Jewellery worth an estimated £3,000 has been stolen by burglars who targeted a house in Hoghton Police are appealing for information on the theft from the house in Gregson Lane. Items stolen included a gold watch, a white gold bracelet, a sapphire
WOULD-BE Apprentice Adam Hosker was finally fired by Sir Alan Sugar - but issued a verbal swipe at the contestant he felt got him the boot. WOULD-BE Apprentice Adam Hosker was finally fired by Sir Alan Sugar last night - but issued a verbal swipe at
THERE'LL be no escaping the mess-age from this year's United at United open air worship event. Renowned escapologist and committed Christian Steve Legg will attend the event at Rossendale United's grounds along with former Boyzone pop star Shane Lynch
PICTURE the scene: The sun is shining, the cocktails are flowing freely and the shops full of dirt-cheap European leather goodies are just begging to be explored . . . Holidays with the girls are packed with moments to be treasured. For guys the perfect
PATIENTS in Blackburn are waiting 79 weeks to access vital counselling services. Some 311 patients are waiting for counselling services in the East Lancashire, according to figures released by the county's mental health provider Lancashire Care NHS Trust
A DILAPIDATED house in Foulridge could remain in its current condition after council staff said it did not qualify for the "problem sites" scheme. Under the scheme, run by Pendle Council's planning department, buildings can be constantly monitored to
A LOCAL councillor has been appointed to one of the most influential groups in the country to tackle environmental issues. Coun Peter Britcliffe, leader of Hyndburn Council, will take up his position on the national "Environment Board" which is run by
A COOK is swapping spoons for walking sticks as she prepares for an adventure of a life time trekking in Peru. Shirley Shaw, 59, who is the school meals cook supervisor at St Andrew's School, Ramsbottom, will fulfil her life-long dream when she spends
THE devastated father of a young girl mowed down at a party paid an emotional tribute to their precious' daughter. Harry and Lorraine Young, who emigrated from Burnley to New Zealand for a better life five years ago, said daughter Jane was about to leave
A COMMUNITY radio station faces an uncertain future after it missed out on vital council funding. Ribble Valley Radio, based in Church Street, Clitheroe, applied for a community enhancement grant of £8,000 earlier this year, but bosses have been told
A SUMMIT meeting has been called over radical hospital plans which will shake-up accident and emergency services for Bacup, Rawtenstall and Todmorden. No fewer than 20 Greater Manchester MPs have called for a meeting with the independent review panel
APPEARANCES can be deceptive, or at least they were as far as Leighton James was concerned ahead of Burnley's must-win match. The Wales international may have adopted a cool exterior for the benefit of his team-mates but admitted: "Behind the mask there
FORMER Clarets defensive midfielder Phil Malley believes the calming influence of manager Brian Miller steered the team through their most difficult and most significant game. Malley admitted that the severity of their potential relegation situation
EVERY Burnley fan wanted a piece of goalscorer Ian Britton ... quite literally. Supporters swarmed around their hero, who had scored the decisive goal to secure the Clarets' Football League survival, stripping him of his shirt, shorts and socks as he
Club historian Ray Simpson believes the Orient game could have been the best thing to happen to Burnley FC. "I think the club would have gone out of business if we'd gone down," Simpson said. "The gates were so poor they couldn't afford to pay players
THE Orient Game was probably the most emotional day of my life - and it wasn't just about football. Praying for Burnley to stay in the Football League created agonies like I had never felt before. But the day demonstrated why sport, and in particularly
ONE thousand free car-crime prevention packs are to be handed out to tackle a rising number of vehicle break-ins. Figures for serious crime in Hyndburn are falling - but the recent increase in car crime is slowing the downward trend. The scheme, launched
IT'S 20 years ago today that Burnley won one of the biggest games in the club's history. The victory over Orient ensured Football League survival in the most dramatic of circumstances. Before 3pm on May 9, 1987, Burnley was a town engulfed by fear
I REMEMBER I was in New Zealand 20 years ago when the Leyton Orient match was played and I only found out the result in the early hours of the following day. I was a first-year professional at Hull City and the season had finished. They had an exchange
THE chairman of BAE Systems has predicted a bright year ahead for the company. Dick Oliver spoke today following the firm's annual general meeting in London which saw protestors gathering outside to call for the re-opening of a Serious Fraud Office
THREE East Lancashire towns will pit their wits against each other in a Test the Town Challenge' this month. The challenge aims to raise awareness of literacy and numeracy as part of the county-wide Adult Learners' Week. People of Great Harwood, Padiham
Bacup Road in Waterfoot will be closed this Sunday due to a delayed resurfacing project. The work is part of a traffic calming scheme, which includes a mini-roundabout at the junction of Burnley Road East and Bacup Road. The scheme also includes
BACUP Leisure Hall is celebrating a £50,000 overhaul which its manager hopes will inject new life into the centre. The hall, which has suffered from a lack of investment, won £40,000 from Bacup and Stacksteads SRB fund and has used £10,000 of its own
RAMSBOTTOM residents are encouraged to get back into learning with classes during Adult Learners' Week. Bury Council has organised the classes and those participating can also take part in the Adult Learners Week Quiz by picking up an application forms
THE country's first degree in policing has been launched in Lancashire. The University of Central Lancashire's department of forensic and investigative science is running the course. To achieve the degree students must pass twelve modules over the two-year
THE Big Red Bus will be coming to Brierfield on Friday. The bus, which will travel around the Railway Street area, will show off the three different options for regeneration in the town, and residents have been invited to visit and add their views.
BARNOLDSWICK town council has "lost its independence" from Pendle after the Liberal Democrats took control, members have claimed. In Thursday's elections, the party won six of the town council's eleven seats, making it the only one in Pendle with party-political
A teenager required to produce driving documents for police gave her mum's name, resulting in a summons being issued in the parent's name. Suspicion fell on Shamela Patel when authorities were told the mum was out of the country at the time. The nineteen-year-old
TWO games to go. And two wins from a possible place in Europe. Blackburn Rovers have it all to play for as they prepare to face Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane tomorrow, and then Reading at Ewood Park on Sunday. But whatever happens over the next
SOROPTIMISTS in Rishton and Great Harwood raised £1,850 for charity during the last year. At the annual installation ceremony at the Auberge Restaurant in Rishton, retiring president Dorothy Casey thanked members for raising such a large sum. It will
OPPOSITION parties are on the brink of taking control of Blackburn with Darwen, ending 24 years of Labour rule. Leaders of the Tories, Lib Dems and For Darwen Party say they are likely to form a ruling coalition with Conservative leader Colin Rigby as
The Rev Irene Greenman conducted the funeral service of Cornholme ward councillor Sandra Twigg. Miss Twigg, who died in Burnley General Hospital aged 58, served on Todmorden Town council for four years. She lived at Bobbin Mill Close, Cornholme, and
VANDALS caused thousands of pounds of damage to cars in a wrecking spree. Five cars parked in North Street, Colne, were scratched with a key or other sharp instrument between 1.30am and 8.30am on Saturday. Police said damage could run to thousands of
A MAN was left with serious injuries following an assault over the weekend. Detectives have launched an investigation after the incident which happened at 'The Butts' in Barnoldswick in town centre . A 21-year-old man was assaulted with a glass bottle
AN important witness who stopped at the scene of a fatal accident is being sought by police. Police are urging a motorist who pulled up when tragic Burnley student Leon Atkinson was killed in an accident on the A59 in Osbaldeston to come forward. The
PUPILS at Briercliffe School received certificates for safer cycling from their neighbourhood police officers. The certificates were handed out to 45 year six children in recognition of their knowledge of cycling and practical expertise. They were
Top marks have gone to Todmorden High School for its high quality performance in giving information to students on careers and lifestyle issues. Calderdale and Kirklees Careers Service has awarded the school, in Burnley Road, Todmorden, the Connexions
A BLUE plaque is to be put up at Turf Moor as part of Burnley Football Club's 125th anniversary. The plaque is set to be erected inside the ground in a prominent position, although the exact wording and site are yet to be finalised. It will mark
A FORMER soldier who lost his son to leukaemia is hoping to raise thousands of pounds for charity by getting his hair waxed off. And besides the pain Henry Aaron McDonald, of Pennine Road, Bacup, is prepared to suffer with the all-over waxing, he is
A HEADTEACHER bid an emotional farewell to the school he has presided over for 15 years. Craig Ward retired from Griffin Park Primary School, Blackburn, 24 years after he first arrived at the Cavendish Place school as deputy head. Mr Ward, 58, said:
HERE'S one for all you old romantics out there. One of the most beautiful love stories of all time, Swan Lake, is coming to Blackburn's King George's Hall. Performed by the ever-popular Vienna Festival Ballet, the production boasts lavish costumes,
PARENTS and teachers have launched a campaign to save a special school from closure. Around 100 people attended a public meeting at Audley Community Centre, Chester Street, Blackburn, last night to show their support. They started a petition to keep
A historic bus company has been re-named. Blazefield Holdings, the Yorkshire-based arm of French firm Transdev, announced that Blackburn Transport will be known as Spot On as it unveiled 25 £150,000 easy access buses. The name change was described as
TWO motorists have admitted causing the death of a 62-year-old furniture worker by dangerous driving. Citroen Saxo driver Stephen Shackleton says he was racing through the streets of Darwen with Ashley Black's Vauxhall Corsa when Thomas Bury was killed
A CLITHEROE solicitor has taken her place on a national panel providing advice to elderly people. Practise partner, Irene Chenery of Chenery Maher Solicitors, Church Street, will now help to provide legal advice to the elderly. The specialist training
A NEW homeless community centre is to be set up on the site of a church in Burnley. The Emmaus, which means hope, project will offer homeless people a base where they can sleep, but also job opportunities and the chance to play a full role in the community
A "CAREER criminal" who terrorised a shop worker in a robbery and burgled 10 social clubs in a month has been jailed for four-and-half years. Heroin addict Michael Davies, 30, embarked on a crime spree during May 2006, in which he burgled social clubs
RESIDENTS across Blackburn with Darwen are being offered free compost bins. As part of Home Composting Week, Blackburn with Darwen Council is encouraging householders to recycle their own waste. Home composting is an easy way to cut household waste
DEFENDER Robbie Williams has become the latest player to agree a new deal at Accrington Stanley. Williams, 27, currently the longest serving player at the Fraser Eagle Stadium club, signed for a further 12 months. He is the eighth Stanley player tied
BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes intends to make Shabani Nonda his first major signing of the summer. The Rovers chief is convinced the DR Congo international will score goals in the Premier League next season, and he is ready to stump up the £2 million required
MORE than £49million of regeneration cash is to be spent over the next year transforming rundown communities. Elevate has announced the investment in East Lancashire under its housing market renewal programme. Bosses said the cash would "revitalise
AS A victim of Gordon Brown's pension plunder I was delighted when I heard a rescue plan was being put to the House of Commons. Sadly, the proposals were rejected by a mere 22 votes. Imagine my horror to discover Labour MPs Jack Straw, Janet Anderson
IT IS certainly time we got rid of our Euro MPs. They seem to have nothing better to do but to think up tinpot ideas to justify their huge salaries. The latest law they want passing is to stop cows and sheep from passing wind by changing the animals'
I SEE a cake maker from Dorset, namely Val Temple has been banned from selling Robin tart because they don't contain robins, also pig cakes which have a little pig on top made of sugar. Because it doesn't contain pigs. I had some shepherd's pie yesterday
MYSELF and colleagues totally agree with the letter written by E Eastham about the council-owned shop closure. Surely the council has it in its power to make this shop safe for future trading. Shouldn't it have been done before now? The many charity
I AM pleased to see that the Telegraph is heading a campaign to help prevent more young lives being wasted by not driving carefully enough on the road. A few weeks ago I was at the top of Saunders Road in Blackburn, waiting for a gap in the traffic flowing
A MAN has been jailed after he swore at a railway station worker when she refused to let him on a train. Andrew Mark Hill, of Queen Street, Clayton-le-Moors, was sent to prison for 21 days after he pleaded guilty to breaching an Anti-Social Behaviour
A LEADING farming organisation has called on livestock producers to add value to their product by using more imagination. The National Farmer's Union (NFU) is concerned about the price farmers are receiving for their lamb which has fallen this spring
A bullish Mark Hughes has warned potential suitors to forget any thoughts of trying to sign Benni McCarthy and Jason Roberts this summer, which will be music to the ears of all Blackburn fans. McCarthy has attracted attention from several different
The shortlists for this year's Lancashire and Blackpool Tourism Awards have been revealed. The awards, organised by Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board, come a fortnight after two of last year's winners - Number One, Blackpool, the bed and breakfast
A PERVERT who indecently exposed himself to a pensioner at a popular beauty spot is being hunted by police. The offender walked up to the 61-year-old woman at Towneley picnic site, Burnley, at about 4.50pm last Wednesday before dropping his trousers.
A PRIMARY school has been targeted by vandals for the second time in two weeks. Sacred Heart RC Primary School, Red Lane, Colne, had its outdoor taps broken off at the weekend, just a few days after vandals damaged the polytunnel and wrecked the garden
MORE than 30 licensees from Pendle attended a seminar to get advice about new smoking laws which start on July 1. It was organised by environmental health services. Executive member for the environment Coun John David said: "We are looking forward
A SCREW has become police's latest weapon in the fight against stolen number plates. But this is no ordinary screw - it is tamper proof and officers hope it will stop attempts to use stolen number plates to disguise vehicles used in crime. It comes
A SCHOOLWEAR firm is launching a petition to get Chancellor Gordon Brown to abolish VAT on uniforms. Clitheroe-based firm Trutex wants the Government to change its policy on all uniforms bearing a school badge or insignia, regardless of size or age.
PLANS to upgrade the artificial sports pitch at St Michael with St John Primary School in Swallow Drive, Blackburn, have been unveiled by borough council officials. Plans to upgrade the car park and surrounding landscaping at the Shear Brow school are
MONDAY night's Panorama portrayed Blackburn as a town divided: whites on one side, Asians on the other, leaving those who watched it with a lot to ponder. Thankfully there seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel. Difficult as it is to admit it,
Let's have a picnic said mum to Aunty May, Too nice to be indoors on such a sunny day, Gran's coming too, she loves to bake And has made a nice sponge cake. They made sandwiches, chicken and ham, And scones filled with strawberry jam, A lovely day
BUDDING tycoon Adam Hosker has prepared for his exit from cult show The Apprentice - by launching a new business. The 28-year-old car salesman from Blackburn could be the one told: "You're fired!" by Sir Alan Sugar on BBC 1 tonight. But he has set up
MIDFIELDER Garreth O'Connor has been transfer listed by Burnley, while four players have been told their contracts will not be renewed. Dubliner O'Connor, who had a year left to run on his deal, has been put up for sale, at the same time as the release
A NEW bus service has been launched to ferry visitors from Burnley town centre to Towneley Hall and Park - and it's free. The Towneley Shuttle runs every hour, on the hour, between noon and 4pm, from the bus station. At Towneley, it operates within
THE oldest football ground in the world still in use today is in the tiny village of Chapeltown in Turton, it has been revealed. And the pitch where the modern game began is nearly 50 years older than previously believed. New research has found that
I'D NOT managed to catch Channel 4's How to Look Good Naked before last night. But I'd read about this Gok Wan character who miraculously transforms frumpy tired housewives into sex sirens without so much as hinting that they'd be better laying off the
A charity ball has raised £30,000 for the Rosemere Cancer Foundation. BBC broadcaster Sally Naden hosted an auction at the Rose Ball, which was held at Ribby Hall in Lancashire recently. Sally, who benefited from Rosemere's services when she was diagnosed
A GROUP of Darwen car enthusiasts who drove the length of the country in vehicles 20 years old have raised over £1,000 for charity. The volunteers took part in the LeBog charity race from Lands End to John O'Groats last month to raise money for a number
Controversial plans to axe Lancashire's emergency fire control room and replace it with a regional call-handling centre have been condemned by firefighters. Frontline officers say the Whitehall-backed proposals, which will see Lancashire's Broughton
