MEMBERS of Barnoldswick’s last remaining Victorian chapel have held a special service to celebrate the completion of a six-figure revamp. The mission to renovate the 122-year-old Independent Methodist Church, in Walmsgate, started 12 years ago. Now
BOSSES at a leading mental health charity have said they are ‘extremely shocked’ at a ‘barrage of abuse and threats’ neighbours of a facility in Loveclough have sent to staff. The private care home, in Penny Lodge Lane, is home to four people suffering
CLARETS fan Peter Salmon has followed in the footsteps of his Turf Moor idols - by getting promoted. The television boss has taken on a new role as the BBC’s director for England, which will see him in charge of the broadcaster’s sites in Salford, Birmingham
A HUSBAND is set to share his late wife’s treasured garden in support of counsellors who helped him through the grieving process. Chris Whitaker-Webb will be throwing open the grounds of Dent Hall, in Colne Road, Trawden, which was the pride and joy
A DEDICATED Rossendale councillor will be recognised for her 12 years of service next week. Former mayor Joyce Thorne, 63, will be made an honorary alderman at the annual council meeting next Friday. The grandmother-of-three, from Rising Bridge Road
HOSPITAL bosses are finetuning bids for two new schemes worth £15million at Burnley General Hospital ahead of their final submission to the Department of Health. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) wants to create a £5million surgical unit and
A ROSSENDALE family is trying to trace the fireman who saved a nurse's life after she suffered a heart attack in Alicante airport. Sheila Dawson, 61 who lives in Waterfoot, went into cardiac arrest as her plane landed at the Spanish airport on
NEWLY-recruited European nurses are being given extra help to settle into life at East Lancashire’s hospitals - including help to understand the local dialect. Their English colleagues have been helping the new recruits understand typical phrases
