Eight Championship clubs recorded positive tests in the latest round of EFL testing – the highest number yet. The news comes as clubs completed their first week of training since the season was suspended in March, and in the same week as the EFL
FIREFIGHTERS are currently tackling another huge moorland fire. Eight fire engines are in attendance near Lords Hall Lane in Darwen since 7pm. On arrival firefighters requested further crews attend and crews from both Lancashire and Greater
POLICE are continuing to tackle motorcycle crime as they take them off the streets. Burnley Police tweeted a picture of a motorcycle taken off Cleaver Street in Burnley. They said: "Another uninsured, nuisance bike taken off the street today
THERE are thirteen new coronavirus death recorded in Lancashire according to the latest figures. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals have a total of eight deaths as of May 29 when the latest figures were released. There was one death recorded at the
PEOPLE have been spotted jumping off a bridge and into a reservoir, in shocking photos captured by United Utilities. The above image was captured yesterday, at Yarrow Reservoir in Rivington, when dozens of similar incidents were said to have been
A CUP-winning footballer has finally been presented with the medal he never got 74 years ago. Burnley pensioner John Zelly was part of the winning Abel Street School team that won the Keighley Cup final in 1946 in the first match to be played at
A TEAM of runners from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn, made an epic trip to help the Queen celebrate her birthday in 1967. For the 14 pupils staged a relay race from the school to Windsor Castle to deliver a special birthday message
FIREFIGHTERS are continue to work hard to extinguish the latest Winter Hill moorland fire and prevent a major incident akin to the blaze of July 2018. That fire which covered 18 square kilometres and took hundreds of firefighters 41 days to put
A DRIVER was left to walk home last night after police seized his vehicle for having no insurance. When immediate response officers stopped the black Vauxhall Zafira in Brookhouse Lane, Blackburn, claimed that somebody had purchased insurance on
Kevin Davies was set to become Rovers’ new record signing as the club put the finishing touches to a £7m deal on this day in 1998. The deal would beat the £5m paid by Kenny Dalglish for Chris Sutton four years earlier, and while reports of wages
Tony Mowbray admits Elliott Bennett’s positive test for coronavirus ‘shook a few of the players up’ with the captain now unable to train with the group until next Friday. Bennett revealed he had tested positive for COVID-19 when the EFL released
A MOTORIST is facing an appearance before magistrates after being caught doing 115mph on the M6 last night. The incident, involving a Range Rover Sport, happened on southbound carriageway of the M6 near Charnock Richard. A police spokesman Tweeted
POLICE PAVA-sprayed two men and a teenager who they say tried to fight them when they turned up to break up a birthday party which had got out of hand. Immediate response officers were called to Dunnyshop Avenue, Accrington, at 12.30am today following
POLICE called to a Blackburn street this morning found a drunk man damaging a property with a wooden bat. Immediate response officers were called to Exeter Street at 2.25am and arrested a 31-year-old man from Blackburn on suspicion of causing criminal
FIREFIGHTERS were called to extinguish a fire behind a house this morning. Two crews from Hyndburn Station were sent to tackle the blaze in the rear yard of a property in Lydia Street, Accrington just after 2.35am and remained at the scene for
FIREFIGHTERS are battling a fire on Winter Hill this morning. Crews from Chorley and Rawtenstall, alongside a fire crew from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, were called to an area between the pigeon tower in Rivington and the mast at
A BOROUGH will begin a major shake-up of bin collection next week. From Wednesday, Blackburn with Darwen Council will start delivering 60,000 new blue bins. The new bins, and blue bags for those who need them, will be used for clean cardboard
Local historian Patrick Brown looks at the history of horse racing in East Lancashire Horse racing is often referred to as the ‘Sport of Kings’, no doubt due to its long occasion with Royalty. Henry VIII was said to have had an interest in
Nick Cullen fires up the barbie My barbecue has seen its fair share of action already this year but this week we celebrate National Barbecue Week so it’s time to fire up the coals once again! It’s sometimes difficult to come up with new and
AN EAST LANCASHIRE vaping firm has struck a deal with a leading British supermarket chain to launch its new range of e-cigarettes at 350 of its stores. Blackburn-based Vape Dinner Lady (VDL) has announced that its new disposable e-cigarette – the
A retired NHS ward sister in her 60s has smashed her fundraising target of £1,000 by pledging to run 100 miles – nearly four times longer than her original goal. Yvonne Carter, 65, from Clitheroe, started with the idea of completing 26 miles in
A collaboration between several community groups will see more than 200 lunch parcels delivered to those in need in a single afternoon. On Sunday, a band of generous volunteers will be pounding the pavements and delivering food packages to vulnerable
EAST Lancashire’s premier music venue is going ‘back to the future’ while it remains closed because of coronavirus. Blackburn’s King George’s Hall is using posters of past headline acts to spark memories of iconic concerts and tell fans it will
MAIN bus routes which had been largely scaled back following the coronavirus outbreak will come back into more frequent operation over the coming days, it has been announced. Several changes to the ways buses will run across East Lancashire have
THOUSANDS of speeding tickets were issued by police in Lancashire during the first full month of lockdown despite there being a dramatic drop in vehicles on the county’s roads. A freedom of information request found that police issued just 294 fewer
THE county's fire chief has warned a repeat of the catastrophic scenes seen two years ago on Winter Hill is possible if people continue to act selflishly. Just days after a large woodland fire at Stone Bank, near Belmont, chief fire officer Justin
SHOPPING centre bosses in East Lancashire have promised to do all they can to make shoppers feel as safe as possible when they reopen. Earlier this week, the Government said all non-essential shops in England would be able to open from June 15 if
A BLACKBURN domestic violence charity is one of over 70 organisations and individuals from around the country to have written to the home secretary with warnings on how the lockdown may affect abuse cases. The letter to Priti Patel particularly
BURNLEY College has been named as the best in the country for A Level and vocational results. The college’s sixth form centre was ranked top according to official figures released this month by the government’s Department for Education’s National
AN East Lancashire teacher who gave a stark account of lockdown in Northern Italy has spoken of how life has changed since the restrictions have eased. Karli Drinkwater, 35, told Lancashire Telegraph readers in March how she and her fiance, Pierangelo
