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9:05pm Robinson has left Blackburn and only a few people, including groups of teenagers, remain on Fishmoor Drive.

An 11-year-old boy has been airlifted to hospital after being knocked over by a car. The accident happened at around 3.30pm on Accrington Road close to Audley Range, Blackburn. Emergency services were called to the scene, and it is believed

A WOMAN has died following a crash on the M6. The 21-year-old from Blackburn, whose name has not yet been confirmed by the police, was travelling as a passenger in a car when it was struck by a petrol tanker last week. Police were called around

Rovers have added a fifth friendly to their pre-season schedule. Tony Mowbray’s side will travel to Mansfield on Wednesday, July 17 (7.30pm) to face the League Two side. The game will be a reunion with midfielder Willem Tomlinson who joined

Sam Hart admits he is unsure of his long-term future ahead of his return to Rovers in pre-season. The left back hasn’t featured for Rovers since December 2017 and has since had three separate spells out loan. Hart was with Rochdale for the

AN ambassador has underlined the 'special relationship' between Lancashire and the United States air defence programme. Robert 'Woody' Johnson, the US envoy to the UK, was at BAE Systems in Samlesbury to see the 500th aft fuselage for the F35-Lightning

THE Clitheroe Pop Choir will be giving its biggest performance of the year at this summer’s Beat-Herder festival in the Ribble Valley. The amateur choristers raised the roof of the main stage last year and they have been invited back again to open

RAIL passengers lost an estimated four million hours to significantly delayed trains in 2018, according to new analysis. The “staggering” level of delays - some 3.9 million hours - relate to 8.1 million passenger journeys, a report by consumer group

The son of a Chorley fight favourite has proved he really is a chip off the old block by becoming a national champion.  Mikey Jennings Jnr, the son of the former British welterweight champion who also fought Miguel Cotto for a world title in New

HOUSEHOLDS are set to see a huge expansion in the amount of plastic which can be recycled in their domestic waste by the end of the year. Currently, only certain types of plastic bottle are permitted in the county’s residential recycling bins.

Scott Brown has been snapped up by Harrogate Town after turning down a new deal at Accrington Stanley. Midfielder Brown was one of four players offered fresh terms by the Reds at the end of their current deals. However, the 34-year-old followed

A 47-YEAR-old man has denied deliberately throwing ammonia at police in an attack which partially blinded a sergeant, in Darwen. Paul Elliott is alleged to have left Sgt Andrew Gore with serious eye injuries while responding to a disturbance at

Sean Dyche knows it will be a challenge for Burnley to find the right players at the right price this summer.  The Clarets boss is ready for money to talk more than ever ahead of next season with shrewd recruitment, aided by technical director

A FORTY-seven-year-old man has denied deliberately throwing ammonia at police in an attack which partially blinded a sergeant, in Darwen. Paul Elliott is alleged to have left Sgt Andrew Gore with serious eye injuries while responding to a disturbance

Lisa Whiteside is already itching for more after getting up and running as a professional.  Chorley's Commonwealth Games gold medallist kicked off her career in the paid ranks with a points win over Dani Hodges at Stevenage FC's Lamex Stadium on

TWO brothers rescued their disabled sisters and four-year-old sibling from a serious house fire in Blackburn, neighbours said. The family-of-seven were at home in East Park Road, near Winston Road, when the blaze broke out at about 10.15pm on Monday

Rovers goalkeeper Jayson Leutwiler has been named in the provisional Canada squad for the upcoming Gold Cup. Leutwiler started the final four games of Rovers’ season and was rewarded with a new one-year contract earlier this month. The 30-year-old

POLICE caught an online paedophile in the act when they raided his home in the early hours, a court heard. Officers made several attempts to get Dean Coulson, 32, to come to the door of his Burnley home, the town's crown court was told. And when

A MAN who strangled his girlfriend to the point where she thought she was going to die has been spared jail. Preston Crown Court how Anthony William Stinson, 26, had on two separate occasions, throttled his parter, Leanne Sharp, following altercations

A FORMER councillor has organised a tour for more than 200 former pupils to look round their school. Naushad Surve, who represented Little Harwood and Whitebirk on Blackburn with Darwen Council from 2007 to this year, arranged the tour of the former

TENS of thousands of young people across East Lancashire have been involved in scouts or the girl guides over the years. Youngsters spend countless hours outdoors learning valuable skills, collecting badges and making lots of friends and memories

A CHILD sex offender told police carrying out a compliance visit he had no internet enabled devices. Blackburn magistrates heard a sharp eyed officer noticed a top up card in the room and when questioned further Kevin Hilton produced three mobile

A HUSBAND has paid tribute to a 'wonderful' woman who died after suffering a cardiac arrest brought on by a drug overdose. Diane McNicholas, 55, from Oswaldtwistle, was found unresponsive in bed by husband John Stephen McNicholas, on October 21

A COUNCILLOR has restated his concerns about the running of an East Lancashire foodbank. Conservative David Foxcroft has written to Mark Stapleton, chair of the Ratwenstall RAFT Foundation calling for more ‘openness and transparency’ about its operations

A POLICE officer who has survived cancer was joined by two others in completing a gruelling charity challenge covering the length of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. PC Nina Caulkin, who works at Blackburn’s Greenbank police station, was given the bombshell

BRITAIN'S biggest union Unite yesterday launched a North-West advertising campaign to boost turnout and stop the far right in Thursday's Euro elections. It will see giant billboards placed in 44 locations across Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire

CHILDREN and young people in Blackburn with Darwen can now get access to free online counselling and mental health support on a range of issues. XenZone, the digital mental health pioneer, has been commissioned by Blackburn with Darwen Council to

FURIOUS nurses in East Lancashire issued a 'be compassionate' plea to then Health Secretary, David Ennals. Cllr Frank Gorton, Blackburn branch secretary of the Confederation of Health Service Employees, pledged to continue the battle for special

BLACKBURN MP Kate Hollern has warmly welcomed Theresa May’s backing for a statue of Barbara Castle in the town. The Prime Minister’s endorsement last week follows Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn revealing he had donated towards the memorial. The

THE opening of an exhibition showing a town’s contribution to the D-Day landings 75 years ago will be attended by one of the sailors on duty as allied soldiers poured onto the beaches of Normandy. On Saturday Darwen Heritage Centre will host the

THE descendant of a leading East Lancashire radical has appealed for a photograph of the 19th Century campaigner. Blackburn’s George Dewhurst fought for the right of mill workers, was instrumental in the creation of the town’s Corporation Park and

Stanley boss John Coleman is looking to work with a squad of 20 next season. The Reds have 13 senior players under contract for the 2018/19 campaign after announcing their retained list earlier this month. That saw left back Will Wood, midfielder

Tony Mowbray says defender Paul Downing did ‘fantastically well’ for Rovers as his time at the club comes to end. Downing will leave Rovers when his contract expires at the end of next month as the club opted against triggering the 12-month option

A MAN died after being hit by a car on the hard shoulder of a motorway, an inquest has heard. David Bailey had been driving his BMW in severe weather conditions when he lost control of the vehicle crashing into the central reservation on the M6

TWO East Lancashire libraries will host performances of a special play about the effect of dementia on Friday. The drama 'I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing' is written by library assistant Emma Decent, The title comes from a phrase said

A MAN who bombarded his ex girlfriend with abusive texts and phone calls, and made threats to rape and stab her father has been jailed. Shabaz Malik, 24, pleaded guilty to harassment after continuously calling and texting his victim between April

A COUNCIL is to get tough on dog owners who are letting their pets defecate in a major public graveyard. Dog wardens are to start patrolling Clitheroe Cemetery where irresponsible dog-owners are allowing their pets to foul among graves. The cemetery

THE problem retractable traffic bollards at either end of Church Street, Blackburn, have broken down again. They failed several times in 2017 and several weeks ago they stopped working along with another set on Fleming Square. Yesterday council

A COUNCIL leader has been accused of ‘double standards’ after reversing a constitutional rule change he introduced six years ago. In 2013 Hyndburn Borough’s Labour boss Cllr Miles Parkinson changed the regulations governing the choice of Mayoress

NEW data shows that a year on from the launch of the Northern Fail App, Northern Rail fully cancelled 15,800 trains, and partly cancelled 18,696 in the 12 months to May 2019. This is in addition to an increase in the number of trains running with

TRAIN companies must have a “robust contingency plan” in case timetable changes leads to a repeat of last year’s meltdown, public transport campaigners have warned. Last year’s summer timetable change caused chaos across the rail network, leaving

A YOUNG budding tennis star found the perfect racket at a market stall. Six-year-old Emma Howard of Shelley Gardens Gt Harwood found the racket on one of the many stalls at the Hope House Christian Nursing Home at the Clayton le Moors NSPCC Summer

POLICE have issued images of East Lancashire's most wanted men. They are wanted for a range of alleged offences. Anyone with information about their whereabouts should not approach the men but call police on 101. Scott Chinery, 28, from Blackburn

A PRETTY country chapel celebrates 200 years of Christian worship this weekend. On May 31, 1819 members of the 14-year-old Bay Gate Farm Methodist congregation bought land at Harrop Fold near Grindleton for £4. It took them two years to build

It was a dream come true for Blackburn's Iain Houghton, as he got the opportunity to play snooker against Word Champion, Steve Davies. This picture from our archives shows 11-year-old Iain's joy at being picked from a massive bag of young snooker

A HERITAGE centre has rescued a civic gift presented to a local politician and founder of a town’s most popular beauty spot a century ago. The silver casket given to Alderman John Tomlinson when he was awarded with the Freedom of the Borough of

LIFELONG Clarets fan Alastair Campbell tonight explains how watching his beloved Burnley Football Club helps combat his depression. In an hour long BBC 2 documentary, he talks about how his love of soccer always lifts his spirits. The Keighley-born

Matt Lowton is hoping a return to normality will serve Burnley well when the new season comes around.  The Clarets will have a more conventional build-up to the next Premier League campaign as they are not in Europa League action.  Twelve months