RESIDENTS in Rossendale can now report problems concerning litter and fly-tipping online. Rossendale Council has introduced a new service to its website. Anybody wanting to report an incident should go to www.rossendale.gov.uk and follow the online
COUNCILLORS in Rossendale have already started talking about providing Christmas lights six months ahead of the festive season. And it now looks likely that Waterfoot, which has been left in the dark in recent years, is set to benefit from a Christmas
PLANS to build a luxurious detached house in a quiet Rossendale hamlet are set to be approved despite objections from local residents. The house, which would include five bedrooms each with their own en suite bathroom and a games room with gymnasium,
FOR the last 17 years there has been one man at the forefront of mountain rescues in the North West but now Dave Barrington has decided to take a back seat. The 54-year-old from Edenfield has been the leader of Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue
BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes was set to make his first signing of the summer today by landing Gillingham keeper Jason Brown. The 24-year-old, who is being tipped to become Wales's future number one, was due at Brockhall this morning for talks and a medical
STACKSTEADS Neighbourhood Activity Centre will be opening its doors to youngsters in the Valley when England matches are being played. Children will be able to have their faces painted at the Newchurch Road centre and hotdogs will be served during half-time
A POLICE officer was forced to play "ring-a-roses" around his patrol car trying to catch a driver who had been drinking, a court was told. Mark Whelan refused to be handcuffed and when he stopped and bared his teeth, the officer believed he was about
ENTERPRISING youngsters at a Blackburn school have been crowned champions of a business challenge. Seven schools from Blackburn with Darwen put forward bright sparks from Year 10 to enter this year's Enterprise Challenge, run by the independent body
I have changed my mind completely and utterly. For months I dreaded the World Cup. With so much furore I was disturbed at night by visions of the entire nation being ordered by the Government to stick flags on their cars, wear England strips and sit
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupils have proved they are Number One' when it comes to maths. For a team from the York Street school took top spot and beat off eight of the region's schools in the final of the Lancashire Schools Mathematics Challenge
A HEADTEACHER insists there is no comparison between the actions of pupils with special needs and those at mainstream schools. Freedom of Information statistics released during an investigation by the Evening Telegraph revealed 72 of the area's teachers
EAST Lancashire school pupils are demanding the world's most powerful men do something about a lack of teachers in Third World countries. Schools in Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Pendle, Hyndburn, and Rossendale have joined forces with pupils around
WHAT more can go wrong for the beleaguered executives of the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust? Virtual 100 per cent opposition to its proposed changes at all the public meetings held throughout East Lancashire. A derisory response from the local population
SCORES of ex-soldiers from the Queens Lancashire regiment filled Blackburn Cathedral to mark the 90th anniversary of the battle of the Somme yesterday. Somme Sunday' saw the usual Sunday service taken over by a commemorative ceremony to remember the
PLANS to build 56 "visually over-powering" new homes in an East Lancashire village look set to be given the go-ahead despite protests from local residents. A petition with 69 signatures has been handed to Hyndburn Council detailing fears that the development
SCHOOLS and amateur photographers in the Darwen area are invited to focus on parks and open spaces throughout the town for the Civic Society's 18th annual photographic exhib-ition. Pictures involving a sport and leisure theme taken within the Darwen
POLICE have issued a fresh appeal for witnesses to an armed robbery at a Darwen off-licence. Officers now believe that a car was involved in the incident on May 30 at Dixons News, Anyon Street. The shop was targeted just two weeks after it was taken
A TEAM of detectives is being prepared to fly to Pakistan as part of the search for murder suspect Zameer Ahmed. The 26-year-old chef has been missing since his estranged wife Nazia, 23, was stabbed to death at her home in Shear Bank Road, Blackburn
From Bella Garck, Wensley Road, Blackburn. Things that have gone by in time, were they really there If they had not happened would anyone really care? If you remembered things gone by which others just forgot Would people think the more or less
SMALL and medium sized businesses in Ramsbottom looking to create extra space or to redevelop derelict premises should act now to secure available European funding. Bury Council's Business Investment Programme can apply for grants of up to 50 per cent
FREE tamper proof car number plate screws are being offered in Nelson. The local Neighbourhood Policing Team will be at the B&Q store on Churchill Way on Tuesday fitting the special screws, which make it more difficult for thieves to steal number plates
WE have seen a steady stream of new recruits to the House of Lords in recent weeks. Some are persons of distinction' on their way to the cross-benches the label people's peers' has been dropped! Most are party nominees from the list of working
THE building blocks for the future of Nelson were being laid today as the redevelopment of the town took a major step forward. Council and regeneration chiefs put down the foundations for the new £5million Liberata office and leisure development at a
THIS is the face of tragic Burnley mum-of-one Jane Payne during happier times. The family of the 29-year-old, who was found dead last month, released the pictures today as inquiries continue into how she spent her final hours. The some-time prostitute
BURNLEY College is to close its nursery making it more difficult for parents to obtain vital qualifications to get back into the world of work. And one angry mother has threatened to chain herself to the college building unless plans to axe the hugely
RAMSBOTTOM soared to the top of the SponsorBank Lancasire League as they unseated leaders Enfield by notching a 42-run win over them. Ramsbottom pro Sunil Joshi laid the foundations with 66 in his side's 175-8. And he picked up 3-46 from his 25 overs
Blackburn Rovers defender Lucas Neill is determined not to let speculation regarding his future distract him from performing well for Australia at the World Cup. The 28-year-old, who has been one of the Socceroos' star performers in Germany, was linked
STEVE Jones believes former Crewe colleague Stephen Foster will prove a major hit at Turf Moor. Free transfer defender Foster ended a long association at Gresty Road by joining Burnley on a two-year contract. He is the second player to make a Clarets
I THOUGHT I'd better check to see if the inmates were still in the asylum over on Channel 4 - and surprise, surprise they are still there. Well actually the lippy Manc and the lipglossed Sloane have gone since I last watched Big Brother but that apart
TWO youngsters have been fined £3,000 between them for setting fire to an historic Great Harwood park shelter and aviary, it has been revealed. The structure in Memorial Park was badly damaged in the blaze in March, and the future of the building was
ONE of the most important NHS jobs in East Lancashire is finally to be permanently filled for the first time in two years. Today the hold up at Blackburn with Darwen NHS Primary Care Trust was labelled "bureau-cracy gone mad." The last permanent chief
WITH regards Ken Robinson's letter of caution in the letters column (LET, May 10) and also the Evening Telegraph's reporting of the proposed development on March 18 and 21 regarding Blackburn Cathedral. I feel that the people of Blackburn have not been
HAVING looked at plans for the proposed £45 million Blackburn Cathedral development, I wonder if townspeople and people of the diocese have envisaged the visual and environmental impact such a huge development will have. This conservation area is the
LANCASHIRE'S 7,000 ponds and their wildlife are to be safeguarded for the future thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The £50,000 will enable the charity, Pond Conservation, to train pond wardens. An estimated 10,500 Lancashire ponds
AN alcoholic was given a last chance to kick the habit that had repeatedly landed him before the courts. Keith Mellor, 56, was told he had come perilously close to going to prison after making his second appearance before Blackburn magistrates for offences
A TEACHER from Hoddlesden who has taught English in China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Cambodia and Vietnam, is recruiting others for the exotic job. Claire French, 33, returned home about a month ago after a five year trip teaching English as a
PUPILS at a Blackburn school are going to walk' to World Cup host nation Germany in the name of charity. Children from St Wilfrid's CE High School and Technology College will between them cover the 907 miles that separates Blackburn and German capital
ROSSENDALE was alive with the sound of music on Saturday and Sunday as part of a fun-filled family extravaganza. And the Rossendale Weekend was so successful that organisers are already looking towards making next year's event even bigger and better.
A new mosque is to be built in a street that forms the hub of Asian businesses. Leaders at Noorul Islam Mosque, Audley Range, Blackburn, have been given permission to build a larger mosque on the opposite side of Dewhurst Street to the current building
AN eight-year-old boy from Blackburn was surrounded by stars and famous literary characters at the Queen's children's garden party yesterday. Azhar Bade, of Audley Range, also got the chance to see his favourite author JK Rowling. Julie Walters,
STUDENTS have had their hospitality skills put to the ultimate test serving the rich and famous at Royal Ascot. The 14 youngsters from Blackburn College waited on the great and good at Berkshire's world-famous racecourse last week during one of the
POLICE have issued a fresh appeal for help to find violent robbers who raided a post office in Worsthorne. Postmaster Russell Dale, 58, was punched in the face and threatened with hammers by two masked men who escaped from the village post office in
HOSPITAL staff have been told to leave bodies lying on wards overnight because staff shortages mean there are not enough porters to lift them. A letter to porters at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, said that medical staff who request a dead patient
DO we really want England to win the World Cup playing badly? You bet we do. England haven't put together a single 90 minutes worth writing about in the first four games yet have strolled through to the quarter-finals. It defies logic but long may
I'M a sucker for romance. A quick scan of my DVD collection would reveal that, in among the Tim Burtons and the Quentin Tarantinos, there are some seriously soppy numbers, reserved for those times when nothing will see you right quicker than watching
Wales' current biggest rock exports continue their inexorable rise onwards with more trans-Atlantic, airbrushed aerodynamics. It's no surprise Liberation Transmission is produced by Bob Rock, the Nicky Clarke of record producers, famed for adding mainstream
Entries in the DJ Kicks series have always been for those who like their music eclectic, and Four Tet's entry is no exception, with tracks from rappers, ravers, soul singers, avant-garde installation artists and a dozen other types of music makers.
Seminal Scottish post-rock outfit Mogwai suffer under the same blight as many bands that enjoy early success: unbeatable first album syndrome. Debut album Young Team was released way back in 1997, and its distortion-heavy loud-soft contrasts were so
Following the faultless formula of the matchless 'Rock And Roll 1' and 'Country 1' compilations, this composite of crooners was hand picked by the staff of the Rough Trade shop. As with the other compilations in this series there's a whole slew of
THE title of India's third album packs a mighty punch. Don't expect it to be happy and jolly, about the highs of love. The first half of Testimony sees honest India, who survived a painful break-up, talk about the loss of love and forgiveness.
Mystical, psychedelic, chaotic. Strange how this album can possess all those qualities and still sound great. There's a massive array of things going on straight-out rock blended in with 60's psychedelia. Think Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on a treadmill
Everyone likes a cup of tea. In fact, like Shack's music, there's nothing not to love about it. And anyone who likes the mellow side of indie acoustic pop, such as Belle and Sebastian, and Jim Noir, will love this track taken from their latest album
The mood of England fans has been swinging more than King Louie in the Jungle Book during this World Cup campaign. One moment there's a swaggering over-confidence in the nation's pubs and living rooms. A poorly weighted pass later and that's given
For a band that was buzzing around when the likes of The Music, The Coral, The Bandits and The Stands were unleashing their debut ponderings upon the indie world, The Basement have a lot of catching up to do. I Just Caught A Face adds a splash of Byrds-esque
In fraying flairs and with their wavy hair flailing, Irish chaps The Answer land in a blaze of hair metal hype not unlike The Darkness a few years back. But whereas The Ness donned the posing pouches of Queen and hammed it up, The Answer play plodding
DAVID Beckham has had a poor World Cup despite the free kick on Sunday which entered his name into the record books as the first Englishman to score in three World Cup Finals. So just what did Beckham, whose selection had been questioned in many quarters
