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Homes on way as Burnley mill site is cleared

WORK IN PROGRESS: Demolition is well advanced at the Peel Mill site in Burnley

9:00pm Friday 3rd September 2010

DEMOLITION work in Gannow Lane, Burnley, to make way for homes and industry, is nearing completion.

Darwen man had meat cleaver in trousers

9:00pm Friday 3rd September 2010

A MAN who wielded a meat cleaver outside a Darwen takeaway has been jailed.

Low-flying aircraft sparks Pendle ‘999 panic’

6:40pm Friday 3rd September 2010

UPDATE: A low-flying RAF plane travelling low over the Pendle countryside last night prompting panic-stricken residents to call 999.

Pub landlord ‘flouted terms of his licence’

1:50pm Friday 3rd September 2010

A PUB landlord “flouted the terms of his licence” by allowing a group of up to 150 English Defence League activists to drink alcohol from 9am on the morning of their town centre protest, a court heard.

New Darwen Academy 'will inspire pupils'

STANDING PROUD: Principal Brendan Loughran with the Pegasus sculpture designed by local artist Tom Hill

10:30am Friday 3rd September 2010

DARWEN pupils ‘can't fail to be inspired’ by the ‘phemonemenal’ new Darwen Academy, according to bosses.







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