NEW ideas on punishing burglars have been welcomed by an East Lancashire family. A three-month public consultation has been launched to look at the lengths of sentences for burglary and whetehr factors such as distress to victims should be
A GREAT grandfather has died just days after his wife following a horror smash on the couple’s 65th wedding anniversary. Stewart Graham died in hospital today having suffered serious injuries, including a broken neck, in the accident which
A RIBBLE Valley pilot was killed when a "failed bolt" caused both wings to fall off her glider, an air accident investigation has found. Amy Barsby, 25, from Longridge, was flying in a competition when the wings detached from the fuselage of
A DOG responsible for several attacks on residents has been removed from a house in Blackburn. Neighbourhood officers and police dog handlers raided a terraced house in Ivy Street, Infirmary, this afternoon. The Staffordshire Bull terrier
THE new headteachers at Darwen Vale High School have outlined plans to put the crisis-hit school back on track. But union representatives said they would be keeping a close eye on progress and warned there could be further strike action if
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (12A, 137 mins) Action/Comedy/Romance. Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane, Sam Claflin, Richard Griffiths, Keith Richards, Judi Dench, Astrid Berges-Frisbey. Director: Rob Marshall
Two barmen have today walked free from court after being acquitted of the manslaughter of a hotel guest from Nelson who drank himself to death. A judge ruled Gary Wright and Aidan Dalton were not responsible for the death of Graham Parish, who died
Address 163 Duckworth Street, Darwen Telephone number: 01254 773373 Lancashire Telegraph review by Simone Yates from May 06, 2011 Enjoy Yourself Tonight is also a restaurant, offering a Chinese buffet. This made me think the food
Comedy royalty comes to the North West this Spring when the legendary John Cleese brings his Alimony Tour to Salford from May 24 to 27. Described on his own website as “British writer, actor and tall person”, the legend that is John Cleese
Address: Whalley Road, Clayton-le-Moors Telephone number: 01254 237 297 Lancashire Telegraph review by Anna Mansell from April 01, 2011 THE decor may have been a touch ‘chintzy living room’, but the sights and smells of the meals being put together
Address: Eagle Street, Accrington Lancashire Telegraph review by Kimberley Hall, from April 08, 2011 Going to Tesco for a meat feast pizza and a curry should not replace an hour of badminton. But this week, sadly, it did. It was one of
Address: Keighley Road, Colne Lancashire Telegraph review by Kate Turner from April 15, 2011 ALTHOUGH it is close to Colne’s main burial ground, Cemetery Chippy is definitely not grave. It might not be my first choice of a name
AN 87-YEAR-OLD man has been taken to hospital this afternoon with a cut to his head after the car he was travelling in flipped in a crash in Cliviger. Police have closed the A671 Bacup Road in both directions between its junctions with Todmorden Road
Address Hyndburn Road, Accrington Lancashire Telegraph review by Anna Mansell from April 22, 2011 IS it just me, or has KFC become very complicated? I’ve not been for years, but seem to remember it being as simple as: “X pieces of chicken, chips
HARD to believe but it is 23 years since the last televised episode of Yes Prime Minister. Now, the original writers, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn have tried (not always successfully) to raise our spirits with a stage version. Set in
Address: YIP SPOT Union Road, Oswaldtwistle Telephone number: 01254 388848 Lancashire Telegraph review by Anna Mansell from April 29, 2011 IT was getting on a bit when we decided to order from Yip Spot, so we weren’t in the mood for
88 mins. John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Jodie Whittaker, Nick Frost, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter. Director: Joe Cornish. Time and again, when extraterrestrials invade Earth, they choose the trigger-happy USA as
I HAVE little sympathy with Lottery winners who moan about their plight, but a few of the stories contained here were at least a little bit convincing. Cutting Edge does a decent job of persuading a few new muilti-millionaires to talk about what happened
Jacob’s Creek Riesling 2009, £7.49, Tesco, Sainsbury's and elsewhere This Aussie Riesling is nicely balanced, crisp, citrus-filled and zesty as well as having a very sensible 12 per cent alcohol content. The price is very competitive considering
FORGET awkward ducklings turning into beautiful swans and tiny princesses sleeping in walnut shells, Rachel Rose Reid explores the darker side of fairytales in her new show, I’m Hans Christian Andersen, in Bolton on May 19. “The idea came from when
THE Good Lovelies will bring some sunshine to Ramsbottom whatever the weather when they play on May 25. The three-piece follow in the well shod footsteps of Canadian girl groups such as the Be Good Tanyas and Wailin’ Jennies. Made up
Montes Cabernet Sauvignon Carmenere 2008, £7.99 Chilean wines bearing the familiar monochrome mountain landscape label of Montes are always worth a try because of their sumptuous flavours and great value for money. This blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon
Jacob’s Creek Reserve Pinot Noir 2009, £9.99, Sainsbury's IT'S easy to knock huge brand wines and some of them certainly deserve criticism but there’s a good reason why Jacob’s Creek is so popular. This Aussie wine is good stuff, particularly
GIGS in theatres are always slightly odd. The natural urge is to be somewhat reverent in such a grand setting, and so there’s little singing along and even the end-of-song applause is always polite. Despite this, I Am Kloot used the setting
Moramari Fiano 2010, £6.98, Asda An Italian double this week of wines made with local grape varieties. Fiano goes back to Roman times. It’s delightfully dry with citrus, especially grapefruit and lemon along with a slight taste of honey.
Alsace Vieilles Vignes Riesling 2007, £8.99, Sainsbury's France's Alsace region alongside the river Rhine and the German border is the home of Riesling in its traditional tall, slender bottles. This one from the Cave De Turckheim collective is just
Asda Extra Special Primitivo 2007, £7.21, Asda Primitivo is Italy’s much underrated red grape. It’s rich and plummy with a touch of spice and a reasonable 13.5 per cent alcohol for such a chunky wine. This one comes from the southern region of
Villa Maria East Coast Gewurztraminer 2010, £9.99, Sainsbury's, Wine Rack, Majestic Spring is sprung and to celebrate we have two whites this week without a trace of the ubiquitous Chardonnay anywhere. First the famed Alsace grape transplanted to
St Hallett Poacher’s Blend 2009, £8.99, Sainsbury’s St Hallett make some tasty wines in South Australia’s Barossa Valley, many of them reds, but this white blend is a real treat. The grapes are citrus-flavoured Semillon, a little delicate Riesling
Penguin Sands Pinot Noir 2009, £9.99, Sainsbury's Central Otago, New Zealand, where this wine originates is a fair way inland and some distance from penguins and sand although it is in beautiful country. It's a sign of the times that even
Yali National Reserva Viognier 2010, £7.99, Majestic Yali is the name of a wetland haven for birds near the Ventisquero winery in Chile's Colchagua Valley and this pale yellow wine claims strong green credentials. It has apricot flavours
SPANISH ace Ruben Rochina fired Blackburn Rovers reserves to the Northern title last night, scoring a brace in a 2-1 play-off final win over Manchester United. An early wonder goal from the former Barcelona man helped Rovers on their way
Ruben Rochina has a chance of making the Blackburn squad for Saturday's crunch Premier League clash against Manchester United. It was feared the Spaniard would miss the rest of the season after dislocating his shoulder in last night's Reserves win, also
John Stone now heads the REIS MSA Asphalt Rally Championship standings after finishing fifth overall on last weekend’s Manx Telecom Rally. It was the Blackburn businessman’s best ever showing on the island and he reckoned that was due in no small
The plaudits have come from far and wide hailing Sunday’s Production Car Autotest at Witton Park Country Fair a huge success – all well deserved for an event that will hopefully be held annually. Twenty-four drivers, some as young as 14 years of age
RESIDENTS will notice more litter in the streets because of spending cuts, a council chief has warned. Peter Hunt, who retires today as Blackburn with Darwen Council’s director of regeneration, said the cutbacks would start to bite now the new financial
ALISON Leonard has won the women’s 1500 metres at the British Universities and Colleges Championships. The Birmingham University student, from Chorley, was taking part in her first competition of the track season but safely negotiated a heat and a
BLACKBURN Harriers kicked off their bid for a fourth successive Division One title in the North of England Track and Field League with second place behind City of Manchester Athletic Club. Competing at Stanley Park in Blackpool, they were 17 points
GREAT Harwood’s Harry Haseley led his North Lancashire Road Club to the team award in the North Lancs and Lakes Group Veteran’s midweek 10 mile event at Garstang. He clocked an excellent 24 minutes 57seconds, which gave him a 7 minutes 3 seconds improvement
A LANDLORD has been hit with a £350 fine and £150 costs for using a TV without a licence. Alan Herbert was caught without a licence at his pub the Britannia Inn in Nuttall Street, Accrington. He was also ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge by
Burnley are to visit non-league side Altrincham as part of their pre-season plans. The friendly at Altrincham’s Moss Lane ground has been confirmed for Saturday, July 9 (kick-off 3pm). They also travel to Oldham on July 26.
EAST Lancashire Chamber of Commerce boss Mike Damms has secured a place on Lancashire’s local enterprise partnership (LEP) board. Mr Damms confirmed he will represent firms from the area on the organisation, although another East Lancashire business
TWO prominent members of Nelson St John Ambulance Association were awarded one of the movement’s top honours in 1965. Divisional superintendent Joseph Smith and divisional officer Edward Coyne were invested as serving brothers of the Order of St John
DID you know that two Colne streets – Casserley Road and Allison Grove – were named after two hospital matrons. Miss Casserley was the first matron of Hartley Hospital, in Laneshawbridge, after it opened in 1924. Over the following quarter-of-a
MR W R Beach hung up for the last time in 1965 – after 25 years as telephone manager for the Blackburn area. A leading figure in the expansion of telephone communications throughout the country, he retired from the job he first began as the war started
HISTORIAN Steve Chapples tells the story of a Burnley company, which grew from a clay model made by a ten-year-old girl. The business was PenDelfin, which produced, among other models, cute rabbit figures that were exported all around the world.
A SECOND World War code breaker is in line for a special honour in recognition of her work. After secret missions to Norway to infiltrate German sea patrols, Sigrid Green, now 90, worked for three years at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes
LANCASHIRE County Council workers at a depot on Hapton’s Network 65 business park went on strike yesterday in a row over changes to their pay. The mechanics are angry about cuts to bonuses. Council chiefs said they were bound by equal pay reviews
IF you look closely at this photograph, you may wonder if you are seeing double. For this old school photograph of St James’ CE School, Blackburn, shows two sets of twins. It’s the class of 1959/60, and the fresh-faced happy smiling youngsters include
The leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council has been voted back into her post. Kate Hollern was unopposed in a Labour Group meeting following Thursday’s local elections, where the party strengthened its majority. The Consevative and Liberal Democrat
ST Chad’s, it seems, holds many memories for a lot of people – including frogs and floating shuttlecocks. Today we have more recollections from its era, sent in by John Caton, from Scarborough, who remembers his young days in Blackburn.
ONE of the key responsibilities of any local newspaper is to go into battle on behalf of its readers. This week is Local Newspaper Week, when we celebrate the important roles of community newspapers. The Lancashire Telegraph regularly
I AM amazed that Mr Smith (LT, May 7) cannot work out and answer his own question. I don’t think the Chief Constable of Manchester ever wanted to upgrade PCSOs, but it is understandable given the difficulty in recruiting full-time officers given
Faced with two long holiday weekends in a row at the end of the month, we needed to build up blood stocks in advance. We asked our donors to make a special effort to give blood and they certainly did. During April, with the help of regular donors
THERE’S a massive growing interest throughout Britain in the natural world around us. The huge popularity of prime-time TV series like Naturewatch and Countryfile prove just how much people want to know about our native wildlife. They want to
EAST Lancashire’s countryside has been given a glowing write-up in the latest edition of the Lonely Planet guidebook. The ninth edition of the Great Britain guide, which came out yesterday, says Lancashire is ‘as isolated as it is industrious
FOUR exceptional schools in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale have been given a clean bill of health by government education inspectors. Under a new regime, schools watchdog Ofsted will not be visiting outstanding or very good schools as regularly
A FAMILY firm has handed over its secret black pudding recipe to a rival after a vicious attack left the owner unable to work. Bolton Crown Court heard how Mary and Tony Sinacola, who run Chadwicks Original Bury Black Puddings, had provided the delicacies
A LEADING councillor is calling for a safety review of thousands of metres of plastic fencing following a large fire in Darwen. The St James estate was engulfed in thick, black smoke when a mattress and piles of fly-tipped waste were set on
A COUPLE of burglars who took a dip in a family's garden hot tub before breaking into their home were caught by discarded underwear. Ashley and Cherie Deakin were asleep at their home in Orchard Drive, Oswaldtwistle, when Thomas Pendlebury,
THEY say that if you want a friend in politics, buy a dog. I have been very grateful for the undying loyalty of Archie the Jack Russell this week as my team got a kicking at the borough election. All that work and worn shoe leather and we only
THE mum of a young Blackburn Rovers fan who was told he could meet his heroes has blasted club owners after they failed to deliver on their promise. Nine-year-old Tyler Cole was spotted by boss Anuradha Desai waiting in the cold outside
STEVEN Thompson has thanked Burnley for his English Premier League year after leaving Turf Moor to return north of the border. He was one of three players released by manager Eddie Howe last night with fellow Scot Kevin McDonald and Remco Van
STEVE Kean has urged his Blackburn Rovers side to concentrate on finishing this season on a high rather than merely scraping over the line in their bid for survival. Results elsewhere will determine whether Rovers already have enough points
A HEALTHY young woman who dreamed of becoming a mum died less than a month after giving birth to her son. Hayley Constable, aged 27, who worked as a team leader for an insurance claims company in Haslingden, was delighted when she became pregnant
AN investigation has been launched into a suspected arson attack behind a former police station in Pendle this morning. Firefighters from Nelson spent three hours tackling the blaze, in an annexe behind the old constabulary building, off Portland
POLICE were justified in shooting an armed robber who tried to hold up a cash delivery van in Haslingden, a watchdog has ruled. Gavin Noakes, 30, was shot three times by a Greater Manchester Police firearms officer during an attempted hold-up
I MET four people who were voting for the Alternative Vote (AV), during Polling Day last Thursday. One of them was me. We were a small, and exclusive band. At one stage I felt so isolated in discussion that I might as well have been advancing
AN East Lancashire peer who dubbed Prime Minister David Cameron a ‘toffee-nosed slimebag’ has stood by his remarks. Lord Tony Greaves, also a Liberal Democrat councillor in Pendle, told a national newspaper that ‘a lot of people in our party never
THE centrepiece of one of the most exciting environmental attractions in Lancashire officially opened yesterday in a blaze of publicity. The floating visitor village is set to become the iconic heart of Brockholes Nature Reserve near Samlesbury
RUBEN Rochina is expected to miss the rest of the Premier League season after dislocating his shoulder last night. The former Barcelona striker fired Rovers reserves into the grand final with a first half double in their 2-1 win at Manchester
CHARITY fundraisers are set to be barred from Blackburn and Burnley town centres for most of the week over fears they hassle shoppers. Council chiefs in both boroughs are in talks with a body that represents charities to limit the number of the workers
THE driver of a car which was in collision with an 89-year-old man on a mobility scooter could do nothing to avoid him, an inquest heard. Charles Lumb, of Brunshaw Road, Burnley, died two months after the collision at the junction of Brunshaw Road and
THE MINI John Cooper Works WRC, driven by Dani Sordo, will make its British debut this weekend at the Cornbury Park Rally Show, fresh from securing a sixth place finish at Rally Italy. The MINI WRC Team driver will put the car through its paces
A TOY orang-utan, which lives at Hillendale Land Rover in Nelson, took a front seat in the oldest Land Rover in the world to lead a 350-strong convoy. The aim of the parade, at the Jaguar Land Rover test track in Gaydon, was to set a new world
Hundreds of Ford Transit vans have been ordered by the AA, increasing Ford’s share of the organisation’s 3,000-vehicle fleet to more than 50 per cent. The AA is more than doubling the 247 Ford Transits ordered in 2010 with The AA roadside rescue
THE latest Vauxhall Insignia VXR has turned up the heat with the launch of a de-restricted package, allowing the car to achieve 170mph. Known as ‘Unlimited’ option, it removes the ‘regular’ Insignia VXR’s 155mph restrictor, allowing the range-topper
A MEDIEVAL ring unearthed by a Pendle treasure-hunter in Kirkby Lonsdale has been described as the ‘find of a lifetime’. Archaeology enthusiast Craig Scott was on a rare trip out with his metal detector when he found a silver 14th century ring
A TEENAGE girl accused of a series of knifepoint robberies on schoolboys is being sent on a live-in three-month horse riding course at taxpayers' expense. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named, was arrested after detectives were called to a
Porto coach Andre Villas Boas has denied reports he is to move to Chelsea or Juventus. Liverpool could offer Brad Friedel the chance to return to Anfield as the 39-year-old is out of contract with Aston Villa in the summer. Former Chelsea boss
DETECTIVES have arrested a woman on suspicion of concealing a birth as part of the investigation into the hunt for a baby thought to have been abandoned in Edenfield. Police will continue to question the 28-year-old, from Whitefield, near Bury
ROSSENDALE United may be forced to move ground as the club continues to fight for its future. United were forced to postpone Vodkat League fixtures earlier this season after the water supply was cut off at its Dark Lane ground for non-payment
IAN Craney has been passed fit as Accrington Stanley look set to have a clean bill of health for Sunday’s League Two semi final first leg at Stevenage. Craney has missed the last two games with a hamstring injury but returned to training
