POLICE have found washing machine parts which were dumped on two streets. Officers have today launched an appeal to find the owner of the striped down motors (pictured above). The items were dumped on Oak Street and Byron Road, Colne, last Tuesday
DANCE-LOVERS can learn how to master the jive, rock and roll or tango to help raise money for a hospice. East Lancashire Hospice is offering people the chance to learn to dance for free for its Strictly Come Dancing night next month. Classes
A WOMAN has suffered neck injuries in a car crash. Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle smash at the junction of Broadfield Road and Willows Lane, Oswaldtwistle, shortly before 3pm today. One of the drivers was trapped in their
THREE men are wanted after jewellery was stolen from a home. Police released CCTV images of three masked suspects yesterday following the house burglary in Accrington last month. Intruders broke into the Richmond Street house by climbing through
RESIDENTS have expressed their shock after a neighbour was found dead in his home last week. Several floral tributes from family and friends have been left outside the house of Andrew Forrest in Florence Street, Burnley. Messages of 'rest in peace
LANCASHIRE Fire and Rescue Service’s next chief fire officer will be current deputy Justin Johnston. The 46-year-old will officially takeover on May 1 when the existing postholder Chris Kenny retires. Mr Johnston said: “It is a fantastic honour
A POLICE community support officer has decided to leave the police after 10 years' service due to an increased ‘personal risk’. PCSO Chris Hamer revealed he is stepping down after a decade of patrolling Rossendale’s streets. The 30-year-old announced
EAST Lancashire's stay-at-home parents could earn more than £200,000 for the minimum of eight jobs each performs for their children. A new calculation has put together the hourly rates for being the chef, the cleaner, the assistant, the taxi-driver
SPRING has now well and truly hit East Lancashire. Today's weather has seen spells of sunshine and temperatures of around 11 degrees celsius. And forecasters have said that people can expect more of the same over the next few days and into
THE untimely death of Blackburn father-of-two Tarro 'Taz' Grogan highlights the true dangers of carrying knives, a senior judge has warned. Double knife-wielding Dylan Mark Slater, 27, was jailed for eight years and three months after admitting
RESIDENTS of a borough have been warned to beware of ‘scam’ messages claiming to offer them a council tax refund. Several householders in the Ribble Valley have received e mails and texts purporting to come from the government. Several residents
ANOTHER name has been added to the boohoo fashion stable, it has been announced. The online clothing giant, which has a large distribution site in Burnley, has snapped up Miss Pap. Earlier this month it was reported that bosses at the Burscough-based
A MAN has been jailed for nine years after attacking a man with a baseball bat in Accrington town centre. Daniel Halstead, 32, left Paul Sanderson with a fractured skull and a bleed on the brain after the violence in Edgar Street. Mr Sanderson
TRIBUTES have been paid to a loving dad and grandad found dead at his home. Detectives are now appealing for help in tracing his final movements. Emergency services were called to an address on Florence Street last Tuesday. Andrew Forrest
A NUISANCE who was banned from the area surrounding Blackburn police station was arrested when he was found sitting in the police station reception area. Blackburn magistrates heard Keiron McKillop claimed he had gone to the Ainsworth Street station
A MAN given a chance by magistrates set a record for re-offending. Blackburn magistrates heard Jonathan Michael Holmes was given a conditional discharge for shoplifting at 11.25am and was then arrested at 11.30am for stealing a £350 razor from Boots
A RECYCLING centre has been reopened after 'explosive material' found there has been detonated. The Haslingden Household Waste Recycling Centre near Clough End Road has reopened almost 20 hours after a small jar containing the material was found
THIS is the way the British public voted on the issue of their favourite crisps, and it’s controversial to say the least. According to Sunday night's Channel 5 TV documentary, people in the UK rate Walkers as their favourite savoury snack, closely
CONTROVERSIAL plans to open a mental health unit in a former solicitors’ office have been scrapped. ASC Healthcare has withdrawn proposals to convert Oakfield House in Preston New Road, Blackburn, into a 24-hour centre. A planning application
HYNDBURN Council's deputy leader Cllr Paul Cox is urging borough residents to join Keep Britain Tidy’s ‘Great British Spring Clean 2019’- the country’s biggest ever mass-action environmental campaign. He wants them to sign up to Keep Britain Tidy's
THIS image from the picture archives of the Lancashire Telegraph shows Belthorn near Blackburn. It offers a delve into the moorland village's industrial past of cotton mills and weaving which form a big part of so many East Lancashire towns.
NEW alco-tags - which can monitor the booze intake of offenders - are proving effective in the battle against domestic violence. Trials are being conducted across East Lancashire for SCRAM - Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor - to keep tracks
A nursery is offering mums an hour's free childcare so they can go for a smear test. Kerry Ann Bateson from Safe & Sound Nursery and Kidz Club said she wanted to encourage mums to go for cervical screening after discovering that since January
A MAJOR £300,000 study into building a Colne bypass and improving trans-Pennine road links into Yorkshire has been widely welcomed. As exclusively revealed in the Lancashire Telegraph on Thursday, Highways England will conduct the research starting
DARWEN'S new market square is set to open in May. The £1.5million project, which will boast a square big enough to hold large-scale outdoor events, will be officially opened on Saturday, May 11. The work includes a landscaped area, seating and
A MAN stalked his ex-partner after their relationship ended. Blackburn magistrates heard Karl Seaton bombarded his ex with text messages, phone calls, emails and videos. He also turned up at her home in Blackburn and her workplace. Parveen
A COUNCIL employee who joined its staff 43 years ago as a 16-year-old junior clerk is retiring after spending 29 of them collecting its business rates. Ribble Valley borough's chief executive Marshal Scott said Lesley Helm was 'an outstanding officer
AN EDUCATION committee chairman spoke out against staffing concerns at the newly formed Witton Park Secondary School. Councillor Alexander Carus called for more faith in the Witton Park School, with over 1,100 students at the new establishment.
THREE weeks ago Bygones looked at the early history of the Cherry Tree and Feniscliffe areas of Blackburn. Today we examine how the canal and railway boosted the development of their textile industry. Research for the Cotton Town local history
PEOPLE in Blackburn will be among the first in the UK to have access to the next generation of broadband, which will be delivered wirelessly and capable of reaching speeds of 6,000 Mbps by 2025. The new wireless network is being constructed by Lancashire-based
PLANS have been lodged for a new acute medical unit at Royal Blackburn Hospital which bosses say will improve waiting times and reduce congestion in A&E. And a bus service running to the hospital direct from Darwen could be funded by developer
POLICE officers have found 37 cannabis plants in a building behind a row of shops in Blackburn town centre. Two police vans were seen in Northgate, close to Hugo's Mexican restaurant and the CEX computer game exchange store last week. Officers
AUTHOR Stacey Halls has returned home to Ratwenstall to meet readers and sign companies of her debut novel 'The Familiars'. She visited the town's libary on Saturday to talk about her ‘bewitching’ first published book. Her novel is based at
A MAN arrested for being drunk and disorderly spat in a police officers face as he was being put in the back of a van. Blackburn magistrates heard the officer said he would rather be punched and suffer a broken nose than be spat at. Thomas Peter
AN OUT-of-town shoplifting team walked into Boots in Blackburn and walked out with £4,429 worth of cosmetics. Blackburn magistrates heard on the same day the gang stole £771 worth of cosmetics from Superdrug. But when they returned to Blackburn
IN 1911 there was just a single survivor of a town's hand loom weaving trade. On December 30 that year the Darwen Gazette visited Edward Eccles in the Chapels district. Now Blackburn Library volunteer June Riding has unearthed and transcribed
THREE Blackburn schools have been ranked among the best in the country for attendance. The Olive School, Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High School (TIGHS), and Tauheedul Islam Boys’ High School (TIBHS), which are all academy schools, featured in the top
A BRA manufacturing company had some uplifting news in 1982 when a £250,000 expansion plan meant more jobs for people in Pendle. The Swedish owned Swegmark (Nelson) Ltd, planned to extend its factory and create 30 new jobs at its site in Colne,
A new £5.4million high school set to open in September is bringing a jobs boost to an East Lancashire town. The Heights Burnley, an Alternative Provision Free School for pupils aged five to sixteen, sits on the former Ridgewood School site which
MORE than £750,000 has been spent on upgrading Blackburn railway station’ in recent years but no place has been found for the historic Victorian clocks taken down in 1998 when it underwent a major redevelopment. Two other 19th Century timepieces
A PUB customer was caught on CCTV with his trousers round his ankles masturbating. Blackburn magistrates heard Harley Clayton Whitehead pleasured himself in a booth in the Bees Knees in Blackburn. He was sitting in a booth with three females
A NURSERY school has sent out a letter calming the fears of parents after allegations of an incident between two children. In paperwork seen by the Lancashire Telegraph, Longshaw Nursery School’s headteacher Andrea Batley assured parents that a
An award-winning fitness instructor from Blackburn has become the new face of Sport England's latest This Girl Can campaign. Mum-of-two, Ruth Lynch, features in a 10-minute workout video for the campaign's Fit Got Real series, which is aiming to
ELDERLY and disabled residents of a street behind a leisure centre are ‘sick to death’ over thoughtless users parking along their road. They are angry neither Pendle Wavelengths bosses or Lancashire County Council have acted to tackle drivers who
AN AWARD-winning young artist from Darwen is set to appear on a prime-time TV show showcasing her painting skills. Khushna Sulaman-Butt, 23, has made it to the heats of Sky’s Portrait Artist of the Year. She said: “I’m really excited about
