Neston Ladies 1 Pendle Forest Hockey Ladies 1sts 5 Forest travelled down to the Wirral peninsula for the meeting between the the 2 teams currently at the opposite ends of the league table. After an apprehensive start Forest required patience
BURNLEY FC Women geared up for their local derby against Chorley in the Lancashire FA Challenge Cup quarter finals as they beat Crewe 4-0. The home win means the Clarets stay top of the National League Northern Division One as they secured their
CHORLEY FC Women’s FA Cup dream may be over but their continued progression on and off the pitch has only just started. The Magpies slipped to a disappointing 2-1 defeat at the hands of North West Regional League leaders Stockport County on Sunday
ANYA Richmond may well have moved to Loughborough to further her studies but her real education is coming on the rugby pitch. The 17-year-old from Burnley is currently studying sports science but it was the lure of playing for Loughborough Lightning
CAMPAIGNING MP Graham Jones has welcomed a government U-turn on limiting the maximum stake on gambling machines in high-street betting shops. This afternoon Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright announced the highest bet on the Fixed Odds Betting Machines
JUSTIN Brett answers the phone to do our interview having just got off a plane from Mexico. It’s the kind of scenario which could easily find its way into Showstopper! The Improvised Musical which is coming to Colne Muni next Friday. A major West
A MAN suspected of being involved in a spate of aggravated burglaries has been arrested. The 37-year-old from Accrington was arrested on suspicion of numerous aggravated burglaries across East Lancashire, most specifically in Barrowford. A police
SAM Vokes says competition at both domestic and international level is helping him to focus on staying on top of his game. The Burnley striker has teamed up with Wales for tomorrow night’s crucial UEFA Nations League group game with Denmark buoyant
POLICE officers searched a house in Darwen as part of an investigation to find a man that pulled a handgun out on a teenage shop worker in Blackburn. Officers were seen going into a house in Brandwood Street at around 7.30pm on Wednesday. A
OFFRANDE Zanzala could be ready to hand manager John Coleman a fitness boost after returning to training. The striker has not featured since scoring in the 1-1 draw at Coventry earlier this month, missing Checkatrade Trophy games against West Brom
CHARLIE Mulgrew is excited to see how far Rovers can go under Tony Mowbray after penning a new deal at Ewood Park. The 32-year-old has signed a new two-and-a-half-year deal keeping him at the club until the summer of 2021. And the Scotland international
A CONVICT who was handed a life term for the “appalling” robbery and kidnap of a retired doctor and his wife has had his minimum jail term slashed by judges. James Evans, 51, had only been out of prison for a few months when he forced his way into
A GRANDAD who stole to fund his drug use told police he was "getting too old for all this" after he was arrested. Blackburn magistrates heard Michael Exton, 46, felt his life was falling apart at the time of the offences in June but he had since
A PENSIONER who was knocked down by a car after attending a Remembrance service in Pendle has now died, police have confirmed. The 85-year-old, who was named locally as Jack Parkinson, was struck by a Toyota Aygo as he crossed close to the junction
We asked our Rovers fans' jury: What do you make of the club’s decision to house the away supporters at Ewood Park in the Darwen End upper tier? Well in the absence of any comprehensive explanation of the rationale behind the move we will
ROVERS captain Charlie Mulgrew has signed a new two-and-a-half-year deal at Ewood Park. The Scotland international's new contract keeps him at the club until the summer of 2021. The 32-year-old has made 89 appearances for Rovers and played a
A ROMANIAN man has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged under the Modern Slavery Act with exploitation of a female and controlling her for the purpose of prostitution. Ionut Pompiliu Barosu, 26, of Accrington Road, Blackburn, was sent in
I READ in the Lancashire Telegraph this week about calls for a ban on these high calorie milkshakes - or so-called freakshakes. What a load of nonsense. Yes they are bad for you but they’re meant as a treat for goodness sake. There are plenty
YOU would have thought that Shaun Ryder would have seen it all in a career which spans over 30 years. But as he prepares to head out on the road with his ‘other band’ Black Grape, the Happy Mondays’ main man is positively bubbling over with excitement
NATHAN Grisdale, the Blackburn singer who was controversially booted off the X Factor after reaching the six chair challenge stage, says he has no regrets about appearing on TV’s top talent search. Nathan, 23, was competing for a spot with mentor
I’m not going to get all “I told you so” in your face since it was hardly Chinese algebra to work out that Rotherham were going to defend fiercely and await a chance, writes Simon Smith. What I didn’t factor into the equation was that Rovers were
HAVING just returned from a coast-to-coast tour of America in which she played 37 shows in just seven weeks, you could forgive Sarah McQuaid for taking it easy. But the award-winning singer-songwriter is now in the middle of a UK tour which brings
With all of its success and rich history, how do you feel about the prospect of bringing it back to the Lowry? It’s always exciting to bring back Swan Lake. So many people love it, and you know they’re going to want to come and see it again and
MORE than £450 of cigarettes were stolen from a shop in Blackburn. Police are appealing for information after the burglary at Bargain Booze on Livesey Branch Road on Wednesday at 10pm. A Lancashire Police spokesman said: "We received a call
A MAN has been arrested after crashing into an empty bus during a police chase in Burnley yesterday. The chase started on Hurtley Street and after a three-minute pursuit it crashed into a lamp post and then into the unattended bus on Briercliffe
A SOCIAL worker from East Lancashire is set to face his professional watchdog - accused of questioning the looks of a child’s mother. Angus Welsh, who was said to be working as an agency worker for Lancashire County Council at the time, is also
A SUSPECT from East Lancashire has been quizzed by City of London Police over a wide-ranging insurance fraud inquiry. ‘Opportunistic’ scammers have been detained across the county as part of a £260,000 operation by their insurance fraud enforcement
A CONSERVATORY inside a busy park is among several listed areas in East Lancashire that have appeared on Historic England’s 2018 Heritage at Risk Register. The conservatory inside Blackburn’s Corporation Park is one of several historic sites on
A WARD has been temporarily closed by NHS bosses at Accrington Victoria Hospital after the heating failed. Ward 2 at the Heywood Street site, an 18-bed female rehab unit, is out of action after a boiler broke down. An inspection of the premises
A NEW high-street lender has opened in Burnley – promising affordable loans for low earners worried about Christmas. Pennine Community Credit Union’s new Burnley branch is based in St James’s Street and has been backed by local MP Julie Cooper.
David Raya admits he could never have imagined he would be back in action so quickly after a sickening collision left him feeling his ‘face was fully broken’. Raya thought he would require immediate surgery after being taken to hospital in the
A CONTROLLING husband who attacked his pregnant wife in front of their four-year-old child has been jailed. Preston Crown Court heard the pair had an arranged marriage in Pakistan in 2012 and had only lived together in their own home in Blackburn
WHAT do you do when you are blind but have a debilitating fear of dogs? Blackburn TV producer Mohammed Salim Patel writes about how he discovered the remarkable abilities of guide horses and his life-changing trip to America to meet one...
LANCASHIRE'S crime commissioner has been accused of dodging the public and councillors on a lunchtime visit to Clitheroe and its police station. Senior Ribble Valley Conservatives said Clive Grunshaw was behaving in the opposite way to children’
THE Clitheroe Christmas markets start on Saturday December 1 with a world record attempt at the largest gathering of Santa’s elves. The bid will be linked to the festive lights switch-on by Ribble Valley Mayor Stuart Carefoot. The event also
A BLACKBURN family have had fire doors fitted in their house free after their son destroyed the original ones. Reece Greaves, 17, suffers from severe autism and extreme sensory processing disorder, meaning he struggles with loud noises and is over-sensitive
WORK is proceeding to bring back into use a group of disused soccer pitches as the votes pile up in a bid to win £25,000 to pay for their revival. TWO junior football clubs want to revitalise the sports ground off Branch Road, Lower Darwen. Darwen
TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular window cleaner and Rovers fan who has died aged 52. Blackburn Rovers fan Andrew Pearson died suddenly on October 27. He was a well-known face in Accrington, cleaning windows of properties around the town centre
BLACKBURN Cathedral will today get into the Christmas spirit by launching its own brand of gin. In a modern take on the medieval tradition of church institutions producing alcoholic drinks, its Dean the Very Rev Peter Howell-Jones hopes it will
A TAXI firm manager has spoken out after his cars have been bombarded with eggs while working. Ishfaq Ahmed, who runs Response Taxis in Darwen, said his drivers had been plagued by a group of around 10 yobs throwing eggs at them. The vandals
