INJURIES sustained in a crash caused by a drink driver made a Nelson man more susceptible to the infection which eventually killed him, an inquest was told. The hearing at Blackburn Coroner’s Court heard how Philip Tonks, 55, died of bronchial
FIRE safety advice is to be handed out in mosques around Burnley after a rise in fires in areas with a large Asian population. Fire bosses will also take out messages in a local mag-azine to try and tackle the problem, discovered follow-ing analysis
ROGUE landlords and homeowners are being warned that there is no hiding place when it comes to cleaning up Pendle’s streets. Environmental officials in the borough are one of the keenest in Lancashire for serving clean-up notices on untidy
A ROW broke out in court after a magistrate labell-ed two boys who desecrated Blackburn Cathedral ‘absolute scum’. The boys, both 16, white and from Darwen, wrote racist and sexually-abusive graffiti in prayer books, and bent a priceless John
A WOMAN was cautioned for cannabis production after police spotted the drug growing in her front window. During the second day of a Beatsweep operation in Blackburn area, authorities seized eight plants from a property on Norman Street. PC Chris Hammill
MORE than 1,600 women will take part in the Race for Life around Burnley’s Towneley Park this weekend to raise money to fight cancer. Last year Burnley women raised £77,250 by running, walking, and jogging the 5k, with many taking part in the fun event
PARAMEDICS have welcomed the jailing of a drunken man who urinated in an ambulance which was taking him to hospital. Paul Ashworth, 30, of Guy Street, Burnley, was found by paramedics slumped at a takeaway in Hammerton Street, in the early hours of
Strictly Tap Dance Fever, performed at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre from June 1 to 3, takes the audience on a whistle stop tour of tap dance moments in show business history. Starting in the era when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were the stars of the
Paul Robinson Paul Ince took a lot of stick for his short-lived managerial reign at Ewood Park two summers ago – and rightly so – but one thing he deserves a lot of credit for is the signing of Robbo. It was nigh on impossible to replace
A 61-year-old man has failed to overturn a bankruptcy order after refusing to pay his council tax for more than nine years. The Chorley man, who has not been named, was declared bankrupt in 2009 despite having the funds to pay off the £7,500 debt. Chorley
A Chorley social landlord has revealed that 13 families have been evicted in the past year and that more than £500,000 is owed to them in unpaid rent. The 13 tenants of Chorley Community Housing thrown out of their homes, between them owed £28,000
A mother-of-two who set up a Chorley-based charity which has transformed hundreds of children’s lives, is in the running for a top award. Joanne Mawdsley, whose children both suffer from a life threatening and rare genetic disorder, has been
ABOUT 125 residents were evacuated to a sports centre today after a suspicious package was found in a bin lorry. Police set up a 100-metre cordon and evacuated properties around Pickthall Terrace, Todmorden, following reports of a possible bomb.
Irish rockabilly and blues singer Imelda May has cancelled a show at Blackburn’s King George’s Hall. The gig on Thursday, May 27 has been called off “due to unforeseen circumstances”. The singer is well known to East Lancashire music fans
RELAXING in the medieval heart of picturesque Galway, a pint of the black stuff in hand and a rack of Irish malts jostling for attention, I just might have hit upon a new calling in life. A few stone overweight and with dodgy ankles. my dreams of
A BLACKBURN man trusted to handle his late brother’s estate stole more than £7,000 left to his niece. When Neil Frier’s niece turned 18 and was entitled to her late father’s assets, the accounts had been closed, a court heard. Preston Crown Court
Malta is often described as an open-air museum. For throughout history, Malta’s position in the Mediterranean has given it great strategic importance. It’s meant that over thousands of years a number of powers, including the Phoenicians, Greeks
John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Chevy Chase, Clark Duke, Sebastian Stan, Crispin Glover, Lyndsy Fonseca, Lizzy Caplan, Collette Wolfe. Director: Steve Pink. The 1980s was the decade that fashion sense forgot - seeing people sport a riotous
Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Ken Jeong, Matt Prokop, Angela Kinsey, Skyler Samuels. Director: Roger Kumble. Cute and cuddly woodland creatures including squirrels, deer, mice and groundhogs are revolting. Revolting against the real estate developers
Running time: 101 mins. Starring: Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Akhtar, Arsher Ali, Preeya Kalidas, Julia Davis, Darren Boyd. Director: Chris Morris. Chris Morris has been best friends with controversy for most of his television and
Running time: 104 mins. Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Alex O'Loughlin, Eric Christian Olsen, Noureen DeWulf, Michaela Watkins, Anthony Anderson. Director: Alan Poul. Absence should make the heart grow fonder but has anyone missed Jennifer Lopez on the
GLEE fever is sweeping the nation. Since the cult American drama, about a of bunch of high school aspiring underdogs, hit our screens at the start of the year, it’s all I seem to have heard about. Set in Ohio, the show can only be described as a mix
BRITAIN’S Got Talent Star Hollie Steel is set to perform a collection of songs from her new album Hollie in Manchester, on June 12 on the first of a series of tour dates around the UK. The night will feature songs from the album including Nessun Dorma
A Nightmare On Elm Street (18, 95 mins) Horror. Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Connie Britton, Clancy Brown. Director: Samuel Bayer. “One, two, Freddy’s coming for you . . . three, four, better
Mosborough Hall April 1, 2010 Mrs Anita Stockton, New Hutton Return ferry travel for one car and four passengers from Norfolkline April 8, 2010 M Miller, Kirkby-in-Furness Weekend break at the Ramada York April 22, 2010 Agnes Walker
HD Box from Comet April 1, 2010 Mrs Mary Cook, Little Lever Return ferry travel for one car and four passengers from Norfolkline April 8, 2010 K Mansergh, Bury Weekend break at Mitton Hall in the Ribble Valley
A DARWEN-based TV licence detector pocketed cash given to him by householders for licence fee payments. Kevin Hamilton, 43, admitted a £3,000 fraud by abuse of position at Manchester Crown Court. Hamilton was employed from spring 2007 by Capita
HUNDREDS of Lancashire people have been left in uncertainty after controversial ID cards were scrapped by the new coalition government. The £5billion national identity card scheme has been consigned to the scrap heap by the new Conservative and Lib
A YOUTH has been arrested by police investigating a fake cash ring in Great Harwood. Officers seized £300 of suspected counterfeit notes during a raid in the town. Police said the investigation had been launched after concerns about the fake money being
Chuggington Railway Sets kidZONE – April 3, 2010 Lewis Walsh, Worsley Nat Entwistle, Bolton Overnight stay in Liverpool with Yellow Boat Cruises April 5, 2010 Jean Entwistle, Bolton Weekend stay for two at the Ramada Jarvis Bradford
EAST Lancashire's first ever solo chart-topper Diana Vickers continues her relatively low-key tour with a gig in Manchester on May 19. The X Factor contestant's debut album, Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree, hit the number one spot this week following
AYUB Khan-Din is probably best known for the surprise hit comedy East Is East, in which a strict Pakistani father’s life is thrown into chaos as his British-born children start to fight against the rules he has imposed on them. But the Salford-born playwright
I WAS off work last week and while enjoying a walk on a Devon beach I thought of an idea for a television programme. What I may just pitch to the powers that be is that the next time I take a break they come along and film me chatting to some locals
Robin Hood (12A, 140 mins) Action/Drama/Romance. Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Max von Sydow, Kevin Durand, Scott Grimes, Alan Doyle, Mark Addy, William Hurt, Oscar Isaac, Eileen Atkins, Matthew Macfadyen, Douglas Hodge, Danny Huston. Director
COVERAGE of football has changed dramatically over the past decade. Back in the days of a Jimmy Hill-fronted Match Of The Day, there wasn’t much else to satisfy the football fan. A po-faced beardy, Jimmy would very rarely break a smile and any sign
Bobby Zamora admits he was forced to put the national interest ahead of personal glory when he made the agonising decision to remove himself from contention for England's World Cup squad. Fabio Capello had intended to include Zamora in the provisional
TO this day he rues the fact that he was too tired to perform at his best at two World Cups, but Bryan Douglas will always feel privileged to have played against Garrincha and the great Brazil. The Blackburn Rovers legend, now 75, represented
FLAMENCO-jazz guitar virtuoso Eduardo Niebla and his Flamenco Jazz Trio are appearing at the Barlow Institute in Edgworth on May 23. Inspired by tours to India and the Middle East, his new compositions infuse flamenco with gipsy-jazz. The event
ARCHIE Anthony has been re-elected president of the Rotary Club of Darwen. Mr Anthony, a retired civil servant and IT consultant, exercised the option of staying in office for a second year and was re-elected at the town’s Masonic Hall on Monday. His
NEWLY re-appointed Sunnyhurst councillor Dave Smith hopes to carry on where he left off in 2008. After 22 years as a Labour councillor for the ward, he was voted out and replaced by For Darwen Party councillor Andrew Graham. But last Thursday, Labour
ORPHANS and street children living in the shadow of Mount Everest are the latest recruits to the claret and blue army. Young people taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh (DoE) award scheme run by Burnley FC’s community support trust have handed over
A RAIDER who struck 22 times to get cash for drugs is behind bars for more than 850 days. Burnley Crown Court heard how Jamie Fairclough, 22, of Eastgate, Whitworth, was one of two men who went into the home of a disabled man and his son on Southgate
WHEN you look at his CV, there isn’t much that Midge Ure hasn’t achieved. Forever remembered as one of the driving forces behind Live Aid, the genial Scot has had success all over the world – first with Ultravox and then as a solo artist. He’s
SAM Allardyce has warned ‘we need a striker now’ after insisting Blackburn Rovers can’t afford to waste any time in their transfer search. The Rovers boss has reiterated his desire to bring a goal scorer to Ewood Park this summer but warns the task
A SCHOOL in the Ribble Valley is hoping that fairy tales can come true after reaching the finals of the prestigious Times Education School Awards. Bosses and pupils at St Mary’s RC School in Chipping are buzzing with excitement after being nominated
ACCIDENT repair firm James Alpe Ltd has picked up two awards at a ceremony organised by training organisation Training 2000. The business, based on the Salt Hill industrial estate, Clitheroe, won best supporting company in recognition of its commitment
ALMOST 100 children out late at night were spoken to by police during the latest Operation Staysafe. Officers took 13 youngsters off the streets as part of the joint initiative aimed at keeping young people safe in Blackburn. Patrols were carried out
AN ‘EYESORE’ control room at Accrington Stanley is to come down this week, ending years of misery for residents. However the club says the temporary cabin may still be in use at the start of next season, but will be moved to a less conspicuous
COLD callers offering security surveys and cheap burglar alarm systems have been targeting residents in Blackburn. Police are warning people in Blackburn to be on their guard against cold callers after they received a number of reports about various
Colin Fitzjohn’s effort to run from John O’Groats to Lands End in 15 days has been thwarted just beyond the half way mark after he lost his way from Penrith to Garstang and didn’t have enough time to get back on track. The 45-year old Darwen Dasher
A LONDON-based swing band which has accompanied legendary wartime signer Vera Lynn is to perform in Pendle. Five Star Swing, recognised as one of the most accomplished jazz and swing bands in the UK, will play at The ACE Centre in Nelson on
A Clarets fan who attacked a bailiff over an unpaid fine given when his team played at Wembley has been jailed for 10 months. Burnley Crown Court heard how Damien Park, 26, had produced a ‘vicious looking’ knife from his kitchen and brandished it before
A DISABLED man stealing electricity was rumbled after police looked under the stairs for his crutches – and found the meter bypassed. Officers had turned up at Nicholas Fallon's Colne home to arrest him on suspicion of running away from an affray even
EAST Lancashire’s railway network is to be patrolled by dedicated police in a bid to crack down on the rising menace of cable thefts. In a shake-up of the way British Transport Police operates in the area, stations and rail services will have
FOR many readers, the back page of a newspaper is their front page. Sport is their obsession, especially football in this particular hotbed. East Lancashire may not be able to compete with Manchester, London or Liverpool in terms of population but
LOLLIPOP men and women are set to be allowed to work beyond the age of 75 – because of problems recruiting new ones. Council bosses want to scrap the upper age limit to help older ‘school crossing patrollers’ to continue in their jobs. The move
A POSTAL worker who cut asbestos roof panels as one of his first jobs ended up developing cancer 40 years later, an inquest heard. For three of four years, early in his career, William Tucker worked for a Manchester firm, erecting concrete and absestos
Accrington’s Nikki Foster shot a two-under par 70 to lead the field after the first round of strokeplay qualifying in the English amateur championship at Broadstone, Dorset. The 18-year-old Pleasington Golf Club member, who is an England international
Barnoldswick Town joint manager Kevin Richardson hopes the club can enjoy similar success again next season after winning promotion in their first season in the Vodkat League. Barlick gained entry to the league last summer and finished second in
Colne and Bacup Borough took eighth and 12th place respectively in the final Vodkat Premier Division table after sharing a 2-2 draw at West View in their last game of the season. Sam Hayes levelled twice for Colne after Chris Ogundoye and Davey Luker
The shock was so great, I nearly fell off the settee. North West England got a mention on the TV national weather forecast on BBC1 (6.45am, Tuesday, May 4). Normally we start in Scotland, track down the east coast, London (of course), west along the
How can Hazel Harding, East Lancashire Hospitals Trust chairman, justify announcing that the trust will continue to have a part-time chief executive ‘for the foreseeable future’, without giving the reasons? How many other hospital trusts in the United
The Conservatives did not win enough seats to take over. A minor party should not have the power to decide the election result. When voting for leaders, most parties have more than one round of voting and this could be used to solve the current crisis
Reading the report about the visit to Darwen by former Primer Minister Tony Blair (LT, May 5), Mr Daniel Wrigley aged 33 years apparently stated that he would not be voting and that he never had and that it doesn’t affect him. Sorry, Mr Wrigley, it most
THE decision to ban people from putting artificial flowers on graves at an East Lancashire cemetery seems extremely harsh. Betty Edwardson said she was devastated when she visited her parents’ grave at Whalley and Wiswell Burial Ground to find all the
HUNDREDS of trees have been cut down in a rural part of the Valley after fears they had become unsafe. The conifers along Burnley Road East, in Water, some believed to be 80 years old, have been taken down to ensure the safety of motorists entering and
THE work of Burnley film-maker Sam Hanna, who compiled almost 600 reels of clips in his amateur career, will be screened later this month. Footage from his films, accompanied by the silent film musician Stephen Horne, will be shown at Burnley
AN APPEAL has been launched to save a war memorial which is “falling to bits” in Hoddlesden. Public conscription paid for a stone cenotaph and four matching urns to be placed in the centre of the village green in the 1920s, to honour the dead
WE’RE on track this week to name most of the soccer players and coaches from our recent photograph of the railway workers football team. Thanks to Ernie Johnson who contacted our desk to name his team mates and detail their trophy win. They were all
WHAT were you doing on Sunday, June 9, 1963? If the answer to that question is watching The Beatles, Roy Orbison and Gerry and the Pacemakers raise the roof of King George’s Hall in Blackburn then author Martin Creasy would like to hear your story.
HEALTH bosses have been left with a £1million bill after delaying three major NHS developments across East Lancashire. Work was controversially postponed by East Lancashire Primary Care Trust on a new Clitheroe Hospital complex and construction of the
ANGRY residents are demanding face-to-face talks with council officials over continuing delays for regeneration works in Brierfield. People living off Clitheroe Road said they were fed up that, after five years, no substantial progress has
EARNSDALE Reservoir remains closed to the public while investigations continue into the death of a 77-year-old man. The body was pulled from the water, near Sunnyhurst Wood, Darwen, on April 26, after being seen by an angler. Police said the victim
THE drummer of popular comedy folk band The Lancashire Hotpots has died, it has been announced. Tom McGrath, known as Willie Eckerslike in the four-strong St Helens group, died on Wednesday. He was one of the founder members of the sharp-witted
CHELSEA captain John Terry has undergone a ‘precautionary scan’ on his right foot after taking a knock in training yesterday. The news comes as a blow for Chelsea’s preparations as they attempt to win the double when they face Portsmouth in Saturday
It did not take Darwen’s Ian Cox to make an impression on the Time Trial side of the sport after moving over from Triathlons last year – with his latest success being to smash his North Lancashire Road Club 25-mile record. Held by Blackburn’s Fraser
A PROLIFIC drinker has been banned from boozing in four towns in Pendle after a spate of violent incidents. Ben Smith, 20, has been banned from entering licenced premises in Barrowford, Brierfield, Colne and Nelson and from being drunk in public
There were 5 prospective parliamentary candidates for the Pendle Constituency. One of them was a BNP Candidate. I was under the impression that the BNP were still practising discriminatory membership policies despite the injunction of the Central
EIGHT men have pleaded not guilty to violent disorder during a clash between supporters after the derby match between Blackburn Rovers and Burnley last October. Violent scenes erupted at the Station Hotel pub in Cherry Tree, Blackburn, between groups
THIS is the face of a sex pest jogger who is targeting women across Burnley and Rossendale. Police are hunting the ‘good looking’ flasher who has struck seven times in parks and streets. The culprit, who witnesses say is in his 20s, has exposed
BURNLEY’S new MP has written to the newly-appointed Health Secretary demanding a meeting to discuss the future of the town’s hospital. Within one hour of Andrew Lansley being named as the new Health Secretary, Gordon Birtwistle said he had written
BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw has repeated that he will not be running in the leadership contest. Mr Straw told the Lancashire Telegraph on Friday night: “I am not a candidate for the leadership.” And this morning he told BBC Radio 4’s Today
Ahead of Jodie Prenger's latest starring role — in Monty Python’s Spamalot in Manchester from July 5 to 10 — she tells us how nothing beats singing a duet with her pet parrot at home in Blackpool. "I’D still live at home now, for sure, if it wasn’t
BURNLEY chairman Barry Kilby has stuck to his guns and given his backing to boss Brian Laws, despite facing initial opposition from board members. Clarets chiefs met at Turf Moor on Monday night to discuss the next step following relegation
Blackburn Rovers starlet Phil Jones believes he is the “luckiest teenager around” as he relishes the prospect of a long-term future at his boyhood club. Rovers’ 18-year-old centre back has emerged as the latest first team member to have
JOHN Stone is the new leader of the National Tarmac Championship after his best performance of the year. The Blackburn businessman finished seventh overall on last weekend’s Manx Telecom Rally at the wheel of his recently-acquired Skoda Fabia WRC. And
RECORDS tumbled and the medals mounted for East Lancashire stars at the Lancashire Track and Field Championships held over two days last weekend at Stanley Park in Blackpool. On Saturday, there were eight Championship records for our local clubs and
MARK Borthwick and Ian Wozencroft were the surprise winners of the Jack Neal Memorial Stages, taking their maiden rally win at Blyton Airfield. Seeded at car five in their Mitsubishi Evo, the Cumbria-based pair ran out winners by almost three minutes
A CLAMPDOWN has been launched after a dramatic rise in shisha dens in Blackburn. In the past month, the fire service has served two prohibition notices at properties in Darwen Street after around 60 people were found smoking shisha pipes inside
Barcelona have offered Manchester City and Chelsea the chance to sign striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic for about £40m. QPR are hoping to sign defender Craig Dawson from promoted Rochdale. Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas has told friends and
A LOCAL historian has unearthed rare film footage of three Lake District events taken more than half a century ago. Judith Keep, a retired teacher who wants to set up a history group in Hawkshead, was given a surprise when she spotted herself on recordings
