THE principal of Darwen’s new academy said he was determined for it to become an important and beneficial part of the community. Darwen Aldridge Community Academy (DACA) opens to all students on Monday, after months of wrangling over the project that
GREAT Harwood’s 108-year wait to be crowned Ribblesdale Senior League champions could come to an end tomorrow as they take on Padiham at The Arbories. The Cliffe outfit lead the table by 14 points and a win over the second-placed side would give them
ACCRINGTON could crown their remarkable comeback from the cricketing wilderness this weekend by winning the Lancashire League title for the first time since 1975. The Thorneyholme Road club has already lifted the Worsley Cup this summer and
A MAN helping to steal garden furniture was detained by a neighbour who spotted the night time activity. Blackburn magistrates heard two other men escaped and Damian Berry later told police he didn’t know who they were. Berry, 23, of
FURIOUS taxi drivers invaded Burnley Town Hall to continue their fight against compulsory training. Cabbies across the borough - some with up to 30 years’ experience - are angry that council bosses want to force them to take a college customer service
EDUCATION bosses have apologised after the opening of a new super school was delayed by one week. Set-backs in the construction of the brand new Pendle Vale College site, in Oxford Road, Nelson, mean that over 1,000 students will now miss out on five
THE Minister for the North West has said the region’s economy could cope with the economic slowdown. Beverley Hughes told an audience of business leaders that the area was equipped to deal with the economic problems thrown up by the credit crunch and
DARWEN Local History Society has adopted a monument at St Paul’s graveyard to ensure its upkeep. The group’s members will ensure that the monument at the ground in Johnson New Road, Hoddlesden, is main-tained, cleaned and weeded regularly as
A CHILD sex attacker who targeted his victim through bluetooth technology has been jailed for three years and two months. Paul Taylor, 40, of of Slaidburn Drive, Accrington, pleaded guilty to eight charges of sexual activity with a child under
A MAN hit his partner in the face and was said to have repeatedly kicked her after accusing her of flirting at a late-night party, Burnley magistrates heard. John Lesley Pounder, 22, also took victim Isabella McKenna's mobile phone off her, preventing
WHEN is this Government going to do something positive (without just talking about it) about the large amount of people who will just not go out to work? We all see them day in, day out, hanging around doing nothing. These people think it is their God-given
A VILLAGE church will be transformed into a bustling place for local traders when it hosts its annual harvest market. St Wilfrid’s Church, Ribchester, will revert to its medieval roots on Saturday, September 13, with a market from 1 to 4pm This will
BOSSES at the Accrington Arndale Centre want a judicial review into the decision to allow a new £32million Tesco store in the town. Asset manager of the Arndale Centre Ray James made the announcement after the Government Office North West decided
UPMARKET retailer Booths has won a final battle in their bid to open a store in Barrowford - to the dismay of neighbours. The firm was given permission to open in Halstead Lane, Barrowford, earlier this year - as long as it obtained the nearby White
Australian comic Jim Jeffries’ shows are so controversial he was once punched in the head by a member of the audience during a gig. Now he’s bringing his outrageous stand-up to Preston Guild Hall. I DON’T actually mean to be offensive,” says controversial
The infamous Frog and Bucket Comedy Club helped launch the careers of many North West comedians, including Peter Kay, Caroline Aherne, Smug Roberts and Johnny Vegas. Tonight it is expanding from its Manchester base to entertain the comedy lovers of
A TEAM of bus drivers raised more than £1,000 for a Pendle charity by competing in an ‘It’s a Knockout’ event. The drivers, who work for Trans Dev, in Burnley, finished in a second place in their group at the Lancaster event last month and raised £1,050
HAVING played the guitar for 10 years, recently adding ‘song writer’ to his list of musical talents, it’s no wonder that Steven Thompson is looking to strike the right chord with Burnley. Despite bursting onto the scene at his old club, Cardiff
AN ACCRINGTON man and Haslingden woman have denied murdering her husband in Pakistan. Ian Priddle, 46, and Yasira Pervez, a 24-year-old law student, are accused of murdering Khurum Mukhtar in a hotel in Rawalpindi, on December 30, 2006.
EAST Lancashire villages have featured heavily in the final standings of The Lancashire Best Kept Village Competition 2008. Four out of the five categories were won by villages from the area that were picked out for being tidy and well maintained
A FORMER Accrington Stanley goalkeeper who blackmailed a top Premier League footballer over a sex video has been jailed for 20 months. Ashley Timms, 22, demanded £15,000 from the star, who cannot be named for legal reasons. Timms, from
DETECTIVES in Burnley are searching for two late-night revellers after a woman was harassed by a man hiding in the wrong toilets. The 19-year-old woman was in the female toilets at Lava Ignite, in Hammerton Street, when a man appeared and made
A PATHOLOGIST will conduct more tests on a Nelson man who is thought to have died from an asbestos-related condition, an inquest has ruled. George Wilkinson, of Clough Road, died at Pendleside Hospice at around 9.15am on August 28 after suffering from
HOMES across Lancashire could be given even more bins to separate their waste. Proposals would see every household given three separate bins for recyclable, non-recyclable and green waste. Many residents already this, but the plans for
POLICE are urging Crawshaw-booth residents to take their warnings of car criminals seriously. Neighbourhood watch and police delivered 600 warning leaflets after a spate of car thefts. But at least four more cars have been targeted since police last
A MAN who pushed the mother of his child in the face in a row was fined £50 by Burnley magistrates. The court was told how jobless James Christopher Cadwick, 20, would say his actions were in response to hurtful and spiteful comments which she knew would
BLACKBURN’s passport office has carried out more than 4,000 interviews since it was set up in December. The Home Office says the new Identity and Passport Service, which means first-time passport applicants aged 16 and over have to attend an
A lorry driver who collapsed and died while unloading at a village’s business park died of an abnormal heart rate. An inquest heard that Steven Barras, 36, of Mavis Road, Scunthorpe, was delivering to premises in Calder Vale Park, Simonstone
A 14-year-old schoolboy is in a serious but stable condition in a Manchester hospital after being run over on a busy road near Chorley. Zachary Howarth, who is from the Adlington area, was crossing Bolton Road, close to the United Utilities water treatment
A 19-YEAR-old man has admitted that he murdered a Burnley father-of-seven on the fifth day of his trial. Mohammed Bilal Bhatti, 20, of Holcombe Drive, Burnley, pleaded gulty to murdering Mohammed Raja Shafiq, 50, of York Street, Nelson, in
FORMER Lancashire Chief Constable Sir Paul Stephenson is being tipped for the top job at the Metropolitan police. Mr Stephenson, who was brought up in Rossendale, left Lancashire Constabulary in February 2005 after three years in the top job. He was
LEISURE centre chiefs are considering a range of expansion plans that could see the conversion of nearby stone barns. Roefield Leisure Centre, Edisford Road, Clitheroe, is in the midst of a £1.1million makeover aimed at revamping the main building
A SPURNED man climbed though his ex-partner's bedroom window and attacked her with a claw hammer in the early hours, a court was told. Drunken Christopher Hargreaves, 21, had told terrified victim Carly Miller to be quiet or he would hit her
LANCASHIRE League legend Mike Ingham has vowed to play on after deciding to quit Haslingden. The 51-year-old batsman, who is the league’s all-time highest run scorer with over 17,000 runs in his 34-year career, is to leave the club after Sunday’s game
A 35-YEAR-OLD Rishton motorcyclist died instantly after colliding with a car that had pulled across his path, an inquest heard. The hearing was told Scott Campbell was thrown over the car in the accident at the entrance to Read Garden Centre
THE Scottish Executive has followed the Welsh Assembly and announced that from December 31, Scottish hospitals would no longer charge people for parking at Scottish hospitals. Responding to calls to extend this to England, where hospital trusts rake
I READ with interest in The Shuttle about the proposed referendum on the possibility of the formation of a new Darwen Council to be represented by 13 councillors and served by two staff. I have lived in the environs of Darwen for 33 years and worked
NEW technology could help an East Lancashire man get his career back on track after losing his sight. Kevin Whittaker had to give up his dream of becoming a nurse at 21 when his vision severely deteriorated as a result of diabetes. The 24-year-old,
Steven Thompson hopes his switch to Burnley can help to re-ignite his international ambitions. The Paisley-born front man made his Scotland debut from the substitutes’ bench against Paris in France, in March 2002, and went on to earn a further
BLACKBURN chairman John Williams has insisted the club will not sacrifice its proud family heritage in its ongoing search for a new owner. The anticipated takeover at Manchester City by Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) has, Williams concedes, made it increasingly
A GRATEFUL dad is saying thanks to the staff who cared for his son when he was born 11 weeks early - by running one of the UK’s toughest marathons. Baby Daniel Philip Brown was born on November 8 last year almost three months before his mum and dad,
Difficult as it is to conceive, Disaster Movie is even more disjointed, unimaginative and interminably dull than the writer-directors' previous efforts: the unholy trinity of Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet The Spartans. This pot pourri of dross includes
Starring: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Thandie Newton, Toby Kebbell, Karel Roden, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, Jeremy Piven. Director: Guy Ritchie. THREE years after the debacle of Revolver, writer-director Guy Ritchie
Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling, Hayley Atwell, Simon McBurney, Aidan McArdle. Director: Saul Dibb. DIRECTOR Saul Dibb ventures confidently into the realms of lavish costume drama with this adaptation of
THE millionaire suspected of killing his wife and daughter, setting their mansion alight and shooting himself was brought up in a rural part of Burnley, it has been uncovered. Police believe Christopher Foster, 50, shot dead his wife Jill, 49 and daughter
A MAN was viciously attacked and robbed by a group of drunken teenage hoodies just yards from his front door. Stephen Jackson, 42, says he now fears leaving his home after dark following the robbery which occurred as he walked back from a nearby shop
A STRUCK-off East Lancashire estate agent is under investigation amid claims he owes landlords thousands of pounds. Twenty landlords who rent out properties through Rossendale businessman Wayne Saxton’s letting agency held a meeting after his
A SCHOOL uniform supplier has been branded ‘irresponsible’ for selling drugs-related items in his shop. Abbey Street Shopping Centre, in Accrington, also sells scout, brownie and guide uniforms and is recommended to parents by schools.
A 39-year-old Blackburn man was found dead in Goa with needle mark on his foot and an unknown white powder nearby, an inquest was told. But Coroner Michael Singleton said that despite three-and-a-half years of inquiries he had been unable to provide
TRAFFIC wardens in Blackburn and Darwen have been given mopeds to ride around the borough.. Council bosses said the move would allow them to tackle ‘yellow line abusers’ in communities around the borough, rather than just the town centre.
