POLICE in Burnley are stamping down on damage and boozy behaviour in one of the town's most popular parks. Extra police and park anger patrols are being carried out in Towneley Park following complaints about under-age drinking and damage to trees and
AN ELDERLY couple who were attacked after trying to stop a drunken yob beating up a boy have spoken of their ordeal. Jean and Jack Corless, both 66, told of the "massive impact" on their lives after Lee Peel, 29, was jailed for a year for the assault
AN INQUEST was told of the tragic go-ped accident that left a man in a coma for six years before he died. Mark Peter Holroyd, 37, had been in a persistent vegetative state and was treated at the Rakehead Rehabilitation Unit in Darwen for five years after
A FORMER cinema's architectural secrets have been revealed by workers restoring the Blackburn site to its Victorian glory. Builders stripped back the interior of the historic Corn Exchange building and found features including the original stonework,
A HEALTH boss who helped drive a controversial hospital shake-up is to step down six months into a four-year tenure. Christine Kirk, chairman of East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, will retire at the end of March. Mrs Kirk said she was within her rights
DRUGS, alcohol and prostitution are making life a misery for people living near the motorway on the border of Pendle and Burnley. Residents claim they have been powerless to stop people meeting for sex and using the area for illegal parties and drug
BLACKBURN Hawks made the best possible start to 2007 with an impressive 8-6 victory over arch rivals Flintshire Freeze in the English Ice Hockey Cup. General Manager Graham Lomax was pleased with the result in a competition Hawks' management earmarked
A VICAR who revealed a diary by his dying wife attacked her NHS treatment has said he does not want to meet bosses to discuss the case. The Lancashire Telegraph published the diaries of Linda Logan on Monday, in which she complained of poor communication
A WELL-known nuisance' ended up back behind bars over the New Year after threatening suicide in Rossendale. Derek Maxwell, who is banned by an anti-social behaviour order from being drunk and disorderly in public, got locked up yet again after phoning
A WIFE beater who struck in front of his children won't be doing it again - as she had now left him, a court was told. Burnley magistrates heard how alcoholic Lee Catherall, 31, had a long history of violence towards the victim and had threatened to
Blackburn Rovers reserves started 2007 with a defeat as they were beaten 2-1 by Manchester City last night. City took the lead after just four minutes when Karl Moore fired past Jason Brown. Michael Johnson made it 2-0 after 35 minutes before Joe Garner
BRAVE Bacup bowed out of the Lancashire FA Challenge Trophy after a 5-2 extra time defeat to Conference North side Lancaster City. Bacup took the lead after 15 minutes through Ian Barker and Stuart Shepherd made it 2-0 from the spot after Dean Rupello
A MOTHER-of-two has died after falling down the stairs at a nightclub while out celebrating her birthday. Gillian Dawe, of Heys Lane, Blackburn, died yesterday from serious head injuries, three days after the fall on her 41st birthday at Darwen's Roxy
SPEED limit signs are being put up next to speed cameras in a bid to clarify confusion over how fast motorists can travel. The signs are being introduced so that motorists are in no doubt as to how fast they should be going. And the project is close
A DRINK driver has been banned for 12 months - but will be behind bars until the end of next January anyway. Michael Barton, 20, was more than twice the limit when he was arrested by police in January last year. He is currently serving a four year jail
Rangers are interested in signing Blackburn Rovers defender Andy Todd and may try to tempt manager Mark Hughes to sell with an offer in the region of £1 million. The Scottish giants have been in touch with Rovers to enquire about the 32-year-old's availability
AN ancient church in the Ribble Valley has been given a new lease of life after the completion of a major restoration project. The church of Saint Saviour at Stydd, Ribchester, has reopened its doors after nine months of work to ensure the 900-year-old
WEST Craven saw reductions in crime of almost two thirds during December, according to police figures. Comparing last month with December 2005, a reduction in overall crime of 64.5 per cent was recorded. Presenting the statistics to a meeting of West
FEYENOORD striker Ali Boussaboun is hoping to persuade Mark Hughes to sign him in the January transfer window. The Morocco international began a four-day trial with Rovers yesterday and he's aiming to put himself in the shop window by catching Hughes
A telephone hotline has been set up for people to report shops, pubs and clubs that serve alcohol to under-age drinkers. Blackburn and Darwen's Council, the primary care trust and police have teamed up to launch the scheme. The number has been set up
David Bentley has hinted he's ready to put pen to paper on a new contract with Blackburn Rovers. Hughes said last week that he was ready to offer the 22-year-old a new pay deal in a bid to keep him out of the clutches of rival Premiership clubs. Now
YOUNGSTERS in Nelson are being invited to put their artistic stamp on the town and anyone aged from 12 to 18 could see their work displayed in the centre. All they have to do is attend a special workshop on Saturday, January 27 from 1pm until 4.30pm
FORMER Lancashire captain, president, and England Test player Ken Cranston has died aged 89. Cranston made a name for himself in wartime cricket and was made Lancashire captain in 1947. He was an immediate success and was chosen for England against
TWO Blackburn off-licences and a pub have had their licences suspended after they were caught selling alcohol to under 18s. The Awan Food Store, Mill Hill Bridge Street, and Morgan's off-licence, Livesey Branch Road, had their licences to sell alcohol
MORE household waste is recycled in Pendle than anywhere else in East Lancashire, according to new figures. Government statistics for April, 2005, to March, 2006, show that more "dry" recycling, which includes paper, cans, glass and plastic bottles,
LUCAS Neill will join Liverpool in the next seven days after Blackburn Rovers last night reluctantly agreed to let him go. Manager Mark Hughes attended a board meeting yesterday and it was decided that Neill could leave the club, providing a suitable
Winger Shaun Whalley has signed a two-year deal at Accrington Stanley. The former Chester City player joined the Reds on loan from Witton Albion back in November. The 19-year-old is considered a top prospect by Stanley boss John Coleman, having pipped
SALES at Blackburn cake firm Inter Link have improved after a difficult summer, the firm has announced. The Sett End Road West, Shadsworth, firm has revealed its interim results for the six months ending on November 4 2006. Figures show turnover has
REPRESENTATIVES of a Chinese province have signed an historic agreement with Pendle. A disaster-ridden journey meant the 10 visitors from Changzhi's municipal government in southeast China were almost four hours late, but they still managed to learn
A NEW junior coaching programme has been launched by Burnley Council at the Spirit of Sport leisure centre. Spirit of Sport is part of the £3.3million sports complex at Blessed Trinity Sport College, Ormerod Road, Burnley. The council runs the facilities
THE award for jobsworth of the week has to go to the parking warden who slapped a £30 parking ticket on Santa. Poor Andrew Bridge, a member of Blackburn Round Table, spent three nights dressed as Father Christmas to raise more than £3,500 for charity
The colours of the sunset perfectly mirrored in the waters of Fishmoor Reservoir, Blackburn. By Stephen Peacock.
POLICE have re-appealed for witnesses to come forward after a man was "brutally" attacked in the street by a stick-wielding gang. Victim Neil Roberts, 34, was beaten unconscious after he left a New Year's party. He has since been transferred to the
A CANNABIS haul with a street value of more than £11,000 has been seized from a house in Padiham. Police recovered 160 mature plants of the class C drug during a warrant executed on a property in Rycliffe Street at 6.30pm on Monday. A 34-year-old man
A PERVERT who filmed himself committing a sex act dressed in women's underwear in a young mother's home has walked free from court - because there was no crime to fit what he did. Dean Gary Marie, 40, was said to have gone to the house in Padiham armed
A MISSING father of two has turned up safe and well. Alan Hayden, of Sudell Road, Darwen had not been home since last Wednesday morning when he left for work and never returned. But he has now been in touch with his family to say he was okay.
LANCASHIRE'S first labyrinth is providing a new attraction for funseekers in the Ribble Valley. The construction, believed to be the first public labyrinth in the county, forms part of plans to regenerate Clitheroe Castle as a tourist attraction.
A MAN whose cocaine use spiralled into dependency has been jailed for three years for supplying the drug and having a cannabis factory in his attic. Preston Crown Court was told when police searched the home of gas engineer Martin Hall, cocaine with
THREE people were being questioned by police following two break-ins at sex shops in Burnley. Police said boxes of inflatable dolls, lingerie and sex toys were among items stolen. The break-ins happened at Private Lines in Colne Road and at a second
BURNLEY manager Steve Cotterill bemoaned his side's defending after their FA Cup exit at the hands of Reading. The Clarets staged a fightback after going 3-0 down at the Madejski Stadium to prompt a nervy finale for the Royals. But, while Cotterill
AN EAST Lancashire MP has supported new laws that prevent shops, hotels and religious centres from refusing to serve gay people because of their sexuality. Hyndburn MP Greg Pope, a practising Roman Catholic, said that the proposed legislation was important
ISN'T it about time fireworks were banned completely. Two firefighters have been killed and now a horse may have to be put down. All this suffering is so unnecessary. B McGLASHAN (address supplied).
IS THE return of Big Brother just to remind us plebs of the total contempt those who sanction its screening regard us? Life is too, too short to waste on watching a group of has-beens and nobodies asleep on a communal dorm, with the occasional F' word
CONTRAST two stories (LT, January 2). Inside we read about a young lad of 16 who has been in care most of his life and is now homeless who found a cheque for a fairly large amount at New Year and handed it over to a bank to be returned to its rightful
WHILE people are showing their sympathy by leaving flowers after the helicopter crash in Morecambe Bay, I think it would have been more appropriate to leave donations to lifeboats. The lifeboat crews work on a voluntary basis with no Government funding
REGARDING the parking ticket for delivering cash to Barclays Bank (LT, January 4). As a former Securicor employee I've even been harrassed by parking wardens while delivering to banks, but I've also been assisted by some of them. There's always one jobsworth
I WOULD like to take issue with the opinion given in your editorial (LT, January 4) regarding giving powers of discretion to Parkwise wardens. If you were to permit these powers to wardens they could spend their days listening to excuses from ticketed
A 42-year-old mother-of-four "wasted away" after she became addicted to pain killers, an inquest was told. The inquest heard that the tablets "took over" Susan Hall's life which went into a downward spiral. She eventually died from bronchopneumonia
A BLACKBURN school has banned parents from chewing gum on its premises and in its grounds. The move at Lammack Primary School is being taken in a controversial crackdown on litter. It means parents cannot even chew gum while waiting in the grounds to
A TERMINALLY-ill cancer patient pays £3,000 a month for medication after being refused it on the NHS. Keith Ditchfield, 52, said he felt "totally let down" by the refusal to pay for Nexavar for his renal cancer, which he has sent from Germany. The Whalley
JAY McEveley is desperate to make up for lost time by proving to Mark Hughes that he's worthy of a regular place in the Blackburn Rovers first team. After bursting onto the scene as a 17-year-old, and memorably marking David Beckham in a Carling Cup
FOR the second time in as many trips to the Madejski Stadium, Burnley were left wondering what might have been. Within minutes of referee Rob Styles calling off Saturday's initial FA Cup third round tie due to a waterlogged pitch after the heavens opened
ACCRINGTON Stanley midfielder Ian Craney has made his move to Swansea City permanent. The 24-year-old joined the League One side on loan in November, but has now put pen to paper on a two-and-a-half year contract at the Liberty Stadium. It is understood
Graeme Souness insists his offer to take over at Wolves remains "on the table" despite revealing it has been rejected by the Championship club as "not acceptable". The former Blackburn Rovers manager, who has been out of the game since leaving St James
A TARDIS-FULL of talent is set to invade Darwen, all in aid of charity. The third Doctor Who Convention is coming to town in March and a host of special guests have been lined up for the occasion. They include actress Sophie Aldred, who starred
A MAN returned home to find his house on fire - then ended up spending the night in jail because of his thirst for a pint. Kevin Bury, 57, of Stafford Street, Darwen, suffered from smoke inhalation after trying to fight the blaze but eventually had to
The mother of tug-of-love youngster Molly Campbell today dropped her case for full custody of her daughter, her lawyer in Pakistan said. The former Blackburn schoolgirl, who used to live in Moss Street in the Daisyfield area of the town, had been taken
BAE Systems, which employs thousands at its Samlesbury base, is expected to hand over an order for 72 jets to Saudi Arabia "soon". The Eurofighter order was thought to be under threat after the UK Serious Fraud Office started a probe into the firm's
AT what point does a maverick become a caricature? TV has always had a penchant for creating strange anti-heroes, those prepared to push the boundaries who refuse to be bowed by authority. But in Judge John Deed, who returned last night, BBC1 is surely
BLACKBURN'S town centre KFC has closed. Bosses at the fast food giant took the decision last month after a "trading review." The store was shut on December 3 and is now closed permanently with all signs removed. Staff from the King William Street branch
A DARWEN cat sanctuary has praised Lancashire Telegraph readers for donating vital supplies of food. After Christmas, Maureen Savage, who runs Moggies Cat Rescue from her home in Stansfield Street, had nearly three times more cats than normal to look
