HUNDREDS of residents in a quiet village were celebrating tonight after a hostel dropped a plan to accommodate paedophiles. People in Edenfield lined the streets last weekend to protest against the proposal to extend services at Chatterton Hey House
A HOMEOWNER is going to extreme lengths to try and sell his home after finding his dream property in Rawtenstall. Lee Cunningham, 41, of Blackburn Road, Rising Bridge, has blacked out his window with fluorescent posters, done a leaflet drop
RIBBLE VALLEY has pulled out of the flagship Pennine Lancashire scheme— with bosses saying the area ‘doesn’t have much in common’ with their neighbouring councils. Council bosses re-branded East Lancashire with the new title in 2007 and hoped
A BURNLEY landlord is following in the footsteps of comedian Eddie Izzard by taking on an incredible marathon challenge. Brian Parker, 52, is doing 12 marathons in 12 days in 12 different counties to raise funds for Pendleside Hospice.
HYNDBURN’S Labour group claims the borough has been left with a ‘black hole’ of £6million by the outgoing Conservative group. Plans rubber-stamped by the previous administration have ‘left nothing’ in the coffers, according to the borough’s
ONE of Blackburn’s top schools has been given green light to become an academy. St Wilfrid’s CofE High School and Technology College has been granted permission from the Department for Education to free itself from local authority control.
POLICE have released CCTV footage of a man thay want to speak to in connection with a violent attack outside a Clitheroe pub. A man was punched in the face twice during the assault outside the White Lion, in Market Place, on Saturday, April 16, at
PADIHAM professional Chris Holt won praise for his first half century for his new club in the win over Oswaldtwistle Immanuel on Saturday. However, it is his bowling that is really catching the eye in his first season in the paid ranks. Former Read
BARNOLDSWICK were beaten in the Lancashire Cup as Isle of Man raiders Castletown triumphed despite the rain. The locals were coasting at 60-0 when Travis Friend claimed a hat-trick to remove Abdul Saddique, Matthew Nutter and Umar Saddique. However
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BURNLEY’S England ace James Anderson will make a rare appearance for Lancashire today – and can’t wait to step out into the heat of Roses battle against Yorkshire at Liverpool this morning. With Lancashire setting the early pace in the County Championship
PRINCE William is being asked to ensure a famous former sports ground in Pendle secures a royal appointment. Plans are being drawn up to nominate the old Lucas sports ground, behind Reedley Magistrates Court, as a Queen Elizabeth II field.
AS we survey the ever growing mess that has been Blackburn Rovers’ season, we should perhaps recall the words of the American billionaire Warren Buffett. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it,” was the phrase. It is only
A 49-YEAR-OLD woman was still using her father’s disabled parking badge six months after he had died. Blackburn magistrates heard Denise Heckingbottom claimed the badge had been sold with her dad’s car but was then caught using both. Heckingbottom,
A MAN who left a night clubber almost half-blinded in an early hours ‘glassing’ has walked free from court. Victim Mark Steer, 23, suffered an extensive perforation to his right eye, had two operations, and may yet face a corneal graft, after
QUESTIONS have been raised over the commitment of a Darwen councillor. Andrew Graham, who represents the Sunnyhurst ward on Blackburn with Darwen council for the For Darwen Party, has been accused of ‘doing nothing’ by other borough councillors
A World War Two volunteer has finally been honoured for the work she carried out on the Enigma decoder project. Sigrid Green, 90, of Ely Close, Darwen, worked for three years at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, listening in to German Morse
A PUBLIC meeting will be held to discuss proposals to lease out a historic building. Mercer House in Clayton-le-Moors was originally bequeathed to the council for use as a museum. It has recently been restored at a cost of £88,000 and Hyndburn
A LAST-minute bid to save a threatened school could derail Blackburn with Darwen’s £210million rebuilding scheme. Beardwood Humanities College, which is due to shut next year, has lodged an 11th-hour application to become an academy.
BLACKBURN with Darwen’s Building Schools for the Future programme has already had a far longer gestation period than any animal (including the 22 months of an elephant). It’s been an extremely troubled one too. Millions of pounds have already been spent
OPERA North returns to The Lowry with a stunning production of Bizet’s classic opera, Carmen. As a relative newcomer to this particular art form I have to confess I was very impressed by this production and the sensual score. If you have never seen
GRAHAM Branch says Burnley always faced an uphill task bouncing right back to the Premier League at the first attempt. The retired defender, who made 264 league appearances for the Clarets, finds it frustrating that his former club isn’t sharing
IT was a nice touch of Pendle Council to finally honour the legendary Lord Learie Constantine by unveiling a blue plaque on his old house in Nelson...but it is the least they could do. The late and truly great West Indian, for those people that don’t
ACCRINGTON Stanley may go into Friday’s play-off semi final second leg chasing a 2-0 deficit, but defender Joe Jacobson still has his sights on a showpiece final after missing out on the big day during his time at Bristol Rovers. Jacobson
MAURO Formica has received a shock call-up to Argentina's senior squad – even though he is yet to feature for Blackburn Rovers after three months at the club. Formica joined Rovers from Newell’s Old Boys for around £3m at the end of the January transfer
YET again last week East Lancashire’s rail services were thrown into chaos because of thieves trying to rip out copper cables that control the signalling system. This time the disruption was in Darwen but led to the cancellation of 13 trains running
TWIN operations have been launched by police to combat fly-tippers and young vandals across Whitworth. Several dumping incidents have been reported to neighbour-hood officers around Healey Dell, moorland above Lobden and the Market Street area. Police
RAWTENSTALL’S urgent care centre is set to open after crisis talks between political leaders and health bosses. Rossendale MP Jake Berry has been involved in detailed talks over the proposed unit at the town’s health hub, which was mothballed
THE GOVERNMENT has pledged a £30million ‘lifeline’ to areas across the country that have been stranded by the scrapping of housing regeneration cash. The investment was welcomed by a Conservative MP, but dismissed by Labour as ‘worse than a drop in
The Olympic Flame will pass through East Lancashire on its tour of the country, it has been revealed today. This afternoon organisers revealed that the relay will pass through the area as it is taken from the Blackpool stop to Manchester.
A DEALER was supplying heroin as his two young children lived in squalor with him. Burnley Crown Court heard how Wesley Whitehead, 33, had been selling drugs to about six users to fund his own addiction for just over a week. Police who turned up
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after three people left a Ribble Valley pub without paying a £100 bill. On Sunday, two men and a woman visited the Calf's Head, Worston, near Clitheroe, and ordered food and drink. Police said the group arrived
Nappies, breast feeding and sleepless nights – life for a new mum can be a confusing and exhausting time. But now, thanks to a free new service being offered to women in Blackburn and Darwen, these problems can be halved with the help of their own
GAEL Givet is expected to play on through an FA investigation into his reported claims a £50,000 ‘bung’ was paid over his transfer to Blackburn Rovers in 2009. Football’s governing bodies have confirmed they will look into the allegations after Givet
CAMPAIGNERS have won a fight to prevent a residents-only parking zone near Walverden Primary School, Nelson. People living in the Holly Street area asked for a permit scheme, but other neighbours claimed the plans would only shift the problem elsewhere
A DAD-OF-TWO left a man with part of his lip missing after a midnight attack in a pub beer garden. Burnley Crown Court heard Daniel Spedding hit Warren Nicholson hard in the face repeatedly in the melee, ripping open his lip and leaving him scarred
lT is great news that the long-awaited reopening of Burnley’s Todmorden Curve railway line has moved a step closer. Network Rail said trains could be running between Burnley and Manchester as soon as December 2013 after its engineers gave the project
Yet another cannabis farm uncovered at great expense by the police (‘Cannabis factory uncovered in Mellor’, LT, May 14). It’s about time they brought cannabis within the law. Instead of costing the taxpayers billions of pounds annually, cannabis farms
I COMPLETELY agree with the reader who said that if customers are not happy with the way banks treat them they should put their money elsewhere. The banking ‘fat cats’ pay themselves very high bonuses even though their actions have caused major job
You published an article (LT, May 9) stating that three drunken yobs kicked a fox to death in a supermarket car park in South Wales. They showed it no mercy. The magistrates did not even jail these cowards so once again it shows what an undemocratic
I WAS not pleased that a 17-year-old girl who is charged with robberies was going to go on a 12-week course at a top horse racing college (LT, May 12). Letting the girl do this is totally sending out the wrong messages and shows once more what a nanny
ANDREW Taylor claimed six wickets as Hoghton moved up to third place in the Palace Shield First Division thanks to a big win at White Coppice. Taylor reeled in 6-27 and Rob Bolton claimed 4-12 as White Coppice were skittled for just 60 as they chased
LANCASHIRE star Oliver Newby has been given the okay to return to Read – and will turn out for his home club on Saturday week in the Ribblesdale League table-topping show-down at Baxenden. The 26-year-old pace ace, who missed virtually all
BURNLEY are in talks to keep out-of-contract Chris McCann from Bolton’s clutches. The midfielder could be at the centre of a tug of war between the two clubs as former Clarets boss Owen Coyle was understood to have made steps to set up a reunion at
HIS grandfather played for Accrington Stanley in Division Three 53 years ago, but the family of Stevenage goal hero Joel Byrom will be reluctantly hoping the Reds’ chances of promotion back to the third tier come to an end on Friday. Byrom, from Oswaldtwistle
THE line-up for a summer music festival in Burnley is set to be revealed in the next 48 hours, organisers have said. Bosses at LiveWyre said contracts were very close to being signed, and tickets could go on sale next week for the Towneley Park jamboree
Peter Kay has boosted a life-saving campaign for a six-year-old cancer battler by £10,000 – after letting her ‘av’ ticket proceeds from two warm-up shows. The Bolton comedian donated all the profits from the tour shows at the Bury Met to the
INVESTORS are returning to the housing market in significant numbers largely because lenders see them as a more reliable bet than first-time buyers, says property investment specialist Assetz. Chief executive Stuart Law said: “Lenders are making no
A FINE wine expert has been sworn in as the new Ribble Valley mayor. Chipping councillor Simon Hore, who has been involved in local politics for four years, took on the role at a council ceremony in Clitheroe, yesterday. The 54-year-old, who has
LANDLORD Action, which helps landlords with problem tenants, has delivered a petition signed by 1,400 people to 10 Downing Street, in an effort to criminalise squatting. The problem is getting worse not better, and calls have been made to make it possible
NEWS from the Bank of England that inflation is expected to hit five per cent due to higher utility bills, the National Insulation Association has advised householders to act now. They have been urged to insulate their properties to help combat the
A ‘vivacious and inspirational’ mother-of-two has died aged 39 after a three-year battle with cancer. Lea Hoole was diagnosed with grade four breast cancer just six months after giving birth to youngest daughter Isabella in 2008. The
BLACKBURN Rovers owners Venky’s are believed to have identified a £6million mansion 13 miles from Ewood Park as their dream English home. The Rao family are said to be interested in the house in Harwood, Bolton, which is owned by former Manchester
BLACKBURN Rovers manager Steve Kean yesterday arrived back in England after a meeting with owners Venky’s in India following his drink drive charge. The Lancashire Telegraph understand the talks had been scheduled before Kean’s arrest on Saturday
