To negotiate two 1-0 leads in the professional manner they have, recording two wins and clean sheets in the space of four days, will be a big boost to Tony Mowbray. Having shipped 69 goals, and more than any team in the Championship on their travels
Tony Mowbray feels there is room for improvement despite seeing his Rovers side chalk up a second consecutive 1-0 win. Derrick Williams’ second half header gave Rovers all three points at the KCOM Stadium as they kept a second clean sheet in four
ACCRINGTON STANLEY - 2 SHREWSBURY TOWN - 3 ACCRINGTON Stanley conceded three goals in the last 13 minutes to throw away a two-goal lead in what would have been their first league win of the season. The Reds looked comfortable after a Colby
POLICE are widening their search for missing Huncoat woman Lindsay Birbeck. Searches have been taking place today at Huncoat Quarry and the surrounding area, in addition to The Coppice. The 47-year-old teaching assistant has been missing since
9:46pm FT here and Shrewsbury win 3-2, what a crazy match. Should imagine John Coleman will be fuming
A FOOTBALLER who repeatedly punched a woman in the head before dragging her along the pavement by her hair in front of horrified New Year revellers has been jailed. Andrew Akingbaje, 24, was branded "dangerous to women" by the judge who locked him
A TODDLER has fallen from a hotel window in Blackpool. The 18-month-old girl suffered serious injuries in the incident at the Rooms Inn Hotel, Albert Road. Police were called by the ambulance service to the hotel at about 8.50am this morning
A DEAL has been inked which will take Blackburn's premier vaping brand into more than 440 WHSmith stores. Bosses at e-cigarette and e-liquid giants Totally Wicked have clinched perhaps their largest ever single deal by partnering with the national
A 57-year-old woman from Accrington has gone missing. Pamela King, of Water Street, was last seen on Monday, August 5, in Blackburn. Police said she spoke to a relative on the phone two days after she was last seen and was reported missing
A SEARCH for missing Lindsay Birbeck is taking place tonight. There has been no trace of the 47-year-old since she was last seen on CCTV walking along Burnley Road, Accrington, at around 4.30pm on August 12. Several searches by police have
COUNCILLORS warned redeveloping land for up to 60 homes could be a lengthy process despite outline planning permission being granted. Blackburn with Darwen Councils hopes to sell off the land at Clarendon Road East in Little Harwood to developers
BURNLEY'S bad luck against Arsenal continued on Saturday as they were narrowly beaten 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium. Goals from strike duo Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were enough to hand the Gunners the three points as Ashley
FOUR men suffered serious injuries during a violent assault in Great Harwood. Police have launched an appeal after the incident which took place on August 10 when they received reports that four men were injured on Glebe Street, close to Baggy’
While Rovers may have gone 'back to basics' in a bid to get their first league win of the season on Saturday, off the field they are moving the times in a bid to improve in all areas. Damien Johnson was promoted to the first team coaching set-up
THE line-up for the new series of The Great British Bake Off is the youngest in the show's history - and is comprised of 13 amateur bakers rather than the usual 12. The baker's dozen of hopefuls includes seven people in their 20s while the oldest
Tony Mowbray says a win over Middlesbrough at the weekend will have no bearing on his selection at Hull City tonight. Rovers made four changes for the win over Boro and Mowbray is known for rarely selecting an unchanged team, doing so on just five
PENDLE Council is set to launch a new online service which will help landlords keep on top of managing tenancies. Any Pendle landlord who has housing benefit paid directly to them will be able to log on to the Landlords' Portal 24 hours a day, seven
ASHLEY Barnes feels like he belongs in the Premier League after starting the new season on fire with three goals in the opening two games. Burnley's number 10 equalised on Saturday at the Emirates Stadium on the stroke of half-time, the Clarets
TWO MEN have been jailed after police raided a house and discovered 100 cannabis plants. Preston Crown Court heard police had raided the house in Tockholes Road, Darwen, after neighbours had complained about the smell of cannabis, the sound of
THE Blackburn Round Table has been an institution in Blackburn for decades. Scores of men over the years joined the group to help fundraise for lots of charities in the region and support vulnerable people. In the pictures below, we can see the
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. Joshua Titterington, 26
FORMER staff at one of Blackburn's oldest industrial firms were owed nearly £220,000 when it went under, according to administrators. Bosses called time at steel stockholders and fastenings firm Mercer and Sons, in Pump Street, last month, bringing
A £25,000 cash boost has been handed to a charity which cares for children with life-limiting conditions. The Eric Wright Charitable Trust – the charitable arm and sole owner of the Eric Wright Group – donated the sum to Derian House Children’s
TWO neighbourhood hubs now offer residents free access to the digital world thanks to a partnership between 6G Internet, Blackburn Rovers Community Trust and the community CVS. Blackburn's Accrington Road Community Centre in Audley Range and ACT
A COMMUNITY sports pitch is get a £40,000 refurbishment. The Multi-Use Games Area next to Greenfields Community Centre on Green Lane, Blackburn, has been vandalised in recent years. Plans have been drawn up to revamp the pitch with durable
LIFELONG Clarets fan Stewart Scott will attempt to score the winning vote for the Brexit Party at the next general election. The married businessman, will contest the Burnley constituency in the next General Election, currently held by Labour's
THE funeral of former mayor of Blackburn Gordon Toole will be at the town’s cathedral on August 30. Tributes have been paid to a former Labour councillor with a 'big, warm personality' and a ready wit. Born in 1936, Mr Toole died from heart failure
THE long-serving youth pastor of an East Lancashire church is moving on. Jo Pellet has spent 18 years working with young people in Clitheroe, 14 of them at the church of St James in the town. She said she will miss her ministry and said it was
THE former Blackburn Fire Station is now a listed building, the Lancashire Telegraph can reveal. Historic England has given the Byrom Street building, and nearby drill yard wall, a grade II designation, seven years after firefighters moved out.
AN extraordinary Blackburn writer left an impression on Edwardian England perhaps like no other. William Hope Hodgson is perhaps best remembered by horror story aficionados. But the tales penned by the former strongman influenced H P Lovecraft
THE secrets behind the long life of a woman who was born months after the end of the First World War have been revealed. Doris Dutson celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by family and with a card from Her Majesty the Queen at Mill Lodge Care
CROWDS gathered as the re-opening of a town's ice rink proved to be a success. Planet Ice re-opened its ice rink in Blackburn at midday on Saturday and hundreds of people turned up to try it out. The 2,600-seater stadium had been closed for several
THIS picture shows the town of Mellor, Blackburn, in the early 1900s. Water supply was a long-standing problem for the hilltop community. Instead, the village was forced to rely on wells and springs until the formation in 1902 of the village's
LANCASHIRE County Council’s Conservative leader has written to new Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for more government cash for shire local authorities. Cllr Geoff Driver believes big city areas are getting to bigger share of Whitehall grants
THE daughter of murder victim Sajed Choudry has spoken out about how his brutal killing shook her family to its core. Describing the father-of-four as “a wonderful and caring man”, Mariya Choudry also slammed his killers for refusing to admit their
PLANS to transform Burnley into a university town are fast taking shape, as work on new student accommodation changes the town centre skyline. A lattice of steelwork is being created next to Sandygate Square which will provide the foundation for
A CARE home has been placed in special measures after concerns were raised over the safety of its residents. Addison Court, in Addison Street, Accrington, was given an overall rating as ‘inadequate’ by Care Quality Commission inspectors. Inspectors
A 46-year-old woman with a long history of drug misuse, who had also made previous attempts to take her own life, and had presented herself at A&E 99 times in the last 12 months, died of a drug-related death. Samantha Payne was found dead in
Bradley Dack is confident of building up the same understanding with Sam Gallagher as he has developed with Danny Graham over the last two seasons. Dack and Graham have struck up a chemistry on and off the field since his £750,000 move from Gillingham
A 20-YEAR-OLD lorry driver who crashed through the central reservation of the M65 after falling asleep at the wheel while five times over the drug-drive limit for cocaine has been jailed for 22 weeks. Preston Crown Court heard motorists on the
