BLACKBURN Rovers have confirmed the signing of Birmingham City defender Scott Dann on a four-year deal. Dann had a medical at Rovers yesterday and arrives for an undisclosed fee, said to be £6m rising to £8m after add-ons. The 24-year-old
AN EAST Lancashire library is set to re-open after a £200,000 refit. A new roof, new windows and a new layout is to be unveiled at Longridge Library. The facility has been closed for 12 weeks while improvements have been carried out
A MENTALLY-ill ex-golf club president who stabbed his ‘devoted’ wife of more than 50 years with a meat thermometer, causing life-threatening injuries, has been detained in hospital. Father-of-three and grandfather Jack Duerden, 74, plunged the piercer
BURNLEY have completed the signing of West Ham striker Junior Stanislas. Manager Eddie Howe's patience in pursuing wide man Stanislas paid off as the 21-year-old signed for an undisclosed fee. The 21-year-old joins former Hammers team-mate
AROUND 100 jobs are up for grabs at one of Burnley's biggest employers. Window company VEKA has launched a major recruiting drive to fill 100 positions over the next 12 months. It follows the take over of Bowater Building Products based
A NEW academy is set to open in East Lancashire next week. Bowland High School, in Grindleton in the Ribble Valley, has now entered into a funding agreement with the Department for Education and can open as an academy. The school’s application
JAY Rodriguez is staying at Burnley after Southampton failed in renewed efforts to tempt the striker away from Turf Moor today. The Saints last month had a £4.5million bid for the Burnley-born forward turned down and were told that further offers
A WEST End starlet will be singing her heart out in Clitheroe on September 3 in a bid to bring classical music to the masses. Opera singer Charlotte Kinder, a former West End leading lady in Phantom of the Opera, will be performing at the Grand
The transfer window slams shut at 11pm tonight for Blackburn Rovers, Burnley and Accrington Stanley. As of 6pm, none of East Lancashire's clubs have seen any moves in or out today, although there is still time. The Lancashire Telegraph
A man exposed himself to a female runner near the canal in Burnley. The incident happened on Sunday at around 2.25pm near to the Leeds Liverpool Canal on Lower Rosegrove Lane under the M65. A 27-year-old woman was out running when a
Burnley new boy Keith Treacy has become the latest football star to be caught in a Twitter storm. The 22-year-old’s '@Treace11' account was hacked while he was on international duty with the Republic of Ireland. His usual profile picture
A judge has recommended that an illegal immigrant who has been twice caught using a false passport should finally be deported. Nigerian national Joseph Adetola, 30, was jailed for 13 months today for producing fake ID to facilitate his marriage
BLACKBURN Rovers are close to completing a deal to sign Everton striker Yakubu. Rovers previously had a bid turned down for the 28-year-old, understood to be in the region of £1.5m. Everton were initially thought to want nearer to £3m
BLACKBURN Rovers are expected to tie up the signing of Birmingham City defender Scott Dann before tonight’s transfer deadline. Rovers have been in talks with Birmingham over a possible deal and sources have now indicated that the 24-year-old
PIERCE, the Blackburn-based business advisory and accountancy group has strengthened its team with a senior appointment. Chris Harland (right) joins Pierce group as a director and will help manage the award-winning firm’s portfolio of clients and business
A NEW face has joined Accrington recruitment firm Cummins Mellor. Experienced business consultant Hayley Huddart (right) has joined the senior management team in a business development role. Managing director Richard Mellor said: “Hayley brings a wealth
BOSSES at a Lancashire car dealership are celebrating after being named the best in Britain. The Chorley Group, with five branches including Chorley and Burnley, earned the accolade from car giants Nissan UK after achieving the best group sales figures
THE first two companies have signed up to a landmark North West aerospace programme. The North West Aerospace Alliance, based in Nelson, has launched the unique scheme designed to help its members drive down everyday costs. It will see NWAA members
REDROW employee Carol Sokol, of Chorley, has been named Lancashire’s Sales Consultant of the Year. Carol has worked for Redrow for 18 years and is currently based at The Village Green phase of Buckshaw Village in Chorley. It’s the third time that Carol
CAMPAIGNERS supporting the memorial fund in aid of Private Jason Lee Rawstron are staging an all-day bash in Clayton-le-Moors on September 10. Jay’s Action Group will be fundraising at the Royal Oak shortly after the fourth anniversary of the former
A MAJOR resurfacing scheme is set to see sections of the M65 shut from next week in a £4million scheme. Damaged parts of the motorway near Accrington, as well as between Burnley and Brierfield, are set to be repaired. Both lanes will
POLICE have released more information about a road rage incident in Blackburn in a bid to bring forward more witnesses. A 36-year-old man suffered a fractured leg when a gold Volkswagen Golf was deliberately driven at him in Earl Street, at its junction
A LOST £1million owed to Burnley Council following the Icelandic bank collapse is expected to be repaid - but not until 2018. Town hall chiefs in Burnley were among dozens of authorities across the UK which was left high and dry after Scandinavian
DARWEN-based Crown Paints has launched a new high-profile television advertising campaign called Walls Come To Life. The adverts see exotic salsa dancers sweep across a crisp white living room; towering New York skyscrapers emerge from staircase skirting
AN event organiser was left disappointed after hundreds of people failed to attend a community fundraiser after a mix up with a cancelled event. Clive Williamson, event organiser at Bacup Hub, on Burnley Road, Bacup, was expecting around 300
A CARER has appeared in court charged with stealing money from mentally-ill patients. Elaine Royal, 50, of Hillside, Burnley, faces multiple charges of theft by an employee, and two counts of fraud by abuse of position. Royal is charged
THE British Heart Foundation has warned that as little as one third of items donated to charity via letterbox bags end up in charity shops. Research has revealed that 70 per cent of the bags an average householder receives are from commercial companies
St Annes took a seemingly decisive hold on the race for the championship of the Northern Premier Cricket League after beating both threatening rain clouds and the challenge of Carnforth on Bank Holiday Monday. St Annes’ sub-pro Qaiser Abbas, the Todmorden
THE wife of ex-Burnley player and manager Frank Casper has died after a short illness. Brenda Casper, 67, passed away with her family by her side at her home in Burnley on Saturday. Her funeral will be held at St John the Evangelist
Ribblesdale League outfit Clitheroe have agreed terms with former Padiham professional Kashif Siddique for a second season. The Pakistani all-rounder did not arrive at Chatburn Road until the half-way point of the current campaign but has since scored
A SUPERMARKET worker arrested after reports to the police of erratic driving was almost four times the drink-drive limit, a court heard. Kay White, 58, could not remember why she had got behind the wheel, but thought she might have been going
Hosts Settle won a low-scoring but enthralling Ribblesdale League T20 final to bring cheer to Marshfield in a tough season. The Dalesmen, who were sent back to the foot of the table at the weekend after falling to defeat at the hands of Salesbury, have
Rovers Ladies were held to a 1-1 draw by Sporting Club Albion in their opening home game of the new Women’s Premier League season. Keeleigh Savage scored her first goal for the club, but it wasn’t enough to secure a second successive win. Rovers dominated
Burnley’s development squad drew their friendly with a young Manchester City 2-2 last night. Shay McCartan and Dominic Knowles were the men on target for the Clarets in the game at Hyde United. Read Willie Irvine's column only in today's
Lancashire League side Enfield have re-signed professional Werner Coetsee for a second season. The South African has scored a shade under 700 runs and claimed 75 wickets in his first campaign at Dill Hall Lane.
FAMILIES across Lancashire began Eid celebrations yesterday. It started with thousands of Muslims gathering to wish their family and friends Eid Mubarak, or Happy Eid. And many more Muslims will begin celebrating the festival today, which
RESIDENTS are celebrating after plans to turn a former nursing home into a drink and drugs rehabilitation centre were dropped. A petition was signed by 256 people objecting to plans to turn The Woodlands, in Holly Tree Close, Darwen, into a
A VICAR arrested as part of a sham marriage investigation involving Accrington churches has been charged. Ugandan Rev Canon Dr Patrick John Magumba, from Rochdale, was arrested in March by the North West Immigration Crime Team, which is probing dozens
TWO men behind Lancashire’s ‘biggest drugs operation’ have been jailed for a total of 22 years. Fakruddin Ibrahim, 26, and Rashed Manzoor, 36, both of Carr Lane, Chorley, were sentenced at Preston Crown Court yesterday for conspiracy to supply
SIX-WEEKS of school summer holidays can sometimes seem too long and leave many mums finding it hard to juggle life, work and childcare. As the long break comes to an end next week, women in East Lancashire say they are keen to get the children
EWOOD Park legend Colin Hendry believes Birmingham City defender Scott Dann would represent a great deadline-day purchase for Blackburn Rovers – but not at the expense of the club’s current ‘lionheart’ Chris Samba. It would represent a major
Blackburn Rovers have lodged an official bid – believed to be in the region of £5m – for Birmingham City centre-back Scott Dann. Manager Steve Kean faces a race against time to strengthen his squad before 11pm tonight with Ajax’s Moroccan frontman
THE recent spike in mindless vandalism that has seen the destruction of council flower baskets across Chorley must be stamped out immediately if we are to keep our town a pleasant place to live. Flower baskets and public gardening works help create
ARCTIC winters have made a real mess of East Lancashire’s roads in the past two years. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the M65. East Lancashire’s motorway is important to businesses and residents alike and the poor condition of many parts
In these times of austerity and cutbacks, I am sure I echo the views of the majority of Hyndburn ratepayers when I applaud the decision of local council members to provide such outstanding floral displays around the borough, particularly in my immediate
I RESPOND to Derek Mann’s letter (Opinion, August 17) in which he criticised Brian Gordon for “having his head in the sand” when expressing an opinion that climate change is natural rather than man-made. Mr Mann asserted that the difference between
A ‘GRINNING’ white van ‘flasher’ struck twice after stalking a terrified teenage horse rider on an isolated country lane. Kitchen fitter John Horsman, 49, blamed a low dose of prescribed anti-depressants for his aggressive, perverted and disturbing
A PENDLE butcher’s shop is a cut above the rest after being named a finalist in a national competition. Nicholson’s Butchers, in Railway Street, Nelson, has been voted one of the top three in the north of England. It has made it through
Eddie Howe remains hopeful of adding two new players to his Burnley squad by the end of the transfer window at 11pm tonight. West Ham winger Junior Stanislas is one of two long-standing targets they are hopeful of securing before tonight’s
BURNLEY winger Wade Elliott is wanted by two Championship clubs. Nottingham Forest and Birmingham City are set to do battle for the 32-year-old before the transfer window closes at 11pm today. News of Forest’s interest in the former
A MAN attacked his mother in her shop after she refused to lend him cash, a court heard. Elliott Matthews, 39, threw a comb at victim Janet Matthews, then rushed at her, grabbed her by the neck and pushed her against the counter. A friend
A YEAR ago the car insurance renewal letter dropped on the mat with an extra big thud. A well-known British and now international company I had been with for years had increased the premium by about 30 per cent with no explanation whatsoever. There
A DRUNKEN man who kicked a baby in the head has walked free from court. Burnley Crown Court heard Christopher Kerr’s actions had been accidental while the baby was on the floor. The defendant, 26, described as a petty offender, who was looking after
EAST Lancashire’s first ever gay pride festival has been postponed until next year, it has been announced. Organisers said they had been 'a bit too adventurous' with their plans to stage the event next month and have moved it back to May 2012
A COURAGEOUS little girl who inspired a massive fundraising campaign has lost her battle against an extremely rare form of cancer. Five-year-old Ella Stringer died just 10 months after being diagnosed with rhabdoid sarcoma, an aggressive childhood
A BUILDING at an East Lancashire cricket club has been badly damaged in a fire this morning. Crews were called to Enfield Cricket Club in Dill Hall Lane, Church, at 6am after a blaze was reported in a pavilion building. The fire is now
