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Two Accrington pubs up for sale

9:00am Saturday 18th May 2013

TWO landmark Accrington pub premises will up for sale at a major property auction next month.

Man grew cannabis in Accrington garage

7:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

A MAN said to have been growing cannabis worth about £6,000 at a garage will have his case heard at the crown court.

Man asked 9-year-old boy to get into his van in Oswaldtwistle

6:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

A NINE-year old schoolboy was asked to get into a white van by a man as he walked home from school.

Apology call over Hyndburn councillor's 'offensive remark' on Facebook

Coun Clare Pritchard

5:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

COUNCIL bosses launched an investigation after a councillor used an offensive remark on a social networking page.

Government 'out of touch and ideas' claims Hyndburn MP Graham Jones

Hyndburn MP Graham Jones

6:00am Friday 17th May 2013

HYNDBURN and Haslingden MP Graham Jones has accused the Government of being ‘out of touch’ and ‘out of ideas’.

Fundraiser jumped from Las Vegas skyscraper to help Great Harwood girl

Darrel with Neave

2:06pm Friday 17th May 2013

A FUNDRAISER jumped from the 108th floor of one of the world’s tallest buildings to help a toddler who has cerebral palsy.

Rider airlifted after being kicked by horse in Oswaldtwistle

Trish Dobson and (inset) the horse that bolted

6:00pm Thursday 16th May 2013

A RIDER who was airlifted to hospital after her horse kicked her in the ribs, cracking two of them, and damaging her liver, has pledged to raise money for the air ambulance.

Rishton man faces jail for sexual grooming

5:00pm Thursday 16th May 2013

A RISHTON man who has confessed to meeting three schoolgirls after ‘sexual grooming’ has been told he faces jail.

Great Harwood reality TV dad Philip Chawner says no to jobs

Philip Chawner

11:30am Thursday 16th May 2013

The father of a reality TV family from East Lancashire – said to have claimed £342,000 in benefits – has rejected two job offers during a breakfast TV show.

Nominations open for Hyndburn sport awards

3:53pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

NOMINATIONS are open for the Hyndburn Sports Awards.

Hyndburn MP backs campaign to help private tenants

3:52pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

HYNDBURN MP Graham Jones is backing a campaign to help private tenants.

Elderly people in Rishton left without heat or hot water

Work under way at Eachill Gardens

3:12pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

ELDERLY residents living in sheltered housing have said that lessons must be learnt from an on-going heating failure.

Accrington man attacked best friend

7:30pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

A 34-YEAR-OLD demolition worker attacked his best friend after they walked out of a pub arguing

Mourners say goodbye to ‘the Mother Teresa of Accrington’

EMOTIONAL SEND-OFF Hundreds of people packed an Accrington church yesterday for the funeral of Sister Dorothy McGregor

10:48am Tuesday 14th May 2013

HUNDREDS packed into St Anne’s Church yesterday to say goodbye to the ‘Mother Teresa of Accrington’.

Walkers hit the trail in Hyndburn to help animals

8:57am Tuesday 14th May 2013

WALKERS and animal lovers are being encouraged to join the RSPCA in raising money for animals in their care.

Accrington students bag £250 to help the isolated

4:28pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

A SCHOOL fundraising group have raised cash to help isolated people in their community.

Accrington textiles firm bucks economic trend with Far East orders

7:00pm Monday 13th May 2013

AN ACCRINGTON business is ‘bucking the economic trend’ through exporting to Hong Kong, Japan and Scandinavia.

Boy,10, saves family from house blaze in Great Harwood

1:00pm Monday 13th May 2013

A QUICK-thinking 10-year-old saved the lives of his sleeping family by shouting for help as a fire raged in the kitchen.

Accrington car crime culprit was housemate

9:21am Monday 13th May 2013

A ROOFER took his housemate's car and wrote it off while subject to a suspended jail term.

Bear Grylls visits East Lancashire Scout camp

Bear Grylls throws a flaming spear to light a beacon at the opening of the Running Bear Teepee village at Bowley Camp, watched by Daniel Hayden,

9:12am Monday 13th May 2013

THERE was a special treat for one young lad when his hero Bear Grylls dropped in at an East Lancashire Scout camp.


Hyndburn what's on

Oswaldtwistle Players’ take on sit-com classics (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 4:12pm Tue 16 Apr 13

SOME of TV’s best loved sit-com characters are being brought to life – with some original touches – by…

Get up close with Eighties hitmakers China Crisis (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 4:35pm Fri 22 Mar 13

CHINA Crisis have announced they will play an intimate gig at Oswaldtwistle Civic Arts Centre this summer.

Rat Pack experience royally cool (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 12:24pm Fri 15 Feb 13

THE Kings of Cool will be taking to the stage of Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre on Sunday night when a tribute to the…

Island adventures in the community (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 4:46pm Tue 15 Jan 13

MORE than 50 young performers from East Lancashire will be transported to a desert island this week.

Good fun weather it rains or shines! (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 3:56pm Fri 11 Jan 13

A BID to beat the great British weather is at the heart of plans to create a new festival in East Lancashire.

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