Usain Bolt cemented his status as an Olympic legend by overcoming fellow Jamaican and training partner Yohan Blake to defend his 200 metres crown at London 2012. Already considered a legend for winning triple gold in Beijing and defending his
A WOMAN who has had two still-births is aiming to raise money for a charity which helped her cope. Natalie Culshaw lost her baby daughter, Lola Mae, after she gave birth at just 22 weeks, on June 16. It was the second devastating blow for the
THINGS are bubbling up nicely for Lancashire’s only traditional cider makers as a hobby looks set to mature into a business. Two years ago commercial landscaper and gardener Michael Creighton was looking for “something to do” because he was getting
ROAD safety advice has been given by police to staff at Burnley’s largest private sector employer. An increasing number of people are said to be biking their way to Aircelle ’s Bancroft Road plant, at Heasandford. And police have been giving advice
A TENANT had a lucky escape when a fire broke out in her loft as she slept downstairs in her Burnley home. Firefighters were alerted to the blaze, in Creswick Close, at around 7.25pm on Tuesday after receiving a call from a worried neighbour, who
British taekwondo fighter Jade Jones will go for Olympic gold tonight after stunning world number one Tseng Li-Cheng of Chinese Taipei 10-6 in their women's under-57kg featherweights semi-final at ExCeL. Jones, 19, produced a late rally to land
BURNLEY Olympian Sophie Hitchon is being supported by her home town and has received a message on behalf of the town’s mayor. Mayor Coun Charles Bullas said: “Sophie is a marvellous ambassador for Burnley and a great inspiration to anyone interested
THINGS are bubbling up nicely for Lancashire’s only traditional cider makers as a hobby looks set to mature into a business. Two years ago commercial landscaper and gardener Michael Creighton was looking for “something to do” because he was getting
CALLS have been made to tackle issues on a problem road after a car plunged down a steep embankment. A Corsa carrying two men in their twenties and a teenage girl had ploughed thorough railings in Burnley Road, Huncoat and hit a block of flats
Olga Butkevych apologised for her performance as her Olympic dreams evaporated in to thin air after just six minutes. Ukraine-born Butkevych was expected to reach the quarter-finals but Britain's first Olympic wrestler crashed out in the first
Great Britain lost their final game in the women's water polo competition this afternoon to finish in last place. Their 11-7 defeat to Italy in the play-off for seventh position means Team GB pick up the wooden spoon in the eight-team tournament
Rider Charlotte Dujardin has made Olympic history by winning her second gold medal of London 2012. A brilliant dressage display set to patriotic music including Land Of Hope And Glory and The Great Escape delighted huge crowds at Greenwich and
A BLACKBURN primary has been judged as “outstanding” in all areas by government inspectors. Staff from government education standards watchdogs Ofsted gave Roe Lee Park primary on Emerald Avenue just two days notice before checking out every aspect
A DAD from Ramsbottom was driven to suicide after sick rumours he was one of James Bulger’s killers, his grieving mum has claimed. Scott Bradley, 36, who grew up in Fir Street, endured months of abuse after malicious gossips accused him of being
Blackburn Rovers fans have set out their stall highlighting their campaign calling on the club’s owners Venky’s to “communicate” with them. Members of the BRFC Action Group have a stall in Blackburn Market to encourage more people to sign up
USERS of a soccer pitch and play area where up to £23,000 was spent including drainage, say that three years later it is waterlogged and not being maintained. The area, which is off Burnley Road, Weir, in Rossendale, is supposed to provide football
HEALTH bosses are urging local residents to plan medical care ahead of the August bank holiday. GP surgeries and dental practices will be closed on Monday, August 27. NHS Blackburn with Darwen and East Lancashire have launched a Summer campaign
A RECURRING phrase used by many readers when looking back to past times is ‘happy days’... And it cropped up again this week when Elaine Almond, nee Sanderson, of Blackburn, told us of her fond memories of growing up in the town in the fifties
Yesterday I visited my father, aged 86, who is ill in hospital. He was upset to learn of the treatment of Rovers fans in Nijmegen. (LT, August 6) In December 1944, Dad was serving with the Gloucester Regiment, defending the Bridge at Nijmegen.
Britain has found a set of wonderful new sporting role models in our outstanding Olympic athletes. What a contrast there is between our overpaid, under-achieving footballers and true world-beaters such as Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Lancashire’
There are two things here (‘Dates announced for free parking in Burnley,’ LT, August5): the revenue forgone plus the additional expenditure of publicizing the days when parking will be free. Without publicising this in significant ways the impact
As in the Olympics, where being third is something to be proud of, Britain is also third in the table of obesity. Obviously, the United States top that list of shame but people in this country seem to lack that commodity as they seem to want to follow
When you have McDonald’s as the official restaurant of the Olympics, and sport and eating a McDonald’s in the same advert on TV, what kind of message doea this send to adults and children. No wonder we are an obese nation. kate11 (via website
Much of the problem of obesity is down to diet,lack of exercise and, in a few cases, lack of understanding (‘Obesity crisis in East Lancashire,’ LT, August 6). In the depression years of the 1930s obesity wasn't a problem despite the diet of people
IT must be unimaginably frightening to find yourself the innocent victim of a forced marriage. How any parent could remove a teenage girl from friends and surroundings she has grown up in and pack her off to a village in Pakistan or India to be
A COMMUNITY group is hoping to turn a rundown pub into a community hub. The Stanley Arms, in Pemberton Street, Roe Lee, closed at the end of last month after struggling to make a profit. Residents near the former watering hole, which originally
BACK in 1921, an edict from the Football Association read: ‘The game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged’. Unhappily for Accrington Wanderers ladies’ team, that decree was wheeled out again in 1962, when players
A CANNABIS factory, with an estimated street value of up to £80,000, has been discovered at a farmhouse in Oswaldtwistle. Officers found 200 plants in the upstairs bedrooms of the four-bedroomed property in rural Pot House Lane after a warrant
SILT in Darwen’s Sunnyhurst Wood paddling pond could finally be cleared. An application has been submitted to remove the material that has left the water contaminated. Experts are now needed to maintain the pond by using a mini excavator to
AN overjoyed Sophie Hitchon is through to the Olympic hammer finals after smashing her British record in the qualifiers yesterday. Sophie, 21, kept the crowd – and her mum and dad – on the edge of their seats as she had three attempts to secure
AN ‘astonishing’ increase in fly-tipping in Burnley has been revealed, with inci-dents doubling in just one year. The rise has led to calls for investment in waste and recycling centres after sites in Padiham, Colne and Bacup were shut and the
PRECIOUS metal traders who defrauded the taxman out of £4.5million in VAT in a ‘calculated’ and ‘greedy’ crime have been jailed for a total of 17 years. The Blackburn-based gang used luxury hire cars to collect weekly consignments of platinum flown
TWO businessmen and a worker said to have attacked a man and left him with multiple injuries were branded “bullies” by their alleged victim. Asif Hussain, 39, was giving evidence at Burnley Crown Court where he told the jury that Mohammed Nawaz
The lure of Olympic gold is the driving force for Britain's canoe sprinters, medal hopeful Liam Heath said today. With Tim Brabants, Olympic champion in Beijing, struggling to keep up with the fastest competitors in the 1,000 metre event, all eyes
NEIGHBOURS in Walter Street, Brierfield, have complained about items being left blocking the pavement outside shops. The police have pledged to take action.
WILLIAM Bell Taylor, 40, of Cleveland Street, Colne, was conditionally discharged for 12 months by Burnley magistrates and ordered to pay £200 compensation with £40 costs after he admitted assaulting Haider Khan and damaging a Skoda Octavia car on
MOHAMMED Rahim, 31, of Leeds Road, Nelson, is facing sentence at Burnley Crown Court, after admitting six counts of possessing cannabis with intent to supply. He was bailed until September 21. Judge Simon Newell warned him there was ‘every likelihood
WESLEY Hall, 30, of Meredith Street, Nelson, was bailed until August 29, for a pre-sentence report, at Burnley Crown Court. He has admitted producing a Class B controlled drug and possessing a weapon designed for the discharge of a noxious liquid
A CROOK who sold a car worth just £200 to a scrap yard had been hiring it for £100 a week for some time, a court heard. Burnley magistrates were told how the owners of the Ford Mondeo found out it had been stolen when they saw it being advertised
A MAN who has been arrested on suspicion of murder in Colne has been named as Clem Callaghan. His wife, Eileen Callaghan, 76, was found dead at her and her husband’s house in Ivy Bank Lane, Haworth, the day after Mr Callaghan was discovered unconscious
JUNAID Ali Ahmed, 24, of Regent Place, Nelson, was remanded on bail by Burnley Magistrates’ Court until August 14, for pre-sentence reports, after admitting possessing a kitchen knife, in Reedyford Road, on July 11.
A VERDICT of death by natural causes was recorded by East Lancashire coroner Richard Taylor on Roy Britland, 75, who last lived at Dovecote Nursing Home, Shuttleworth Road, Burnley. He had been suffering from heart disease.
BLOOD donor sessions are being held today at Turf Moor, in Burnley, from 1.15pm to 3.30pm, and from 5pm to 7.30pm.
ANTI-social behaviour at problem addresses on the Brunshaw estate, in Burnley, is being tackled in joint visits by neighbourhood police, and officials from housing landlord Calico.
WILLIAM Bridge, 36, of Wesley Place, Stacksteads, was remanded on bail until October 10, for trial by Burnley magistrates, after he denied stealing items from Mohammed Laher, on July 26, in Rawtenstall.
PROPOSALS have been separately unveiled for 225 kilowatt wind turbines, on 31-metre high poles, at Flass Bent Farm, and Knarr Side Farm, both in Skipton Old Road, in Colne. Each application will be considered by Pendle Council.
AN East Lancashire financial expert has cautiously welcomed news that company, and individual, insolvencies are down. Ian Kay, debt recovery manager at Napthens solicitors, in Blackburn, reports that the figures from The Insolvency Service, for
TEACHERS, friends, and employers in East Lancashire are being asked to look out for young Asian women being sent to the sub-continent for forced marriages this summer. Local headteachers and community leaders warned that the long school holiday
Keri-anne Payne was just edged out of a medal as she finished fourth in the 10-kilometre open water swim in the Serpentine. Hungary's Eva Risztov was the winner, eight years after last competing at a Games in the pool, holding off a late challenge
NO medical cause can be found for why a five-week old baby from Brierfield died in his parents’ bedroom, an inquest heard. Jamie Farmer had dropped off in his mother Josephine Connolly’s arms on the night of February 25, Burnley Coroner’s Court
CCTV footage has been released by Lancashire Police of two suspected pickpockets believed to be targeting shoppers in Burnley town centre. Images have been publicised by town centre officers of the pair after two incidents are said to have occurred
AN EAST Lancashire MP is applauding a scheme to help struggling families using pre-paid energy meters. Haslingden MP Graham Jones said the six main energy companies seem to be making progress in giving pre-pay meter customers a fairer deal.
FINAL preparations are under way for one of Rossendale Hospice’s most colourful summer fundraisers. The spirit of ‘It’s A Knockout’ will live on when game-for-a-laugh volunteers descend on Marl Pits in Rawtenstall this Sunday. An afternoon
LATE entries can still be secured for one of the Rossendale Valley’s newest rags to riches success stories. Whitworth’s Scarecrow Festival organisers say candidates must sign up by tomorrow to be in with a chance. Scarecrows must be displayed
FRIENDS of Stubbylee Park in Bacup are seeking volunteers, ideally with their own hoes or trowels, to help them to look after the Rose Garden on Saturday from 10.30am until noon.
ESTATE agent Trevor Dawson has reduced the asking price of the landmark former premises of furniture store Domus, in Bacup Road, Rawtenstall, which has been closed for more than a year, down to £250,000.
NEW girls netball sessions, under the banner of Rossendale Ravens, an offshoot of the Rossendale Raptors basketball club, have been launched at Haslingden Sports Centre on Saturdays, from 9am, for 10 to 13 year olds and 14 to 16 year olds.
A MINI Olympics-style event will take place at Bacup Hub today from 2pm featuring a sack race, egg and spoon dash, three-legged race and high jump, for reception class and infants. Pre-registration is required by calling 01706 874384.
RETROSPECTIVE planning permission is being sought from Pendle Council by Ms L Campbell, of Copy House Farm, Bleara Road, Earby, to retain a 146.9 square metre agricultural building which has been erected there.
DAVID Philip Rhodes, 27, of Plane Street, Lydgate, Todmorden, was fined £250 with £85 costs by Burnley magistrates and banned from driving for 12 months after he admitted to failing to provide a specimen of breath on July 7.
A TEMPORARY 20mph speed limit will operate outside Waterfoot Primary, along Burnley Road East, Turnpike and Booth Road, during school hours after a traffic order was approved by county councillor Tim Ashton, highways cabinet member.
A FORMER joiner’s battle against a killer industrial disease is set to be featured in medical journals, an inquest heard. Neil Hargreaves spent his working life dealing with asbestos in different forms, including cutting it with a handsaw, Burnley
PLANS for new disabled parking bays at around 30 locations in Pendle, including 10 in Nelson, eight in Colne and five in West Craven, have been approved by Lancashire County Council.
THE Forest of Bowland will host its first heritage weekend from September 7 to 9. One of the features of the celebration will be the chance to step back in time on board a vintage vehicle from Cumbria Classic Coaches. Full day tours will also
FIREFIGHTERS were called to rescue people stuck in a lift in Burnley after an electrical fault caused it to break down. The incident happened at 3.15 yesterday afternoon at the probation office in Bethesda Street and two pumps from Nelson attended
A “TERRIFIED” schoolboy was threatened with a metal bar before his scooter was taken from him. The boy was robbed at around 8.50pm on Sunday, July 29 on the footpath on Widow Hill Road in Burnley, close to the junction with Eastern Avenue.
A BY-election date for the seat of a former Burnley mayor who died has been announced by town hall officials. Candidates are being sought for the borough’s Trinity ward following the death of ex-policeman Coun Tony Lambert in June after a lengthy
British taekwondo fighter Jade Jones cruised into the quarter-finals of the women's under-57kgs with a 15-1 victory over Serbian Dragana Gladovic at ExCeL. Jones, like all home nation taekwondo fighters seeded fourth, immediately went on the offensive
A CROWN court judge has told a Blackburn father-of-three that he could be facing jail after rejecting claims he was ‘minding’ 65 bags of cannabis found in his home. Police raided Imtiaz Ali’s property in Logwood Street, Bastwell, and discovered
A BURNLEY mum has been given a scholarship for dedication to her studies. Victoria Waddington has been presented with the University of Central Lancashire’s Jan Robertston award for her commitment to her nursing degree. The 38-year-old works
A CHARITY day raised hundreds of pounds with cream cake throwing, men’s body waxing and a prize raffle. Blackburn pub Zy Bar have counted up £474.50 following the day in aid of Derian House Children’s Hospice on Sunday July 29. Fundraisers at
DOMESTIC violence advocates in Lancashire have been safeguarded for the next 12 months after funding was found by the county council. Nearly £600,000 was needed to protect the countywide service, which offers specialist case workers who liaise
A PROJECT to save Lancashire’s “iconic” Brown Hare is enabling more of them to run fast, free and wild across the moors above Clitheroe, Burnley and Oswaldtwistle. Since the 1960’s the population of the larger and handsomer cousin of the rabbit
A 21-year-old Langho man who was kicked out after a row with his mum went back and stole a £2,000 watch and computer equipment worth £1,440. Blackburn magistrates heard the falling out took place while Simon Bury’s dad was away on business.
ACCRINGTON'S Steve Johnson finished second at the Halewood Autosolo at the weekend – with 16-year-old Blackburn driver Simon Robinson taking an encouraging seventh place in his first ever solo event. Johnson, of Accrington Motor Sport Club, was competing
A 45-YEAR-OLD Burnley alcoholic discharged himself from hospital because he needed a drink. Blackburn magistrates heard that hours later Paul John Manley was arrested in the town centre after shoppers reported him dropping his trousers and shouting
Jessica Ennis wants to test herself against the best women hurdlers in the world. But she insists she has no plans to give up the heptathlon just yet after winning Britain's first athletics gold of London 2012. Ennis clocked 12.54 seconds,
A MAN with paranoid schizophrenia, who made threats to kill his mother, has been made the subject of a hospital order. Winston Eastham claimed they had made a suicide pact. He had also suggested that as soon as he was released from psychiatric
After the outstanding success of Cartmel Racecourse's first two-day race meeting in July, on Saturday 21 and Monday 23, which produced some outstanding racing for the record £125,000 of prize money on offer, all eyes are now firmly set on August. As
Sir Chris Hoy today hit out at cycling's world governing body after he was denied the chance to compete for three gold medals at the London Olympics. The 36-year-old capped a remarkable Olympic career last night with his British record sixth Games
Team GB will aim to get back into the winning habit after a rare gold medal-free day. Among the main contenders for a podium place today will be Nicola Adams as she competes in a historic first women's Olympic boxing final. The flyweight will
BLACKBURN Rovers were rightly criticised last season for their shambolic transfer market activity, this summer it is as though they have been pursuing two very different strategies. On the one hand they have stuck with bringing in inexperienced
BLACKBURN Rovers will turn their attentions to Manchester City striker John Guidetti – if they fail in their determined pursuit of Huddersfield Town hot shot Jordan Rhodes. Boss Steve Kean admits the addition of one more striker would be the final
HANDS up if you’ve been thinking about what event you could enter at the next Olympics? Go on, admit it. We’ve all been debating whether we’d be any good at handball or archery – depending on our cardiovascular capacity – by the time Rio 2016 comes
BEN Mee insists no-one at Burnley can take their first team place for granted this season, because the competition is too fierce. Manager Eddie Howe’s summer transfer dealings have ensured there are virtually two players for every position.
FLY-TIPPING at a Rawtenstall business park has led to rats infesting the area, according to its neighbours. Residents in Taylor Street in Rawtenstall claimed that assorted rubbish which has included mattresses and electrical goods, are being dumped
