A BURNLEY firm is again set to celebrate success at the Oscars after providing sound equipment for most of the year’s biggest films. Nearly all of the films nominated for the 2014 awards had their soundtrack mixed or recorded on AMS Neve’s high-tech
A NAVY veteran is set to return to the water for an altogether different battle. Former submariner Craig Howorth spent six years serving in Russia and the Falklands, but his latest challenge will take place a lot closer to home. The 46-year-old
A DECISION to refuse planning permission for three wind turbines in Colne has been upheld following an appeal. The scheme for Jerusalem Farm, in Skipton Old Road, Colne, attracted criticism because the 34-metre high wind turbines would be visible
THE Samaritans charity said calls to its helpline increased by a third as Coronation Street character Hayley Cropper took her own life. More than 10 million viewers watched as Hayley, played by Accrington actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, took an overdose
AN alleged sex assault victim of Coronation Street star William Roache said she felt 'a coward' for not going to the police before she did. The woman claims the actor made her perform a sex act on him while he gave her a lift home in his Rolls-Royce
POLICE have warned of an increase in false and stolen IDs being used in pubs in Clitheroe and Whalley. The issue was raised at a recent meeting of the Clitheroe and Whalley Pub Watch, which includes members of the local police team and landlords
LONG-SERVING employee Peter Haddock has mopped up the top prize in the national ‘Loo of The Year’ awards for the second time running. And as he prepares to hang up his cleaning materials for retirement from The Mall Blackburn, he said: “If a job is
A HOMECOMING event has been organised in honour of an award-winning Blackburn author. Child Action Northwest is hosting the event for Josephine Cox to mark the publication of her 50th title, ‘The Runaway Woman’. Josephine, who is the Wilpshire
COLNE’S Olympic hero, Steven Burke, has announced he will give training sessions when a new cycle track named after him opens. Steven, who won gold in the team pursuit at the London Olympics, was in town for the ceremonial start to work on the
WE’VE won nine games in a row now and maybe part of it is the fact that we’ve gone back to a few of the things we did last season. Before Christmas we were down in fifth or sixth in the league and we changed a few things. We went back to a few things
TWO violent louts involved in a pub melee, which left a customer injured, were spared jail. Burnley Crown Court heard how the trouble started at the busy Bees Knees, in Hammerton Street, when victim Anthony Hyatt believed Ryan Stanworth, 25, had
THE days when Chris Kirkland was being widely touted as the answer to the national team’s goalkeeping problems appear to be firmly consigned to the past. But the Sheffield Wednesday custodian, along with the woodwork and some last-ditch defending, combined
DARWEN Vale High School headteacher Fiona Jack met with the school’s new interim executive board for the first time yesterday. She said: “They have promised me that there will be full consultation over the decision regarding becoming an academy
THE Friends of Darwen Cemetery will host its first working party of 2014 on Saturday, from 10am to 1pm. Volunteers are asked to go along to help out with general maintenance tasks, and there are jobs for people of all abilities.
THE Darwen committee of Cancer Research UK has appealed for donations of good quality paperback books for an event. The charity will host a breakfast and books event at The Carus Centre in Hoddlesden on Saturday, March 8. Anyone with books to donate
PLANS for an extension at 36 Wilworth Crescent in Blackburn have been given the go-ahead by Blackburn with Darwen Council.
AN exhibition of photos taken by Michael Fenton, will be on show at Darwen Library, in Knott Street, today. For more information call 01254 706021.
FAMILY history sessions are held at Longridge Library on the last Tuesday of every month from 5.30pm for an hour. There is free computer access to Ancestry and Find My Past sites. For more details, call 01772 782386.
THE first event of Blackburn with Darwen Council’s revived ‘100 Voices’ initiative will be held at King George’s Hall’s Windsor Suite on Thursday, starting at 5.30pm. Council leader Kate Hollern and her executive team will be available for an hour-long
FIREFIGHTERS were called out to Spring Bank Court in Blackburn at 11.30pm on Sunday but when they arrived it was found to be a false alarm.
BUDDING East Lancashire actors and musical stars collected prestigious national certificates. The Blackburn Little Voices group are celebrating a 100 per cent pass rate in their stage exams. The group, which is based at Queen Elizabeth’s Gramar School
LIVE music will come courtesy of a local band, Fisher ‘T’ Fish, for punters at Read and Simonstone Constitutional Club, on Sunday, February 2, from 4pm to 6.30pm.
A NEW meditation course is set to start in Blackburn at the end of the month. The Blackburn Buddhist centre will host the weekly classes from Tuesday, January 28, until Tuesday, April 15. The classes are open to everyone and will be held from 7pm
BLACKBURN Cathedral will hold an overnight event aimed at 11 to 15-year-olds on Friday, February 21. The event, which will start at 7.30pm and runs until 7am, will include activities, workshops and a bouncy castle.
AN actor networking event is to be held in Clitheroe. The event will be hosted by Clitheroe-based theatre production company Ribcaged Productions. It will be staged at Longitude Gallery in Castlegate on February 6, from 7.30pm.
THE Mayor and Mayoress of Blackburn, Councillor Salim Mulla and Mrs Sayeeda Mulla, were due to attend an adoption event at Blackburn Rovers Football Club, Ewood, today at 6.30pm.
RESIDENTS in Audley are invited to take part in a meeting which offers a chance to raise community issues and express possible solutions. The ward solutions meeting is tonight at Jaame Masjid, Cumberland Street at 6pm. For more information
A VINTAGE craft event is set to be held in Clitheroe next month. The Valentine’s themed sale will be held at the St Mary’s Centre in Church Street on Saturday, February 8, from 11am to 5pm. The event, which has been organised by Crafty Vintage
A SHOW celebrating the voice of singer Matt Monro is taking place on Friday at the Thwaites Empire Theatre. Called ‘A Portrait of Matt Monro’ the show features singer Mike Lee and uses rare footage of Matt Monro in action. For more information
LUMB Women’s Institute will hold its second meeting of 2014 at Newchurch Methodist Church from 7.15pm on February 5.
A FUNDRAISER in Cowpe helped raise more than £2,000 for Rossendale Hospice. The event, organised by Cowpe Lunch Club’s Ann Elmer, was held at Cowpe Sunday School.
AN ART gallery is set to open in a vacant Rawtenstall business unit. The Mather Gallery will open in the Bury Road building, formerly home to Rossendale Bait and Tackle, on March 14.
ROSSENDALE Aviation Society will hold its next meeting tomorrow. It will take place at Haslingden Cricket Club from 8pm.
PUPILS at a Rawtenstall primary school are collecting unwanted Christmas cards as they target another environmental prize. St Mary’s CE Primary is taking part in the Green Tree Schools Award, in which it won a bronze medal last year.
CRIME in Whitworth fell in 2013, according to Lancashire Police. PC Vinnie Hopkins told a meeting of Whitworth Town Council that officers were aware of the problem of young people congregating around the Riverside Civic Hall in Market Street.
A RIBBLE Valley pub is to undergo a major refurbishment if plans are approved by the borough council. The White Bull Hotel, in Gisburn, which was closed to the public last year, could receive new floor finishes, decorations, furniture and lighting
MORE Billington and Langho village hall members are being appealed for to help organise social events for villagers. For more information, call Anne Rogerson on 07772 790954.
THE Rotary Club of Clitheroe will hold a race night later this week. The group will mark Burns Night on Saturday at the St Michael and St John’s Parish Centre, in Lowergate. The event will start at 7.30pm and includes a hot supper. Tickets are
CLITHEROE Concert Society has announced a programme of shows. The next concert will be held at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and will feature the Kim Wilton clarinet trio from 7.30pm on February 5. It will be followed on Wednesday, March 5
‘SILVER Surfer’ drop in sessions are held every Thursday morning at Clitheroe Library. Free help and guidance on setting up e-mail accounts, searching the internet and downloading digital photos will be available from 9.30am to 11.30am. Call 08450
ZUMBA fitness classes are held every Wednesday from 8pm to 9pm at St Mary’s Centre in Clitheroe. Each class costs £4.50 and is open to everyone. For more information call Gemma on 07518372971.
‘Stars of Strictly Come Dancing: Pasha Kovalev & Katya Virshilas’ is at Colne Muni on Tuesday, April 1.
AN application to put a new shop front on a taxi office in Skelton Street, Colne, has been submitted to Pendle Council.
A SENIOR citizens’ pop-in group meets every Monday, from 9.30 to 11.30am, at the Civic Hall, Barnoldswick.
LANDSCAPE photography is the subject of Colne Camera Club’s meeting on Thursday at the Peter Birtwistle Community Centre at 7.30pm. Entry costs £2 and visitors are welcome.
A TWO and a half hour walk tomorrow sets off from Earby bus station at 10am. The event is part of Pendle Leisure Trust’s Let’s Walk in Pendle project.
THE next meeting of the Earby and District Local History Society takes place tonight from 7.30pm at the New Road Community Centre. The talk will be on the iconic East Lancashire tipple ‘Bene and ‘Ot’.
CHILDCARE costs rose by an average of 19 per cent last year according to a specialist website. Findababysitter.com's annual report collected data from 231,000 nannies, childminders and other professionals. The figures however do not take account
FOUNDERS of the parental support website, Netmums have received OBEs in the New Year Honours list. Sarah Russell, Siobhan Freegard and Cathy Court set up the site as mothers of young children in 2000. It now has 1.6m members and offers grassroots parenting
AN OVERHAUL of GCSE exam marking is to form a new trial. For the first time, teachers are to be given designated time out of the classroom to mark thousands of test papers. One of Britain’s biggest exam boards OCR has launched the trial programme
SABDEN Seated Exercise and Social Group meets at Littlemore House at 2pm on Wednesday. Admission to the meeting is £2.
COUNTY bosses have spoken of their relief after the NHS rejected a new funding formula that would have seen Lancashire lose about £30m per year. Following pressure from local authorities in the north of England, including Lancashire County Council
THE Ribblesdale French Circle meets on Monday, February 10, when the group will enjoy a meal in a restaurant and practice speaking French. Meetings are usually held on the second Monday of each month in the Great Hall, Whalley Abbey. For more details
AN appeal for new stock has been issued by East Lancs People First, which has branches in Keirby Walk, Burnley, and Burnley Road, Padiham. Clothes, toys, games and jigsaws, alongside small pieces of furniture and electrical items are among the goods
THE next meeting of Read Parish Council will take place on February 26. The meeting will be held at the United Reformed Church in East View, from 7.30pm. Residents can ask questions for 15 minutes before the meeting starts.
A BEREAVEMENT support group, backed by Fred Hamer and Bertwistle funeral services, is now meeting at the Central Methodist Church in Hargreaves Street, Burnley, on the second Thursday of every month, from 10am until noon.
Channel Four's Benefits Street makes for pretty scary viewing, doesn't it? A little bit more for me as James Turner Street isn't too far across Birmingham from where I was brought up in the 50s/60s! The viewing figures are huge for a Channel Four
REAL ale lovers across East Lancashire will flock to Colne for the 10th annual Pendle Beer Festival, which starts on Thursday, January 30. More than 100 breweries will be represented at the popular event at Colne Muni, in Albert Road. The event
A FILM staring Dame Judi Dench and Maggie Smith is being shown at the ACE Centre in Nelson, as part of their regular last Monday of the month Cream Tea Cinema. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a tale about a group of British retirees who travel
FIVE motorists not wearing seatbelts were captured in under an hour by a fixed camera in Lakeland Way, Burnley, according to parish councillor Tony Moores, of Ightenhill Neighbourhood Watch.
CHEERLEADING classes for children aged four to nine take place at KLF Theatre Arts, in Dean Mill, Plumbe Street, Burnley, every Tuesday from 4pm. The children will get the chance to enter competitions and be involved in stage shows.
HOME made cakes are served every Saturday at Mount Zion Baptist Church, in Cliviger, from 2pm to 4pm, with everybody welcome.
A man who bombarded a Rossendale charity worker with calls and letters has been placed on probation. Gary Clawson, 40, was warned to stop pestering Souta Van Wick at Stubbylee Greenhouses Project in Bacup, Burnley Magistrates were told. At
JULIE Brown, 55, of Carr Lane, Waterfoot, was fined £250 with £85 costs and banned from driving for 12 months by Burnley magistrates after admitting driving with excess alcohol on St Mary’s Way, Rawtenstall, on December 5.
A COFFEE morning for parents takes place at St John the Baptist Primary School, in Thames Avenue, Burnley, on Friday. The event follows the assembly at 10am.
AN actor networking event is to be held in Clitheroe. The event is being hosted by Clitheroe-based theatre production company Ribcaged Productions. It will be staged at Longitude Gallery in Castlegate on Thursday, February 6, from 7.30pm.
BUDDING East Lancashire actors and musical stars collected prestigious national certificates. The Blackburn Little Voices group are celebrating a 100 per cent pass rate in their stage exams. The group, which is based at Queen Elizabeth’s Gramar
LIVE music will come courtesy of a local band, Fisher ‘T’ Fish, for punters at Read and Simonstone Constitutional Club, on Sunday, February 2, from 4pm to 6.30pm.
A SINGING and dancing event for children up to five years old takes place at Colne Children’s Centre, in Walton Street, every Thursday. The singing and dancing event runs from 1.30pm to 3pm The cost of attending the event runs to £1 per family.
THE Burnley support group of Parkinson’s UK will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, January 29 at the Burnley Boys’ and Girls’ Club, off Borden Lane, from 7pm to 9pm. For more information call 01282 432829.
AN actor networking event is to be held in Clitheroe. The event will be hosted by Clitheroe-based theatre production company Ribcaged Productions. It will be staged at Longitude Gallery in Castlegate on Thursday, February 6, from 7.30pm.
MARILYN Heliwell and Michael Heliwell, both 62, of Tennyson Road, Colne, were conditionally discharged for 12 months and ordered to pay £42.50 costs each by Burnley magistrates after admitting to stealing food, alcohol and toys worth £165.39 from Asda
RYAN Lee Taylor, 26, of Spencer Street, Burnley, has been conditionally discharged for two years after admitting possession of cocaine, possession of cannabis and being drunk and disorderly in Railway Street, Nelson.
BRIERCLIFFE County Councillor Margaret Brindle is to ask highways bosses if yellow lines could be installed at the crossroads in Todmorden Road, in Haggate. Residents have complained that cars are parking near the crossroads blocking lines of site
ROLAND Rudzitis, 46, of Albert House, Bacup Road, Cloughfold, has been fined £70 with £85 costs by Pennine magistrates after he admitted failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis on December 10 and having no insurance for a Audi 100 Quattro
PENDLE Hippodrome Theatre Company will be saying Allo to new members at a welcome night tomorrow. Anyone interested in taking part in the Colne theatre group’s June 11 to 14 play Allo Allo is invited to the launch meeting from 7.30pm. Allo
TICKETS go on general sale for Clitheroe Parish Church AODS’s Jekyll and Hyde today. Public booking launches at 2pm to 3pm and 7pm and 8pm at St Mary’s Centre, Clitheroe, for the production - also at St Mary’s Centre - from February 15 to 22, 7.30pm
WARM up on a cool winter’s night with Hotpants – or Hoghton Pantomime Society’s production of Dick Whittington, which continues at the village hall from Friday to Sunday. Tickets cost £8 for adults and £6 for children and concessions, which sees
A RAMSBOTTOM church could be fully functioning again by September. St Andrew’s, in Bolton Street, has asked architects Byrom Clarke Roberts to come up with suggestions to remodel part of the building’s interior after it was damaged by lightning
HASLINGDEN Community Link and Children's Centre has applied for planning permission to build two new canopies. Andrew Walmsley, chief executive of the Bury Road-based organisation, said work was required to provide a covered route from its Sunflower
A NURSERY school has applied to expand one of its current buildings in order to accommodate more pupils. Bacup Nursery School, in Cowtoot Lane, wants to create a 30 square metre extension so it can host lessons for an extra 12 children. The
A ROSSENDALE band has taken top prize at one of the circuit’s most prestigious national events. BMP Europe Goodshaw Band, based in Crawshawbooth, won the Third Section at the 2014 Butlins Mineworkers Championships in Skegness. Adjudicators
THE organisers of a Ribble Valley village’s first Scarecrow festival have announced that it will be held on June 28. An organising committee made up of Gisburn villagers has been put together to hold the event this summer. It follows the success
A RIBBLE Valley vicar has asked his congregation to dig deep for a ‘once in a life time’ opportunity. The congregation at Christ Church in Chatburn is aiming to raise £74,000 to improve the 175-year-old church’s toilet and kitchen facilities and
COUNCIL bosses have been accused of putting the interests of lorries ahead of the safety of residents after they refused to impose restrictions on a busy road. Fernhurst councillor Denise Gee made the allegation after her personal plea for a one-way
I HAD a very enlightening conversation this week with a mate of mine who is an Accrington born Manchester United fan. He is under 40 and as such has only really witnessed success for his football team and is a now a tad distraught about their current
IT was unfortunate that the fixture list dictated our doomed trip to Eastlands would be followed by a visit to free-scoring Nottingham Forest. And Rovers take no shame from the heavy defeat at the City Ground on Saturday against one of the best
THE licensing committee at Ribble Valley Borough Council will hold its latest meeting today. On the agenda will be whether to ban the issuing of temporary taxi driving licences before applicants have taken the knowledge test. The proposal would
COLNE Football Club have a vacancy for a physio who has an interest in becoming involved in the treatment of sports injuries. They must hold a recognised first- aid qualification and be able to pass an enhanced CRB check. The club say the person
PENDLE Leisure Trust is seeking young, talented athletes who could qualify for support with training and competition costs. If you know someone aged between 12 and 18 who lives in Pendle and has represented the county in their sport, they may be
PROPOSED changes to the Disabled Facilities Grants programme will be discussed at Pendle Council’s executive meeting this Thursday. They will consider whether to introduce a relocation grant of up to £3,000 to help people financially who need to
SCHOOLS should give pupils lessons in gambling to counter a rise in exposure to addictive online poker games, a leading academic has warned. Children should be taught about the dangers of losing and building up significant debts because of a feared
UNIVERISTIES this year are promising students free flights, gifts and up to £10,000 in cash to fill places. Just days before the main deadline to apply to courses starting in autumn 2014, it emerged that rising numbers of universities are offering
CONCERNS that children knew nothing of the outside world has led to the creation of an outdoor learning centre. And primary school children have been urged to ‘Bring Yer Wellies’ to Ricroft Nurseries in Hoghton to help with their education.
PROMOTERS of the Burnley Fire Station 10km run are already under starter’s orders for the 2014 race this October. The race, first staged by Station Commander John Whiteman, is now in its 28th year, and will again start, and finish, at the town’
RE ‘Blackburn and Darwen GP surgeries paid for 'ghost patients' still on their registers (LT, January 17), does anyone know if this is the same for dentists? With moving and being unhappy with my first dentist, I believe three dentists have my name
THE drilling companies are giving compensation, along with non-disclosure gagging orders in the US, so that the truth about how fracking has polluted wells, water courses and ground water remains hidden. In a world that is being slowly choked with
AWARD-winning history documentary company Testimony Films is making a new documentary series for BBC2 paying tribute to Britain’s Greatest Generation. We want to hear from men and women in their late 80s, 90s and 100s who have vivid and interesting
HAVING read the list of Lancashire Telegraph Grassroots Heroes Awards, well done Bill Markham (Lifetime Achievement). A top referee in his time, and a top bloke. Well deserved. ford10 (via website).
Just a few questions from Joe Public about fracking: What will we get out of it? Will our energy bills go down long-term? Has fuel gone down with North Sea oil? No! Will the companies not start selling this gas to the highest bidder/country? These
IN an era of Premier League overrated prima donnas cheating, diving and feigning injury, I went to Victory Park last week to see Chorley take on Tamworth in their FA Trophy 3rd round replay. In typical cup-tie conditions – driving rain, a mud heap
SO excitement is building ahead of the new Darwen Wetherspoon’s pub opening. It will join several other decent pubs in the centre of Darwen. several of them quite new like Bar 39, the Belgrave and the Bridgewater. Excluded again (via website
AFTER the snow and ice of the past few years, most of us have enjoyed the slightly milder winter this time. It all means small savings on heating bills, fewer mornings reaching for the de-icer, and generally less hassle. And the warmer weather
MENTAL health chief Heather Tierney-Moore has paid tribute to the council of governors at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. Following a recent election process, vacancies have been filled in both Central Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen
THERE are some clubs who have the Indian sign over us no matter what their league standing. Sheffield Wednesday are one such football team. With just a single victory in our last eight meetings at Turf Moor, it’s fair to say that the Owls can be categorised
A MAN who attacked his then-partner, and left her with a ‘lot of injuries’ after kicking and punching her, has been sentenced to a community order. Daniel Sledden, 48, lost his temper and set about the victim as she was set to leave him. He
Former BURNLEY midfielder Rhys Williams, who had been linked with a possible return to Turf Moor, is a £2m target for Swansea City as they seek to solve their injury crisis. WEST HAM are keen to sign Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen but Hammers
TWO teenagers fall in love and run away. Distressing as it has been for all concerned, there’s nothing unusual about youngsters escaping for a romantic tryst. But unlike most kids their age they didn’t head for a seedy B&B in Blackpool. Being
COUNCILLOR Clare Pritchard has broken her collar bone after tripping in the bathroom of her Moss Hall Road, Accrington home. The Hyndburn council deputy leader and regeneration boss was taken to Accrington Victoria hospital earlier this month after
WORK to drain Highams Playing Fields and create an adjoining community orchard and picnic spot has been delayed by bad weather. In June last year, £5,000 in grants paved the way for the work to make the grassland usable all-year-round and improve
A BLACKBURN Rovers U21s side featuring four first-team players, including the fit-again David Dunn, went down to a 5-0 home defeat to a talented Norwich City team last night. With a host of players out on loan at Football League and Skrill Premier
HYNDBURN Labour leader Miles Parkinson is working the final details of the borough budget for 2014/15 which he hopes will enable him to freeze council tax for residents. The figures have to be ready for debate by Tuesday February 18 at the council
RUBBISH including scrap wood, carpet and carrier bags full of waste have been dumped in an Accrington alley. Furious residents contacted the Lancashire Telegraph after the rubbish, which appears to be the result of a home refurbishment, was left
THE East Rural Network is looking to launch an over-50s group for Hoddlesden and is seeking donations of craft supplies or equipment to be used. Anyone with skills they could share with the group is also asked to come forward. For information,
THE next Flood Watch public meeting in Darwen is tomorrow at the New Methodist Church, on the corner of Bolton Road and Bright Street. It starts at 6.30pm with a free buffet and offers an update on the project. Residents are invited to discuss
BURNLEY’S stars have a crucial role to play in growing the club in the town – according to the Clarets’ new Head of Community. Neil Hart, who has joined the club from Watford, believes that Sean Dyche’s first team squad – currently riding high in the
AN investigation was launched into an East Lancashire doctor after a Lancashire Telegraph report on the death of a new-born baby boy. Blackburn coroner Michael Singleton halted an inquest on Arron Almond after hearing that Dr Olufemi Olusegun,
NINETY-six-year-old Olive Gray, born just four years after Ashleigh Primary School opened, could well be the school’s oldest surviving former pupil. Mrs Gray, who now lives in Blackburn, went to the then Spring Bank Central School from 1928 to
AN impressive cake in the shape of India Mill is being raffled off for East Lancashire Hospice. Michelle Coulon, 49, made the cake, based on the iconic landmark, for a friend’s birthday. But in the end it was not needed, so Michelle, of Mayfield
RESIDENTS of the Jacks Key estate in Whitehall have been told to cut the grass between their homes and the A666 themselves by borough bosses. A total of 101 signed a petition to Blackburn with Darwen Council asking for its staff to keep the land
LEADERS of public service union UNISON have warned of the ‘devastating’ effect of 2,500 job losses at Lancashire County Council on services to local people. The authority has not yet identified which jobs will go, and which services will be withdrawn
HEALTH chiefs are urging smokers who want to quit their addiction ‘not to struggle on their own’. The Quit Squad at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust runs a number of stop smoking drop-in clinics around East Lancashire, for which people can
TODAY’S jumps cards must pass morning inspections but both tracks appear optimistic that racing will go ahead including Wetherby whose 8am inspection is described as precautionary. The ground is sure to be testing and the card begins with a juvenile
I’M writing this looking through my big window at the view of green fields which are dappled by long rays of sunlight, making it difficult for me to think that we are now in the middle of the coldest month of the year. We were, as they say, ‘chewing
REAL ale lovers across East Lancashire will flock to Colne for the 10th annual Pendle Beer Festival, which starts on Thursday, January 30. More than 100 breweries will be represented at the popular event at Colne Muni, in Albert Road. The event
THE Mayor of Chorley Coun John Walker wants people to join him at his charity Valentine’s Ball on Friday, February 14. There will be entertainment, a gourmet buffet, a licensed bar and a tombola. Tickets are £35, £250 for a table of eight and
EMERGENCY services were called after reports an ‘intoxicated’ man jumped into the canal. Crews were called to Bolton Road, Blackburn, at around 1.30pm yesterday after a call saying that the man, named locally as Dez, had gone into the water near
BLACKBURN Hawks leapfrogged Sutton Sting in the Moralee Conference table after a 3-1 home win over their rivals on Sunday. Hawks moved up to third in the table after recording their ninth consecutive victory. Jake Nurse put Hawks ahead from a Dan Mackriel
ACCRINGTON Stanley skipper Luke Joyce is targeting a place in the top half after scoring in the 2-1 win at Cheltenham Town. Joyce netted his first goal since March 2012 to help the Reds move away from the relegation zone and up to 18th in the League
AN exhibition of photographs, taken by members of Great Harwood Camera Club, is on display at Whalley Library. The Winter Exhibition of Photographs is an annual January event. The display will run in the gallery, at the Abbey Road library,
SCANS to test people for the risk of osteoporosis will be held tomorrow in Accrington, and Clitheroe. Osteoporosis is a condition that affects the bones, causing them to become weak and fragile, and more likely to break. The sessions will be
Rossendale and Darwen MP Jake Berry has teamed up with uSwitch to help families struggling with their fuel bills. He has backed the free ‘send us your bill’ campaign from the price comparison experts, designed to help households without access
SOUTHAMPTON are set to name former Blackburn Rovers chairman John Williams as the club’s new chief executive. Williams departed Rovers in February 2011 after controversially finding himself surplus to requirements under new owners Venky’s. He has since
Young Blackburn Rovers winger Connor Mahoney has been called into the England under 17 squad for two friendlies against Belgium later this month. The former Accrington Stanley starlet made his Rovers first-team debut last week when he came on as a sub
GARY Bowyer is holding talks with Venky’s in Pune about potential additions to his squad after Blackburn Rovers’ January clear-out reached double figures. Bowyer is in India for a rescheduled meeting with Rovers’ owners and among the subjects on the
SEAN Dyche believes Burnley’s training camp in Spain will be vital to the club’s hopes of a strong end to the season. The Clarets are currently away for some warm weather training, with their next game not coming until Brighton visit Turf Moor next Tuesday
IT is ‘hen party’ time for a charity – after it re-homed its 400,000th ex-battery hen. Daisy May is one of 500 hens to have recently been found a new free range home by the British Hen Welfare Trust’s centre in Haslingden. She has been rescued
EDUCATIONAL theatre company Splendid Productions visited St Mary’s College, in Shear Brow, Blackburn and showcased their adaptation of Sophocles’ epic tale Antigone. Second year drama students were then invited to work with the Artistic Director
THIS is the first glimpse of Burnley’s multi-million pound Knowledge Park which could bring hundreds of jobs to the borough. Advanced engineering, digital and manufacturing firms are being sought for the hi-tech development next to the Burnley
THE ‘heart-warming’ story of an East Lancashire patient who was treated in Liverpool has highlighted the need for specialist hospital care, according to a senior church official. On Tuesday, the Lancashire Telegraph featured the case of Hamza Rawat
A MAN has admitted taking his ex-partner prisoner and threatening to cut her throat in a 25-hour siege which brought a large part of Burnley to a standstill. Luke Paul Entwistle, 20, of Escott Gardens, appeared at Burnley Crown Court yesterday
DETECTIVES are re-appealing for the public’s help in tracing a wanted sex offender from Burnley who could be in Greater Manchester. Dilshad Miah, 32, had been living in the town but is now wanted after failing to notify the authorities of a change
TWO men have pleaded guilty to abducting a 14-year-old boy, one of whom had sexual activity with him. A court heard how after persuading the teenager to meet him in the middle of the night, Stephen Sullivan, 23, of Entwistle Street, Darwen, then
A CAR caught fire on the M66 this morning after an electrical fault. Two crews from Greater Manchester Fire Service attended the incident shortly after 7.54am between junctions one and two north-bound. The driver of the Toyota was not injured
BURNLEY are the only team outside of the Premier League not to lose a home league game this season. Yet such an impressive statistic is not being mirrored in attendances at Turf Moor. An average gate of 12,553 puts the third place side 19th out of 24
AN ‘INSPIRATIONAL’ teacher who ‘always put other people first’ has died of cancer at the age of 40. Mother-of-two Rachel Ambler was described as a ‘determined’ and ‘extremely kind’ person by husband Philip after she lost her 18-month battle.
BLACKBURN Rovers have allowed striker DJ Campbell to leave the club on loan, with Ian Holloway’s Millwall signing the former QPR forward until the end of the season. Campbell has played under Holloway before at Blackpool and given the fact he has yet
