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Competition to create public spaces for 6 East Lancashire towns
2:45pm Thursday 7th August 2008
A DESIGN competition to create public spaces in six East Lancashire town centres is being launched next week.
Comments (1)Police warning for Burnley football hooligans
4:30pm Thursday 7th August 2008
A POLICE chief has warned football hooligans that there is no hiding place - even during pre-season - after a Burnley FC fan admitted breaching a court order banning him from Clarets matches.
East Lancashire painter's body of work gets him to prestige final
2:38pm Thursday 7th August 2008
A SHAWFORTH bodyshop owner has reached the final of a national vehicle painting competition.
Burnley tax office staff 'left in limbo'
6:50pm Wednesday 6th August 2008
BURNLEY tax office workers have been left “in limbo” after bosses said they needed months to decide the fate of under-threat jobs.
Pest controllers' 323 visits to East Lancashire hospitals
5:25pm Wednesday 6th August 2008
EAST Lancashire hospital bosses have insisted there are ‘no problems with infestation’ despite calling out pest control 323 times in two years.
Controversial Burnley waste plan rejected
9:00pm Wednesday 6th August 2008
A CONTROVERSIAL bid to use a waste transfer site on Sundays has been thrown out by councillors.
Debate on fluoride in Burnley tap water
10:30pm Wednesday 6th August 2008
COUNCILLORS in Burnley will next week discuss a bid by a thinktank to convince health chiefs to put fluoride in tap water.
Padiham pupils’ interest in healthy eating is growing
12:48pm Wednesday 6th August 2008
A new eco-garden is brightening up St Leonard¹s Primary School in Padiham.
Train services to Burnley disrupted after blaze
2:48pm Tuesday 5th August 2008
TRAIN services through Burnley were hit after yobs set fire to around 100 tyres beneath a railway bridge.
Burnley and Padiham people 'drinking themselves to death'
6:30am Tuesday 5th August 2008
MEN and women in Burnley and Padiham are drinking themselves to death — despite dire warnings by health chiefs.
East Lancs dyslexia scheme rolled out to Wales
7:00am Tuesday 5th August 2008
A RAPID learning programme for dyslexic children championed by an East Lancashire education group is set to be adopted by the Welsh Assembly.
‘Raw deal’ fear over Burnley baths site
11:04am Tuesday 5th August 2008
A COUNCILLOR fears that Burnley Council could be shortchanged over a deal to allow house building next to the former Gannow Baths.
Burnley police seize uninsured vehicles
10:45am Tuesday 5th August 2008
POLICE in Burnley seized uninsured cars as part of a crackdown on the town’s illicit metal trade.
Burnley council in bid to save two telephone boxes
11:08am Tuesday 5th August 2008
UNDER-threat Burnley phone boxes could be saved after council bosses opposed plans to scrap them.
Journey to work put in picture
10:30pm Tuesday 5th August 2008
AN AMATEUR photographer has snapped the world as he sees it – on his way to work.
East Lancashire hospitals getting better on operation record
3:20pm Tuesday 5th August 2008
FEWER operations are being cancelled at East Lancashire’s hospitals.
Van rubbish fine
3:10pm Tuesday 5th August 2008
A GROCER who did not clean out his van before selling it has been fined more than £1,000 for littering after its contents was found dumped.
Credit union wants more muscle
1:10pm Tuesday 5th August 2008
AN EAST Lancashire community could receive more financial support following the launch of a campaign.
Burnley brewery scoops top cheese award
10:10pm Monday 4th August 2008
A NEW dairy product made with one of East Lancashire’s finest ales has scooped a top accolade at the world’s largest cheese show.
East Lancashire councils sitting on £4m to improve neighbourhoods
5:10am Monday 4th August 2008
COUNCILS across East Lancashire are sitting on more than £4million that is supposed to be spent on improving neighbourhoods.
Old Burnley school looks set to be register office
2:37pm Monday 4th August 2008
BLUEPRINTS to convert a former school into the town’s new register office have found favour with county council planners.
Burnley brewery's sales soar
11:28am Monday 4th August 2008
A BURNLEY brewery has made a major new investment despite fears over the future of the pub trade.
Pedigree turn-out at Burnley dog show
10:58am Monday 4th August 2008
THE annual Dog Rescue Show at Towneley Park took place yesterday.
Shoppers flee Burnley store blaze
10:48am Tuesday 5th August 2008
SHOPPERS were evacuated when a fire broke out in TK Maxx in Church Street, Burnley.
Infections success for East Lancs hospitals
3:20pm Sunday 3rd August 2008
HOSPITALS in East Lancashire have had only one case of MRSA in two months, while clostridium difficile rates have fallen by almost 70 per cent.
Clampdown on Burnley roadside car traders
1:40pm Sunday 3rd August 2008
A CLAMPDOWN has been launched by police and the local council in Burnley on rogue traders advertising cars for sale by parking them on the roadside.
Burnley sex assault case reviewed
11:58am Monday 4th August 2008
A CONVICTED sex offender was caught on camera indecently assaulting a teenage girl, it has emerged.
Super spread at East Lancashire food festival
12:10pm Saturday 2nd August 2008
THE biggest food festival ever to be held in East Lancashire will start later this month.
Sub-station vandals black out 100 Burnley homes
2:41pm Monday 4th August 2008
VANDALS who damaged equipment in a substation left 100 Burnley homes without power.
National News
BA chiefs charged over price-fixing
Updated 12:23am Friday 8th August 2008
Four past and present British Airways executives have been charged with "cartel offences" by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) concerning the fixing of fuel surcharge prices on long-haul flights.
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