A SCOOTER-riding smash and grab jewellery thief struck three times in under an hour in Blackburn town centre. The lone motorcyclist launched a cast iron grate, wrapped in a Tesco ‘bag for life’ carrier, through the front display window of Cash
A SECOND group is bidding to turn a former care home into a centre for people with addiction problems. Last September, hundreds of people campaigned against plans from charity Reto UK to turn The Woodlands site in Holly Trees Close, into a home for
TURKISH delight turned into Turkish fright when Jane Barker decided to take a bite of a Cadbury chocolate bar. Because the Blackburn mum discovered what appeared to be a dead moth within the Dairy Milk treat. Jane, 38, of Ennerdale Avenue, Blackburn
A BLACKBURN retail park has changed hands for £27million. The Peel Centre, Lower Audley Street, includes Matalan, Staples, the Vue Cinema and the DW Fitness centre. New owners PRUPIM are not understood to be planning major changes to
APPEAL rates for high school places in one East Lancashire borough are the highest in the north west — and second highest in the country. Figures released by the Department of Education revealed that 28.6 per cent of parents (499) were granted appeals
A MAN who had an epileptic fit in front of Burnley General Hospital has questioned why he was sent 15 miles to Blackburn for treatment. But East Lancashire hospital bosses have insisted the Royal Blackburn Hospital was the most clinically suitable
THE man in charge of Lancashire’s roads has resigned after an 'horrific winter' which saw furious rows about gritting and potholes. Coun Keith Young, cabinet member for highways, said he had become 'permanently tired out' and wanted to spend
QUESTIONS have been raised over why it is now set to cost £30,000 to clean up a contaminated allotment in Colne. Tyre mulch was dumped on part of Alkincoats allotments in the 1980s without permission, poisoning the land. Colne Town Council has now taken
FANS have claimed they saw more of Rovers-supporting Doctor Who Matt Smith than they were supposed to on Saturday night. In new episode The Lodger, which aired on BBC One on Saturday evening and guest starred Gavin And Stacey's James Corden, the Timelord
EVERY time we go to Devon we discover a treasure. And our last visit unearthed a nugget to behold. Tucked away on the South Hams’ most southern headland is a retreat any stranger would find difficult to stumble across. You need directions
BLACKBURN town centre would be ‘cannibalised’ by Preston’s £700milion expansion plans, town hall bosses have claimed. Council chiefs also raised fears about whether Marks and Spencer would remain in the town centre if shoppers were tempted
A DRUNKEN man who brought terror to a family after bursting in at night has been jailed for 15 months. Sean Nerney, 31, pushed a middle-aged woman to the floor, chased her son, and then threw an iron through the kitchen window. He was
Looking at my walking diary of the summer of 2009 I see I was struggling with almost continuous rain. How different things are in 2010. Things may change but in late May I loved the sun on my back as I strolled through one of my favourite villages
THROW away all of your preconceived ideas about musicals, The Hired Man is a powerful and moving account of private lives played out against the greater historical backdrop of industrialisation and the First World War. Opening in Cumbria at the turn
AS the sun fell over the Reebok Stadium, feisty pop singer Pink confirmed her place as a genuine rock star. Bounding on stage, megaphone in hand, the American singer treated fans to hits including Just Like A Pill, Sober and Funhouse.
Address: Thatch and Thistle, Surrey Road, Nelson, BB9 7TZ. Phone no: 01282 615215 Lancashire Telegraph review by Anna Mansell from June 10, 2010. AFTER a couple of hours relaxing at Inside Spa at Wavelengths in Nelson, my friend
I SAT with Joan Bakewell some years ago at a witch-gathering spot on Pendle as television cameras silently taped our chit-chat about morality, faith and alternative spiritualities. I warmed to her personality, as did millions of viewers in her heyday
A CHARITY’S cafe is in danger of closing due to a dwindling pool of volunteers. Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary in Edenfield has a large modern café facility for visitors to the site which has been an invaluable source of income for the charity for many years
BLACKBURN and Darwen’s Neighbourhood Board committees have been spared the axe after a bid to scrap them was overturned by town hall chiefs. The opposition Labour Group won a vote last month pledging to replace the five boards, which meet to discuss
I set myself a task in 2010 and that is to photograph as many of our plants as I could. This included those flowers which are not popular in our countryside. Very close to the Pleasure Beach and opposite the holiday camp and Blackpool Airport I set off
COMPLAINTS against Lancashire’s police officers – including for being rude and neglect of duty – have leapt by nearly 40 per cent in a year. Last September Lancashire Constabulary launched an awareness drive at the force’s training centre to remind
© Press Association 2010. The England Supporters' Band has vowed to compete against the deafening sound of the vuvuzela at the Football World Cup - and said the traditional instruments should not be banned. The brass orchestra, which has not missed
YOUNGSTERS got into the World Cup spirit as the tournament began, with a sports day in Grindleton. At Whalley Primary School there was a World Cup Fair – sisters Lydia and Eliza Ferris show their true colours with Thomas Mowe and Lewis Maybin
This Sunday my husband will have a good lie in, then have a long, leisurely breakfast while listening to The Archers, followed by an equally long shower, and an enjoyable afternoon pottering about in the garden. So what’s new? For him this routine is
Paul Riley founded Uniplay It’s Educational Ltd, in Blackburn, after deciding he wanted to strike out on his own. Paul had previous knowledge of working in the educational sector, but decided to build on the skills that he had acquired and build his
SAVE God’s World? Our worthy bishop should try his hand at saving God’s houses of worship and he would have no need to fly to Turkey to visit sites of long gone houses and worship. There are enough within walking distance here he could visit. A SEDWICK
You must be a staunch Tory to blame Gordon Brown on the recession (Finger Bang, Online Debate, June 9) Everybody knows that Gordon Brown was quite a good Chancellor, and he was doing well until the banks started gambling with our money. He wasn’t a
STAN Melling (LT 3/6/10) could not be more wrong in his letter. It would appear that our MPs are very much in touch with the man in the street. Has Mr Melling forgotten that there has just been an election. The voters have been quite happy to return
Regarding Margo’s column (LT, June 8). Margo speaks of the violence and sexual exploitation on TV and how young girls dress like they are ‘up for it’. She says she supports Mary Whitehouse, saying she was right to condemn too much sex on TV. That sounds
DAVID Cowgill broke down in tears as the judge broke the news that he was going to jail. Cowgill, one of the Clitheroe’s best known businessman, is now starting a 10-month sentence. His plight has shocked the tight-knit community in the town where his
Earby claimed the West Craven bragging rights as they saw off Barnoldswick in a thrilling last-ball finish in the Ribblesdale League Twenty20. Earby needed 12 off the final over and three of the last ball – and they got home thanks to professional
There is the annual Arts & Crafts Fair at Manchester Road Methodist Church, Haslingden from the 11th to the 19th June. Lots of interesting items and refreshments are available in the cafe.
F W Birch and several other correspondents have stated that Tory governments are always left to sort out the mess left behind by Labour (Letters, June 2). Maybe it’s F W Birch who has been on another planet as he/she obviously hasn’t noticed the worldwide
TWO senior citizens were taken to hospital after a car crash outside a factory in Bacup on Saturday. Road traffic police have launched an investigation after two saloon cars collided near the Drury Adams factory at New Hey Mill, Newchurch Road, just
A RIBBLE Valley firm has become the first in the UK to develop a self-publishing ‘app’ for the new Apple iPad. YUDU’s product allows magazine, brochure and catalogue publishers to reproduce their printed content on the iPad – this year’s must-have gadget
THE rain wrecked yesterday’s Lancashire League programme as the first washout of 2010 arrived in the middle of June. Once the heavens opened at 2pm there was little chance of matches being finished, although they did all start. And they will be
CONFIDENT Nelson made it three wins from three in the Lancashire League Twenty20 competition – and can start planning for another semi-final. Colin Pemberton’s men, last season’s beaten finalists, hold all the aces in Group C after a third successive
There was good news in the Lancashire Cup for Read yesterday. They beat St Annes 3-1 on a bowl out after rain wrecked chances of play.
© Press Association 2010. Jamie Carragher is ready to partner John Terry at the heart of England's defence in the absence of the injured Ledley King. England boss Fabio Capello looks set to turn to the veteran Liverpool defender for Friday's
DARWEN’S perfect start to the Northern League’s Latham Baxendale Twenty20 tournament came to a shuddering end on Friday night as Preston inflicted pain on the locals at Birch Hall. John Cordingley’s in-form men were in confident mood against the T20
Chorley’s Twenty20 campaign is turning into a disaster as they lost for the third time on Friday. But it was a thriller against Leyland at Windsor Park. Andrew Makinson hit 37 and professional Brett Pelser blasted 45 in Leyland's 183-5 as Matt Parry
It was a day of joy for Darwen on Saturday as they thumped Netherfield at Birch Hall. John Cordingley won the toss and put the Cumbrians in - and it was celebration time two balls in as he snared a catch off brother Neil to send Craig Walmsley back
The county game looks unlikely to immediately follow Australia’s lead in adopting a two-innings one-day format after a mixed reception to the concept in second XI cricket. Angus Porter, chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association, accepts
BRILLIANT South African JJ Smuts put on a show that would have had his fellow countrymen blowing their vuzuzelus as he wrote his name into the Chorley history books on Saturday. The professional roared back to form as his men, struggling for
A rapid half-century from Warwickshire’s left-hand bats-man Jim Troughton went to waste when rain ended Lanca-shire’s reply in yesterday’s Friends Provident t20 clash at Edgbaston. Openers Tom Smith and Paul Horton made three runs in a solitary over
BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw has defended his continued use of a chauffeur-driven Government car on grounds of security. Mr Straw was criticised alongside other former Labour ministers in a national newspaper for ‘clinging’ on to his car 'at taxpayers
MIKE Newell says he still regards his time at Blackburn Rovers as the highlight of his playing career, and has backed Sam Allardyce to continue guiding the club in the right direction next season. Newell was the man who secured Rovers’ promotion to the
POLICE said there was no repeat of the disorder which marred last year’s Longridge Field Day at the weekend’s event. Four people were arrested and 20 drunken revellers told to leave the festival, which officers said helped keep a lid on any
Robert Green wants to remain as England’s World Cup number one despite his massive blunder in the drawn encounter with the United States. The West Ham goalkeeper allowed an innocuous 25-yard shot from Clinton Dempsey to slip from his grasp
A GROUP of Blacksnape residents rolled up their sleeves for a village tidy-up ahead of competing in the first ever East Rural Scarecrow Festival. Residents picked up litter, repaired dry stone walls, trimmed grass verges, and carried out planting, ‘bringing
A LANDMARK mill in Blackburn will be demolished in the next few weeks, it has been revealed. Albion Mill, Albion Street, Ewood, dates back to the 1850s but has fallen into disrepair in recent years. A ‘mixed use’ development including
It’s hard not to love black clothes; they hide a multitude of sins and make you look smart and sophisticated with the minimum of effort. The trouble is that after a few washes they end up looking faded and old. But now they don’t have to
I wouldn't get too excited just yet about all this takeover talk. While there seems no doubt that it's a serious enquiry, there's an awful lot of water to flow between the Ganges and the River Darwen before this purchase could become reality.
Tom Jones sang about The Green Green grass of home. Lets just hope that as a result of Robert Green's howler against the USA in England's opening world Cup encounter with the USA the team won't be returning to this green and pleasant land much sooner
VINTAGE steam engines, cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles and tractors descended on Slaidburn at the weekend. The Slaidburn Steam Rally took place on Saturday and Sunday at the centre of the Ribble Valley village. There were also two fairground
SAM Allardyce’s summer transfer search remains ‘business as usual’ with any potential Blackburn Rovers takeover still a long way from being a done deal. Indian businessman Saurin Shah became the first potential buyer of the club to show his hand but,
In support of Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life 2010 series which kicked off at the beginning of May, Sony Music is releasing a charity album – which is entirely comprised by tracks voted through a special playlist initiative. Race for
MANCHESTER City have drawn up a shortlist iof players they want to sign after the World Cup. Boss Roberto Mancini wants David Silva from Valencia, Aston Villa’s James Milner and Inter Milan’s Diego Milito - and will pay £180million for the threesome.
RESTAURANTS are ‘ripping off’ their customers by telling lies on their menus, a major Lancashire Trading Standards investigation has revealed. Officers launched their probe amid fears of false claims — and were shocked at what they found.
