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Salterforth school's 100th anniversary to be celebrated

ACROSS THE YEARS: Former pupil Muriel Pollard with granddaughter Darcey Mae Smith, who attends the 100-year-old Salterforth Primary School. Muriel is helping to organise the centenary celebrations.

8:00pm Sunday 14th March 2010

AN EXHIBITION is being organised to mark the 100th birthday of a tiny school in a Pendle village.

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Brierfield school making progress

12:29pm Friday 12th March 2010

A PENDLE high school is making satisfactory progress, according to a monitoring inspection by watchdogs Ofsted.

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East Lancashire colleges’ cash boost by bank

9:53am Thursday 11th March 2010

TWO East Lancashire colleges have taken advantage of a low cost bank loan system to create state-of-the-art facilities.

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Accrington pupils’ terror DVD ‘could go national’

4:39pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

A BILINGUAL DVD created by Hyndburn pupils is being rolled out across East Lancashire in a bid to tackle terrorism.

Darwen high school in enterprise first

2:16pm Tuesday 9th March 2010

AN East Lancashire high school has become the first in the country to incorporate a business hub were students can run their own enterprises.

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Planned location to rebuild Pendle school causes anger

9:00pm Monday 8th March 2010

VILLAGERS in Pendle have been angered by a proposal to demolish a village school and rebuild it at a new site.

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Police set up new base at Burnley college

7:50pm Friday 5th March 2010

A POLICE office has opened at Burnley Campus to improve the service being offered to residents of Daneshouse and Stoneyholme.

Darwen Academy project near journey’s end

4:09pm Friday 5th March 2010

THIS is the first look around Darwen’s new multi-million pound academy and sixth-form centre.

First Blackburn with Darwen engineering diploma students set to graduate

4:12pm Friday 5th March 2010

BLACKBURN with Darwen’s first wave of diploma students are set to graduate.

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Praise for Hapton Primary School

11:12am Friday 5th March 2010

HAPTON Primary School has been recognised for its teaching of English and maths.

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New Burnley school site nears completion

9:58am Friday 5th March 2010

BUILDERS of the new Unity College in Burnley's Towneley Park are coming to the closing stages of construction.

Football anti-racism project piloted in Burnley to be rolled out

8:00pm Thursday 4th March 2010

AN ANTI-racism football project, piloted by Burnley FC, is now being rolled out across the UK.

Darwen pupils drive home parking message to parents

4:56pm Thursday 4th March 2010

SCHOOLCHILDREN have been helping to improve road safety outside their schools by speaking to parents and taxi drivers who park on yellow lines.

Rawtenstall headteacher joins war against dog fouling

1:00pm Thursday 4th March 2010

A HEADTEACHER is campaigning with parents to tackle the problem of dog fouling in Rawtenstall.

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Darwen Academy milestone event today

7:10am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

A CEREMONY to celebrate a milestone in the construction of the Darwen Aldridge Academy takes place today.

Padiham school pupils jumping for joy

4:54pm Tuesday 2nd March 2010

ST Leonard’s Primary School is jumping for joy after being named SPAR Star school of the year and also reaching the Lancashire Youth Games gymnastics finals.

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Blackburn pupils shortlisted for letter-writing award

1:42pm Tuesday 2nd March 2010

A LETTER to Blackburn Rovers footballer David Dunn has put a pupil in with a chance of winning a Royal Mail competition.

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Mixed fortunes on East Lancashire school places

5:31pm Monday 1st March 2010

CHILDREN in different parts of East Lancashire had mixed fortunes getting in their first choice school.

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Blackburn College boss gets invite to Downing Street

1:54pm Monday 1st March 2010

THE principal of a top East Lancashire college has been invited to Downing Street in recognition of its success.

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Blackburn pupils could move to new school a year early

2:00pm Saturday 27th February 2010

PUPILS at a school that is set to close as part of a reorganisation are to be transferred up to a year early, it has been announced.

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£8million boost for Burnley 'superschools'

12:49pm Saturday 27th February 2010

WORK on one of Burnley’s new ‘superschools’ is so far ahead of schedule that cash set aside for work later in the year has been released early.

Blackburn Rovers fans hit by Darwen school car park closure

11:03am Wednesday 24th February 2010

BLACKBURN Rovers and the borough council are in talks over parking spaces on match days as a key Darwen car park near to the ground is set to close.

Clayton-le-Moors dad's anguish over student loans delay

11:54am Monday 15th February 2010

A STUDENT has told how he was left severe money worries after getting caught up in the student loan fiasco.

Clamour for East Lancashire university places

4:13pm Monday 15th February 2010

APPLICATIONS for the new university centre in Blackburn have soared.

Blackburn school introduces fingerprint access scheme

7:40am Saturday 13th February 2010

STAFF and students in a Blackburn high school and sixth form centre are the first in the county to access buildings with state-of-the-art fingerprint recognition technology.