AN EDENFIELD teacher will say goodbye to colleagues and pupils this summer after 23 years with the same local school. Geoff Blow, who joined Alder Grange Community & Technology School in August 1989, will retire at the end of the current academic year
READ’S Oliver Newby is included in the Lancashire squad as the Red Rose go in seach of a first four-day win of the season. The fast bowler in named in Peter Moores’ 14-man squad for the County Championship Division One game with Middlesex at Aigburth
CALL-OUTS to deal with complaints of rats in East Lancashire are among the highest in the UK, new figures have revealed. Burnley and Pendle came in the top 40 out of 393 local authorities for call-outs to deal with rats. Pendle Council had 10.07
BARNOLDSWICK'S Lancashire Cup third round tie with Blackrod will take place at the Bolton side's ground on Bank Holiday Monday, June 4.
A PROJECT which gives youngsters a grim taste of life behind bars has won an award. More than 110 teenagers have taken part in a community policing initiative, which gave young people from East Lancashire an insight into prison life. Several of
A DIAMOND Jubilee inspired time caspule is being created by Blackburn College to celebrate the last 60 years. It is appealing for people’s memories, photos and memorabilia to create a picture of the college over the last six decades. The capsule
WITH reference to Goz’s letter (LT, May 17), the Labour government had to deal with the biggest financial catastrophe this country has ever seen and it was not because of increased public spending on health and education. It was because a few people
According to Jack Straw’s column (LT, May 17), binge drinking was created by previous governments, not the sensible drinker. Let me give Mr Straw a history lesson: before the First World War, pubs and hostelries were open 24 hours; when the war broke
THE Boundary Commission was set the task of reducing 533 parliamentary seats to 502, an exercise that was bound to upset some people around the country. But in East Lancashire the organisation’s proposals to significantly carve up every constituency
Hope you’ve been following the ITV Series 56 Up? Based on the theory from the Jesuit motto "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man", which is based on a quotation by Ignatius Loyola. The participants are now all aged 56 (
Who The 24-year-old from Colne is a former Park High pupil, who won bronze in the Beijing Olympics. 2012 progress Enjoyed career highlight with World Championship gold medal in the team pursuit in Melbourne. Will he make GB team He is
Who A former gymnast and hurdler from Chorley. The ex-Parklands High student is a Blackburn Harrier. 2012 progress Won a World Indoor bronze medal in March, is the British record holder and being talked about as a medal contender for London
A CANNABIS factory set up at a Blackburn address could have produced more than £19,000 worth of drugs if they had grown to harvest, a court heard. Beverley Chambers, 48, described in court as emotionally and physically vulnerable, was persuaded to
Who A former ballet dancer, 20, of Blackburn Harriers. A former Hameldon Community College student. 2012 progress? Has enjoyed an incredible start to the year and broke her own British record twice in a week in April. Will she make the GB
A NEWLY-revamped singing group will be celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with its debut concert. Pendle Voices has been formed from what was Pendle Opera, and will stage the Proms-style Best Of British concert at The ACE Centre on Sunday.
ALL this hoo-ha over the Euro. It was a dream, a scheme doomed from the start. Only politicians would be crazy enough to think you could make ‘one state’ out of so many disparate countries. Especially when one of those countries has always
ENGINEERING boss Dennis Mendoros OBE will be taking part in the Thames Diamond Jubilee pageant. On Sunday, June 3, the managing director of Euravia Engineering in Kelbrook, and special guests, will be on board the historic ocean racing yacht Sceptre
THE jury in the case of a family accused of drugging and kidnapping a young woman after she refused an arranged marriage and wed another man, has heard evidence from her husband. Afsar Saddiq, the husband of alleged victim Naila Afsar’s, told Preston
A STUDENT campaign will enable young people across East Lancashire to take a step in the right direction towards improved sexual health. Pupils at Hameldon Community College in Burnley and NHS experts are urging teenagers to ‘put asox on it’ as part
MANUFACTURING areas such as East Lancashire are hotbeds for new worked-based learning schools, according to a top government boss. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools Lord Hill of Oareford CBE said anyone can apply to create studio schools
Who A Sawley sprint specialist. Former Clitheroe Royal Grammar School student. 26. 2012 progress Won his K1 200m event at the British Sprint canoe squad’s national regatta in April Wil he make team? Yes. Schofield
A DRIVER involved in a hit and run incident in Haslingden, which left a motorcyclist with a broken arm, is being hunted by police. A 33-year-old motorcyclist from Rawtenstall was injured in a collision with a small vehicle travelling towards
THE FAMILY of a youngster who has battled to survive say they have been forced to move 40 miles to get support for their son’s disabilites. Two-year-old Oswaldtwistle tot Carson Hartley was born with blue baby syndrome, a hole in his heart and had
THE owners of a 100-year-old cafe and function room have thanked the people of Darwen for making centenary celebrations a huge success. An estimated 2,500 people went along as the Olde England Kiosk, in Sunnyhurst Wood, held a celebration event for
EMPTY shops in the Victory Centre in Nelson are to be targeted at young entrepreneurs. Pendle Council is to spend some of its £100,000 funding from the Mary Portas pilot to try to fill up the empty building. The parade was opened in 1993 but retailers
A COUNCILLOR has said a resident should be fined after a bin containing dog dirt and empty bottles was tipped over in a back alley. Coun Dave Smith contacted Blackburn with Darwen Council’s cleansing team after seeing the bin in the alley behind Harwood
A THIEF broke into a shop and stole £20,000 of jewellery – only to dump all the items believing they were worthless. The bag of high-value dress jewellery was found by Norden High School pupil Kelly Grihault while out walking her dog in Great
A 'DESPICABLE' mugger who attacked a 75-year-old woman as she crossed the street, stealing her purse, has been jailed for four years. Heroin addict Rebecca Oxley, 37, left her victim Irene Bracewell lying on the street after she was targeted
A SEX offender on the run from his Rossendale home has been arrested in London. Alan Clune, 32, who lives in Haslingden, was caught by Hammersmith police after going missing for ten days. Clune, who was described by police as ‘a risk
ACTORS have defended their controversial decision to hang a noose outside an East Lancashire market ahead of a play about the Pendle Witches. Several complaints have been lodged after a mobile gallows was erected in The Glass Box, outside Colne
ROOFER brothers who left customers upset after putting on the ‘hard sell’ have been convicted at court. Glen Hardingham, 40, handed over a doctored bill to one of his victims, for work he had never carried out, including cleaning her guttering and
NELSON skipper Neil Thompson insists his Seedhillites have plenty of work still to do if they are to become the real deal – but says a Foster’s Lancashire League win over Rawtenstall and a Worsley Cup success over Burnley have lifted the entire camp.
EAST Lancashire pro Ockert Erasmus is hoping a perfect weekend can lead to his men kick starting their Foster’s Lancashire League season after their slow start. The South African all-rounder, who also captains the Alexandra Meadows outfit, led from the
The draw for the second round of the Foster’s Worsley Cup is due to be made at the next meeting of the Lancashire League executive committee on Wednesday, May 30. In the first round of the Lancashire Telegraph Junior Cup, Rishton beat Bacup, Burnley
THE crash and dash cricket that is the Lancashire League Twenty20 competition bursts into life on Friday night as seven weeks of fun and games begins with the first round of matches. The popular competition, now sponsored by Burnley brewery Moorhouse
Pleasington’s Hollie Vizard won the LGGA Stroke Play competition at Blackley GC with a score of 73-4-69 by three shots from Rosie Devereux of Fishwick Hall.
Wilpshire’s Alicia Stebbings was part of a Lancashire Girls team that defeated their Durham counterparts at Woodham GC. Stebbings beat Durham’s Katie Milne 4&3 in her singles match as the Red Rose county swept to a 5.5-2.5 victory.
Former Nelson FC and Colne manager Jon Westall is back in football after taking over as boss of East Lancashire League side Worsthorne United. Westall resigned as Nelson boss back in May 2009.
BURNLEY manager Eddie Howe is optimistic about securing his summer transfer targets, despite facing competition from Championship rivals. Leeds United midfielder Adam Clayton and Portsmouth’s versatile right back Joel Ward have attracted plenty
TWO of Lowerhouse’s cricketing Hope family are set to walk for 12 miles and take in 11 pubs in a bid to raise money for the Pendleside Hospice. Nick Hope, who played 225 games for the House, and brother Jez, who took to the field 346 times, are setting
Blackburn Rovers face a mass exodus of supporters from Ewood Park next season, according to a prominent fans survey. As Steve Kean’s future remained shrouded in uncertainty last night, results from a survey of a sample of Rovers fans suggest
The final game of the East Lancashire League season takes place tonight when champions Rimington play host to Edenfield. After the match both Rimington and their reserve team will be presented with the championship awards.
Legendary former Colne Dynamoes physio Syd Parkinson will be remembered at his old club Barnoldswick Town when his ashes are scattered in the centre circle of the Silentnight Stadium pitch during a ceremony on Saturday, June 30.
Barrow extended their lead at the top of the Furness Building Society Northern Premier Cricket League to 24 points when they beat the Lancashire Academy by seven wickets on Sunday. The Cumbrians were always in control of the match at the Ernest Pass
PADRAIG Amond has backed good friend and former Accrington Stanley team-mate Kevin Long to make it big with Burnley next term. Amond is still awaiting news on his own future following a loan spell, with Stanley keen to turn his loan move from Portuguese
OATHEY Jones extended his unbeaten record after winning his battle of the national champions. The 12-year-old from Blackburn, who won the 40-42kg national schoolboy title, beat Joe MacMeechan (42-44kg winner) of Shildon Boxing Club in the fight of the
THERE will be a new name on the Orphanage Cup this year when the final returns to Ewood Park following a 20-year absence on Friday evening. Totally Wicked caused the upset of the competition when they knocked out cup holders and three-times winners Red
Chris Hartley (St Stephens) came through a tense five-frame thriller at Hoddlesden Con to lift the Blackburn and Darwen Conservative Clubs’ singles title. Chris and opponent Alan Heaton (Hollins Grove) felt the pressure as the game see-sawed back and
FARAKH Ajaib fought back from two frames down to successfully defend his Moorhouse’s Golden Cue title at a packed Igten Leigh Social Club. Ajaib, representing Padiham Snooker Club, was up against Low Moor’s Peter Mercer – and both produced some scintillating
GREENFIELD came out on top in an entertaining cup final where attacking football was the main ingredient. In a good but goalless first half, the final sprung to life with three goals in the space of a five minutes after the break. Greenfield opened the
PARK FC battled back from two goals down to beat Ossie St Mary’s in a penalty shoot-out to lift the Calvert Cup. Last season’s treble winners were in danger of finishing this campaign empty handed as they found themselves 2-0 down within 20 minutes.
CROWN Rovers twice came from behind to beat arch rivals Park to avenge last season’s cup final defeat. The two teams put on a show at the Crown Ground in a game that swayed one way and then the other. While two-goal Jack Cook turned out to be the match
Blackburn Community Sports Club is currently running a series of sports courses. The club is holding Tri Golf (6-7pm) at Old Blackburnians Football Club, Lammack Road every Wednesday. Dodgeball sessions (6-7pm) and archery (7-8pm) is being held at QEGSl
VICTORIA lifted the Allan Mason Cup thanks to goal-scoring heroes from the unlikeliest of sources. Both full backs, Chris Dixon and Michael Horsfall, were on target as the Division Two champions completed a memorable league and cup double.
Lancashire Wolverines play their first home game of the new season this weekend – and their first ever Saturday fixture. And it will be a double header as the Wolverines and the Lancashire Colts will be in action. Home games are played at Blackburn
JASON Ashworth scored a dramatic late winner as 10-man Enfield left Rimington reeling. With the match seemingly heading for extra time and Rimington on top, Ashworth struck five minutes from time to seal an enthralling cup final. Enfield bossed the
