A £200,000 children’s centre looks set to open in Whalley, providing planning permission is granted next week. A range of services would be offered at the centre, which would be based at the library in Abbey Road. The centre is being funded by Lancashire
A CONTROVERSIAL scheme being trialled in Scotland could be the latest way to encourage smokers to give up the habit. NHS Tayside are paying cigarette smokers £12.50 a week to swap their fags for fruit and vegetables. Initial results have been promising
A BLACKBURN man accused of murder in California could face the death penalty if he is convicted, the Lancashire Telegraph understands. Foreign Office officials are carefully monitoring the case of Andrew Brian Sharkey, 35, who is charged with
A FAMOUS Burnley painting is on display in London for two months. The Modern Pre-Raphaelite, by JW Waterhouse, is in an exhibition at London’s Royal Academy until September 13. The display, which was opened by Sir Tim Rice, is the first major showing
A MAN has hit out after police officers targeted his house during a drugs raid by mistake. Police have admitted that the intelligence which led them to knock down the front door of Mark Reynold’s home in Hindle Street, Darwen was incorrect. Mr Reynolds
Yoga will take place in the autum in the Reading Rooms on Thursday evenings from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. To reserve a place please contact Carole on 416947.
PCSO Dave Johnson has advised the parish council that speed enforcement is to take place in Worsthorne as soon as the required signs have been installed.
Firefighters were called to a blaze at the rear of the Old Mother Redcap pub, Blackburn Road, Knuzden, last night. Two vehicle trailers were alight when fire crews arrived just after 8.40pm. It is not known how the fire was started.
Rossendale United have been drawn at home to Chorley in the FA Trophy preliminary round on October 3 – with the winners travelling to former Football League club Boston United. Clitheroe will host Belper Town on the same date for the right to travel
In a Celebration in Song for 150 years of worship at Our Lady & St Hubert’s RC Church in Great Harwood, an enthusiastic audience warmly welcomed the A Cappella Singers. Our Lady and St Hubert School along with the school from St Wulstan
July has just got to be the top month of the year for the cycle racing spectator. There are three weeks of the Tour de France starting on Saturday which will be shown daily on Eurosport and ITV4 and there is plenty of live action in Lancashire at the
Tickets go on general sale tomorrow for Lancashire’s Twenty20 quarter final clash with Somerset at Old Trafford on July 28. The match starts at 5.40pm and tickets, available for £14 in advance, can be purchased by contacting the ticket office on 0161
A NEW business that supplies specialist medical equipment to the healthcare sector has launched in Blackburn. Vision Medical is up and running after securing a £200,000 funding package from NatWest via the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme. Vision
THE Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix has reached its summer break with Keighley’s Amy Green seemingly set to regain her women’s title after winning the last six races. The race for the men’s title is still wide open with different winners in all eight rounds
Barcelona will turn their attentions to prising midfielder Cesc Fabregas away from Arsenal after learning that previous target Franck Ribery would prefer to leave Bayern Munich for Real Madrid. After securing Wigan’s Antonio Valencia, Manchester United
Accrington Stanley still hope to sign three more former loan players – Kieran Charnock, Darran Kempson and Craig Lindfield. Charnock spent most of last season with the Reds on loan from Peterorough, while Lindfield joined in January on a temporary
Cristiano Ronaldo has completed his world record £80m move from Manchester United to Real Madrid after agreeing a six-year deal. An ‘unconditional £80million’ fee was agreed between the clubs last month and then came an announcement last Friday that
A GROUP of Burnley Girl Guides has raised £65 from a ‘bring and buy’ sale. Members of the 31st Burnley Guides organised the event to raise money for Pendleside Hospice, based at Reedley. The girls meet every Monday at the Briercliffe Road Baptist and
A PLUMBERS merchants is making a £3m investment to tackle the recession head on. Bosses at Burnley-based James Hargreaves (Plumbers Merchants) Ltd are making the cash injection to safeguard the long-term future of the business. James Hargreaves has
Forty students have taken part in a tug-of-war contest to raise money for a Pendle charity. Eight teams of five, made up of students from Nelson and Colne College, took part in the challenge on the playing fields. The event formed part of the vocational
I didn't manage to see much of Andy Murray's amazing match at Wimbledon on Monday, but from what I did see there is no doubt that it was one of the great sporting occasions of our times. For most of the evening I was in the House of Commons chamber as
FOUR ‘elders’ from Worsthorne meet under the old ‘Gormless’ lamp in the village square in the spring of 1960 to mull over life. And one topic these four granddads would no doubt have been discussing was the closure of Worsthorne’s two cotton mills.
A ‘PEEPING Tom’ who spied on a naked teenage girl in a Burnley leisure centre changing room is set to receive mental health treatment. Mohammed Gulfraz Razaq, 22, who has previous convictions for indecency, had earlier had sentence adjourned whilst he
A BURNLEY grandmother is spearheading a campaign to help people in Zimbabwe after returning from a fact-finding mission to the poverty-stricken country. Anne-Marie Coppock, 61, from Lower Manor Lane in Burnley, was sent to the struggling country
RUNNERS will again pound the streets of Black-burn at this month’s road races. Everyone from children to elite athletes will be taking part in the event, on Sunday, July 12. Three junior races will be organised as well as a 5k race and a two-mile fun
A DAD is to cycle 60 miles to raise money for a leukaemia charity after his five-year-old daughter suffered with the disease for more than two years. Alan Taylor, 43, of Chatburn Road, Clitheroe, is to take part in the Manchester to Blackpool bike
A CHEF who caters for elderly people in a nursing home has won through to a national final for his creative cooking. Mark Wilkinson, head chef at Northwood Nursing and Residential Care, Preston New Road, Blackburn, is in the final of the Care Catering
AN EXCLUSIVE pink afternoon tea party and online auction are being held in August to raise money for children’s cancer charities. The Ribble Valley and White Rose Ladies (RV&WRL) are hosting the event, which will include a visit from This Morning’s
A NEW course will see 120 police officers train to be “sexual offences first responders”. Lancashire police said the in-house training will see the force “continuing to lead the way in the investigation of rape and serious sexual assault”. The course
A DANCE group has raised £250 for charity by holding raffles. Dancing Divas at The Knights Line Dancing Group organised the events in aid of Pendl-eside Hospice, based at Reedley. The group meets every Thursday at 2pm at the Bethesda Church Hall, in
A SNOOKER-mad boy’s dream came true when a world champion turned up at his house. Shaun Murphy arrived at the home of seven-year-old Lewis Ullah, in Dorset Street, Burnley, with a six-foot table to help him practise. Gifted Lewis has been playing snooker
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A PATCH of land that was allowed to grow out of control has finally been cleared. People living near the land off Jacks Key Drive had complained it looked a mess, but it was not clear who owned it. Now Blackburn with Darwen council has
STEVEN N’Zonzi linked up with his new team-mates yesterday as the Blackburn Rovers squad returned for their first day of pre-season training. Sam Allardyce opted to bring his players back earlier than many of Rovers’ Premier League rivals after having
FORMER Downing Street spin doctor Alastair Campbell has ruled himself out of the running to be Burnley’s next MP. But a former senior councillor with more than 30 years’ experience in politics, has thrown his hat into the ring – less than a
THE cotton industry was fraying in East Lancashire and the chance of new jobs in South Africa was a tempting offer for many local weavers. So, in 1963, 95 families from all over East Lancashire set off on a 5,000-mile journey to begin a whole new life
ANOTHER new school is under consideration in Nelson due to the town’s burgeoning birth rate. Education bosses are keeping population statistics for Walverden ward under review, the Lancashire Local Pendle committee heard. And if the Walverden birth
IT will be interesting to see how many people sign up for the government’s new ID cards. East Lancashire residents will be amongst the first in the country to be able to get their hands on them. But will people be willing to fork
A RIBBLE Valley music festival has sold out of all 5,000 tickets. The ticket sales mean thousands of music fans will descend on the fourth annual Beat Herder Festival, which takes place between Sawley and Gisburn for three days starting tomorrow. Revellers
Manchester City have signed Roque Santa Cruz from Blackburn on a four-year deal after the striker passed a medical. The 27-year-old was under contract with Blackburn until 2012 but had a buy-out clause in his contract for £18m. Santa Cruz
Hull remain hopeful they can entice Michael Owen to the KC Stadium after his Newcastle contract expires tomorrow. The Tigers are one of the few English clubs to have publicly declared their interest in signing the former Liverpool and Real
Mark Hughes has confirmed Manchester City are still interested in bringing Samuel Eto'o to the club. It was confirmed yesterday that Eto'o would prefer to remain with Barcelona amid a wrangle over a £25million fee that would be paid
MOTORISTS using mobile phones have been stopped and fined as part of a special police operation to encourage safer driving. Police community support officers and special constables in Burnley teamed up to run the joint operation. As well as stopping
POLICE are investigating serious damage to the trunk of a tree under a preservation order in the Golden Soney area of Tockholes. A preservation officer inspected the damage to the old ash tree and deemed that it could not be saved and would die.
CHILDREN at a Great Harwood primary school kick started National Sports Week with an energetic routine. Pupils from St John’s took part in the massive Wake Up and Shake Up routine simultaneously with other schools across the county on Monday at 9.15pm
East Lancashire's second RSPCA charity shop has been opened. Following the success of the first shop in Burnley, a second has been opened in Castle Street, Clitheroe. Clitheroe Mayor, Coun Mary Robinson, officially opened the shop, which still
What a sad waste of a life. Michael Jackson with his status with world-wide youth following and massive wealth could have been such a power of good. Instead he indulged himself in such a totally selfish way, it can’t be seen as anything but a waste
I’m writing to you about ‘Hall to host new council’. I cannot imagine why the new Darwen town council should be changed twice to hold their annual meetings in Darwen town hall as we are already paying for this in our council tax etc. The majority of
On Sunday, me and my sister missed the last bus to Blackburn from Preston, it was 11.30pm, we only had our bus passes and we were going to stay overnight in the bus station and get the first bus the following morning but they locked the station up, so
I aCT on behalf of the authorities at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, South Korea, where over 800 British servicemen are at rest. The authorities wish to obtain photographs of servicemen interred there and those who died but have no known
I agree entirely with Councillor Brown (LT June 27). The town is very dirty. It is not the fault of the council or the people who clean Blackburn. It is absolutely the fault of the large number (not all) of people who live in Blackburn
GRAHAM Alexander believes manager Owen Coyle has brought the right men in to lead Burnley’s Premier League charge. Before David Edgar became the Clarets’ third summer signing yesterday, Coyle smashed the club transfer record to snap up Steven
Thousands of people were left without power yesterday after a major power cut. More than 2,600 Ramsbottom residents were without electricity after a flock of birds collided with power lines in the town at 7.15am. A spokesperson from National Grid
It's been very hectic in the AtmosFEAR! Scare Attractions' production office. Since my last blog we've made some significant changes to Scare Kingdom Scream Park which opens at Hawkshaw Farm Park, home of Mrs Dowson's famous ice cream, in Clayton-le-Dale
BURGLARS stole a life -sized stuffed sheep from a shop window display. Ram-raiders smashed a 6ft by 4ft window of floorcovering specialists Boarder Flooring Co Ltd before taking the animal, which had been stuffed by a taxidermist, from the Whalley Road
I bumped into a pal the other day. He’d similarly bumped into a mate of mine - clumsy, aren’t we - who’d described me as a 'character'. It made me think of all the characters I know. They always have a tale to tell, don’t they? I love
THREE railway maintenance men have been convicted of health and safety offences following the death of a father-of-five from Burnley. David Pennington, 45, of Cog Lane, Burnley, was working at night on a main line in Staffordshire with another man when
YOUNG defender David Edgar will be among the new signings as Burnley begin their preparations for the Premier League today. The 22-year-old penned a four-year deal after his Newcastle United contract expired yesterday, and will team up with
WRC contender Conrad Rautenbach was full of praise for his co-driver Daniel Barritt after another points scoring finish on the Rally Poland. Although the pair sacrificed their seventh place on the Rally Poland in a bid to help team-mate Sebastien Loeb
THE Celebrate Blackburn Town Centre Races will return for a second year on Sunday, July 12, after a successful debut event in 2008. The first three races on the card are for junior athletes, which will incorporate a Blackburn Town Schools team competition
THREE local athletes have become national champions after success at the England Athletics U20 Championships in Bedford. Blackburn Harriers Alison Leonard and Sophie Hitchon have gained automatic selection for the European Junior Athletics
TORRENTIAL rain didn’t spoil Rossendale Motocross Club’s meeting at Whalley Nab – in fact it made it much better! The weather did the organisers a great favour on the Saturday evening, creating the perfect track conditions for great racing
A BLACKBURN man has been arrested for murder after reports that a man was strangled with a wire in California. Police said Andrew Sharkey, 35, presented himself to the local sheriff’s department in Sonoma County near San Francisco at the weekend
BLACKBURN Rovers will play their reserve games in Leigh during the 2009/10 season. Rovers have played their second-string matches at Morecambe for the past nine years but have opted to switch to Leigh Sports Village. The impressive 12,700
ROQUE Santa Cruz has hit back at critics who labelled him a trouble-maker during his final season at Blackburn Rovers. Santa Cruz last week finally completed an £18m move to Manchester City and was unveiled at Eastlands yesterday. The
BURNLEY will put an extra 1,500 season tickets on general sale after giving the go-ahead to plans to open up the David Fishwick Stand to home supporters. Clarets chiefs have been in discussions with police and safety officials for several weeks
ACCRINGTON Stanley are aiming to complete a deal to bring striker Michael Symes back to the club before the end of the week. Symes impressed Stanley boss John Coleman during a month on loan with the Reds in the latter stages of the 2008/09
Padiham entertain St Helens Town in the first qualifying round of the FA Vase on September 5. Ramsbottom host Wigan Robin Park, while Colne are at Atherton LR. Full draw 1 Washington v Morpeth Town 2 Stokesley v Thackley 3 West Auckland Town
Chorley’s Nick Dougherty, now 66/1 to win this year’s Open Championship, returns to action at the Open de France today after winning the BMW International on Sunday.
BURNLEY manager Owen Coyle is expected to further strengthen his back line before the end of the week, with Doncaster centre back Matt Mills linked. Meanwhile targets James McCarthy, the 18-year-old Hamilton Academical midfielder, and Sheffield
FORMER Clarets goal ace Andy Payton has been cautioned by police after 17 cannabis plants were seized in a drugs raid on his house in Burnley. Police raided his home in Mary Towneley Fold, Fulledge, after issuing a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act
A GRANDAD’s mobility vehicle was clamped – after parking wardens ticketed his blue badge car while he was in hospital. Parking tickets were issued to 52-year-old Gary Calvert while he was in hospital recovering from a heart attack because his car was
