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'Huge' carbon footprint of East Lancashire’s public buildings
9:30am Monday 22nd March 2010
COUNCIL bosses have been accused of hypocrisy over climate change after the ‘huge’ carbon footprint of East Lancashire’s publicly-owned buildings was revealed.
Bid to improve vandal-hit Hyndburn wildlife reserve
3:20pm Friday 19th March 2010
A SCHEME of work to improve an underused wildlife reserve has got underway.
‘Investor’ conned Lancashire people out of £640,000 in pensions scam
8:50am Saturday 13th March 2010
A CONMAN has been found guilty of stealing £640,000 from elderly and vulnerable people in Lancashire.
Oswaldtwistle ‘L’ driver jailed after 11-mile M65 chase
8:40pm Friday 12th March 2010
A DAD-TO-BE who led police on an 11-mile chase in heavy rain while almost twice the drink-drive limit is behind bars for a year.
Smoggy streets a thing of the past in Lancashire
11:45am Friday 12th March 2010
LANCASHIRE’S polluted air was once as familiar a sight as the chimneys that pumped fumes into the air.
Call to support Hyndburn's biggest charity fundraiser
6:07pm Thursday 11th March 2010
PEOPLE across Hyndburn are being urged to get behind the borough’s biggest charity fundraiser and make this year the best ever.
Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre revamp begins
11:50am Thursday 11th March 2010
WORK to transform the ground floor of Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre into Hyndburn’s first centre for the arts has started.
Oswaldtwistle Moor wind farm approved by councillors
11:05am Wednesday 3rd March 2010
TWELVE 120-metre high turbines are to be built on Oswaldtwistle Moor after councillors approved the controversial plans.
£45 million East Lancashire bus lane 'may not happen'
4:00pm Saturday 27th February 2010
THE deputy leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council says he fears a major £45million transport scheme will “never happen” - after a snub by a Government minister.
'Conman' on trial over alleged £640k theft of Lancashire investors' cash
10:46am Tuesday 23rd February 2010
A ‘CONMAN’ stole almost £640,000 before claiming three disappearing business partners had taken the money, a court heard.
High-tech East Lancs business park plans unveiled
9:10am Tuesday 23rd February 2010
A NEW ‘high-tech’ business park employing 4,000 people is set to be built beside the M65.
Oswaldtwistle wartime evacuee says thank you in book
2:30pm Thursday 18th February 2010
AN AUTHOR has thanked Hyndburn for the warm welcome he experienced as a wartime evacuee in a newly published autobiography.
Two East Lancashire summer seaside bus services to be axed
9:10pm Wednesday 17th February 2010
TWO popular summer seaside bus services have been scrapped after 15 years because of a funding cut.
Lancashire's longest serving vicar to retire
5:05pm Wednesday 17th February 2010
LANCASHIRE’S longest serving vicar, who has worked for the same community since 1981, is set to retire.
Lancashire soldiers tell of biggest mission to Afghanistan
6:20pm Monday 15th February 2010
TROOPS from Lancashire are set to be deployed to Afghanistan next month. The country is one of the most dangerous places on the planet yet many of the troops are just teenagers. Chief Reporter David Watkinson met some of the soldiers ahead of the biggest mission of their young lives.
Chart-topping Oswaldtwistle drummer launches mentor scheme
5:06pm Monday 15th February 2010
Drummer Ged Lynch has had a number one hit with Black Grape, toured the world with Peter Gabriel and recorded with music legends including Tom Jones and Chrissie Hynde. Caroline Taylor spoke to him as he re-launched himself as a mentor for budding young drummers.
Armed gang ties up Oswaldtwistle couple
8:20am Friday 12th February 2010
UPDATE: A couple have told of their terrifying ordeal after robbers broke into their home.
£160k revamp at Oswaldtwistle park
6:46pm Thursday 11th February 2010
RHYDDINGS Park is set to be transformed with £160,000 worth of works which will open the area to more users and bigger events.
Alan Street's killers to appeal against sentences
1:44pm Friday 5th February 2010
THE killers of Alan Lee Street have launched appeals against their sentences.
Oswaldwistle teen admits three crimes in a day
A TEENAGER from Oswaldtwistle has admitted offences including fraud, receiving stolen goods, assault and criminal damage.
Extraordinary meeting called over Oswaldtwistle Moor windfarm
1:00pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010
AN ‘extraordinary’ meeting has been called where all council representatives will take a key decision about a controversial windfarm.
Oswaldtwistle boy, 15, given supervision order after £8,000 damage spree
2:22pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010
A 15-YEAR-OLD charged with an £8,000 criminal damage spree has been given an 18-month supervision order.
Oswaldtwistle bus lane 'car park' may be turned into housing
6:30pm Thursday 28th January 2010
A SITE earmarked to replace parking spaces lost to a controversial bus lane could instead be developed for housing.
Final farewell for Oswaldtwistle boy Marti-Lee
11:52am Thursday 28th January 2010
A COMMUNITY’S fundraising efforts have finally made it possible for a family to lay their six-year-old son to rest.
Oswaldtwistle man charged over fatal Blackburn hotel fire
12:33pm Wednesday 27th January 2010
AN OSWALDTWISTLE man is being prosecuted over a fire in a Blackburn hotel in which a man died.
Oswaldtwistle medic tells of life on front line in Afghanistan
6:50pm Monday 25th January 2010
AN Army medic from East Lancashire has told of his experiences on the front line in Afghanistan dodging bullets and bombs.
Nuclear fears over Oswaldtwistle Moor wind farm rejected
12:20pm Monday 25th January 2010
ENVIRONMENT Agency chiefs have concluded a wind farm planned for Oswaldtwistle Moor would have no affect on nuclear waste buried nearby.
New deli opens at Oswaldwistle Mills
11:05am Monday 25th January 2010
A deli has opened a new unit inside Oswaldwistle Mills.
Lancashire firefighters rescue Haiti girl by her pigtails
9:19am Wednesday 20th January 2010
Lancashire firefighters helped saved the life of a toddler who had been buried alive in the Haitian earthquake, it has been revealed.
£1.2m for East Lancashire trainee health centre GPs
11:13am Wednesday 20th January 2010
AROUND £1.2million will be used to expand GP teaching facilities at surgeries across East Lancashire.
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