BUILDING work is to take place on a Pendle community centre which residents want to bring back into use. Pendle’s West Craven Committee has committed £5,000 to start some work on the Coates Community Centre, in Barnoldswick. Gill Dickson, borough
HOUSING bosses are moving in on two former neighbours to create a landmark headquarters building in Burnley. Borough landlord Calico is looking to create an £88million joint venture company to bid for housebuilding and maintenance deals across
A ROW has erupted over a £9million investment in the Urgent Care Centre at Burnley General Hospital. Bosses at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust have put a bid in for funding to the Department of Health for a new unit to handle emergency
TWO of three brothers who beat up a man in revenge after he was said to have assaulted their mother, have been locked up. Burnley Crown Court was told how Matthew Wilkinson had knocked out Jackie Driver's tooth after she hit him and he punched
A SEX attacker who subjected a woman to a 20-minute ordeal in an East Lancashire subway has been warned he faces jail. Tahmoor Hussain, 21, struck in a subway linking Accrington Road and Westway, Burnley on New Year’s Eve and shoved his victim to the
A ROYAL duke has visited an East Lancashire nature reserve to highlight its success as one of the best sites in the UK for wildlife. The Duke of Gloucester visited Brockholes, a ‘floating’ nature park just off junction 31 of the M6, which has
A LOUT who attacked two men, one of them for the second time, has been jailed for 23 months. Burnley Crown Court heard how both of Wayne Turnbull’s victims, set upon in separate assaults, were epileptics, and each suffered a seizure soon after
A STAFFORDSHIRE bull terrier cross which has attacked two police officers has been sentenced to death. The animal, Dyson, which was owned by Lee Rainford, was made the subject of a destruction order by a judge at Burnley Crown Court. Jobless Rainford
A DAD-of-three launched a stalking campaign after a heated New Year's Eve row with a cabbie over a fare, a court heard. Bricklayer Bradley Richens, 34, had been threatening to Kalil Hussain, racially abused him, made gestures at him, shouted and swore
A MAN who had “significant worries” was found hanging in his home by a neighbour, a Burnley inquest heard. Craig Monk, 43, of Curlew Gardens, Burnley, was found dead on October 3. Ken Morphet, Mr Monks’ half brother, told the hearing that four
CORONATION Street star Jennie McAlpine – Fiz Stape in the soap – is looking to turn the focus on positive mental health as part of a photo competition. Life Through The Lens is running across the north-west to promote five simple ways that
A CONTROVERSIAL scheme to build more than 50 new houses on the Silentnight site in Salterforth is set to be approved. Residents and councillors have campaigned against the scheme, which they claim would “totally change the village”. But planning
A FREE film fiesta is to celebrate Burnley’s former ‘textile centre of the world’ status. Young people from the town, aged between 14 and 24, have been researching the town’s history and have produced two films, to be played alongside archive footage
A REGENERATION scheme to revive a former cotton heartland in Burnley is to get £2milion. The grade II listed Slater’s Terrace in Burnley – part of the Weavers’ Triangle and dating back to the late 1840s – is set for the investment from the Lancashire
A THIEF who stole copper cable from the side of a motorway is wanted by police. Officers have released images of a man they suspect smashed a CCTV camera, and caused £2,500 damage at a transmission station, at the side of the M6. The raid happened
A WARRANT has been issued for a homeless man charged with breaching an order banning him from the hospital grounds. Andrew Hooson, 37, whose address is given as the Salvation Army in Heaton Street, Blackburn, was given the ‘CrASBO’ last month after
A HUSBAND and wife team of sham marriage ‘fixers’ recruited bogus brides at the school gates. Mother of four Andzelina Surmaj, 30, a Polish national who has lived in this country 12 years, and Milan Cina, 38, who is Czech, pleaded guilty to
LIFE-saving skills are being taught to Ribble Valley residents and businesses by a special team. North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) has teamed up with the British Heart Foundation to train volunteers how to use defibrillators, which give
Your report (‘Cut parking fees to save jobs’, LT, February 9) of comments suggesting that the amount the council receives in parking charges is equivalent to the amount raised in Council Tax each year was incorrect. Our parking income is around £1.5m
PLANS announced today to bring Blackburn Rovers into community ownership are a long way from being realised. But the fact that they have actually been carefully drafted with the help of leading business people, lawyers and accountants graphically
OFFENDERS have spruced up Darwen’s historic steam engine with help from Crown Paints. The landmark outside India Mill Business Centre in Bolton Road is a Cross Compound Steam Engine dating from 1905, but it had become tired-looking and a dumping ground
SEA Cadets do not receive funding from MoD so have to rely heavily on funds raised by their own efforts. The council-owned charity shop at 65 King William Street, Blackburn, provides us with a fine venue in which to sell donated goods. We have use
NEW figures show that unemployment has risen for the 8th straight month, up 48,000 to 2.67 million, the highest rate since 1995. Youth unemployment is up 22,000 and women continue to be among the hardest hit. Yet before the last election David Cameron
I’VE a bright A-level student from a Blackburn school with me this week. For the first four days of the week she’s been based in the House of Commons. On Monday, there was a conference about the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry which I had set up in 1997
A THIEF who has nearly 220 criminal convictions bought presents last Christmas – the first time he hadn’t stolen them, a court was told. Roy Taylor, 47, who had still been out stealing, was said to have turned over a new leaf and even though he had
A PREGNANT mum-of-nine said her family are all suffering ill health because of a damp and mouldy housing association home. Iona Heaton, 43, partner Paul Brown, 45, and their children Kaiden, nine months, Zak, two, Keegan, three, Kian, four,
YOU need to know your family history from way back, but a Great Harwood is appealing for information to help find relatives. Marjorie Aspden is looking for details on her family who originated from the Stacksteads and Bacup area. They will be descended
A PART of old Burnley was rescued this week from the bulldozers. A plaque on the old Reindeer pub, identified as an important piece of the town’s heritage, was saved when the derelict building, which dates from the 1860s, was finally demolished.
ENTERTAINER George Formby certainly started something when he began serenading Beryl Ingham on his ukelele outside her home in Richmond Terrace, Darwen, in the early 1920s. It seems that within a few years everybody in town was playing a stringed instrument
A MOTHER and daughter evicted after a reign of ‘relentless nuisance and disorder’ that made their neighbours’ lives a misery have been banned from the area of Burnley where they used to live for two years. Kim Ohoro, 39, and her 17-year-old
A TEENAGER has been charged with the murder of his father and the attempted murder of his mother. Jordan Ryan, 18, was arrested after Neil Ryan and his wife Debbie Ryan were found stabbed at their home in Heys Close, Blackburn, on the morning of Friday
A WOULD-be dealer who had a 'cannabis kit' and over 100 grams of the drug at his home has walked free from court. Simon Morris, 35, who told police he would have sold the skunk cannabis to friends, had bags of the drug in his bedroom and had hidden
BOSSES at County Hall have identified sites in East Lancashire where developers could build large scale waste processing facilities. According to the county council, Altham and Moorfield industrial estates in Hyndburn, and Lomeshaye in Nelson
THREE people from East Lancashire are facing charges of scam marriages to Vietnamese partners. A fourth person is accused of witnessing one of the weddings. The two men and two women, from Blackburn and Oswaldtwistle, appeared at Blackburn
A MURDER sparked off by a stolen kiss has led to an East Lancashire man being jailed for life. Steven Sheppard, 47, protested when he saw his on-off partner Donna Harrison in a clinch with Wayne Mackie during a drinking session in Colne.
Welcome to the world RILEY DANIEL HANSON. Chelsea and Jordan are proud to announce the arrival of their beautiful son born on 20 February 2012 weighing 8lb 6oz. Lots of love from Mummy and Daddy and thanks to everyone for flowers, gifts and cards.
FOUR years after calls were made to improve Darwen railway station, work has finally started. Contractors have begun on the £400,000 scheme that will see fencing repaired and repainted, new shelters for passengers, a new CCTV system, new signs
A Cricket club with strong community links has had its future thrown into doubt after a row over its electricity supply. The future of 105-year-old Barrowford Cricket Club has been put in jeopardy over its dispute with Pendle Council, which
AN “edible hedgerow” has been ripped up by vandals two days after being planted at an Accrington nature reserve. One hundred and fifty small shrubs including hazel and crab apple were discovered missing or strewn around the local area by a
MICHAEL Duff has welcomed his international recall but insists he has no expectations. The 34-year-old has been included in the Northern Ireland squad for the first time in over three years, as Michael O’Neill prepares for his first game in
SHOCK and surprise were words that Michael Duff used to describe his recall into the Northern Ireland squad. ‘Deserved’ was how Burnley boss Eddie Howe put it. And few Clarets fans would argue. They perhaps didn’t expect to see much of the experienced
FORMER Burnley chief executive Paul Fletcher believes Brendan Flood would be the best candidate to succeed Barry Kilby as club chairman. Kilby is set to stand down in May, ending a 13-and-a-half year spell in the role, after announcing he is battling
JAMIROQUAI singer Jay Kay and former world rally champion Bjorn Waldegard are among those taking part in a high profile demonstration rally run by an East Lancashire club this weekend. At least 50 historic cars are expected at the event as part of the
CLITHEROE Motor Club duo Chris and Heidi Woodcock were forced to retire from the Chris Kelly Memorial Rally at the weekend. The pair were competing in their Proton Persona 1400 but had to withdraw at the eighth stage of the Isle of Man event, having
THE Under 17 Motor Club’s Matthew Faulkner edged out in-form Blackburn youngster Simon Robinson to win the Accrington Motor Sport Club Production Car Autotest at Blackburn Services. Robinson won the last event at the venue in December but it
RIBCHESTER’S Adam Morgan was at Brands Hatch yesterday for his first full test ahead of his debut season in the British Touring Car Championship. Morgan graduates to the UK’s premier sports car series this season as a reward for winning the Michelin
* Darwen Dashers are staging their first night-time fell race, the five-mile Mr Sparkle’s Dark Un’ tomorrow night. The unusual event, starting at The Royal Hotel, in Tockholes, has been organised by Dasher Simon Fox, who is hoping to attract at least
Ben Fish has entered the Blackburn Harriers record books by smashing the club’s best ever 20-mile road race time, which had stood for 40 years. The 29-year-old clocked 1:43:19 at the Bramley 20m race in Berkshire, surpassing John Calvert’s
HOLLY Bleasdale locks horns with pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva tonight for the second time in a fortnight as the Blackburn Harrier star gears up for next month’s World Indoor Championships in Istanbul. The 20-year-old Olympic medal hopeful came
THE fight for relegation has surely never been tighter with the Premier League’s bottom five clubs separated by just two points and 10 goals. Every week the picture changes as Blackburn Rovers, Bolton, QPR, Wolves and Wigan continue to give their supporters
ROSSENDALE’S Andy Buttery just missed out on victory at last Saturday’s testing Standish Hall Trail Race – although there was success for Tara Krzywicki of Accrington Road Runners. Almost 250 runners took to the muddy and energy-sapping race
HYNDBURN AC’s juniors are celebrating after finishing third in the Lancashire Sportshall League final standings. Team managers David Moynihan and Kirstie Chambers saw their young starlets clinch the bronze place position after they completed the third
BLACKBURN Harriers extended their winning sequence at the Winter Warmer 10K Road Race to five years when Karl Billington added his name to the honours board at the weekend. With three-time champion Ben Fish absent, following his club record
CHRIS Samba is running out of time to be involved in Blackburn Rovers’ crucial trip to Manchester City on Saturday – while his international call-up adds a further complication. It was reported earlier this week the giant defender had buried the hatchet
Danielle Sheen scored twice as Rovers Ladies booked their place in the fourth round of the FA Women’s Cup courtesy of an impressive 3-0 victory away to Premier League side Nottingham Forest. Lagan Makin set the tone in the first minute when she breezed
BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw is among a group of high-profile Rovers fans who have given their backing to plans for a supporters’ trust takeover of the club. Plans to buy Blackburn Rovers from Venky’s and put it into community leadership were officially
A CAMPAIGN against plans for a mobile phone mast at a Blackburn Cricket club is gathering momentum after dozens of residents joined the fight. More than 70 people have written letters of objection in relation to Vodafone’s plans for the
THE WAR Memorial in Barnoldswick could be moved to the town’s Memorial Gardens as part of a refurbishment. Discussions have taken place between town councillors and Pendle Council over relocating the memorial, currently in Wellhouse Road, to
TAXI drivers facing an ‘all time low’ in trade have hit out at plans to increase licence fees. Blackburn with Darwen Council has unveiled plans to increase licence fees an average of 2.9 per cent. The proposals will see the cost of a
LANCASHIRE Police has redrafted its policy on receiving gifts and hospitality. The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary review team visited the force in the wake of the phone hacking investigation and said its guidance was out of date. The
