MORE than 50 new jobs are expected to be created with the expansion of a Burnley fashion retailer’s headquarters. Plans have been unveiled by The Original Factory Shop to extend its main premises in Billington Road, on the Orient Business Park
HOMES in a Blackburn street were flooded today after a water pipe burst. Around eight homes in Lime Street, Shear Brow, had water gush into them and the road was also flooded following the burst at the junction with Bold Street. Meanwhile, Lime
A TAXI driver who careered into a stone wall after losing control on a rural road sent boulders flying up to 40 metres away from the crash scene, an inquest heard. Cabbie Imran Hussain, 33, had been returning from an early-hours fare from Rawtenstall
HORSE + BAMBOO THEATRE presents "Storm in a Teacup" on Sunday 25th April at the Horse and Bamboo Theatre in Waterfoot. A thought provoking show for 4 years and above, combining masks, puppetry and specially written music by Chris Davies. Tickets
Rossendale's Green Vale Homes are organising their Annual Garden Competition with the closing date for entries being Monday the 14th June. Final judging will be on Thursday the 15th July with and an awards ceremony on the 6th September. There are
businesses in Rossendale, hit by the recession, are waking up to new opportunities thanks to an entrepreneur. Tracy Heatley, from Loveclough, has launched two new Business over Breakfast (BoB) clubs at Dodah’s restaurant in Rawtenstall and
AT last! The use of wild animals is to be outlawed by the Government. I was relieved to read in the LT that animal welfare minister Jim Fitzpatrick agrees banning wild animals to perform in travelling circuses because it is unacceptable. No animal should
RICHARD Moore's life nearly turned out very differently. His first career was as a press photographer in Burnley and he didn’t follow his first love of acting until he was well into his twenties. But now as Richard celebrates 50 years in entertainment
£50 MILLION for a bus lane most people don’t want? Are these people on the same planet as the average person? The roads are not wide enough for cycle lanes even. How many businesses will be put out of action and gardens ruined? This money
SIX posties from Burnley are aiming to deliver vital funds for Pendleside Hospice by taking part in the Pennine Lancashire 10k run. Ian Gerrity, Mark Greenwood, William Harbour, Shaun O’Brien, Alan Smith and Ian Carrington will hit the streets of Blackburn
AT long last the third lift at Blackburn Royal Hospital has been repaired after several weeks. Why didn’t the lift engineers check out lifts one and two for the doors failing to close? It wouldn’t take two minutes to clean out the rubbish in the
If there were any clues as to what the bankers were doing with our money at the ‘casino’, look up the word derivative. Found mainly in “quick guide to being a bookie” books, it’s just a complicated bet! They are there primarily to make money, tempted
MORE than 4,400 homes in Burnley are set to be fitted with free carbon monoxide detectors by a landlord. People living in Calico homes will receive the device over the next 12 months from the owners of Burnley’s former council housing stock. The move
Olympic legend Steve Cram used to be quick off the mark. Now there's no catching him after he volunteered to be plastered across the back of a bus to promote July's big run. I grew up watching Cram battle it out with Seb Coe and Steve Ovett
TWO horticulturalists are celebrating after being awarded a £3,000 travel scholarship. Steven Walker and Elizabeth Coar, both from Dunsop Bridge, are planning to use the cash to travel to the USA. Both former students at Myerscough College, Elizabeth
When it comes to understanding washing instructions for clothes, the UK population is bordering on illiteracy. A study found that eight out of ten adults have absolutely no idea what the instructions on labels mean, and many – in particular younger
SATURDAY, the sun shone, people were out in droves and suddenly my world’s a wonderful place. Stuff the credit crunch! We were out and about, having poached eggs on toasted wholemeal bread, followed by apple crumble and custard. And we were ‘throwing
After years of touring with a full band, with all the expense and hassle that can entail, Kenny Anderson – aka King Creosote – has decided to pare things down and is embarking on his first solo tour. The Scottish troubadour and Fence Collective founder
If last week’s goalless draw against FA Cup finalists Portsmouth felt like a defeat, Sunday’s same scoreline against champion contenders Manchester United seemed more like a victory. If I’m truthful, I never thought we were likely to score but it says
TIGHTER security, earlier closing times and a drinking ban made this year’s Witton Park Easter Fair a success, according to police. Following residents’ and fairgoers’ concerns last year, extra police patrols were at the site at peak times, equipped
£200 worth of lead has been stolen from the roof of a Clayton-le-Moors church at the weekend. Thieves struck at All Saints Church some time between 10pm on Friday and 8am on Saturday. They used a ladder to steal the lead from within the secluded
IT was on Friday afternoon when I was asked for my thoughts on Burnley’s game with Hull the following day. “Last orders in the last chance saloon,” was my reply. And so it was that after an initial wobble, Brian Laws and his charges staggered
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help locate and survey forgotten orchards in Lancashire. Northern Fruit Group is trying to identify varieties of apples, pears and plums within orchards and monitor unidentified specimens. Northern Fruit’s Phil Rainford
Roadworks planned around Darwen Aldridge Community Academy have been scheduled to take place in the next financial year. Blackburn with Darwen Council will carry out the new road safety measures in Redearth Road and Sudell Road before the new high school
PROGRESS has been slow on a trial project to improve the standard of rented accommodation in Darwen. Just 100 licences have been issued to landlords as part of the Selective Landlord Licencing scheme. Under the compulsory scheme, landlords must pay
BOOKS of condolence have opened for victims of Saturday’s air crash which killed Poland’s president and a number of other top dignitaries. The books will be placed in Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council’s town hall as a mark of respect to the victims
Lancashire defence giant BAE Systems is the world’s number one supplier of arms, according to a survey. It is the first time a non-American company has topped the research, compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. BAE replaced
A PUB was closed to protect others in the area, a brewery boss has said. Thwaites shut the Gibraltar in Dukes Brow, Blackburn, on Sunday after agreeing to sell the building to be turned into a house or flats. The move was criticised
THE first-ever Sabden Live mini-music festival will take place in the village on May 2. The free day-long event will include acts Stealer, The Kicks, Mario Galea, and Amy Barton. In addition, Neil Diamond tribute, Nearly Diamond, will be appearing
Hoghton Players will take to the stage with comedy, murder mystery Out Of Sight... Out Of Murder, by Fred Carmichael, from April 22 to 24. Peter Knight, a struggling writer, is sent to write a murder mystery at a dreary Vermont mansion, which
A HUGE photograph of Olympian Steve Cram promoting the Pennine Lancashire Run has gone on the back of a bus. The event, which takes place in Blackburn in July, will raise cash for local charities including East Lancs Hospice, Pendleside Hospice
COUNCIL bosses are considering applying for an ASBO against a property agent dubbed ‘Burnley’s most inconsiderate landlord’. Paul Higgins Drysdale already has convictions for allowing the backyards of his terrace properties to become dumping grounds
ACCRINGTON Stanley’s attempts to develop the Crown Ground have been given an unexpected boost - by Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion. The duo’s return to the Premier League at the first attempt means their parachute payments for next season are
CHORLEY boxer Michael Jennings is set to end a frustrating 12 months with a title fight in June – and there is still the possibility that will signal the revival of his bout against Kell Brook. Jennings challenged Miguel Cotto for the WBO world welterweight
A LONG-established family carpet firm has designs on success after being given a £11,000 grant from an enterprise initiative. More than £500,000 has been ploughed into Pendle companies since the No Limits Finance For Growth scheme began three years ago
ACCRINGTON Stanley will be bidding to end a six-match winless run tonight, kick-off 7.45pm, against a Port Vale side who have been in good form recently and could still make the play-offs. The Reds have lost their last three home games, while Micky
ANDREW Flintoff says the pundits are entitled to their own opinions about his future and he is just focused on getting fit to play for Lancashire before the end of the season. The 32-year-old retired from Test cricket in the wake of the Ashes win last
Here are the recent winners for competitions in the Lancashire Telegraph and Chorley Citizen. If you have any queries regarding these competitions please contact Jennifer Brown on 01254 298242 (Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday) or email: jennifer.brown
AN arts extravaganza comes to Ribble Valley in May, with a month-long celebration of art, music and theatre. Throughout May, the borough will host seven festivals, as well as a feast of exhibitions and family events, culminating in the Clitheroe
ROSSENDALE have secured their place in National League Three (North) but manager Mick Barnes was disappointed his side did not win by a bigger margin. Dale, in their first season at national level, went in to the game needing just one point to make sure
BLACKBURN coach John Morgan praised the battling spirit of his side after coming back from the dead for a hard-earned point at Tyldesley. Blackburn were 14-0 down after just 10 minutes but battled back to 17-12 down at the break. The home side led 20
PAUL Chippendale’s never-say-die attitude to score a goal he had no right in scoring summed up the fighting spirit of a Hurst Green team who lifted its first ever county cup. To a man, the East Lancs League side hussled and harried their Lancaster opponents
I don’t hold any strong views on the cheque issue. Scrap them or save them, it’s all the same to me. But like most people these days, I don’t carry a cheque book around with me. I do have one somewhere, pushed to the back of a drawer for those rare
IT angers me yet again to walk through my local park (Witton) which I do every evening, to be faced with all the mess from the funfair and horse show. You spend half the walk dodging horse manure. This really frustrates me as a dog owner – no matter
I’m sure from all the letters that the council tax payers of East Lancashire would be more than happy to pay a little more tax if we could employ an adequate number of dog and fly tipping wardens. And maybe the government could bring in some stronger
FORMER Ramsbottom MP David Chaytor, who is accused of expenses fraud, has won a bid to get the public to pick up his legal bill. Court officials confirmed that Chaytor, who stepped down from his Bury North seat before the General Election,
A man who collapsed at a Preston bus stop and later died has been named by police as a Brierfield man. Christopher Knight, 60, of Chapel Street, was waiting for a bus to Preston’s park and ride facility near St George’s Shopping Centre last
A 17-YEAR-OLD has been given a supervision order for sexually assaulting a woman at a railway station. The teenager from Brierfield, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to the offence, which occurred at Accrington station last October. He also admitted
A Spring clean-up operation will be launched in Hall Carr, Rawtenstall, on Thursday. Staff from Green Vale Homes, Rossendale Council and Lancashire Police have teamed up to carry out the clean sweep along with young people for a planting and community
RIVAL councillors in Burnley who caused controversy with their voting records are at the bottom of an attendance league table. Coun Zaheer Ahmed, a Labour member for Daneshouse with Stoneyholme, was present at two out of nine meetings, giving him a 22.22
A CHEF is aiming to cook up a storm in the ‘Great British Menu’ TV contest. Lisa Allen, head chef at the Northcote restaurant, Langho, battles it out to represent the North West in the latest series of the BBC Two show all this week.
THE DEVASTATED parents of a man whose body was dumped in woodland by two heroin addicts are demanding answers over the circumstances of their son’s death. Jackie and Leigh Noble, the parents of Andrew Loveday, 26, were speaking after seeing
PAUL Robinson believes Blackburn Rovers are finally on their way to being European challengers once again – and insists Sam Allardyce has to take most of the credit. The Rovers goalkeeper helped extend their unbeaten Premier League run to
EVERTON are weighing up a summer bid for Inter Milan's former Portsmouth midfielder Sulley Muntari. MANCHESTER City have put 26-year-old Paraguayan striker Oscar Cardozo on their list of summer targets. Cardozo's international strike partner Roque
BACUP Borough boss Brent Peters has secured victory in his war of words with the FA over an extension to the Vodkat Premier League season. Peters last week wrote a four-page letter to the FA urging them to prolong the campaign, with his Bacup
RESIDENTS have hit out at problems that ‘continuously’ leave their homes flooded with sewage. Problems in Spring Street, Rishton, have seen several floods according to residents. Now Hyndburn Mayor Paul Barton has taken up their fight. He said
OUT of contract Accrington Stanley star Bobby Grant has pledged his future to the club ahead of tonight’s League Two fixture at home to Port Vale. Supporters have grown concerned that Grant and strike partner Michael Symes, who have 35 goals between
IT shows how bad things have been in recent weeks that I was happy to come home with a point from our trip to bottom-placed Darlington. The slump in performances on the pitch from the fantastic form on show earlier in the season is a mystery
KICK boxing ace Daniel Battrick has landed the British title at a packed out New Era Club in Accrington. The 11-year-old produced a near faultless display to beat Scottish champion Ryan Robertshaw on points. The St Oswald’s Primary School
Ribblesdale swept all aside in an orienteerign event organised by the Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Schools Sports Partnership. All 10 secondary schools took part in the event which was split in to two age groups, Year 7/8 and Year 9/10. Both age groups
BURNLEY Tennis Club ‘B’ have been crowned East Lancashire Indoor League Division Two champions. They clinched the title in the penultimate game of the season after beating Crosshill ‘A’ at the Blackburn Northern indoor tennis dome. With only one team
Ramsbottom United make the journey to Runcorn Linnets tonight in the Vodkat Premier Division.
NO race typifies the Easter weekend better than the historic Rivington Pike Fell Race which dates back to 1892. Five years ago came the 50th anniversary of the modern open race and this year, after three successive victories, British champion
LAST year Hyndburn AC represented the borough at the Lancashire Sports awards evening after they were voted Hyndburn’s Community Club of the Year. Recently they held their own well attended awards evening at the Poplar Club in Accrington when the club
T WAS just three years ago that the breakaway Witton Warriors were formed to give a group of friends the chance to carrying on playing the game they love. Having become disillusioned with life at Blackburn Northern, the five friends decided maturity
LANCASHIRE League outfit Nelson have suffered a major blow after professional Peter Forrest pulled out of his contract because of a broken foot.
NELSON travel to Abbey Hey tonight in the Vodkat Premier Division.
Ribblesdale High School hosted a primary netball festival for their ‘family’ of primary schools. Read, Simonstone, Chatburn, St James Clitheroe, Balderstone, Mellor and Salesbury all entered teams with more than 100 pupils taking part, supported by staff
MICHAEL Duff hopes Burnley’s new-found confidence can strike fear into their relegation rivals. The central defender described a first away win of the season – a 4-1 rout at Hull City – as “a monkey off our backs”. Although ending a
TRAIN passengers have suffered a morning of delays after signal failure on the line between East Lancashire and Greater Manchester. Network Rail said there was a signalling problem between Blackburn and Bolton that was discovered at around
A STREET in Pendle has been named the cheapest in England with an average house price of just under £33,000. Several streets in Brierfield and Burnley have sidestepped the property boom to be named in the top 20 most affordable locations in England
A BLACKBURN actress has been left blind in one eye after being 'glassed' in one of Manchester's top bars. Charlotte Davies, from Feniscowles, who has appeared in Coronation Street and Hollyoaks, said she had been left traumatised by the attack
THE first students who will take up their places at a new sixth form centre in Rossendale saw first-hand how the building is taking shape. GCSE pupils from Alder Grange Community and Technology School, in Raw-tenstall, visited Crawshawbooth-based James
THE names of many of the current Burnley squad will live on for decades to come. Wembley saw to that. But one name may live on the longest, the name of arguably the greatest penalty taker football has ever seen. To describe Graham Alexander
