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  • Accrington cancer battler, six, returns to health

    A FAMILY celebration will mark a little boy’s return to health after three years of gruelling cancer treatment. Six-year-old Accrington boy Rieli Biggins has finished intensive chemotherapy after being diagnosed with leukaemia. The youngster

  • Blackburn woman in child custody battle in Turkey

    A BLACKBURN woman is locked in a child custody battle with her estranged husband in Turkey. Anisa Khansia, 29, was visiting 22-month-old son Amani’s grandparents when a bitter fight over the child broke out. Friends and relatives of

  • FULL TIME: Kendal Town 1 Blackburn Rovers reserves 7

    BLACKBURN Rovers reserves opened their pre-season campaign with an emphatic 7-1 drubbing of Kendal Town. Second half substitute Tom Hitchcock scored a hat trick, while Aaron Doran, Micah Evans, Jamie Maclaren and James Knowles were also on

  • FULL-TIME: Altrincham 2 Burnley 4

    BURNLEY got their pre-season campaign off to a winning start today, but only after surviving the scare of an Altrincham fightback. The Clarets dominated their non-league opponents in the first half and should have had more to show for it than

  • Lancashire County Council £27m underspend questioned

    OPPOSITION councillors have questioned the scale of immediate cuts after it emerged the county council under spent by more than £27million last year. Final figures showing day-to-day expenditure for Lancashire County Council from April 2010

  • Preston interested in Carlisle

    BURNLEY defender Clarke Carlisle is understood to be the subject of interest from Preston North End. Carlisle lost his place in the Clarets side towards the end of last season and Preston, relegated to League One in May, are considering a move for the

  • Punishment and the laws of God

    There has been much column space given over to the capital punishment debate. In a society with no god, it is a natural assumption that to deprive a murd-erer of his/her entitlement to life is a logical outcome for the bereaved and the wider society

  • Howe: "We know who we want"

    EDDIE Howe is mulling over new plans for his summer transfer budget after stressing that Burnley did everything they could in their failed bid to sign Jack Cork. Cork opted to sign for Southampton after Burnley were unable to agree a fee with

  • Human Rights Act to blame

    IN reply to ‘Let down by the soft judiciary’ (LT, July 6), yes the magistrates and the judges hand out sentences they know are not in any way suitable to fit the crimes that are committed. But they have their hands tied by government legisla-tion that

  • Tawdry IVF lottery to create our children

    Roll up! Roll up! Great prizes to be won. Win a baby. Win your chance to rent another woman’s womb. In the week that we learned the depraved depths of phone-tapping, courtesy of the soon-to-be-defunct News Of The World, we stoop to a new low of a monthly

  • What's on: Batman Live

    ONE of the most spectacular live shows ever attempted will receive its world premiere in Manchester from July 19 to 24 bringing one of the great comic book heroes to life. Batman Live has been three years in the making and will open at the

  • Blackburn Christian academy 'creates division'

    ONE of Blackburn’s top schools has been accused of undermining community cohesion after unveiling a controversial new admissions policy. St Wilfrid’s CofE High School Technology College has announced a plan to increase the number of pupils

  • Prolific Burnley burglars sold stolen items at their house

    TWO burglars set up a home as a ‘Burnley Wood bazaar’, selling the wares from their crimes and those of other local crooks. At the house in Springfield Road they sold burgled goods, including mobile phones, laptops and gardening equipment as

  • Blackburn Rovers owners: We're here to stay

    BLACKBURN Rovers owners have vowed ‘we are here to stay’ as the club moved quickly to deny growing rumours they were up for sale again. Sections of Rovers fans have become increasingly concerned by reports on the internet that Venky’s had grown disillusioned

  • Rawtenstall pub attack man spared jail due to service in army

    A DRUNKEN ex-soldier who left a man with a smashed cheekbone after an attack in a pub was spared jail — because he has served in Afghanistan. Levi Thomas Sumner’s victim Christopher Hargreaves was headbutted and knocked unconscious in the trouble at

  • McConville: I left Stanley because of Hamann

    SEAN McConville says the lure of working with Dietmar Hamann was the reason he yesterday opted to leave Accrington Stanley and join Stockport. Andy Procter, Luke Joyce and Dean Winnard have now signed two-year deals to remain at the Crown