AN 11 year-old boy was tonight receiving emergency treatment after being shot in the eye with a ball bearing gun. He was taken to the Royal Blackburn Hospital at 6pm today, but then transferred for treatment at Burnley General. It was
There's an exciting Bring & Buy Sale on Saturday 27th June at Haslingden Conservative Club from 10am to 12 noon. 50p admission including refreshments. Bring your wife and buy a new dollybird (or dollytub more likely.)
A VOYEUR who secretly filmed house guests using peephole cameras has been jailed for three-and-half years. Jason Hollings, 37, of Clarence Street, Darwen, disguised the cameras as plug sockets above the bath and in a bedroom. His actions were inadvertently
A BLACKBURN tobacco smuggler faces an extended prison sentence if he fails to repay £30,000 he made from crime within six months. Saiful Chowdhury, 40, used his clothing company in Accrington Road, Blackburn, to sneak more than 30 tonnes of tobacco into
A CRIME-fighting grandad from Hapton has been awarded £1,000 to help improve community safety in his neighbourhood. Father-of-four Anthony Brankin, of Carter Avenue, is one of the country’s first Community Crime Fighters, trained under a pioneering Home
COUNCIL chiefs have been told the costly resurfacing of a busy road is their own fault – for failing to unblock drains. Earnsdale Road, Darwen, is one of several streets in the town which is being improved in a £500,000 project by the borough council
What on earth is happening to this country? A young man goes to the defence of a senior citizen (LT, June 12), is injured for his trouble, yet gets a nine-month jail sentence when he apprehends a person he thought was one of the perpe-trators and threatens
THIS is a few words for Carol Smith of Blackburn (Letters, June 5). Not all the people in Burnley are as stupid as she thinks, voting for the BNP. I should do some research if I were you and get the correct numbers of those who voted BNP. And cut out
SO, Carol Smith (LT, June 15) thinks that the people of Burnley should be ashamed of themselves for voting in the BNP. Who, Carol, would you suggest that they voted for? The two main parties have being showing their contempt for the people of this
RE: ‘Only a ban will stop smokers’ (Letters, June 15), while the health issue regarding smoking can be seen as self-evident, the financial costs of the NHS treating smoking-related illnesses must surely be put in context by the tobacco taxation revenue
A WOODED area near Towneley Park was cordoned off amid reports of a sex attack on a girl. Forensic specialists carried out tests at the scene, off Mary Towneley Fold, from Friday afternoon until 11am on Saturday. An officer stood guard
ROSSENDALE Council is hailing a new toilet scheme a success – despite a mixed reaction from local traders. Traders across the borough were encouraged to open up their facilities to shoppers as part of a six-month pilot scheme last year. The project
ONE day Hazel Harding was earning around £48,000 as the leader of the fourth-largest council in the country, with thousands of employees under her, all working to do her bidding. The next, she’d joined the thousands of other redundant workers across
SPEEDING motorists and dangerous drivers have become a police priority in a Rossendale town. A crackdown on motorists breaking the law is to be launched in Bacup over the next few months. The initiative follows reports fromresidents
A SEA of silver and sparkles lit up Blackburn at night as more than 800 woman helped raise essential funds for East Lancashire Hospice. The third annual Silver Starlight Walk, an eight-mile stroll through the town starting and ending at Ewood Park, started
FOUR people have been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated offences at the British National Party's Victory rally in Lancashire. Those held, who are not believed to be connected to the party or anti-fascism protesters picketing the
AEROSPACE companies are not immune to the credit crunch but those that emerge from the down turn could reap lucrative rewards, according to an industry leader. Speaking to the Lancashire Telegraph from last week’s Paris International Air Show, Northwest
