wrecking Crown Rovers’ own double hopes. The two title rivals met in the Walmsley Cup final both with intentions of finishing as Combination top
NETWORK Rail has paid out more than £770,000 in compensation to train companies as a result of cable thefts in Lancashire and Cumbria in the past three years. Services have been delayed by more than 119 hours during the same period as cable
Address: 61 Marsden Road, Burnley, BB10 2BZ. Phone number: 01282 416285. Lancashire Telegraph review by Kate Turner from May 7, 2011. WITH a virtually identical name to its predecessor (Gram Bangla) and the modern interior just
ST Mary’s College Old Boys dedicated their cup final success to former team-mate Adam Rogers - and they did him proud. Adam, who was tragically killed by a single punch in a Blackburn town centre attack in July, 2009, was a key member of the
East Lancashire’s mystery millionaire has just one day left to claim their lottery windfall. Somebody is sitting on a £1million bounty – but the lucky punter is yet to collect their winnings. And if they do not come forward by tomorrow
MANY people will be disturbed by our revelation that 55 police officers and staff have committed serious misconduct ‘offences’ in the past three years. Allegations against them cover a wide range from offences of rape, child porn, fraud and making
GREEN fingered students at an Accrington high school have scooped a top national award for their eco project. The teenagers at St Christopher’s High School spent a year encouraging local people to grow their own fruit and veg after learning that by
THIS is the image of a man being hunted by police after a woman was indecently assaulted in the street. A 58-year-old woman was walking along Lower Antley Street, Accrington in the middle of the afternoon when she was approached by a stranger. Police
I see that our beloved, Labour-controlled council for Blackburn have, yet again, slipped in 'below the radar' with the removal of one of the few remaining benefits for frustrated motorists who actually manage to penetrate the labyrinthine network of the
THE family of a six-year-old cancer victim are backing a House of Parliament petition to raise awareness of neuroblastoma. Madison Allan, of Lords Crescent, Lower Darwen, has suffered from the aggressive ‘spaghetti-like’ childhood cancer since she was
A woman continued to claim carer’s allowance despite working full-time. Blackburn magistrates heard Ruth Halden failed to declare her employment over three years and five months, resulting in an overpayment of nearly £12,000. Halden, 46, of Irving
IT was a case of the Winner Takes It All for a Blackburn couple when they got married on the set of hit musical Mamma Mia. Gemma Fallon, 28, took the centre stage of the Palace Theatre in Manchester where she wed Steven Humphreys, 23 – and became the
PATIENTS claim they are being forced to rearrange hospital appointments because of changes to Darwen’s bus service. Pensioner Kathleen Tomlinson, of Chaples, catches the number two Lancashire United service to visit the Royal Blackburn Hospital’
STEVE Kean will not be forced into selling any of his Blackburn Rovers stars this summer with his bosses prepared to give him the final say on all summer transfer business. Skipper Chris Samba has become the latest Rover to be linked with
SINGER Andy Duerden turned his back on being a lawyer to follow a dream. And now that dream is about to become a reality as he launches his first album Masterpiece and prepares to perform at the three-day GuilFest festival. Andy, who
KISSING gates are to be installed to stop ‘foul mouthed’ horse riders, according to councillors. Residents in Rishton have complained after horses were said to be leaving piles of manure near homes and riders were ‘intimidating and abusive’
A TOWN centre coffee shop is creating 17 new jobs thanks to a £300,000 extension. Lily Mae’s Bistro is bucking the trend of other small Accrington businesses by trebling in size. The small cafe is being turned into a carvery, bar and
ACCRINGTON Stanley legend Paul Mullin still has bad memories of his only experience of the League Two play-offs, but he is confident the Reds will not suffer a similar fate in their challenge for promotion. Mullin will be at the Crown Ground
HIGH schools, primary schools and special schools are set to grind to a halt in the row over changes to teachers’ pensions. Unions in Lancashire are preparing to ballot for industrial action in June which could result in almost 10,000 school
WHY is it that the Government will not allow the people to spend their own money? Ministers seem hellbent on taking as much money as they can off us in various way — and then in their wisdom, deciding that they want to spend it on. They
A CANDLE started a blaze in a house in Haslingden yesterday. Crews from Rawtenstall were called to the house, in Anemone Drive, at 2.20pm. The owner of the house had left the house to walk her dog when the candle, on an upstairs landing, started
A BNP candidate has been axed as an Avon representative after making racist remarks on Facebook. The company ‘terminated its relationship’ with self- employed sales leader Nancy Shaw-Farmer, who stood as a BNP candidate in Blackburn’s Roe Lee
DARWEN Vale High School has appointed an interim headteacher. John Lawson, who has previously led the school as interim head, will takeover at the Holden Fold-based school following the suspension of headteacher Hilary Torpey. He will be supported
THE colourful, eccentric world of Damon Runyon has been brought to life by Blackburn Musical Theatre Company in spectacular style. Of course they do have the advantage of staging a genuinely great musical, but plenty of societies have failed
ACCRINGTON Stanley boss John Coleman has warned his side to expect a tough encounter against miserly Stevenage in the League Two play-off semi finals. Stanley will take on Stevenage for a place in the final at Old Trafford, with the first leg away from
* TV chef and Norwich's joint majority shareholder Delia Smith is treating the club's promotion heroes to an end-of-season trip to Las Vegas. * Sammy McIlroy, who has left his job as Morecambe manager, could be on the radar of his former club Stockport
A POPULAR Waterfoot taxi driver has died sudden at his home aged just 35. Father-of-five Shabaz Rashid, known to his family, friends and minibus customers as ‘Big Baba’, drove home from work on Friday evening after suffering from pains in his
LOWERHOUSE are determined to maintain their good start to the season – and are ready to face cross-town rivals Burnley on derby day on Sunday. Lowerhouse are riding high in third spot ahead of the big clash and club secretary Frank Entwistle
What’s your view on the state of the Lancashire League? What does the future hold for the competition? Are there too many games played? Should professionals be scrapped? Should clubs be allowed to pay amateurs? We want to know what you think about
A Windermere bed and breakfast owner has won the praise of a TV personality who visited to help turn his business around. David Maloney, 63, played host to Alex Polizzi for an episode of The Hotel Inspector which was broadcast on Channel 5
MORE than 50 officers and police staff have committed serious misconduct offences in the past three years, it can be revealed. Allegations ranged from assault, theft and drink driving to possessing child porn, fraud, making threats to kill
