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Burnley firms secures £850,000 museum contract
8:30pm Thursday 9th July 2009
A DEAL worth £850,000 is helping a Burnley ironworks to forge ahead despite the gloom gripping the manufacturing world.
Have your say »Lowerhouse community day pleases beat police
5:10pm Thursday 9th July 2009
POLICE visited a Burnley primary school’s summer fair to give crime prevention advice.
Historic garden recreated at Towneley
1:00pm Thursday 9th July 2009
A GARDEN restoration project at Towneley Park is nearing completion.
Burnley market 'beating credit crunch'
6:00pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
MARKET traders in Burnley are riding out the recession and customers are not deserting the town's traditional stalls, a senior councillor says.
Burnley and Pendle drug dealers jailed for total of eight years
2:47pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
TWO men have been jailed for a total of more than eight years for drugs and firearms offences.
Pennine police given SmartWater torches to deter burglars
2:20pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
STATE-of-the-art technology is being used to throw the spotlight on burglars as part of an ongoing crackdown.
Drug dealers and known criminals targeted in Burnley police blitz
8:30am Wednesday 8th July 2009
FOUR people were arrested in a massive “day of action” launched by police across Burnley and Padiham.
Former Burnley taxi driver cleared of girl rape charges
1:45pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
AN EX-cabbie has been cleared of a total of 21 allegations of rape and indecency he was alleged to have committed against three young girls.
Marsden Building Society to close two branches in Burnley
12:21pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
AN EAST Lancashire building society is closing two branches in Burnley.
Burnley hairdressers beat credit crunch - with help from Prince's Trust
7:40pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
TWO hairdressers from Burnley are achieving their dreams after winning backing from the Prince’s Trust.
Hapton pensioner's memories of growing up in a railway carriage
5:00pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
A PENSIONER who grew up in a railway carriage has taken a ride in it – nearly a century after it was taken out of service.
Burnley and Pendle streets ahead for cheap homes
1:16pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
ALMOST half of Britain’s 20 cheapest streets are in Burnley or Pendle, a new survey claims.
East Lancashire advertising guru dies aged 68
12:50pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
AN advertising and graphic design guru has died after a long battle with illness, aged 68.
4 Lancashire County Council staff sacked over offensive e-mails
9:24am Tuesday 7th July 2009
FOUR council staff have been sacked following a three-month investigation into offensive emails.
93-year-old Burnley woman's window smashed with brick
1:23pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
YOBS who threw a brick through a 93-year-old woman’s window are being hunted by police.
VIDEO: ‘Drink safely’ says Lancashire star Anderson
1:12pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
BURNLEY-born Test cricketer Jimmy Anderson is the star of a film encouraging people to drink responsibly this summer.
Outcry forces end to stone-crushing plant in Burnley
6:50pm Monday 6th July 2009
ANGRY residents forced County Hall bosses into a U-turn over a noisy stone-crushing plant.
£6.3m housing renewal plan in Burnley
2:42pm Monday 6th July 2009
LONG-awaited proposals to overhaul housing in the Daneshouse area of Burnley are at the centre of a new £6.3 million project.
Sunshine boozing leads to East Lancashire A&E surge
9:00am Monday 6th July 2009
DRUNKEN people enjoying the summer sunshine in East Lancashire have led to a huge increase in hospital admissions, accident and emergency bosses have revealed.
‘Tobacco-free’ crusade wins national award
4:10pm Monday 6th July 2009
AN East Lancashire campaign which saw more than 1,000 people urge the Government to create a tobacco-free future has won a national award.
Burnley fair will go on - rain or shine
9:00pm Sunday 5th July 2009
ORGANISERS of a huge summer fair have promised it will go ahead rain or shine - a year after it was axed because of the wet weather.
Parking anger of residents near Burnley General
9:00pm Sunday 5th July 2009
RESIDENTS have appealed to councillors to help resolve a parking nightmare prompted by charges imposed by Burnley General Hospital bosses.
East Lancashire family’s welcome for new medal
7:10pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A MEDAL to recognise the loss suffered by families of fallen servicemen and women has been welcomed by the family of soldier Private Jason Rawstron, who was killed in Afghanistan.
East Lancashire child drug support charity folds
6:10pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A CHARITY which has helped countless parents through the trauma of a drug-addicted child has folded – amid fresh hopes for sufferers.
Rossendale residents’ fury halts meeting over developments
2:48pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A MEETING to discuss plans to allow developments in three small villages had to be abandoned after scores of residents vented their anger over the proposals.
Burnley hit-and-run probe: Man arrested
2:20pm Friday 3rd July 2009
UPDATE A man has been arrested after a hit-and-run in Burnley which left a man seriously injured.
Last service in Bishop of Burnley's tiny iconic shed
2:11pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A GARDEN shed ‘church’, used by the Bishop of Burnley for the past nine years, is set to be officially retired as one the world’s smallest places of worship.
Pendle Council pays for teenage criminal to stay in Burnley hotel
8:40am Friday 3rd July 2009
A ROW has broken out after a council paid for a teenage criminal to stay in a town centre hotel when he claimed to be homeless.
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