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  • Boss considering changes to maintain Rovers' intensity levels

    Tony Mowbray will have his eye on a run of three league games in the space of a week to help maintain Rovers’ high intensity levels. Rovers travel to Derby County tomorrow night before a trip to Stoke City on Saturday in a tough run of September

  • Defour ready to play his part after return from injury

    STEVEN Defour is ready to play his part in helping Burnley turn their season around after coming through an hour for the Under-23s on his comeback. The 30-year-old was playing for the first time since undergoing knee surgery in January and he believes

  • Vampire Vape wins two BIBA Awards!

    VAMPIRE Vape, the Darwen-based e-liquid manufacturer, last week clinched two trophies at the prestigious BIBA Awards; the star-studded event in Blackpool. The business received five nominations and won in the coveted Manufacturer of the Year and

  • Tony Mowbray on FA charge for Derby boss Frank Lampard

    After Derby County boss Frank Lampard accepted an FA charge for improper conduct, Tony Mowbray put it down ‘to the emotion of the game’. Lampard was charged following his 77th minute sending-off during his side’s defeat at Rotherham on Saturday

  • Town centre pub closes for refurbishment

    A TOWN centre pub will be closed for two weeks while it undergoes a refurbishment. The Bridgewater pub in Darwen town centre has now closed and will undergo a major renovation. Bosses at the Church Street bar, which closed today for the refurb

  • IN PICTURES: Clitheroe 0 Colwyn Bay 2

    CLITHEROE were beaten 2-0 by Colwyn Bay on Saturday in Lee Ashforth's first game in the charge. The Blues parted company with former boss Stuart Mellish last week with Ashforth, who was No.2, stepping up to take over. But he couldn't start with

  • Nelson and Padiham learn FA Vase fate

    NELSON'S reward for their five-star showing in defeating Tow Law Town on Saturday is an FA Vase first round date with Ashington. Steve Cunningham's side will be at home against their Northern Football League Division One opponents on Saturday, October

  • Wife's tribute after husband dies of prostate cancer

    A WOMAN who lost her husband and sister-in-law within weeks of each other has shown tremendous courage by raising £10,000 for two good causes. Diane Cobb, 55, from Baxenden, said she was shocked to have raised so much money after hosting ‘Cobby’

  • One arrested in 3am cash machine raid

    A 36-year-old man was arrested after cops were called to a midnight burglary.  Police were called to Duckworth Street in Darwen at around 3.20am on Monday morning to reports that a number of thieves were trying to steal an ATM. The machine,

  • WATCH: Shocking video of Spice 'zombies' in town centre

    THESE shocking images show three people sparked out on a bench in broad daylight after apparently taking the zombie drug ‘Spice’. The two men and a woman lie unconscious on the seat and the pavement as pedestrians, including schoolchildren, walk

  • JUST ANNOUNCED: Kaiser Chiefs to play Blackburn show

    KAISER Chiefs have announced a date in Blackburn as part of a major UK tour early next year. The band, fronted by former Voice coach, Ricky Wilson will play King George's Hall on Thursday, January 31. The band - best known for hits including

  • Accrington's £2m town square 'danger to blind people'

    VISUALLY impaired people could be in danger walking around the new £2m Accrington town square, it has been claimed. David Anderson, of the Accrington and District Blind Society, says the group has written to Hyndburn Council about the new area outside

  • IN PICTURES: Accrington Stanley 1 Fleetwood Town 1

    ACCRINGTON Stanley extended their unbeaten League One run to seven games with a 1-1 draw at Fleetwood Town on Saturday. Sean McConville's scored half equaliser earned a share of the spoils. Re-live the action with our picture gallery. Pictures

  • IN PICTURES: Blackburn Hawks 3 Sutton Sting 2

    BLACKBURN Hawks got their first win of the NIHL Moralee Conference season with a 3-2 win over Sutton Sting on Sunday night. Re-live all the match action with our picture gallery. Pictures: KIPAX

  • McDermott Homes housing plan for former school sites approved

    CONTROVERSIAL plans for 250 new homes on former school sites have been approved. McDermott Homes lodged an application in January to build the new development on the former Habergham and Ivy Bank high schools off Kiddrow Lane, Burnley. Councillors

  • Report into borough's "excess" winter deaths

    A NEW plan will be produced after statistics showed Rossendale had the highest number of excess winter deaths in the country. Following ONS stats which cited the borough as having the highest number of excess winter deaths (70) in the country for

  • Appeal over man alleged to have committed assault in Darwen

    POLICE are looking for a 30-year-old man who went missing from Darwen following an alleged assault in the town. Lee Wilcox was last seen around 10.15am on Saturday in the Blackburn Road area. His disappearance followed a report of an assault,

  • Wolves 1 Burnley 0: What the pundits said

    MATCH of the Day pundit Jermaine Jenas said Burnley had to take more risks in their attacking play after making life 'too easy' for Wolves on Sunday. The Clarets were only beaten 1-0 at Molineux but they were comprehensively outclassed by Wanderers

  • Cork insists Clarets can still enjoy a good season

    JACK Cork insists Burnley can still enjoy a successful Premier League season despite seeing their disappointing start continue at Wolves. The Clarets suffered a fourth successive top flight defeat, losing 1-0 at Molineux to Raul Jimenez's goal.

  • Boss on the challenge facing Harrison Reed after Rovers debut

    An exciting cameo off the bench from Southampton loanee Harrison Reed didn’t surprise boss Tony Mowbray who admits: ‘he’s a high quality player’. But the 23-year-old faces a tough challenge on his hands to displace the combination of Richie Smallwood

  • Hundreds look for future careers at Blackburn Cathedral

    MORE than a thousand job seekers attended at special careers fair at at Blackburn Cathedral last week. A total of 95 employers, education institutions and and training providers exhibited at the event. The morning session of Blackburn with Darwen

  • Patients rate East Lancashire hospitals best in area

    PATIENTS have rated East Lancashire's five hospitals as the best in the area. That is according to new data from the NHS Friends and Family Test survey. In the 12 months to July 2018, 98 per cent of inpatients recommended the treatment and care

  • Blackburn store's £500,000 total refit looks to the future

    BLACKBURN stand-up comedian and long-standing customer Tez Ilyas was the star of the official opening of a £500,000 at Specsavers store in the town's Mall shopping centre. The branch has doubled in size and now has ten optical consulting rooms instead

  • Trans-Pennine rail campaign moves forwards

    THE campaign to extend the East Lancashire railway line across the Pennines from Colne to Skipton has taken another step forward at Westminster. A meeting at the House of Commons hosted by Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson and his Labour counterpart for

  • 'No excuses' - Joe Hart wants to see Burnley of old re-emerge

    BURNLEY have to rediscover the traits that made them such a daunting proposition for opponents, according to goalkeeper Joe Hart. The 75-cap England international was the Clarets’ star man in the 1-0 defeat to Wolves at Molineux and but for Hart

  • Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans in plea over housing

    RIBBLE Valley MP Nigel Evans has called on the government to give more powers to councils in rural areas like his constituency to prevent their green fields being swallowed up by housing. The Tory backbencher was written to local government secretary

  • PICTURES: Imams and vicars' cricket game to unite faiths

    IMAMS and vicars took to the crease to hit divisiveness for six. And the cricket match featuring Muslim and Christian clergy has been praised for bringing people together and showing unity in troubled times. The event, Love Of The Roses, took

  • NOSTALGIA: Brownhill area of Blackburn becomes major route

    TODAY’S photograph from the Lancashire Telegraph archives shows the Brownhill area of Blackburn. It was the arrival in the 1920s of the arterial road - creating a by-pass route to the north of Blackburn for traffic to and from Preston - that transformed

  • Former RAF pilot talks of his crash survival

    A FORMER RAF fighter pilot who ejected from a Phantom jet in 1986 has spoken about his survival to a group of men at a church. Ian Ferguson told the harrowing tale of his crash, which is still the fastest and lowest-survivable ejection in the history

  • Wolves 1 Burnley 0: Five things we learned

    CLARETS reporter Tyrone Marshall discusses the talking points from Burnley’s defeat at Wolves. SCORING GOALS Sean Dyche was critical of Burnley’s display offensively at Molineux and you can see why. It was certainly difficult to watch the

  • 'I’ve got the full support of the club' says Bradley Dack

    Bradley Dack says he has the full support of the club, manager and dressing room after marking his return to the team with his fifth goal of the season. Dack scored what looked to be the winner on his 50th appearance for the club, until Conor Hourihane

  • Drug dealer hid cocaine inside his underpants

    A DRUG dealer who secreted wraps of cocaine in his underpants in a failed bid to hide them from police has been jailed. A jury at Burnley Crown Court was told how police stopped a car in Swiss Street, Accrington, and saw Sikander Ibrar Hassan in