News for East Lancashire: Blackburn, Burnley, Darwen, Hyndburn, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Rossendale

Jilted lover from Chatburn jailed with his brother over attack on rival

8:00pm Friday 24th May 2013

A JILTED ex-lover and his brother have been jailed for a total of five years for violently assaulting a man and leaving him temporarily blind in one eye.

Mum from Bacup jailed for beating woman

7:00pm Friday 24th May 2013

A MOTHER-of-four has been jailed for eight weeks after bursting into a woman’s home and carrying out a vicious attack.

Mileage row Lancashire police commissioner Clive Grunshaw to learn his fate soon

4:25pm Friday 24th May 2013

LANCASHIRE’S Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw will find out next month whether he is likely to face criminal charges over accusations he ‘double claimed’ mileage expenses.

Police step up patrols outside East Lancashire schools after reports of men approaching children

10:42am Friday 24th May 2013

POLICE have stepped up security at a high school after a fifth incident involving a child being approached by a suspicious stranger.

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Colne man in sex attack on teen

8:00pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

A 37-YEAR-OLD man who sexually attacked a teenager in the early hours has been sent for treatment.

Bride vows to stand by husband who burgled their Bacup wedding venue

4:41pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

A HEAVILY pregnant bride vowed to stand by her new husband – even though he was jailed for trashing and looting their wedding venue.

Danger Blackburn care home has to go, say firefighters

2:00pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

FIRE bosses have called for a former Blackburn care home to be demolished after it was repeatedly torched by vandals.

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Three cleared, one jailed over rape of 16-year-old girl in Burnley

10:56am Thursday 23rd May 2013

THREE men have been cleared of raping a 16-year-old girl after picking her up in a car on a Burnley street.

£140k East Lancashire loan shark avoids jail

3:15pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

A LOAN shark who ran a £140,000 illegal money-lending business from his market stall over four years has been spared jail.

Ribble Valley drug dealer stripped of £700k fortune

2:00pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

A DRUGS dealer said to have lived the life of a Premiership footballer on an exclusive Ribble Valley estate has had £700,000 of assets stripped from him by the courts.

85-year-old groper who assaulted Rawtenstall supermarket staff is spared jail

11:58am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

AN 85-YEAR-OLD man who groped two female shop workers at a supermarket has been given a suspended jail sentence.

Man tries to entice boy into car in Ribble Valley

10:30am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

AN eight-year-old boy was asked by a stranger to get in to a car as he played out in the street near his home.

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