A WIDOWER has called for greater understanding of prescription drug addiction following the death of a mother-of-six in Rossendale. Talented musician Eileen Quinn, of Waterfoot, had battled a dependency on diazepam and similar substances for more than
Blackburn Rovers' Wembley dream is over after an incredible 10-goal Carling Cup semi-final shootout at Villa Park. Rovers got off to a flying start with two Nikola Kalinic goals, but Villa hit back before the break. The first came through
GRIEVING families have called for better security at Pleasington Cemetery after a series of graveside thefts. Widowed husband Martin Townsend, 47, of Bute Road, Blackburn, spoke of his disgust earlier this week after thieves stole ornaments from his
A CHARITY based in Nelson is appealing for money to buy water, food, medicine and building materials to send to Haiti. Muslim Global Relief (MGR), which has offices in Manchester Road, launched the appeal after an earthquake hit the Caribbean island
A QUICK-thinking schoolgirl has been honoured for saving the life of her classmate. Hannah Morris sprang into action when her friend, Georgina Newby, 14, from Hoghton, was choking on a sweet while the teacher was out of the room at St Wilfrid’s School
NIKOLA Kalinic scored twice but Aston Villa hit back in an incredible Carling Cup semi-final at Villa Park. Kalinic's double gave Rovers a 2-1 aggregate lead, but a goal from Ewood old boy Stephen Warnock and a penalty from James Milner - after Chris
TURF Moor regulars have been challenged to improve their half-time eating habits with the introduction of a new broth. Pensioners and schoolchildren were amongst people taking part in a taste test yesterday to decide which of four local recipes will
A PENDLE pensioner has scooped a national award for living an “extraordinary” life after retirement. Patricia Kelly, 62, of Fife Street, Barrowford, was named overall winner for the North of England and Scottish regions in the national Laterlife
Benni McCarthy was back on the bench for Blackburn Rovers as manager Sam Allardyce opted to play Nikola Kalinic as the lone striker in this Carling Cup semi-final second leg at Villa Park. Morten Gamst Pedersen also starts in midfield with Steven Reid
A TREE dedicated to criminals who have completed community service is to be unveiled at a Girl Guiding centre. Lancashire Probation Trust is being thanked by Girlguiding UK’s Waddow Hall centre in Clitheroe at a special ceremony on Saturday
A THIEF believed to have stolen eight Vauxhall Corsas is exploiting a ‘weakness in the design’ of the car, police said. The same person is also suspected of two other attempted thefts of Corsas, and stealing two Ford Fiestas. All of the incidents
TWENTY-ONE jobs could be lost if plans to close Thornleigh mental health rehabilitation centre in Burnley are approved later this month. Lancashire County Council will consider final proposals to shut the £600,000 centre on Colne Road, which
Worsthorne residents have voiced concerns about gritting services in the rural area. County Coun Margaret Brindle attended the January Parish Council meeting and explained the gritting difficulties Lancashire County Council had.
Lancashire funnyman Steve Royle is setting off on a solo tour that comes to Blackburn. Steve performed more than 2,000 juggling shows at Camelot Theme Park under the guise of Mad Edgar. He's now a regular fixture on the stand-up comedy
I don’t really know too much about Brian Laws, so we can only really judge him after his first few games in charge of Burnley. It’s hard to say at the moment. I know he was at Sheffield Wednesday but other than that I don’t know much about
A school is celebrating the end of a 20-year battle over the welfare of its main road. The road leading to Alder Grange Community and Technology School will be adopted by Lancashire County Council. Rossendale North Division county councillor
IMAGINE a sci-fi-inspired Charlie’s Angel and you’re probably halfway to understanding Bayonetta, the eponymous lead character in this all-action outing on Xbox 360. Dressed to kill, with all the skills to do exactly that in abundance, she’s a fantastic
ANY game that dares cast you as one of the four men of the apocalypse is likely to have an amazing fantasy storyline. In the case of Darksiders, this epic battle between good, evil and those in between turns out to be every bit as monumental as the
IT might be one of the last video games to trickle out of the gate in 2009, but Konami's Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is one of the best Wii titles of the year — if you're into scary stories, that is. This 18-rated thriller, which is also available
THE Rat Pack’s Vegas Spectacular show is coming to Oswaldtwistle. The self-titled “purveyors of cool” will perform classic songs including Come Fly with Me, Volare, I’ve Goy You Under My Skin, Mr Bojangles, Lady Is A Tramp, Mack The Knife and more
ASTON Villa manager Martin O’Neill wants his side to forget about their 1-0 first leg lead and approach tonight’s Carling Cup semi final against Blackburn Rovers like a normal match. Villa carry a one-goal advantage into the second
Accrington Stanley managing director Dave O’Neill has confirmed that the Reds have paid their outstanding debt to HM Revenue and Customs. Stanley had been issued with a winding up order, scheduled for the High Court on February 3, over another unpaid
A COUNCILLOR joined bin crews for the day to try to clear Darwen’s rubbish backlog. Lib Dem Roy Davies admitted his stint emptying dustbins had been “pretty grim” but was needed because many had not been cleared since Christmas. Bin crews were unable
ACTOR-turned-director Paul Simpson is on a mission to desegregate his home town of Blackburn through the power of cinema. And the star of stage and screen is looking for two young men to take the leads in his first film, due for release in
BOSS Brian Laws has quickly assembled his backroom staff at Turf Moor. Here, we give you the lowdown on the men hired to keep the Clarets in the Premier League ... RUSS WILCOX - assistant manager The former Preston, Hull City and Scunthorpe defender
BURNLEY have sold out their entire allocation of tickets for their highly anticipated Premier League trip to face Owen Coyle’s Bolton Wanderers next Tuesday.
LARGE investment has been pledged for a popular park which missed out on National Lottery funding last year. Plans for an open-air stage and revamped play area, along with relocated ball courts, teenage hangouts, a family area and rose walks
Through your newspaper, the parishioners from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church would like to thank the staff and workers of the community payback scheme for all their hard work in clearing our car park of snow and ice in our time of need. We had
THE law against driving while using a mobile phone came into force in December 2003. Yet just over six years on, a regular sight on the roads is still a phone glued to a motorist’s ear. It clearly is dangerous to control a one-tonne metal contraption
NOW that the new leisure centre in Darwen is almost finished, I would like to know why they have not either put one-way windows or frosted glass in so people cannot look into the swimming area from the street. People who are using the pools do not want
Global warming is just a load of hot air when it is used willy-nilly like Data Protection was recently to try to prevent discussions even on personal matters. Coun Brian Gordon may well be correct (LT, January 12) when consideration is given to media
SIXTEEN people have been snared by police on the first day of Operation Fly Trap. The operation, aimed at tackling organised crime in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale, was launched on Monday. It has led to the arrest of two people for
WEST Ham have declared an interest in trying to sign Benni McCarthy from Blackburn Rovers. However, no deal is likely unless the Hammers offer more than a reported £1.5m for the South African striker. West Ham joint owner David Gold
PHONES giant BT has unveiled plans which could see the building of Pendle’s first commercial wind farm. Bosses at the telecommunication firm are looking at three sites across the north west, including farmland near Higham, to form part of a
A new exhibition called Get Over It by London artist Carol Mancke is set to run for two months in a Burnley gallery. The interactive exhibition at Mid Pennine Arts takes a tongue-in-cheek look at health and safety and risk assessment - both physical
MOTORISTS are being warned after a spate of car break-ins on town centre car parks. Police said a number of vehicles were hit by thieves in the Goitside area of Nelson over the weekend. Cars were broken into on Pendle Community Hospital car park
WHEN Sam Allardyce sat down for his post-match press conference after the Carling Cup semi final first leg defeat to Aston Villa, the reporters in the room were left guessing as to quite why a cardboard plaque bearing the UEFA Cup logo had been
LANCASHIRE County Council has been rapped by the information commissioner after confidential documents were left in furniture sold in a second hand shop. The Lancashire Telegraph revealed the blunder last year when the customer who bought the
A COMMUNICATIONS company is looking for recruits to help fill 150 positions at its new office. Nelson firm Daisy said many jobs were still up for grabs after it announced the creation of 150 vacancies late last year to be based at its new complex
CHERIE Blair’s stepmother was high-handed with colleagues, threw “tantrums” and name-dropped her famous relatives, an industrial tribunal heard. Stephanie Booth was “rude and condescending” and would “scream” at other staff at the children’s charity
Andrew Flintoff has appealed for cricket fans to petition Trafford Council to support Lancashire's redevelopment plans for Old Trafford. The iconic all-rounder, who retired from Test cricket following last summer's Ashes success, has called on supporters
CHARITY shops are struggling to cope with an ‘enormous’ drop in donations at what is normally the busiest time of the year. Wintery weather is being blamed for the fall which one shop manager said had left them ‘desperate’ for new items. Natalie
PLANS to twin Barnoldswick with a Polish town have been announced. The proposed twinning project will see the Pendle market town forge permanent links with Glubczyce, in southern Poland. It could pave the way for student exchange programmes which see
A DRUG dealer who was supplying heroin and crack cocaine on the streets of Blackburn has been jailed for four years. Tussif Ashraf, 21, from Preston New Road, Blackburn was sentenced at Preston Crown Court after pleading guilty to being concerned in
A COUNCIL leader has reacted furiously to comments from Blackburn MP Jack Straw in a row over gritting. The Justice Secretary had issued a statement at the weekend claiming Blackburn with Darwen Council’s performance in the cold spell had “not been up
AN historic Northrop loom from Blackburn Museum is to feature in a new BBC series charting ‘the history of the world’. Ten items from the North West have been submitted to the British Museum project which looks at the past 1,000 years. The British Northrop
GOT the January blues? Then comedian Stephen K Amos could have just the thing. The funnyman, who won over legions of comedy fans with performances on panel shows Have I Got News For You and Mock The Week, presents his new stand-up show The Feelgood Factor
CAMPAIGNERS are protesting against the closure of Rishton’s only bank. Around 260 people have responded to a petition to keep the local HSBC branch open led by ward councillor Harry Grayson and joined by fellow councillors, MP Greg Pope and the area’
TEACHERS have had to take a fair amount of abuse in East Lancashire and elsewhere over the past few weeks. It was claimed they were too ready to close schools at the first sign of snow leaving parents with the headache of finding alternative childcare
YOUNG people in Lancashire are career conscious, according to a new poll. More than three quarters of 16 to 18-year-olds in the area have given serious thought to the line of work they would like to go into when they leave education or training. And
SOME of the leading lights from the East Lancashire business world were honoured at a council reception. Blackburn with Darwen Council held the function in the mayor’s chamber at the town hall to recognise the achievements of the finalists from the
A RECORD amount was raised at a coffee morning in aid of Ramsbottom RNLI. More than 100 people helped fetch in £772 at the event at Canon Lewis Hall, Holcombe Brook. Barclays bank matched the sum and donated £750 under its Community Invest-ment
Members of the town council will discuss the launch of more community cinema events in the town. The Civic Hall has hosted a variety of films this year as part of the community cinema project.
JUST a quarter of Lancashire taxpayers’ £11million invested in a failed Icelandic bank could be returned, it has been revealed. None of the cash tied up in the Landsbanki bank, which was taken under state control in 2008, has so far been repaid. Lancashire
AROUND £1.2million will be used to expand GP teaching facilities at surgeries across East Lancashire. Thirty-eight additional training places for doctors are to be created at practices in Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Ribble Valley and Rossendale. NHS
THE curtain is set to go up on a classic fairytale pantomime in Hyndburn. St Mary’s Panto Group, Oswaldtwistle, who have been producing an annual show each January for 42 years, is preparing to tell the much-loved story of the puppet Pinocchio’s quest
COMPANY bosses and entrepreneurs have been invited to an event for businesses. Private Sector Partners, which represents 140,000 businesses, will hold its small firms’ summit at the new £80million University of Central Lancashire campus, in Princess
A FARMER has appealed for information after £7,200 worth of sheep were stolen from his land. The 41 white faced Texel sheep, all of which were in lamb, and one ram, were taken from the Copy Nook area of Bolton-by-Bowland. The sheep are
THE mother of arson fire victim Adbullah Mohammed died of pneumonia after surgery, unaware of the tragedy which had killed her son and daughter-in-law. An inquest heard Fatima Ibrahim Mohammed, 73, of London Road, Blackburn, contracted the chest infection
PLANS for a new multi-million pound courts complex in Blackburn town centre have been shelved because there is no money available. The scheme, to build an 11-court centre on the site of the former telephone exchange in Duke Street, was unveiled two
THE Best That I Can Be, a single recorded to raise awareness of anti-social behaviour in Lancashire, is now available to buy and download. The single was written by Darwen DJ Martin Cooper, of The Bee radio station, and produced by Daniel Reid
DWIGHT Yorke has warned Blackburn Rovers ‘don’t waste your golden opportunity’ after claiming tonight’s Carling Cup semi final is bigger for them than it is for Aston Villa. The former Rovers and Villa striker admits he will be rooting for
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy has produced worse GCSE results than the school it replaced. It had a 23 per cent pass rate for pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades including English and maths. The academy, which opened in
THE Environment Agency has submitted plans for a new flood monitoring station in Clitheroe. The station at Pimlico Brook will be used to monitor river levels to develop a flood warning service for properties that lie within the flood zone. It will contain
PAUL Robinson is dreaming of replicating his 2008 Carling Cup triumph - and insists he is again ready to play the part of Blackburn Rovers’ semi final hero. The Rovers goalkeeper helped Spurs lift the trophy two years ago and, ahead of tonight
A PERVERT who committed a sex act in front of a little boy was rumbled several years later after he sent drunken texts to a friend, a court heard. Patrick Blackie, now 25, sent a young woman messages claiming he had had sexual contact with four young
A BLACKBURN woman has revealed the trauma that family members of heart attack victims can suffer in a national TV campaign. Karen Tuffy was chosen to star in the British Heart Foundation campaign along with her mum Sue Tuffy, who was rushed to Rochdale
BLACKBURN’S BHS store, in King William Street, will not be turned into a Primark. Ten outlets are due to be taken over by the Irish discount retailer but Blackburn’s store will be unaffected, a BHS spokeswoman confirmed. Primark is set to open a
Lancashire firefighters helped saved the life of a toddler who had been buried alive in the Haitian earthquake, it has been revealed. They pulled the two-year-old girl from tonnes of rubble by her pigtails after she spent more than three days
Doncaster boss Sean O’Driscoll is closing in on a deal for Newcastle striker Kazenga Lua Lua, who was on loan with Rovers last season. * Manchester United defender David Gray is joining Plymouth on loan - for the third time. * Ex-Blackburn
GARY Buckman celebrated his appointment as Blackburn Hawks’ new head coach with a 5-3 win at home to Trafford Metros. Gary took temporary charge of team affairs in mid-October after Mark Stokes was granted compassionate leave to return to Canada
MARTIN Paterson crowned his comeback from injury with a goal, but Burnley had to settle for a point last night after Hull’s second string scored a late equaliser against the run of play. Paterson was one of three long-term injury victims out
BRIAN Laws could be set to make Monaco striker Frederic Nimani his first signing as Burnley manager. The France under 21 international is being tracked by a number of Premier League clubs, including Birmingham City. But the Clarets are
MOTORISTS who still use their mobile phones while driving are being targeted in a week-long police crackdown. As part of Operation Pathway, Lancashire’s road police are also warning pedestrians to take extra care when listening to MP3 players or mobile
JOHN Coleman vowed to sink a few celebratory beers last night as Accrington Stanley booked their dream date with Premier League Fulham after stunning Gillingham at the Crown Ground. The Reds beat the League One outfit 1-0 thanks to a John Miles goal
SAM Allardyce has reminded his players of the club’s former glories as he urges them to take their chance of writing their own names into Blackburn Rovers history. Rovers travel to Villa Park for tonight’s Carling Cup semi-final second leg with the
