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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.

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

JAILED: ‘Kingpin’ Munir Hussain

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

BATTERING RAM: Police officers break down the door of a house in  Heath Street, urnley, as part  of their ‘day of action’

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

ROYAL DUO: Claire Corps and Sarah Melia are now acting as mentors for young girls in Burnley after getting help from Prince Charles

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

I’M HOME AGAIN! Enid Lister aboard the restored carriage which used to be her home.

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

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: Elmwood Street

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

INTEGRITY: John Dawson

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

‘UNFORTUNATE’: Chief exec Ged Fitzgerald

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

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

RUDE AWAKENING: Angry residents gather to make their views known to Coun Heginbotham

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

£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

SUMMER ADVICE:Dr Charles Thomson

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

CHAOS: Hospital users parking in Fleetwood Road, Burnley

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

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

FLASHBACK: The Rt Rev John Goddard after the wooden chapel was opened in 2000

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

£30 A NIGHT: Keirby Park 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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