Experts believe around 30 lives have been saved and at least another 64 transformed thanks to a health and fitness initiative. Blackburn with Darwen’s re:fresh scheme has been hailed a success after research revealed that around 30 premature deaths,
TO travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, it was once said, and John Coleman perhaps knew the feeling last night as Oswaldtwistle-born former Red Joel Byrom scored the goal that gave play-off debutants Accrington Stanley a mountain to climb
A PENSIONER was shocked when he discovered the reason his car had failed its MOT. Alf James, 81, was told that a colony of bees had decided to make their honeycomb inside two of his car’s cylinder head ports. When Mr James, of Park Avenue
OSWALDTWISTLE born former Accrington man Joel Byrom and Stacy Long put Stevenage in control at the interval against Stanley in the League Two play-off first leg. Long put Boro ahead on 24 minutes as the home side dominated and then Byrom doubled the
ACCRINGTON Stanley have reverted to their tried and trusted starting line-up for tonight's League Two play-off semi final at Stevenage after making nine changes last week. Ian Craney returns from injury, with only Dean Winnard retaining his
A VILLAGE picnic attended by hundreds of people every summer has been saved, following an appeal in the Lancashire Telegraph. Residents of Hoddlesden have enjoyed the Grand Picnic for the past decade, with live music, storytelling and food, but this
POLICE have issued a warning after burglars stole medication in a house raid. A property in Barden Lane, Burnley, was ransacked, with medication known as Phenytoin taken. Police have warned people to be on guard as the tablets ‘could have extremely
BRITISH Legion members are fighting against likely funding cuts by forming their own ceremonial band. In the past, Rishton Royal British Legion have used £700 in annual council funding to hire musicians for ceremonial events. After hearing
THE Lancashire League will have a bumper derby weekend next month after today’s programme was washed out. The rain swept across the area and captains at all matches agreed to call it a day long before the cut off time of 4.30pm. The only venue to
Carnforth v Chorley Chorley 189 (G Dhar 44, M Whittle 5/68) Carnforth 161/9 (R Nelson 52, I Critchley 5/32) Chorley (10pts) winning draw; Carnforth (6pts) Darwen v Leyland Darwen 135/7 (L Reece 4/65) Leyland 99/8 (N Cordingley 5/23) Darwen
The big battle at the foot of the Ribblesdale League went the way of reigning champions Clitheroe as they won for the first time this season. Naeem Ashraf took his men into battle at his old club Cherry Tree, also winless to date, for a match where something
An IT worker who was planning to set his boss up by planting the most sickening type of child porn on his work computer, has been jailed for a year. Jason Woodvine, 40, had downloaded a haul of almost 70 video clips onto his home computer and
THE mother of a baby girl has been given hope for her daughter’s future after meeting a teenager with the same extremely rare condition. Amanda Baylis’s one-year-old daughter Sophie suffers from DiGeorge Syndrome, a chromosome abnormality that
AROUND 1,400 women will take part in Burnley’s Race for Life today hoping to raise over £100,000. The annual event will take place at 11am in Towneley Park. Barrowford woman Claire Matthews, who has twice survived cancer scares, will be
PETER Dibb says he is ready and raring to go ahead of his belated Lancashire League debut – and reckons his Nelson bow can’t come in a better game than the Pendle derby with Colne today. Nelson new boy Dibb, who made the winter switch to Seedhill after
CHERRY Tree skipper Andreas Sudnik is hoping for a change of fortunes today when his side host Clifton in the Lancashire Cup. The Preston Old Road outfit have suffered a poor start to the season but are at full strength for the game against the Central
BBC broadcaster Mark Radcliffe is heading out of the studio for a short tour which calls in Clitheroe on May 18 and Kendal on May 19. Mark is a busy man — combining his love of music with writing, while co-hosting a new, three-hour daily radio
