TRIUMPHANT young Ribble Valley athletes have returned from the Lancashire Youth Games with the prestigious gold medal for athletics. Ribble Valley entered nine teams for the event, which was held at Stanley Park, Blackpool. And the athletics team, run
PADIHAM will be aiming to reclaim top spot as they entertain leaders Baxenden at the Arbories on Saturday. Andy Robinson's side, led by pro Kashif Siddique, were knocked off the top by the Back Lane side and will hope to get revenge for an early season
A MAN was treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in a house in Hunslet Street, Burnley. Fire crews were called at 9.11pm on Thursday and entered the building using ventilation units. The man was treated at the scene and did not require hospital
DARWEN will aim to put themselves back into Northern Premier League title contention as they face Carnforth on Saturday. The weather, together with some iffy form, has seen the Birch Hall side tumble to fourth in the table. But Keith Semple's side will
A WOMAN and child fled their home on Springfield Street, Darwen, after a faulty cooker caused a plume of gas to set alight. The woman had been about to light her cooker at around 6.20pm yesterday when the gas control knob fell off in her hand. The flow
ACCRINGTON Stanley played out another goalless draw in the second game of their pre-season tour of Scotland as they were held by Arbroath tonight. Reds manager John Coleman named a strong Stanley side in a fiery encounter where no quarter was given or
A Football League report has revealed that Burnley paid £274,000 in agents' fees between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. Of all the Championship clubs during the same period, newly-promoted Sunderland spent the most with £881,594 on agents' fees, with
A CLITHEROE man has been accused of threatening to carry out bomb attacks on Tesco stores as part of a £1million ransom plot. Philip McHugh, 51, of Milton Avenue, Clitheroe, appeared at Stevenage Magistrates' Court in Hertfordshire yesterday accused
A CLITHEROE man has been accused of threatening to carry out bomb attacks on Tesco stores as part of a £1million ransom plot. Philip McHugh, 51, of Milton Avenue, Clitheroe, appeared at Stevenage Magistrates' Court in Hertfordshire yesterday accused
REIGNING Champion Dave Place will be hoping to complete an historic hat-trick when the Blackburn Premier League Darts returns to the town's pubs next week. Bigger and better than ever before, the third season kicks off at the Aqueduct on Wednesday August
TODMORDEN have the task of trying to deny Ramsbottom an unprecedented three-in-a-row when they clash in the Lancashire League Second XI Cup final on Saturday. In a re-run of the 2005 final, Todmorden host the current league leaders who have dominated
AN East Lancashire charity, which aims to prevent suicides in youths, hopes to help save more young lives after expanding into a new headquarters. Arthur Tomlinson set up Papyrus, after his 23-year-old son Leon took his own life in 1991. Papyrus, which
RESIDENTS are to be given handy hints on how to beat bogus callers as part of community safety initiative. About 3,000 cards offering advice on what to do when an unexpected caller will be distributed in Accrington. The cards also provide phone numbers
How do we decide on where to go to eat? Is it the type of food on offer, the interior design or perhaps the friendly welcome? From September 1 the decision can be made before customers even step foot inside the door. Reports on every cafe, kebab shop
MARK Haydock underlined his dominance of British powerlifting after adding two more titles to his collection and another world record. The Hoghton strongman won the 145kg squat and deadlift classes in the British Drug Free Association Single Lift Championships
AN award-winning Young Leaders scheme is to be used as part of a blueprint for similar programmes across the country. The Blackburn with Darwen School Sports Partnership was highly commended for its Sports Hall athletics course for Key Stage One and
A HOUSE raider spared jail by a judge is now behind bars after flouting the chance she gave him. Burnley Crown Court heard how John Sparks, 29, had earlier been given a suspended jail term but landed back in the dock after getting involved in drug supply
A TEENAGER has been found hanged inside a market hall where he worked as a trader. Damon Dean, 18, of Reedley Drive, Nelson, was found hanging from a joist in the market hall in Leeds Road, Nelson, at 8am on Wednesday. He was pronounced dead at the
THWAITES Brewery is throwing open its doors for the first time in 15 years as part of the Blackburn company's 200th anniversary celebrations. The brewery will stage a charity family open day on Saturday, August 11. It will feature a children's entertainer
A family deported to Pakistan from Lancashire are in hiding living in fear of their lives, according to a friend. Nigel, 53 and Pearl, 44, and children Calvin, 12 and Crystal, 14, were arrested and sent back to Pakistan from their home in Nelson in June
LAMMACK Juniors are a community football club in every sense of the word - and they have the award to prove it! For the Blackburn club has just been voted FA Community Standard club of the year for Lancashire. It is an incredible feat for a club that
TWO twinkle-toed youngsters will be hoping to tango their way to victory in a television dancing tournament. Oliver Ramsey, 11, from Barnoldswick, and Amy Bryce, 10, from Burnley, were one of 14 couples selected for "Baby Ballroom - the Championship"
THOUSANDS of pounds have been earmarked for youth groups in Rossendale to enable them to engage in decision making. Youth groups in Rossendale will be able to apply for grants from a pot of £7,662 to enable them to deliver better services for young people
Congratulations to two stalwarts of the Haslingden local community, Paul and Tracey of Bank Mill St. Tracey recently gave birth to a new baby daughter, Caitlin Alice. The new addition to the family weighed in at 8lb 14ozs.
An appeal to install a kitchen and toilet at St Andrew's Church, Slaidburn, has been launched. The work will cost about £72,000 and St Andrew's Youth Fellowship has already held a bring and buy and home-made cake stall on three Sundays at Dunsop Bridge
A DRUNKEN would-be soldier who beat up his then girlfriend's brother told a court he hoped the Army would sort him out. Michael Albert Spencer, 19, said he knew he had a short fuse and had taken up kick boxing to relieve stress. The defendant was said
CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans to build a school on land at Towneley Park have hit out at claims that they are "flying in the face" of a silent majority who support the scheme. Organisers of Towneley for the People said there were more than 1,500 people
A wallet was stolen from the home of a 63-year-old Darwen woman. She had just returned to her Epworth Road home at about 2.30pm on Monday and left the door unlocked when a burglar sneaked in and took the tan-coloured wallet from her handbag. It contained
A JURY has been sent home for the night in the trial of a takeaway boss accused of murdering a 14-year-old schoolgirl. Iyad Albattikhi, 29, is accused of strangling Charlene Downes, 14, before she was "chopped up" and disposed of. He denies murder.
AN MP fighting to save jobs at MyTravel's Helmshore call centre believes campaigners are losing the battle. Rossendale MP Janet Anderson said it had to be accepted now that as many as 200 jobs will go as there was "no chance" of keep the site in Holcombe
A TEENAGER who recorded an album for a leukaemia charity has shifted 60 copies so far. The CD was recorded by Jamie Hamilton, 18, of Richmond Park, Darwen, after he gave his sister Kerry, 21, a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Kerry was diagnosed
REGENERATION work in Blackburn with Darwen could be affected as council chiefs aim to plug an estimated £5.5million hole in the town hall housing budget. Council bosses must repay the 2006/07 overspend - which could mean interest payments totalling
A GOOD Samaritan was hit with a £6.06 council tax bill by town hall offiicals after inviting friends to stay for a few days. Annalise Smith, 26, of Franklin Road, Blackburn, thought she was doing a good deed when she opened her doors to friends Terry
A FOOTBALLING hero and a soap star will help raise money for those who tried to save the life of a young man after a horrific car crash. The event is also being backed by the Lancashire Telegraph, as part of the Wasted Lives campaign, after the family
CUSTOMERS will soon be able to buy a Chicken Korma together with a first class stamp after a post office curry house opened this week. The unusual venture in a former cricket club building in Frank Street, Barnoldswick, is thought to be the only one
A PSYCHIATRIST suspected of drink driving repeatedly failed to give a breath test to police, Burnley magistrates were told. Dr Mdimu Charua Ngoma, 46, had been followed and stopped in Westway, Burnley, by police. Officers had been alerted after an assistant
LOCAL authority contractor Capita has recorded a £118.9million profit for the first half of this year. The company, which provides highway services for Blackburn with Darwen Council, has seen its operating profits for the six months to June 30 rise 20
A "RECKLESS" teenage driver smashed into a car and then panicked and reversed away without stopping, a court heard. Burnley magistrates were told Raja Azeem Riaz, 19, had behaved unacceptably and bitterly regretted it. Wendy Chappell, prosecuting, said
A DRIVER has been jailed for 18 months after crashing into and killing a man who had gone to the aid of another motorist. Michael Parker, 61, died almost instantly after the car mounted the pavement to try and undertake a recovery truck that was dealing
A LANDSCAPE gardener reached for the stars and scooped a top prize at a prestigious flower show. Peter Gregory, formerly of Windsor Road, Great Harwood, won a gold medal at the RHS Flower Show at Tatton, Cheshire, with a space-themed garden. And Peter
THE Pendle Triathlon - one of the biggest sports events in the borough - is returning this year for the first time in six years. The last Pendle Triathlon took place in 2001 but was cancelled initially due to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease and
POLICE are appealing for victims of a bogus born-again Christian to contact them so they can reunite them with their stolen jewellery. The woman may have called at several houses in Accrington, telling residents she would like to go inside and pray with
THE NIGHTMARE closure of George Street in Darwen is about to end but businesses are still worried for their futures. The road, which was closed because of conflicting vehicle moment in the area, will be reopened next month as a one-way system following
THOUSANDS of pounds has been made available for green community projects in a bid to tackle climate change. Community groups across the county will be able to apply for funding from a pot of £25,000 from Lancashire County Council's climate change fund
No one can help where they were born. I was born in Essex, which has made me, like thousands of my county compatriots, the butt of tasteless jokes about Essex girls and Essex boys and lightbulbs - all designed to show that we are under-educated oiks from
DETECTIVES are asking for the public's help in investigating two suspected incidents of domestic violence. In the first flare-up a woman, aged around 25, was hit in the face on a number of occasions by her older partner at the Shadsworth Road service
LIBRARIAN Susan Halstead has turned the pages of history to look at some unusual deaths in the Burnley area. Susan, who works in the reference library at Burnley was prompted to look back through church registers following an outside request for information
READ through the years has been put in focus by villagers who have unearthed a host of photographs of days gone by. They answered a plea from their village library which wants to build up an archive of images showing life in and the people of Read over
HARRY Dilworth celebrated his 60th anniversary by raising money for Pendleside hospice. He and wife Carol, of St Anne's Drive, Fence, invited family and friends to a party at the village's Forest Inn, Cuckstool Lane, with Harry's brother David doing
TODMORDEN MP Chris McCafferty has called for coroners to be made full time professionals in a bid to prevent another killer like doctor Harold Shipman. Speaking in the House of Commons Mrs McCafferty said new guidelines should help close loopholes which
Franny Jeffers grabbed a goal in Blackburn Rovers reserves' 4-0 win at Bamber Bridge last night. The former Arsenal and Everton striker scored with a neat finish from the edge of the area, but the real star of the show was Paul Gallagher who scored
Burnley chairman Barry Kilby has paid tribute to Brendan Flood - insisting the club's redevelopment plans were unlikely to come true without the club's ambitious director. Lifelong fan Flood is dipping into his own personal fortune to fund the sensational
Former Blackburn Rovers defender Michael Gray has agreed to join Wolverhampton Wanderers on a one-year deal. Having lost Jackie McNamara, who moved back to Scotland earlier this summer, Wolves boss Mick McCarthy wanted to add an experienced defender
BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes has stepped up his hunt for a new striker. The Rovers chief wants a new forward on board before the transfer window slams shut next month, and Telegraph Sport can reveal that talks have begun with a number of different parties
AN expat is scaling the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity. Kiara Tanner, 25, originally from Whitebirk, Blackburn, now lives in Herford, Germany with her soldier husband James, 23, originally from the Infirmary area of Blackburn
MORE than £100,000 in Lottery grants have been given to East Lancashire community groups and schemes in the latest round of Awards for All. From promoting South African music in Blackburn to suppporting a junior cheerleading squad in Hyndburn, 15 projects
Andrew Flintoff was denied his chance of getting back in action this week at Blackpool's Stanley Park ground as Lancashire 2nd XI three-day match against Derbyshire was abandoned without a ball being bowled after heavy rain left the outfield waterlogged
PRIVATE clinical centres, designed to help the NHS cope with Government waiting list demands, will now not come online until early next year. Clinical assessment and Treatment Centres (CATs) were expected to be open for business this autumn at sites
BACK in the 1960s a man in Victorian dress used to chat on about the good old days to passers-by in Blackburn boulevard. We've had an e-mail from an old Blackburnian now living in America asking readers if anyone remembers him. Chris Lynch said: "He
AN 1844 map of Blackburn has been produced, the latest in a series being put together by a north east company. Heritage Cartography offers hand drawn Victorian maps of English towns as they appeared in the mid 19th century. Its new Blackburn project
HALF a century ago, Great Harwood Roller Hockey team was a force to be reckoned with. During the 1950s, the players went undefeated in a league match for an amazing eight years and were actually crowned World Champions. In 1954, Norman Mercer was named
I DISAGREE with changing the law over young drivers. Changes will only be used to further persecute responsible drivers, as everything else has been. The law cannot, in the present climate, be used to influence young people. They have parents who
I LIVE in a terrace house in Darwen where I have a wheelie bin, a bottle bank and a newspaper sack which I have to store in a small back yard, with wheelie bin collections once a fortnight but I am happy to recycle. In Osbaldeston, they don't have wheelie
BLACKBURN Actionnaires, a local sports club for visually impaired children run by Action for Blind People, has always enjoyed fantastic support from your readers. To raise money for the Actionnaires, the Hilton in the Community Foundation is challenging
AS a firm believer in freedom of speech, democracy and religious freedom, before anyone else complains of "intolerance" here they should take a look at the way Christians are being treated in Islamic countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to understand
HEALTHY order books are underpinning a boom time for the civil aerospace division of Rolls-Royce - which employs 1,000 people in East Lancashire. Latest interim pre-tax profits for the Rolls Royce Group, announced today, are down from £870million to
SOLDIERS from the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment paraded through Manchester as they were awarded the freedom of the city. Hundreds of people turned out in force to see the soldiers of the regiment, formerly the Queen's Lancashire Regiment - which recruits
A TEENAGER has been found hanging in Nelson's Arndale Shopping Centre. The discovery of the 18-year-old was made at about 8am yesterday. Police said the youngster had gone missing from his home address in the town. An investigation has been launched
Blackburn Rovers have handed trials to a couple of promising young players. One is 18-year-old Danish winger Adda Djeziri, who currently plays for Gunnar Nielsen's former club BK Frem, and spent a period on loan at Rangers last season. The other is
A HOME in Blackburn was heavily smokelogged after a young householder fell asleep with a chip pan on a cooker. Fire crews were called to a property in Calder Street, Blackburn, just after midnight to a blaze in a kitchen. Firefighters said the property
NELSON'S Jonny Lang is set to battle it out with the very best this weekend in the Spa 24 hours race. Racing with his old team, Trackspeed, Lang will be joined by the team owner and two other drivers to compete at the historic circuit through the famous
BURNLEY chairman John Stubbs admits he is delighted to see former Turf Moor seamer James Anderson firing on all cylinders for England again. Anderson made a superb return to the Three Lions fold in the first Test against India, six months after his last
IF Mother Nature was to be kind just once this summer, she'll allow a ray of sunshine to beat down on Darwen cricket's calypso king tomorrow. For West Indies veteran Keith Semple is hoping the showers steer well clear of Birch Hall for his Caribbean-themed
