TWO brothers who carried out a ‘vicious and cowardly’ attack on a rail passenger have been jailed. Joseph McAteer, 28, of Troutbeck Road, Chorley and brother Daniel, 25, face a combined seven years in prison for the unprovoked attack on the man
HEALTH officials are investigating an increase in scarlet fever cases in Lancashire. More than 160 people have suffered with the infection in the past seven months, compared to just 76 during the same period last year. Although significant,
A ‘HEALTH atlas’ which maps the state of disease across the UK has confirmed a number of problems in East Lancashire. However, one leading health boss said he was concerned the Environmental Health Atlas site, which allows people to check their
RESIDENTS in Church can look forward to growing and eating their own fruit and vegetables now that work has begun to transform an abandoned piece of land into a community garden. The plot, at the back of Devon Place, was previously full of rubble
ROVERS will have a mathematical chance of snatching a play-off place if they win their final home game of the season at home to top-six rivals Wigan Athletic next Saturday after they made it back-to-back victories with a comfortable success at relegation-threatened
OLDER people’s champion Esther Rantzen has praised seven carers from East Lancashire for their ‘trailblazing’ work with dementia sufferers. Care staff from Great Harwood, Rossendale, Burnley and Clitheroe were among the winners at the Lancashire
LONGRIDGE is ‘under siege’ from large housing developments with the ‘focus moving from Clitheroe, Barrow and Whalley’, according to a leading borough councillor. Coun Ken Hind, who represents Longridge on Ribble Valley Borough Council, said the
MANAGER Sean Dyche wants his Burnley players to cement their place in the club's history. The Clarets had already achieved promotion with a record return of 89 points. But after beating Ipswich Town 1-0 through Michael Kightly's third in as
COUNTY class act Jonathan Clare returns to the Foster’s Lancashire League tomorrow as cup kings Burnley collide with reigning champions Accrington in a heavyweight battle at Turf Moor. As the new season steps up a gear on double header weekend,
ACCRINGTON Stanley confirmed their Football League survival after a 2-1 victory at Oxford United this afternoon. The Reds sat rock bottom of the table after only two points from their first 10 matches, but have now sealed their place in League Two next
BOWLERS have reacted angrily to claims from a councillor their green is ‘rubbish’. Tory Alan Cottam made the comment about Whitehall Bowling Club during Thursday’s full council forum meeting at Blackburn with Darwen Council. But club member
HEALTH chiefs said they were working ‘extremely hard’ to persuade pregnant women to give up cigarettes, despite figures showing almost one in five continue to smoke. The proportion of women smoking during pregnancy in Pennine Lancashire has remained
HYNDBURN’S Pritchard family feud will ignite the local election campaign in East Lancashire. Labour is expected to keep control of that borough, plus Blackburn with Darwen and Chorley. Malcolm Pritchard, ousted as independent councillor in
4:57pm Report to follow. Rovers will have a chance, albeit a small one, of making the play-offs on the last day. 4:57pm FULL-TIME Charlton 1 Rovers 3.
BLACKBURN Rovers have made two changes for this afternoon’s Championship clash with Charlton Athletic at The Valley – a clash they must win if they are to remain in with a chance of making the play-offs. Fit-again duo Tom Cairney and Michael Keane
MICHAEL Kightly's third goal in three games was enough for promotion-winning Burnley to sign off their 2013/14 home campaign in style, surpassing the 90-point mark for the first time in the club's history. The Clarets, who secured a place in the
A CYCLIST was taken to hospital with a head injury and breathing difficulties after a collision with a car in Rawtenstall this morning. The man, believed to be in his 50s, was involved in an incident with a yellow Nissan Micra in Burnley Road,
DRESSMAKER Christine Connell’s passion for sewing has been blighted in recent years due to painful arthritis in her hands. But creative Christine, who lives in Blackburn, may have found the solution as she discovered making dresses from paper to
TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular former Blackburn nightclub boss who has died aged 75. The funeral of Sid Stewart, who ran the Cavendish Club and Red Parrot in Blackburn, takes place today. Friends and family paid tribute to a ‘warm, sympathetic
WHILE many with a Blackburn Rovers affiliation might have congratulated Burnley this week through gritted teeth, David May is different. Few players have crossed the East Lancashire divide in recent times. May is one of them and, while his spell
RELATIVES of Burnley’s historic 1914 FA Cup winning team will be VIP guests at the Clarets clash with Ipswich today. As part of the celebrations to mark the centenary of the Clarets' epic 1-0 win over Liverpool, more than 100 descendants of the
2:24pm The party starts all over again as Shackell lifts the trophy aloft and the champagne is sprayed around 2:22pm Captain Jason Shackell is the last individual to receive
THE Lancashire Telegraph Wedding Fair, due to be held in Blackburn tomorrow, has been cancelled. The show was due to take place at Ewood Park but has been called off due to the FA Carlsberg Sunday Cup Final between Humbleton Plains and The Oyster
YOUNGSTERS showed off their Claret and Blue colours with pride to celebrate Burnley's promotion to the Premier League. Pupils at Worsthorne Primary School and Barrowford Primary School swapped their uniforms for Burnley kits or club colours during
A MOTORCYCLIST and a car driver were taken to hospital after colliding in Bolton Road, Blackburn, this morning. The female motorcyclist was involved in a collision with a Vauxhall Astra at the traffic lights at the Aqueduct Road junction, near
ACCRINGTON Stanley’s squad could have a Spanish flavour next season as they look to set up a formal link-up with a club in the country. Reds boss James Beattie and assistant manager Paul Stephenson are due to make an end-of-season trip to Spain, and
A SUSPECTED stolen car was involved in a five-car crash at the junction next to the Samlesbury Hotel. Officers had spotted the white Audi A3 on the M65 and followed it, believing it had been stolen. The pursuit came to an end a few minutes
A LAP of honour will take place at the end of this afternoon’s last home game of the season against Ipswich – another chance to lap up the celebrations of a wonderful promotion season. It’s been coming for a couple of weeks, and now that we have finally
THE voting for Blackburn Rovers’ player of the season may not close until Wednesday but it would not be giving away official secrets to say that Jordan Rhodes and Tom Cairney will be right in the reckoning. But could they be run close by Tommy
LIFE after promotion. It has been blissfully normal as far as Sean Dyche is concerned. “I sat on the M6 for three-and-a-half hours, saw the kids, got a bed delivered for my lad Max and made that up,” he said. “Life goes on. People think you’re just
A FORMER East Lancashire councillor has welcomed Nick Clegg’s call for a police inquiry into the abuse scandal surrounding the disgraced Sir Cyril Smith. Ex-Rochdale MP Smith, who died in 2010, allegedy abused dozens of boys between the 1960s and
A BURNLEY man was fighting for his life in hospital last night after his car crashed into a wall then hit a parked car and a van. The 45-year-old man, named locally as David Burns, was placed in an induced coma by doctors at Royal Preston Hospital
BURNLEY manager Sean Dyche says Premier League plans will not be ironed out until the end of their promotion-winning Championship campaign, although he admitted some groundwork had already been laid. The Clarets boss revealed tentative in-house
EARBY’S finest son Glen Chapple has been handed the responsibility of coaching Lancashire for the remainder of the County Championship season after Peter Moores left for the England job. Chapple, the current first team skipper at Emirates Old Trafford
The 2013/14 Jumps season finishes with a bang at Sandown today with the Bet365 Handicap Chase the feature of a terrific card. At the time of writing there is heavy rain forecast and the ground might ride considerably slower than the current description
BLACKBURN Rovers boss Gary Bowyer has hailed Craig Conway’s continued outstanding form – but he admits he may not have signed the Scottish wing wizard if Ben Marshall had not got injured. Conway has scored four goals and set up a further eight
Every day we test your sporting knowledge with our just for fun 10 to tackle... 1 For which club does former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri now work as head coach? 2 With which sport would you associate the terms downtown, rebound and alley-oop
Burton Port was an early departure in the Grand National but can make amends in the bet365 Gold Cup on the final day of the jumps season at Sandown. Hailing from the in-form yard of Jonjo O’Neill, Burton Port was not without his fans at Aintree
