STAFF and pupils at a Rossendale primary school are celebrating being rated as outstanding by an education watchdog. Ofsted Inspector Geoffrey Yates found Helmshore Primary School was performing ‘outstandingly’ in each of the five key categories of
PAPER cups from a Clitheroe company will be used to toast the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at the country's top street party outside Number 10. A new manufacturing unit at The Printed Cup Company was officially opened by Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans who
FORMER Bullseye host Jim Bowen is planning to make his comeback on stage after battling back to health after suffering two strokes. Jim, 74, a former pupil at Accrington Grammar School, was left paralysed down the left side of his body last February
A CRICKET club is going to court in a dispute with Pendle Council over its electricity supply. The future of 105-year-old Barrowford Cricket Club has been in jeopardy since January, after it was left with a £10,000 bill to get the full electricity supply
A CHIP pan fire got out of control at a house in Darwen. Fire crews were called to the house in Sudellside Street after the householder fell asleep while chips were cooking at around 2pm. Crews were called after smoke detectors were triggered in the
A WOMAN was talked down from the top of a multi-storey car park in Burnley yesterday. Police were called to the car park in Curzon Street at around noon after the young woman could be seen dangling her legs over the side, clutching a bottle of wine.
FOUR suspected arson attacks in just two hours in Burnley are being investigated by detectives and firefighters. Probes have been launched into separate incidents in the town’s Trinity area between 3am and 5am today. In the most serious attack, a garage
