SENIOR Blackburn with Darwen council executive Andrew Lightfoot is leaving next month, sparking a streamlining of high-paid town hall bosses. The borough is to scrap one of its 12 £75,000 a year directors as part of its drive to make savings. Deputy
ROVERS recorded their first home win of the season after they survived a late fightback from a Bournemouth team who looked dead and buried at the break. Gary Bowyer’s side, watched by members of the Rao family, of owners Venky's, for the second home
NATHAN Dyer's first half goal was enough to secure back-to-back Premier League wins for Swansea and consign the Clarets to a second straight defeat. But Burnley can count themselves unlucky not to benefit from an improved second half performance
4:58pm Thanks for joining us. Report to follow. 4:55pm First home win of the season for Gary Bowyer's side but they almost threw it away with Alex Baptiste making an unbelievable
4:50pm Full-time: Swansea 1, Burnley 0 4:47pm Third Burnley sub: Sordell for Jones 4:46pm Three minutes added on
JORDAN Rhodes has been selected to start for Blackburn Rovers in today’s Championship clash at home to Bournemouth – after owners Venky’s rejected a big-money offer from Hull City for their prized asset. It will be Rhodes’ 100th appearance for the
COUNCILLORS gave the green light for a controversial hostel in Blackburn to continue despite a warning neighbours were ‘living in fear’ of some of its residents. Blackburn with Darwen Council planning committee on Thursday approved official classification
TWO thugs attacked a man and left him with a smashed eye and temporarily half-blinded after turning up at the home of the ‘local drug dealer’ in the early hours, a court heard. A court heard how Anthony Pemberton was punched and kicked after Richie
IT may be four days ago but one of the two big turning points of an ultimately dispiriting night at Carrow Road is still fresh in Jason Lowe’s mind. Referee Graham Scott had already riled Rovers when, with the score 1-0 in their favour, he turned down
THE transfer window has taken a few twists and turns, as you’d expect, and there have been a few dead ends for Burnley too. News that Henri Lansbury has signed a new three-year deal with Nottingham Forest will have come as a blow to all concerned at
TRIBUTES have been paid to a Blackburn musician who played drums for Marty Wilde and went on to hit the charts with his own band in South Africa. Peter Taylor, who has died aged 66, played in various bands in Blackburn in the 1960s, before jetting
CAPTAIN Grant Hanley says there will be no Carrow Road hangover from Blackburn Rovers in their Championship clash at home to Bournemouth today. Spirits were low among the Rovers players after their 14-match unbeaten league run came to an end in controversial
SAM Vokes, David Jones, Michael Kightly and Jason Shackell – there were no shortage of familiar faces to greet Stephen Ward when he arrived at Gawthorpe for his first training session last Saturday. In signing a three-year deal with Burnley he became
A BARN packed with hay and straw bales went up in flames in Rishton on Friday night. Fire crews were called to Tottleworth Road at around 9.30pm after reports that the barn was well alight. Six different crews attended the scene overnight as
FOUR homes had to be evacuated after a gas leak was discovered in Blackburn Road, Haslingden. Residents were woken at 5.50am after some reported they could smell gas in the area. Fire crews and safety officers from National Grid were called to the
BLACKBURN Rovers owners Venky’s have rejected a club record bid from Hull City for Jordan Rhodes – insisting they have no intention of selling the star striker. It is understood that Hull, whose current club record signing is £8m midfielder Jake Livermore
MANAGER Sean Dyche has told the Burnley board “We need to be active” as he prepares to enter the final week of the transfer window. The Clarets have missed out on one of their targets, Henri Lansbury, after the midfielder opted to sign a new three-year
SAMLESBURY BAE Systems apprentice turned first-class graduate Michelle Hook is one of the faces of a major TV campaign to get young people to ‘earn as they learn’. The 23-year-old, who joined the firm at 18, joined as an apprentice and has just completed
BURNLEY returned to the Premier League with all the pomp and ceremony you might expect for a side whose first game after promotion was at home to Chelsea: the title favourites. There was no escape from the build-up. But Alex Coleman did not shy
JORDAN Rhodes is expected to be named in the official Blackburn Rovers squad list for today’s Championship clash at home to Bournemouth (3pm) despite the fact that Hull City remain locked in talks with the Ewood Park outfit for his signature. But it
A 'NOTORIOUS' drug dealer was living a luxury lifestyle while peddling thousands of pounds of cocaine and cannabis. Businessman Darren Bowling was involved in a conspiracy to supply the drugs which spread across the North West and the entire country
