ACCRINGTON Stanley manager John Coleman said his side were “an unstoppable force” in the pursuit of promotion.The Reds sealed their place in League One with a Billy Kee first half double in a 2-0 win over Yeovil Town last night.Coleman had set promotion
ACCRINGTON Stanley secured a place in League One with a 2-0 win over Yeovil Town on Tuesday night.Here's the best of the celebrations from the Reds players from an historic evening.Pictures: KIPAX
ACCRINGTON Stanley sealed an historic promotion to League One, exactly 130 years on from the day the club in its original form became founder members of the Football League.The club has been through a lot since then - resigning from the League in 1962
I READ with interest Helen Mead’s article on very young children given tablets to replace books in the LT.How right she is to be worried but not just about the addictive and exclusive nature of computers but also, importantly, the loss of close contact
SEVENTY years ago Rawtenstall witnessed its first recorded murder.Margaret Allen, known as Maggie, confessed to a brutal attack on Nancy Ellen Chadwick. She was beaten about the head, leaving her skull partially caved in.Now a new book on the murder,
BRITISH military action in Syrian has been backed by Tory MP Nigel Evans. As Prime Minister Theresa May came under pressure in the House of Commons for authorising air strikes by Tornado jets and Cruise missiles without a Parliamentary vote, Mr
9:48pm Bumble on the pitch here. You can see what it means to the lifelong Stanley fan
A MAN is wanted in connection with a local shop theft. Police were called to an incident involving stolen alcohol at a convenience store, in Union Road, Oswaldtwistle at 11.40pm on Monday, April 9. If anyone recognises the man contact the Oswaldtwistle
Rovers Under-23s boss Damien Johnson believes some of his players are ready for the next stage of their development. And whether that is with the first-team at Rovers, or on loan elsewhere in the EFL, will be discussions for the summer involving
A MAN is wanted in connection with a town centre assault. Police want to speak with a man in relation to a knife attack in Blackburn town centre at 4.40pm on Good Friday. A stranger carrying a knife in Northgate approached another man and tried to '
A PAEDOPHILE who once worked as a mascot at Blackburn Rovers has been sent back to jail after being caught with indecent images of children. As reported by the Lancashire Telegraph in 2012, Scott Allan Henderson, 30, was jailed for 40 months for
A MAN has been arrested following a police chase which ended in a stolen car smashing into a property billboard. The driver crashed the Audi A5 on Barden Lane, Burnley, after officers set up a ‘stinger’ device to puncture the car’s tyres.
BILLY Kee believes Accrington boss John Coleman deserves huge credit for steering ‘Stanley’s strays’ to the brink of the title. The Reds will be promoted to League One tonight if they beat Yeovil Town at the Wham Stadium or Exeter City fail to take three
Rovers have requested more tickets for the trip to Charlton Athletic later this month after selling out their allocation. The club announced earlier today that the 3,030 tickets they had been sent for the game at The Valley on Saturday, April 28
Rovers Under-23s couldn't secure the point they needed to win the Premier League 2 Division Two title as they were beaten 1-0 by Aston Villa. Damien Johnson's men toiled hard but were ultimately left disappointed as Jordan Lyden's goal in first-half
A WAR veteran who stored crack cocaine and heroin in Kinder Eggs told police the empty containers were for his children.Burnley Crown Court heard how police pulled over father-of-three Lee Farley, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Bacup on July 23
Charlie Mulgrew says every game Rovers don’t win is a disappointment, but he says the players will pick themselves up for their penultimate home game of the season. Rovers welcome Peterborough to Ewood Park on Thursday as they bid to move one step
ACCRINGTON Stanley assistant manager Jimmy Bell admits he still has an irrational fear about the Reds losing their remaining five games and seeing a top three spot in League Two slip from their grasp. Stanley can secure promotion with a win over Yeovil
A FORMER DJ is set to appear on an ITV primetime show on Sunday.Matt Vaughan, 36, will star on Change Your Tune, hosted by Baz Ashmawy, which challenges five terrible singers to improve their voices with professional coaches before performing in front
A FATHER who is alleged to have shot another dad tried to convince his son to take the blame, a court has heard. Matthew Moseley, 50, allegedly shot Lee Holt outside his house in Barnard Close, Oswaldtwistle, on October 25. The court heard
A SHOPLIFTER had a taxi waiting outside a Blackburn store to use as a getaway car.Blackburn magistrates heard the plan backfired when the driver suspected she had been stealing and refused to drive off.Zoe Ann Crowther, 44, of Hesketh Street, Great Harwood
A VEHICLE fire was attended to by emergency services this morning. Fire crews from Blackburn put out the fire on the small vehicle on Revidge Road, Blackburn at around 7.30 am. Fire fighters attended the scene for around half an hour and there
Damien Johnson was full of pride, and praise, for his Rovers Under-23s side despite missing the chance to secure the Premier League 2 Division Two title. Rovers were the better side for the majority of the 90 minutes but couldn't get the goal that
TOM Heaton and Jon Walters featured as Burnley Under-23s moved off the foot of the Professional Development League North after a 2-0 win over Coventry City, writes Joshua Bunting. It was Michael Duff's side who started the better and inside the
I WOULD love to say that the birds are singing and the sun is shining but, alas and alack, they are not.My cold is no better and I am absolutely fed up with coughing and sneezing and having to have a hanky permanently in my hand.I can now understand why
WATCH out Blackburn, the Hairy Bikers are on their way!The star TV chefs will be heading to the Croston Theatre at Westholme School in June for an evening of anecdotes about their career. They will also be giving the audience a special introduction to
IMAGINE the excitement of a new tramcar service in Oswaldtwistle. As this photograph sent in by reader Sharon Houghton, shows, the arrival of the first into the village had young and old crowding to watch at the new terminus.Trams had been running round
DARWEN Leisure Centre is holding a charity dance night next month in aid of East Lancashire Hospice.On May 4 it will host six dance and fitness taster classes will take place from 6pm to 9pm at a cost of £5.The evening aims to raise cash for the hospice
SENIOR councillors have been shown a hard-hitting film on loan-sharking filmed on a former council estate to highlight how young people can be drawn into the grim world of debt.Blackburn with Darwen's Executive Board is now set to sign up to a national
NICK Pope has urged Burnley to keep their 'foot to the floor' in the Premier League run-in to make sure of a top seven finish. The Clarets have racked up five successive Premier League victories to open up a nine-point gap over Leicester City.
POLICE have issued images of East Lancashire's four most wanted men. They are wanted for a range of alleged offences, including assaults and theft. Anyone with information about their whereabouts should not approach the men but call police
A FATHER shot and killed a man then used ‘emotional blackmail’ to try to convince his son to take the blame, a court heard. Matthew Moseley, 50, allegedly fired the fatal shot at Lee Holt, outside his house in Barnard Close, Oswaldtwistle, on October
A NUMBER of homes were left without water overnight after a burst pipe lead to limited water supplies. Inspectors and engineers are still working on the leak on Middlesex Avenue in Burnley after excess water was spotted leaking out onto the road
DETAILS of the first 96 homes to be built on the site of former paper mill hit by flooding on Boxing Day 2015 have been submitted for approval by council planners.The mix of detached and semi-detached houses with short terraces is the first phase of 500
Congratulations to Bradley Dack on being named as the League One player of the season, writes Simon Garner. I think that’s brilliant to have a player like that in your squad and shows how important he is. He’s been carrying a bit of an injury
PENDLE folk are being asked to walk, run, hop, skip, jump or swim a mile to get active. The aim is to get at least 24,901 people throughout Lancashire to take part in the Your Mile Your Way challenge and complete the amount of miles it would take to walk
A FORMER solicitor who was jailed for his part in a £426,000 insurance scam has now been struck off.Nadir Suleman, who worked for Farleys in Blackburn, was banned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) after deeming his behaviour amounted to serious
A CHICKEN was rescued after it got stuck down a well. Crews were called to Manchester Road in Barnoldswick at around 19.30 last night after a call came in to say a bird was stuck on a ledge down a well. Firefighters were able to assist in safely
NORTHERN is among the operators with the lowest number of trains missing scheduled stops at stations.The primary train operator in Northern England had just three 'failure to stop' (FTS) events per 1,000 services planned in the four years from
EVERYTHING is up for grabs in Blackburn with Darwen Council's election on May 3 as it is fought on new boundaries and several senior politicians retire.With just 17 three-member wards instead of 23 represented by 64 councillors ,party strategists
LAST week's puzzle turned the spotlight on Darwen Street, where the early settlement of Blackburn developed.The market, which took place round the cross at the junction of Church Street and the town's early industrialisation, led to this settlement
EAST Lancashire has always had its fair share of rain. Indeed, it was the damp climate which helped create its growth and prosperity during the Industrial Revolution.It was the ideal place for cotton weaving and spinning, the weather ensuring that the
A RETIRED GP and his wife have 'had their family home destroyed' after being kidnapped and robbed by a man who has been handed a life sentence.Preston Crown Court heard Dr Arthur Manuel and wife Frances Manuel were at their home in Baxenden when
A COMMUNITY group has announced a plan to improve the woods.Friends of Sunnyhurst Woods has launched an eight step ‘masterplan’ to help the group with future plans for developing, conserving and maintaining Sunnyhurst Woods.The plan is separated into
A FORMER marine has been jailed for four years for dealing crack cocaine and heroin. Burnley Crown Court heard how Scott Pettit had started using heroin and cocaine after being discharged from the Army with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder nearly
A SCHOOLGIRL who has raised thousands of pounds for charity has reached the final of a beauty pageant competition. Eddison Holmes, 15, will compete in the Miss Junior Teen Great Britain final at The Globe Theatre, Blackpool, on October 20 and October
SECURING European qualification with Burnley this season would be a career highlight for most of the Clarets squad, according to Matt Lowton. The Clarets now stand on the brink of sealing European football next season after a 2-1 success over Leicester
