News RSS Feed


REGISTER NOW TO POST YOUR COMMENTS ON THESE STORIES

It's free and only takes a few seconds. Click here to go to the registration page.

Just six kerb crawlers arrested in Lancashire in a year

Just six kerb crawlers arrested in Lancashire in a year

8:50pm Friday 10th July 2009

PROSTITUTES are four times more likely to be arrested in Lancashire than the kerb crawlers who trawl the county’s red-light areas.

Burnley and Pendle councils jump on cash roundabout

7:20pm Friday 10th July 2009

SCORES of advertising signs are set to be put on more than 20 roundabouts across Burnley and Pendle.

Blackburn councillor slammed for leaving skip for three months

7:00pm Friday 10th July 2009

A COUNCILLOR has been criticised after abandoning a skip full of rubbish in his own ward for three months.

Blackburn teen on the mend after emergency op for brain tumour

PLIGHT: Nichole Bain

6:30pm Friday 10th July 2009

UPDATE A 16-year-old girl is on the road to recovery after undergoing a life-saving six-hour operation less than a week after being diagnosed with a large brain tumour.

Bacup drug addict jailed after burgling 19 homes

SPREE: Phillip Brearley

6:27pm Friday 10th July 2009

A MAN is behind bars after admitting a burgalry spree in which he targeted 19 different properties.

Former Blackburn Rovers star's wife dies, aged 42

DEVOTED: Colin and Denise

5:10pm Friday 10th July 2009

FORMER Blackburn Rovers defender Colin Hendry's wife has died.

Clitheroe museum artefacts 'may be sold off'

3:40pm Friday 10th July 2009

HISTORIC Clitheroe artefacts could be sold off after it was revealed the council was running out of storage room for them.

Breakthrough in sight on Clitheroe parking scheme

1:23pm Friday 10th July 2009

A CONTROVERSIAL residents parking scheme in Clitheroe looks set to go ahead after businesses and residents edged towards an agreement.

Pollution leak kills fish in Haslingden

FISHY BUSINESS: One of the dead trout at Swinnel Brook which prompted the investigation

12:04pm Friday 10th July 2009

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after hundreds of fish were killed following a pollution leak in Haslingden waterways.

Four new plans revealed for delayed Blackburn link road

PLAN: One of the new options for the road

11:10am Friday 10th July 2009

FOUR options have been put forward for Blackburn’s new link road – turning the clock back to 2006.

Blackburn town centre building works blamed for bus service cuts

END OF THE LINE: The number 10 bus service

10:17am Friday 10th July 2009

BUS bosses have sparked fury by cutting more services – and have blamed the building work taking place in Blackburn town centre.

Burnley Council 'stupid' for paying £290,000 for eyesore

‘EYESORE’: The former Derby Hotel

8:30am Friday 10th July 2009

COUNCIL bosses spent £290,000 of housing money on a dilapidated pub - and plan to replace it with a “ridiculous” piece of public artwork.

Knife attack on boy, 12, in Nelson

6:21pm Friday 10th July 2009

A SEARCH is underway after a knife attack left a 12-year-old boy injured.

Nelson brothers locked up for midnight mayhem

3:05pm Friday 10th July 2009

THREE brothers who barged into a house in Nelson armed with weapons and started midnight mayhem which left three men injured are all behind bars.

Blackburn blaze debris is 'scummy eyesore'

GROTSPOT: Resident Brian Chambers surveys the rubbish outside the gutted house in Havelock Close, Blackburn

1:41pm Friday 10th July 2009

RESIDENTS in a Blackburn street are still having to live facing piles of debris from a burnt-out house five weeks after the fire.

New homes at last for Darwen clearance area

1:11pm Friday 10th July 2009

A DEAL is under way to build 30 new homes in Darwen’s Queen Street and Hindle Street clear-ance area – four years after a bitter wrangle over the site began.

‘£200m lost in investments’ by North West families

1:08pm Friday 10th July 2009

DOZENS of Asian families across the North West fear they have lost fortunes in foreign investment schemes.

Blackburn man back in jail after Lancashire Telegraph appeal

Blackburn man back in jail after Lancashire Telegraph appeal

11:57am Friday 10th July 2009

A WANTED man is back behind bars thanks to an appeal in the Lancashire Telegraph.

Ribble Valley residents 'most satisfied in country'

11:00am Friday 10th July 2009

A GOVERNMENT survey has revealed the country’s most satisfied residents live in the Ribble Valley.

North West near bottom for organ donors

5:39pm Friday 10th July 2009

THE North West is one of the worst places in the country for organ donors, new figures have revealed.

Children triumph in schools 'green' contest

5:10pm Friday 10th July 2009

A PENDLE village school has been commended for its ‘green’ credentials in a borough-wide compet-ition.

Projecting ideas with equipment in Burnley

4:10pm Friday 10th July 2009

A BURNLEY community centre has taken delivery of a new laptop and projector following help from neighbourhood police officers.


Watch police launch war on criminals in East Lancs

A memorial to 7/7 victims - including an Oswaldtwistle mum - is unveiled in London. Watch footage from the ceremony

Watch cricketer Jimmy Anderson in a new video to encourage people to regulate their summer drinking

A masked gang stole cash in a raid on a security van in Blackburn. Watch footage from the scene




Essential links


Your East LancsYourTelegraph


Your Say YourTelegraph




Sponsored Links

Local advertisers


Local Information

Enter your postcode, town or place name

House prices »   Schools »   Crime »   Hospitals »