ROGUE street traders have been banned from Nelson and Brierfield after a wave of protests from legitimate businesses. Fly-by-night pedlars will be permanently barred from Arthur Street and Walter Street in Brierfield, the council has decided
A HIGH-tech crime-fighting spray has been issued to a nursery school in Burnley after a spate of thefts. Thieves have targeted Rosegrove Nursery School, Havelock Street, five times in the last six months, causing £1,000 in damage and stealing
East Lancashire food suppliers Wellocks are celebrating 50 years in business. We find out why they were ahead of the time when it comes to the latest culinary trend. CELEBRITY chefs Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal, and top restaurants throughout the
Address: Barley Lane, Barley, Pendle, BB12 9JX. Phone number: 01282 614808. Lancashire Telegraph review by Kate Turner from January 8, 2011. THE Pendle village of Barley might be best known as the starting point for the walkers
COUNCILLORS in Rossendale will no longer be able to claim for the cost of home broadband as part of a cost-cutting measure. The council currently pays around £2,000 a year for councillors to have broadband at their homes. The move comes as the council
Like the leader of Preston Council, I am ‘in utter disbelief’ that Blackburn with Darwen Council is to continue its opposition to the Tithebarn development. This same group is about to preside over the closure of Blackburn market – a facility much loved
MY comments are addressed to Mr Peter Stobbs, the Burnley Council engineering manager, regarding the article (LT, January 1) about new spy cameras. Burnley is in the top ten of the most run-down towns, with deprived areas like Burnley Wood, Stoops
MORE than 1,000 hectares of moorland are to be improved for the benefit of ramblers, mountain bikers, and birds, as part of a £300,000 project. Worsthorne Moor is to undergo an ambitious restoration project which will prevent the erosion of
A STUDY into air pollution along one of Colne’s busiest roads is set to take place. Levels of nitrogen dioxide have regularly exceeded permitted rates at the junction of Windsor Street and Dickson Street. Colne area committee has approved an air
A FORMER deputy headteacher from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Blackburn has died. ‘Charismatic’ French teacher Simon Turner died at home on New Year’s Day aged 53. His family and QEGs staff paid tribute to a respected colleague
NIKOLA Kalinic made a welcome return for Blackburn Rovers this afternoon but it was the club’s young guns who all the eyes were on at Ewood Park. The Croatian striker created Zac Aley’s opener in the 2-1 Lancashire Senior Cup quarter final
CLITHEROE’s ‘shrinking glacier’ has once again made an appearance. The huge heap of snow on Booths supermarket car park has been piled high outside the store since the snowfalls of late December. Last year, the winter phenomenon ended
I would like to thank the council For Barnes Square’s Christmas tree It has the bonniest little lights The Claytoner’s ever did see. Members of the Methodist Church have mentioned They twinkle with hope and cheer Still it’s a
God looked down on lovely Lancashire and the rest of Planet Earth and resolved to up his game. He was planning a New Year to end all New Years, and this one would change history from BC to AD. He considered various resolutions as he contemplated a new
A GRANDMA recovering from a serious car crash in America has thanked the Lancashire Telegraph for making contact with her insurance company. Wendy Sullivan, 53, cannot yet return home to Eccleshill Gardens, Darwen, after suffering cracked ribs
A SECOND inquest into the youngest person to die in a British penal institution in modern times will be a wide-ranging inquiry in how young people in custody are restrained, a coroner said today. Adam Rickwood, of Burnley, was just 14 when he was
PETROL station operator Euro Garages has hired the former boss of Asda in a coup for the East Lancashire firm. Andy Bond, who was chief executive of the supermarket giant between 2005 and 2010, was persuaded to become chairman of Euro Garages
A 10-YEAR-OLD boy was airlifted to hospital with suspected spinal injuries. The youngster, was taken to the Royal Blackburn Hospital in the North West Air Ambulance after he fell over at St Marys RC Primary School in Sabden on Friday afternoon.
ANGRY Whalley residents boycotted a Co-operative store over the organisation’s plans to build houses in the village. The Save Whalley Village group, staged a demonstration outside The Co-op’s shop and garage on the A59 on Saturday morning. Dozens carrying
WORK is nearing completion on a £3million scheme to clean up a polluted waterway between Bacup and Todmorden. Iron deposits, caused by the former Clough Foot colliery, have been a longtime problem for Midgelen Brook, on moorland between the two towns
CENTENARIAN Alice Chadwick says the secret to a long life is a dry martini every day before lunch. Mrs Chadwick who has just celebrated her 100th birthday said the cocktail, sometimes with a little gin, had kept her life long and healthy.
DESPITE the long range weather forecasters promising us a mild winter this one so far has been one of the worst for many years, perhaps this is the start of what may be called global cooling? I wondered how our small mammals which live in our woodlands
HOMELESS dogs have been given some much-needed TLC thanks to Hyndburn Stray Dogs In Need. The animal welfare charity has teamed up with Maundy Relief: Maundy Grange in Accrington to help dogs living with homeless people. Welfare officer
SIMON Garner has slammed Neil Warnock for being “bang out of order” after the QPR boss and players launched an astonishing personal attack on El-Hadji Diouf. Blackburn Rovers’ controversial midfielder has been at the centre of another storm
STUART Gray says he expects to meet chairman Barry Kilby in the next couple of days to find out whether he still has a role to play at Burnley – either as caretaker manager or as a coach. Gray was put in temporary charge of the Clarets for
A REVIEW has found that Ramsbottom’s Civic Hall made the second most significant loss of any venue in the borough of Bury. Under a Freedom of Informaton Act request, it has emerged that it cost £265,077 to run the Market Place building. Income generated
To Wii or not to Wii, that is the question. Last weekend I took hold of a piece of black plastic and waved my arms about in the strangest game of tennis I've ever played. It was also the least enjoyable. No racquets, no balls, not even a court – just
PLANS to demolish one of Nelson’s largest remaining mill buildings are set to be considered by councillors tonight. Blueprints have been unveiled by AFK Nelson Ltd to bulldoze the former Reedyford Mill, off Chatham Street, and construct 134 homes. Talks
PREPARATION is, as the saying goes, key. But is seems there is a real problem in East Lancashire with winter planning. First the gritting of roads, while an improvement on 2009, has been questioned. Residents, sending complaints to the Lancashire Telegraph
I AM nearly 68 and when I was a little girl, which doesn’t seem that long ago, I heard my mum talking with her friends about a family that lived on ‘poverty street’. I asked my mum where that was and she answered, ‘I pray you never find it'. In
Recently my wife and three of my friends have been given fixed penalty notices as a result of the speed limit being changed at Osbaldeston from 40 to 30mph. All of them were travelling below 40mph, assuming that they were obeying the old limit on this
You ran an article (LT, January 5) about speeding school-run drivers in the Mill Hill area of Blackburn. The police say they had been targeting the area last month and the problems had dropped. Don’t they realise it would – as the schools had shut
MICHEL Salgado has urged Blackburn Rovers owners to forget the superstars and instead focus on building for the long-term at Ewood Park. After Saturday’s 1-0 FA Cup third round win over Queens Park Rangers, boss Steve Kean conceded defeat in
NORWICH City chief executive David McNally has branded Burnley 'unprofessional' for making their approach for Paul Lambert public - insisting their boss would never have joined 'a much smaller club'. The Clarets announced late on Thursday
URGENT action needs to be taken over a raft of potholes which have sprung up across Colne, say councillors. Road conditions have deteriorated in some locations, it has been revealed, after the latest thaw. Major roads such as Windy Bank, Skipton
A MEAT wholesaler from Rossendale has been banned from being a company director after his firm crashed with debts totalling nearly £250,000. Shaun Ashworth, 36, of Lower House Green, Lumb, was disqualified for two years following an investigation by
PADIHAM brought Vodkat League Premier League leaders New Mills back down to earth with a bump with an impressive 3-1 win at the Arbories. The Storks had to be alert in the opening stages agai-nst the Derbyshire side who had only lost twice
THE problem of gangs of predominantly Asian men grooming underage girls for sex has just made national headlines. But the Lancashire Telegraph first uncovered the issue in July 2006 with the launch of our Keep Them Safe Campaign.
ROSSENDALE United slumped to the foot of Vodkat League Premier Division after a demoralising defeat to fellow strugglers Ashton. The Dark Lane side some-how contrived to turn victory into defeat after conceding a last minute goal. In a nervy first
AFC Darwen leapt above mid-table rivals Oldham in to 11th place thanks to two second half goals from Steve Lee and Lee Slater. The first half was a forgettable affair with both sides only managing three goalbound efforts between them – none of which
BACUP blew away the cobwebs with a deserved win on the road at Alsager. Despite having not played since December 11, Brent Peters’ side wasted little time to get back in the groove with Daniel Cocks firing Bacup ahead in the 19th minute after
CLITHEROE’S play-off hopes in Evo-Stik First Division Nor-th suffered a blow after throw-ing away a three-goal lead against lowly Cammell Laird. The Shawbridge side appeared to be coasting to a 3-0 win to keep the pressure on Chester and Chorley
CHORLEY slogged their way to a third successive New Year victory on a glue-pot of a pitch to keep up the pressure on leaders Chester. After both teams had struggled to adapt to the sticky conditions, second-placed Chorley went ahead with a
UNIVERSITY centres in Lancashire have announced it will be ‘impossible’ to keep fees lower than £6,000 a year. Bosses at Blackburn College University Centre and the University of Central Lancashire are currently working to set the fees rate
STEVE Clarke has been ruled out of the race to become the new Burnley boss after being appointed first team coach under Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool. The former Chelsea and West Ham coach was being tipped as a target for the Clarets in their
JOHN Coleman admitted he had to take some of the credit for Joe Jacobson’s winning goal as Accrington Stanley overcame local rivals Bury on Saturday. Left back Jacobson is not renowned for his heading skills but the on-loan Oldham man nodded in the only
A POLICE chief has dismissed speculation by councillors over the future of community policing in Colne and surrounding villages. Politicians in the Pendle town had feared that the future of beat bobbies in Foulridge, Trawden and Laneshawbridge was in
STEVE Kean is hoping to bolster the spine of his Blackburn Rovers side after admitting defeat in his search for a marquee signing this month. Having written off Rovers chances of adding David Beckham to the squad on Friday, Kean conceded
CHRIS Eagles is keen for the Burnley board to make a swift decision over the identity of the club’s new manager so the players can focus on a push for promotion. The Clarets are yet to appoint a new boss – almost two weeks after the departure
Jack Straw’s claims that some Pakistani sex-groomers see white girls as ‘easy meat’ has sparked a furious local and national debate. Community leaders and councillors from all parties attacked him for talking of a ‘specific problem’ involving
The Lancashire Telegraph today calls on all communities in East Lancashire to join together to openly tackle sex grooming and lays out the facts behind this ongoing sickness in our society. Our call follows the outcry sparked by Jack Straw's
FORMER Arsenal midfielder John Jensen is expected to be named as Blackburn Rovers' assistant manager today. Rovers boss Steve Kean hopes to announce his number two in the next few hours with Jensen believed to be his man. The former
The comments by Jack Straw about the men of Pakistani heritage grooming vulnerable white girls was a surprise to me. The way Mr Straw has tried to move the debate into a direction that can disturb the community relations and political atmosphere
SHORTAGES of the seasonal flu vaccine have been reported in East Lancashire following a surge in demand. Health chiefs told the Lancashire Telegraph on Thursday they had 'no concerns' about the availability of the vaccine, which this year also
Hi, I found it totally upsetting as a keen football fan to see the reaction the the Blackburn striker Diouf reacted the way he did, a player in distress with a double broken leg, I CANNOT believe a proffesional player COULD react in this way to a fellow
