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24 bags of rubbish collected in Rossendale

4:01pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

PEOPLE braved the rain to clear litter in Rossendale.

Waterfoot theatre issues plea for investor

3:00pm Monday 13th May 2013

WATERFOOT’s internationally-renowned playhouse is looking for an investor to grant them some desperately needed funding.

Booze battle inspires Rossendale woman's new career

12:30pm Monday 13th May 2013

LAST summer, Vicky Grossi was so desperate for alcohol that she tried to drink a bottle of perfume.

Girl heartbroken after dog stolen in Whitworth house burglary

6:30pm Saturday 11th May 2013

AN EIGHT-year-old girl has been left devastated after her beloved puppy was stolen by thieves who ransacked the family home as they slept.

Ramsbottom boy, eight, dies after asthma attack

6:00pm Saturday 11th May 2013

AN EIGHT-year-old boy with an ‘infectious laugh’ has died after suffering an asthma attack.

Fears raised over Ramsbottom landfill expansion

FLETCHER Bank Quarry in Shuttleworth

8:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

THE owners of a Rossendale landfill site are planning to expand the industrial rubbish tip to include food and farm waste.

Dog walker bitten by snake near Haslingden reservoir

RECOVERING Sarah Bowker in hospital

6:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

A DOG walker was rushed to hospital after being bitten by a poisonous snake.

Haslingden firm fined £8,000 for 83,000 piled-up tyres

STOCKPILED The tyres at Globe Recycling

3:30pm Friday 10th May 2013

MORE than 83,000 tyres were left stockpiled at a Lancashire waste company after the recycling market collapsed, a court heard.

Folk and bluegrass artists added to Stacksteads summer fair line-up

8:00am Friday 10th May 2013

FOR the first time ever, Stacksteads Summer Fair will feature a musical element.

Sell-off floated in bid to save Haslingden swimming pool

The pool at Haslingden

10:00pm Thursday 9th May 2013

A MEETING to thrash out the bones of an agreement which could save Haslingden Swimming Pool has been held.

Rossendale company secures 'recession-fighting' deal to make 'One Direction' shoes

MD Steven Smith and sales director John Kirk celebrate winning their One Direction deal

11:07am Thursday 9th May 2013

A ROSSENDALE shoe company has secured a deal to produce footwear featuring the logo and images of the world’s biggest boy band One Direction.

Rossendale moorland blaze could be seen miles away

The fire could be seen for miles

4:50pm Thursday 9th May 2013

A BLAZE could be seen for miles around when it tore through acres of moorland, sending plumes of smoke across Rossendale.

Student kayakers honoured for saving life of 55-year-old man in Ramsbottom

4:28pm Thursday 9th May 2013

THREE kayakers who saved a rafter’s life on the River Irwell in Ramsbottom have been given commendations.

Rawtenstall footballers train with coaches from Rotterdam's Feyenoord Football Club

9:54am Thursday 9th May 2013

PUPILS from All Saints’ High School in Rawtenstall got the chance to train with youth coaches for Feyenoord Football Club in Rotterdam.

Rawtenstall solicitor fined for remark about Jews

10:05am Wednesday 8th May 2013

A SOLICITOR who told a colleague that she ‘could not stand Jewish people’ has been fined £2,500 by a legal watchdog.

New headteacher takes over at Whitworth school

Nerys Hughes with pupils

5:01pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

A NEW headteacher has been appointed at St Bartholomew’s CE Primary School, in Whitworth.

'Flash' cars exposed £8k Whitworth drug farm

4:58pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

A NEAR £8,000 cannabis farm was found at a rented house in Whitworth after an anonymous call to the letting agent about ‘flash’ cars turning up, a court heard.

Rossendale fraudster assumed role of carer to disabled man

LIAR Ryan McCormack

2:20pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

A fraudster has been jailed after cheating a cerebal palsy sufferer and his family out of £64,000.

Waterfoot drug plants criminal gets prison

10:03am Tuesday 7th May 2013

A PROLIFIC crook who had converted an upstairs bedroom into a £12,000 cannabis farm and planned to sell drugs, has been jailed for 10 months.

Rawtenstall firm lobbies health chiefs to promotes its aspirin carry-case

7:00pm Monday 6th May 2013

A SMALL family firm has written to health chiefs about the high level of heart disease in East Lancashire - saying more people should be carrying a potentially life-saving aspirin tablet.


Rossendale what's on

Alex goes to town with dances in the name of Fame (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 4:09pm Tue 2 Apr 13

CHOREOGRAPHER Alex Townend is stepping up to the challenge of one of musical theatre’s biggest dance shows.

Call to arms in Todmorden for Les Mis teenagers (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 10:08am Tue 26 Mar 13

TODMORDEN Hippodrome Youth Theatre (THYT) is calling on teenagers to storm their barricades at company auditions.

Actors in spotlight for witty work (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 2:45pm Tue 12 Mar 13

A RETIREMENT home for actors is the setting for Rossendale Players’ latest production.

Thriller to be performed on the Waterfoot stage (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 3:56pm Tue 19 Feb 13

AN open reading night will take on Ian Hornby thriller The Price To Pay on Tuesday, March 5, at 7.30pm.

Kids' favourites in Haslingden Disney show (link)

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure 3:53pm Tue 19 Feb 13

YOUNG performers are set to showcase some of cinema’s most popular songs this week.

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