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  • Blackburn's community kindhearts to give away winnings

    COMMUNITY spirited award winners have revealed they will be donating their winnings back to worthy causes. Volunteers, police and council workers were just a few of public sector workers who picked up prizes for going the extra mile at the

  • Nelson building firm to ‘revive revenues’

    REVENUE at Nelson’s Barnfield Construction fell by £3.2million, the firm has revealed in its annual accounts. But bosses said a flurry of contracts won this year will help the firm recover. The developer, which has a partnership with Pendle Council

  • Burnley community groups sign up to new pact

    A HOST of Burnley neighbourhoods have agreed to work together by signing a new pact. The Community Voice agreement will see residents’ groups form partnerships on large projects. Thursby Garden Community Action Group, Brunshaw Action Group, Palace

  • Nelson attacker jailed

    A NELSON woman who smashed the wrist of a neighbour she claimed had called her a ‘paedo’ has been jailed for 12 months. Elizabeth Richmond broke a piece of wood from a garden gate and swung a blow at former friend Lisa McNamara’s head, while

  • Accrington bar brawl probe: Two released

    TWO men arrested for their involvement in a bar brawl 24 hours before a man was found dead at his Accrington home, have been released without charged. The men had been arrested on suspicion of affray and common assault after an incident in

  • Jehovah’s group to get new home in Blackburn

    AROUND 200 volunteers will be helping to build the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ New Kingdom Hall in Blackburn. The single storey building will be erected in Whalley New Road and will create a hub for the two congregations, who have to travel out of town for

  • Review: What to expect when you're expecting (12A)

    Inspired by Heidi Murkoff’s best-selling book, Kirk Jones directs this romantic comedy about five couples feeling the strain of impending parenthood. Among the terrified throng of expectant parents are keep fit guru Jules (Cameron Diaz) and her dancer

  • Review: Moonrise Kingdom (12A)

    Moonrise Kingdom is simply bewitching, what more do you need to know? Director Wes Anderson invests each frame with a sense of childish wonder that fits perfectly with the sweet central romance between two 12-year-olds. Resourceful orphan Sam (Jared

  • Review: Grillish, Johnston Street, Blackburn

    JOHNSTON Street is one of those streets that suggests there must be some serious money to be made in takeaways. In the space of a few hundred yards from the Montague Street end of Johnston Street there are takeaways galore. You wonder just how they

  • What's on: Neil Sedaka, Manchester, October 10

    HAVING been responsible for more than 1,000 pop songs, many of which are regarded as some of the finest ever written, you could forgive Neil Sedaka for resting on his laurels a little. But at 73, an age when most successful musicians are content

  • What's on: Shooglenifty, Clitheroe, May 26

    THINK of the best ceilidh band you have ever heard, double it . . . and you get fairly close to Shooglenifty, a potpourri of musical mayhem. Shooglenifty can be credited, alongside fellow Scots Peatbog Faeries and the late and much-missed Martyn Bennett

  • Review: Where’s Fred? ITV1

    MOST of the time Telegraph Towers is a hive of activity and it usually takes something special to bring proceedings to a halt. But somehow, an eccentric weatherman in a bright red ‘bubble’ car sees stories halted in mid sentence, conversations ending

  • What's on: Choir Anthems, Manchester, June 30

    ONE of the region’s biggest choirs, with a number of members from East Lancashire, will be performing a special charity concert at Manchester’s Palace Theatre next month. The 120-strong Manchester Show Choir will be presenting Choir Anthems in aid

  • Crash on the M65 this afternoon

    AN ELDERLY woman had a lucky escape after a crash on the M65. The incident, involving a green Peugeot 206, took place between junctions 10 and 11 near Burnley on the east-bound carriageway, causing some traffic disruption. The vehicle hit the central

  • Lancashire County Council axes transport charge plan

    EDUCATION bosses have done a U-turn on plans to charge parents of disabled children up to £1,200 to cover transport costs. Lancashire County Council decided to drop the proposals yesterday after a consultation and a government announcement to reform

  • What's on: Show and Tell with Barry and Stuart, Colne, May 30

    THERE can’t be many shows in which the performers don’t mind if the audience leaves at the interval. But TV’s top magicians Barry and Stuart are expecting some of those attending their latest theatre production, Show and Tell, not to be around for

  • MP in appeal for imperial

    RAMSBOTTOM MP David Nuttall has prompted the House of Commons to guarantee the future of Britain’s imperial measurement system. The Bury North Conservative questioned Lord Geoffrey Howe’s suggestion that the UK scrap the old units and embrace the metric

  • New hopes to end Rossendale school cars chaos

    CHAOTIC traffic outside a new Rossendale school will be eased by proposals set to be passed next week. Waterfoot Primary School, which opened in Wolfenden Green on January 9 after a merger with nearby Cloughfold Primary School, has been plagued by

  • Cheers as Bacup Smurfs triumph

    BACUP’S Pioneers Cheerleaders won a stunning ten different categories at the recent United Kingdom Cheerleading Association's Spring National championships in Manchester. Ninety girls from the club trained since December before competing against 50

  • Accrington seamstress creates a Jubilee gown

    AN ACCRINGTON seamstress has created a one-off masterpiece to raise money for charity. Rachel White, 40, of Cornwall Avenue, Knuzden, has created this stunning Elizabethan-style gown to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Rachel, who co-owns The

  • East Lancashire flying the flag for Queen’s diamond Jubilee

    RESIDENTS across East Lancashire are hosting a number of street parties and community events to celebrate the Queen’s diamond Jubilee. Union Jacks will be flying and communities will join together to mark the monarch’s 60th year on the throne. At

  • East Lancashire returning students can get TV licence rebate

    STUDENTS heading home to East Lancashire for their summer holidays from halls of residence or rented flats could be entitled to a refund of £37 on their TV licence. Many students moving back to their parents’ home will no longer need their own TV licence

  • Comment: Robbery hero should be proud

    BULLIES often target the weakest in society and when one thug threatened 73-year-old Derek Greenwood with a knife he must have thought his victim was easy prey. But Mr Greenwood, who was working at a petrol station at the time, was no pushover.

  • Letter: From waste to penny pinching

    A few years back I asked the NHS to collect 15 Zimmer frames from a nursing home which had closed down. Several weeks and many phone calls later, nothing had happened, and it was only after emailing the PCT’s chief executive that they were eventually

  • Warning to East Lancashire parents of vaccines for meningitis

    NEW research has revealed that most UK parents are unaware meningitis vaccines do not fully protect against all types of the disease. Leading UK charity Meningitis Trust is now calling for parents to remain vigilant to signs and symptoms to guard children

  • Doctors scores raising concerns across East Lancashire

    CONCERNS have been raised about missed vaccination and screening targets by GP surgeries across East Lancashire. Hyndburn MP Graham Jones has written to NHS East Lancashire expressing his concerns, and Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson said “more work needs

  • East Lancashire gardeners giving wildlife a boost

    THE growing popularity of gardening is helping to give wildlife a big boost, an expert has said. East Lancashire is seeing more and more people planting, sowing, pruning and digging, turning urban gardens into havens for wildlife. And it is is not

  • Boy, 7, left in Burnley road after hit and run

    A SEVEN-year-old boy was left lying in the road after a hit and run accident in Burnley, magistrates were told. Eyewitnesses said Michael Chadwick had stepped out in front of Michael Blackett's Peugeot 307 car, on March 28, and he could not

  • Barrowford camper van driver jailed

    A MAN caught drink-driving while camping in the Lakes has been banned from getting behind the wheel of a car for 20 months. Nicholas Mellin, 23, of Wheatley Lane Road, Barrowford, was stopped by police officers who saw his car hit the kerb while he

  • 11 out of 18 cabs fail safety tests in Nelson

    TAXI leaders have pledged to bounce back after a crackdown by inspectors took 11 out of 18 cabs spot-checked off the road. Licensing bosses say that most were returned to the roads the same night or next day, after the checks in Nelson. But Coun

  • Newsham leaves Blackburn Rovers

    BLACKBURN Rovers' stadium manager John Newsham is understood to have left the club today. Newsham has worked at Ewood Park for the past 24 years but is understood to have now departed. Newsham declined to comment while the Lancashire Telegraph are waiting

  • ‘Fix it’ order for Darwen house of horrors

    THE landlord of a house in Darwen in need of several repairs has been given six weeks to fix it or the council will step in. Thirty-six-year-old Paul Dutson and his girlfriend, Emma Watson, 21, said they moved into the Heys Lane house as an ‘emergency

  • Pedersen pledges future to Rovers

    Blackburn midfielder Morten Gamst Pedersen has pledged to see out the remainder of his contract at Ewood Park despite the club's relegation from the Barclays Premier League. The 30-year-old Norway international is halfway through the four-year deal he

  • ‘Votes taskforce’ plan wins support

    A LEADING councillor in Burnley has backed calls to create a local voting taskforce after the borough’s MP claimed there was ‘reports of wholesale fraud on an industrial scale’ at recent elections. Liberal Democrat MP Gordon Birtwistle has

  • Blackburn's new £5m bus station move is on

    THIS is Blackburn’s new £5million glass-fronted bus station which will welcome passengers from autumn 2015. The covered complex, which will take 18 months to construct, will be sited on part of the town centre’s old market site following a

  • Kilby: 'Coyle was one of better decisions at Burnley'

    THE very mention of a certain Scot still does not go down well in Burnley. Nevertheless, in a chairmanship spanning almost 14 years, Barry Kilby counts the appointment of Owen Coyle as one of his better decisions. He did, after all, oversee

  • Barrowford kidney transplant man, 30 dies

    A MAN who defied doctors’ predictions that he would die as a teenager has died aged 30. Northern Soul fan Andrew Boyle, of Oakfield Avenue, Barrowford, was described as a ‘legend’ of the local scene. He had health problems from birth and had a kidney

  • New challenge for top junior

    EAST Lancashire juniors are being given the chance to prove they are the cream of the crop in a new order of merit-style summer event. The ELGA Junior Challenge Tour has been created to increase enthusiasm for young golfers in the region and promote

  • Blackburn midwife found ‘guilty of dishonesty’

    A BLUNDERING midwife who altered a patient’s records after failing to carry out vital tests has been found guilty of dishonesty. Fiona Baillie-Hamilton failed to check the protein in a patient’s urine after she was admitted to the Royal Blackburn Hospital

  • Ewood travellers’ park is ‘nightmare’

    RESIDENTS near a park in Ewood have spoken of their nightmare after a group of travellers moved into the area. Five caravans have been at the site, just off Warwick Road, for two weeks now, but despite requests from Blackburn with Darwen Council, have

  • T20 set for 2012 lift off

    THE music and colour of the spectacle that is the Moorhouse’s Lancashire League Twenty20 begins tonight with misfiring Ramsbottom aiming to maintain their stranglehold on the competition. Jonathan Fielding’s men have won the trophy for the past two seasons

  • Hadfield wants winning start to Cherry Tree reign

    NEW skipper Mark Hadfield insists it’s business as usual for Cherry Tree and is aiming to push his side up the Ribblesdale League with a win against his old captain Jon Baldwin tomorrow. The 29-year-old replaced Paul Turner as skipper at Preston Old

  • Darwen look to return to winning ways

    FULL-strength Darwen bid to get back to winning ways in the Northern Premier League tomorrow and look to hoist themselves out of the bottom four when they make the tough trip to Leyland. The Towers were shocked last weekend when they went down to Fleetwood

  • Schofield eyes up German joy

    SAWLEY’s Jon Schofield will look to raise the Olympic stakes over the next few days as he bids to build on a stunning start to the season. The East Lancashire canoeist partnered Liam Heath to a silver medal at the first World Cup event in Poland and

  • German clubs lead the chase for Rovers' Hoilett

    Blackburn Rovers are in danger of losing Canadian starlet Junior Hoilett for less than £1million – as clubs from Germany lead the chase for the in demand winger. Sources close to Hoilett have told the Lancashire Telegraph there are already

  • New reign set to start at Burnley

    BURNLEY are set to appoint a new chairman as Barry Kilby’s 13-and-a-half year reign comes to an end today, but majority shareholder Brendan Flood is not thought to be in the running. The Rossendale-born property developer has been Kilby’s right

  • Rossendale groups lose out in cash bonanza

    LANCASHIRE council bosses have awarded thousands of pounds earmarked for Rossendale groups – to a football club outside the county. Radcliffe Borough Community Trust, based in Bury, was awarded £5,000 ahead of other applicants from Haslingden, Bacup