A DARWEN landmark is now unlikely to reopen as a pub, according to property agents. The Brookside in Duckworth Street was until recently well known for its popular poker nights, before being put up for sale. According to agents at London-based Paramount
Nah Then...Rawtenstall Cricket Club have actually won a match! They beat Lowerhouse on Sunday, 12th July with retired veteran Keith Roscoe returning to the side and showing the crowd what they had been missing. Could this be the start of a revival....
A Rawtenstall Cricket Club X1takes on the touring Australian Wattlesprigs side on Friday July 17th. Stumps are at 1pm and it's a 40 over match at the Worswick Memorial Ground, Rawtenstall Admission is £2 & £1 concessions. The Wattlesprigs are made
A TEENAGE thief who committed a catalogue of crimes in Hyndburn has been given a three-year ASBO. David Osbaldeston, 16, who lives in Blackburn, was given the order at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court. Over three years Osbaldeston was responsible for 43
TOWN hall bosses have been blasted for failing to spend Government cash on creating jobs as unemployment soars. Official figures show the number of jobless in Burnley had by May almost doubled in a year to 2,659, or five per cent of the working age population
A COUNCILLOR has been cleared of misconduct in a probe costing taxpayers £1,500. Tory David Heginbotham, who represents Cliviger and Worsthorne on Burnley Borough Council, was reported to the town hall’s standards committee follow-ing a planning meeting
A TEENAGER suffering cannabis-induced psychosis who attacked a pensioner on her drive has been spared jail - as a judge hit out at the dangers of the drug. Burnley Crown Court heard how James Banks, 19, had been a voluntary psychiatric patient at the
MICHAEL Bisping was knocked out for the first time in a devastating defeat at UFC 100 in Las Vegas. The Clitheroe mixed martial artist was out cold for around a minute after the brutal right of Dan Henderson smashed across his jaw and sent
A CRACKDOWN has been ordered on hauliers who have been outstaying their welcome at a Pendle lorry park. Truckers have been complaining that they struggle to find spots on Barnoldswick Lorry Park, in recent weeks. Now council officials
A HASLINGDEN-based firm which was in administration has been taken over by a former owner. Peter Heaton has bought JH Birtwistle Limited, which his family has owned in the past, and is now hoping to build the business to its previous size.
AN East Lancashire design and manufacturing company has been given a £38,000 boost. Taylor Shaw Manufacturing Ltd, Springhill Works, Accrington, were handed the funds as part of the No Limits Finance for Growth programme. The business
A PLANNING application to crown, lift and thin oak trees covered by the Burnley (Pike Hill Farm) Tree Preservation Order 1978 at the Thornton Arms, Brownside Road, has been received.
THE Town Clerk is to investigate the removal of the bus shelter on Green Lane after complaints.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting blasted England's gamesmanship after they left Cardiff with a nailbiting draw. Although he insisted it would be forgotten about when the tourists set off for London later today, Ponting was incensed by
Australian batsman Marcus North gives his take on the fourth day of the first Ashes test in Cardiff.
A BUSINESSMAN set to take delivery of four million smuggled cigarettes which cheated the state out of duty worth more than £673,000 is starting a 30 month jail term. Craig Waterhouse , 46, had arranged for the haul, shipped from China to Felixstowe
