Next month sees the launch of Ribble Film, a production company who aim to bring television standards to the corporate sector. Based in the Ribble Valley, the company is headed up by Liz Bloor, a Bafta nominated, RTS-winning, television producer/director
LEICESTER City boss Nigel Pearson admitted his side did not deserve to win at Burnley on Saturday. Leicester bagged a fourth straight victory to move out of the relegation zone and will set a new Premier League record if they survive, having been
Trimbach Alsace Riesling 2012, £10.95, thewinesociety.com The Trimbach family have been making wine near the town of Ribeauville in France’s Alsace region bordering Germany for nearly 400 years. Not so surprising then that one of their prime products
EAST Lancashire has scooped a hat-trick of national business awards for apprentices. Benjamin Farnsworth, from Clitheroe, won gold for his outstanding performance as a first-year trainee at manufacturing firm Techni-Grind Machining. And Darwen
BLACKBURN District Scouts are unveiling a brand new unit within Blackburn District. Young Leader Unit Blackburn District opened its doors for the first time on Friday April 24 at 7pm. They will meet at St Francis Church Hall, Blackburn. MORE
BLACKBURN’S Pop Up Princesses will take to the stage at a nature-themed festival in the town this June. Countryside Comes To Town, on June 20 and organised by Blackburn BID, features a range of free family fun events from the enchanting world of
A BURNLEY broker is bidding a fond farewell to a family firm where he has spent more than a decade of his career in finance. John Westmoreland, 60, is set to retire from Burnley-based Financial Affairs, an insurance and financial services company
PATRIOTIC Lancastrians were out in force to celebrate St George’s Day this weekend. Events and marches, including a medieval day, were staged across the area to mark the event which fell on Thursday, April 23. MORE TOP STORIES: Hundreds
A CONCERT powered by electricity generated by push bikes is set to form the centre piece of the inaugural Ribble Valley Cycling Festival. The nine-day showcase will feature a wide variety of events throughout the borough to promote the sport and
In 1931 the Liberals swallowed Tory austerity and were destroyed as a political force for a generation. Will 2015 be a repeat? Undoubtedly the Liberal-Democrats have blood on their hands over austerity since 2010. No doubt they will say that they
We are now on the political “merry go round” – each party is coming up with different ideas daily, trying to out-do the others. Many ideas have not been thought through and unravel under scrutiny. Each party is trying to offer more than the others
IN 2011 a man was shot dead at a Latvian cinema after reportedly eating his popcorn too loudly during a screen of Black Swan. I wouldn’t go that far, but, on a recent visit to the theatre, I felt like screaming at a woman sitting nearby who insisted
In 1949 I entered a school in the Midlands (strict uniform policy and no eating in the street) as a result of passing the ‘11-plus’. There were still a few girls in the sixth form who referred to us disparagingly as ‘scholarship girls’ although
Cars that are parked irresponsibly on pavements can cause a potentially dangerous obstruction for pedestrians as they can force them on to the road and into the path of vehicles. Newly-released research by YouGov has shown that 74 per cent of people
BACUP Library will reopen to the public today after a major refit with extended opening hours. It closed in January for a total refurbishment including extensive internal redecoration of the St James Square building, with movable shelving fitted
THE NHS for all its problems is a wonderful thing. The knowledge that should you fall ill, no matter how seriously, there are caring doctors and nurses waiting to help you is very reassuring. Sometimes it is easy to take this wonderful service
A SERMON will be held at Stanhill Methodist Church, in Nab Lane, Stanhill, from 2.30pm and 6pm on May 3. Reverend Andrew Turner will preach, while music will be provided by Peter Wray. A dinner will be held at 4pm. Call steward Helen Plummer
VOLUNTEERS are wanted to help with conservation work at Spouthouse Wood in Huncoat later today. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible shoes and take a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. Meet at Spouthouse Lane from 10.30am. Call Roger
THE deadline for applications to become the new deputy headteacher at a school in Church has passed. Sacred Heart RC Primary School in Bradshaw Row stopped accepting applications yesterday. Shortlisting is expected to take place on May 5, and a
PITCHES are available for a car boot sale taking place at St Cuthbert’s C of E Primary School, in St Alban’s Road. The event has been organised by the school and takes place on May 16, from 10am to 2pm. Pitches cost £10 and anybody who sells at
NEIGHBOURHOOD police covering Darwen town centre and Sunnyhurst will hold their next Police and Communities Together (PACT) meeting on Tuesday, May 12. Officers will be in the cafe area of Darwen Leisure Centre from 7.30pm to discuss any policing
RESIDENTS living in the Oswaldtwistle area can discuss local crime and policing issues with their neighbourhood policing team at a PACT meeting tomorrow from 6pm as the Civic Theatre, in Union Street. Officers have been looking into complaints
BRITISH Legion members in Great Harwood have organised a service and parade on Sunday, May 10, to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. There will be a service at Great Harwood Cenotaph at 11.30am, followed at noon by a parade down
A PLAN to construct a house in Pole Lane, Darwen, has been published. The application has been submitted to Blackburn with Darwen Council and a decision is set to be made in the coming months. If approved, the house will be built on land which
POLICE are to increase patrols around Orchard Grove, in Darwen, after complaints of anti-social behaviour in the area. The issue was raised by residents at a recent meeting with officers covering the local area and they will now step up patrols
THE annual summer barbecue at Ashleigh Primary School in Darwen is due to be held on Saturday, June 13. The event is being organised by the friends of the school and volunteers are being called on to lend a hand on the day. Help is needed in
A MAN once described as England’s funniest will be bringing his one-man show to Darwen next month. Mike Harding has a resume that reads folk singer and songwriter, poet and playwright, comedian and broadcaster, so has many strings to his bow.
A HELPFUL maintenance man, an inspiring leader and a down-to-earth consultant were among the “brilliant” staff to be recognised at the annual award ceremony for East Lancashire’s hospitals. The glitzy “Star Awards” event was held at the Dunkenhalgh
A YOUNG songwriter who used YouTube to learn the guitar has wowed the judges of a national singing competition. Leah Haworth started off playing a Spongebob Squarepants guitar at the age of eight, and several instruments later, she’s made it through
BACUP & Rossendale Borough’s great escape came up just short as they fell to a 2-0 defeat to Ashton Athletic and were relegated from the North West Counties League Premier Division – ensuring neighbours Barnoldswick Town survived. Bacup needed
AFC DARWEN will head into the North West Counties League play-off semi-final tomorrow night unbeaten in 11 games after ending their campaign with a 3-2 victory over Eccleshall thanks to a Ryan Steele hat-trick. The result meant that the Salmoners
STANSTED airport may be a more popular venue in Essex to start a summer holiday, but Accrington Stanley appeared to begin their break at a different location in the county. The Reds slumped to a miserable 4-0 defeat to Dagenham and Redbridge at
Tom Heaton 7 A confident command of his box helped the defence. Only stretched for the goal, and at 1-0. Undone by cruel deflection Kieran Trippier 7 Mostly accurate with long and short deliveries and linked well with Arfield, Boyd and
SOMETIMES the good guys don’t win. While Nigel Pearson was directing insults at a journalist, even in victory, Matt Taylor was manfully fronting up to questions about the minute that may haunt Burnley for some time to come. The last vestiges of
ANYONE else leave the Turf on Saturday feeling as down in the dumps as me? I imagine most people reading this of a Claret persuasion will be nodding at that. We saw football at its cruelest and for many that period from Matt Taylor missing
SEAN Dyche insists he is not giving up on Burnley’s survival chances despite Saturday’s damaging 1-0 home loss to Leicester City. Jamie Vardy’s goal just 59 seconds after Matt Taylor’s penalty miss consigned the Clarets to a crucial defeat against
A FEMALE shop assistant thought she saw a man acting indecently. Magistrates heard the woman moved away and then went back to check and was confronted by Shueyb Yusuf who turned to face her and was exposing his genitals. MORE TOP STORIES:
RYAN Canning has taken an instant liking to the Houldsworth Ribblesdale League, though the feeling isn’t mutual for the senior division bowlers. The new Ribblesdale Wanderers star followed up last week’s unbeaten century against Brinscall with
ENGLAND captain Alastair Cook hailed Burnley fast bowler James Anderson for “an outstanding spell” which set up the nine-wicket victory over West Indies in Grenada. Anderson, who became England’s leading Test wicket-taker in Antigua last week,
JAKE Neary inspired Haslingden to a crushing victory over Accrington on Saturday as Alex Coleman’s men got their first win of the season in style. The Blackburn pace ace took a career best 5-18 as Accrington were bowled out for just 59 as Haslingden
DARWEN eased to a 123-run victory over neighbours Chorley in the Northern League on Saturday. The home side batted first and got off to a fine start with openers Ammer Mirza and Scott Jackson both in the runs. MORE TOP STORIES: Mirza made
FANS’ favourite David Dunn, one of the most talented players to play for Blackburn Rovers, has announced he will leave the club at the end of the campaign. The 35-year-old from Great Harwood is out of contract in the summer and, in a statement
BLACKBURN Rovers continue their U21s Premier League Division Two campaign at home to Wolves today (1pm kick-off). The clash takes place at Rovers’ Academy in Brockhall and admission is free. All supporters are welcome. Rovers won 1-0 at promotion-pushing
Simon Eastwood 6 Made two good saves but got away with one when Conor Coady hit the post and may be disappointed with his positioning for Jacob Butterfield’s free kick Adam Henley 6 Stuck to his task throughout and he had to as well as
BLACKBURN Rovers fans have taken to social media site Twitter as they react to club legend David Dunn's Ewood Park departure. Here are some of the best... Thanks for the memories Dunny #dingledestroyer @OneRovers pic.twitter.com/RvHpDRBgy1
SUPERBIKE champ Carl Fogarty led more than 3,000 bikers in a charity event yesterday. The Mellor resident, who became a household name when he won I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, took part in the Bike4LifeFest Ride Out 2015. MORE TOP
A PLAN to expand England’s second biggest onshore wind farm has been officially submitted. Scout Moor Wind Farm Expansion Ltd, a joint venture between United Utilities and the land’s co-owners, Peel Energy, want to build another 16 turbines between
THE Todmorden Curves are finally going on show in East Lancashire – but it is not what you would think. Local artist David Wynne is set to show off his charcoal drawings of the town’s “curvy splendour” to celebrate the re-opening of the rail line
A SOCIAL media appeal to help find a lost hearing device for a profoundly deaf six-year-old boy has spread across the UK. Little Ashton Lynass from Queen Road West in Accrington lost his cochlear implant after going on a family trip to Eureka museum
THE ‘death rate’ for patients treated at the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals during the weekend has dropped significantly - following an increase in senior doctors on the wards. Newly-released figures have been hailed as another sign
THE Labour-run Lancashire County Council has been criticised after appearing to offer zero-hours contracts. Applications are now closed for nine library-assistant positions, the job advert stating that the posts had no working hours and that the
AN investigation has been launched by police and the fire service after a £50,000 4x4 was wrecked in an early morning blaze. MORE TOP STORIES: Firefighters were called to Robinson Street in Burnley at 2.15am on Saturday, where they found the
ONE lane at the busy Brownhill roundabout in Blackburn was left blocked following a crash earlier this morning. Police were called to Brownhill Drive at 7.30am after being called to reports of a smash involving a car and a bin wagon. MORE TOP
SIX hundred soldiers from the Lancashire Fusiliers were among those remembered in a dawn pilgrimage to mark the 100th anniversary of the doomed Gallipoli campaign on Saturday. Both the Prince of Wales and Prince Harry joined 10,000 people at a
BLACKBURN Rovers boss Gary Bowyer is philosophical over top-scorer Rudy Gestede’s decision to go public with his desire to make a move to the Premier League. The 21-goal striker gave an interview to a national newspaper on Saturday in which he
TRAVELLERS ordered to move from a popular playing park in Baxenden have left – but have parked up in Oswaldtwistle. Four caravans and two cars were spotted at Baxenden Recreation Ground, off Hollins Lane, last Friday, and were joined by more late
THERE is only so far a 41-goal forward line can take you if you cannot defend leads. Just one strike partnership, Watford’s Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo, have scored more times in English professional league football than Rudy Gestede and Jordan
HISTORY-MAKING striker Jordan Rhodes admits Blackburn Rovers’ latest slip-up sums up their ‘frustrating’ season. Rhodes looked set to round off a dream week when he doubled Rovers’ advantage at Huddersfield Town on Saturday. MORE TOP STORIES
THE script was written. In desperate need of a goal and a win in their battle to beat the drop, a 59th-minute penalty offered Burnley a beacon of hope. There might have been surprise among supporters to see Matt Taylor take the ball and place
MATT Taylor said he was “devastated” by the penalty miss that condemned bottom-placed Burnley to a fourth defeat from five games to leave them five points adrift of safety, but vowed the Clarets would keep fighting for their place in the Premier League
A THUG filmed beating his terrified dog as it squealed in pain has been banned from keeping animals for two years. Jack Delaney was caught on tape punching and kicking his white and brindle American bulldog Biggy before throwing water over it.
A MAN faces jail for his part in a dramatic car chase through the streets of Burnley. Mark Devlin, 39, of Dunoon Street in the town, admitted being behind the wheel of a stolen Vauxhall Zafira which smashed into a utility box before being boxed
