THE secretary of a local charity has called two men who stole £500 stored in a margarine tub ‘thieving scum’. The Blackburn district branch of Mencap, which helps people with learning disabilities and their carers, was targeted by distraction thieves
AN ‘outdated’ Colne youth club could be replaced with a new state-of-the-art version, according to council bosses. Town Hall chiefs have asked Lancashire County Council (LCC) to transfer the land on which Youth Works Waterside Youth Club stands
A GANG have been jailed for almost 20 years for conspiring to flood Blackburn with cocaine. Preston Crown Court planned exchange of around half a kilo of the drug took place on a car park at a Manchester retail park, with the drugs destined
A RARE fire engine is moving out of Blackburn to be put on show in a transport museum. The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, in Leyland, has secured the bright red 1956 Dennis F12 Pump Escape from Blackburn Fire Station as well as a 1895 horse
CANNABIS worth more than £100,000 has been seized following a police raid at a house in Burnley. Officers executed the search warrant at the terraced house in Burdett Street, in the Trinity area, at around 4.30pm yesterday. Inside they
A QUICK-thinking cafe manager who saved a baby’s life by giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation has been praised by police. By the time officers arrived at Massarella Cafe, Burnley, manager Donna Hinchcliffe had already administered the emergency
THE final list of candidates standing in the upcoming Chorley Council elections has been announced. Voting takes on May 6, the same day as the general election, with the count taking place the following day. The candidates Adlington & Anderton
A NEW play area has been unveiled as part of a £250,000 project. The first phase of the new facility in Higham playing fields is now open and installations for youngster children are set to be completed over the next two months. It comes
ACCRINGTON Stanley striker Michael Symes has been nominated for the PFA Fans' League Two player of the year award. Symes has impressed with 18 goals this season and won the fans' player of the month award for December. Also nominated are Bournemouth
POLICE in rural Rossendale are urging dog walkers to make sure they keep their pets under control when walking through the countryside. It follows a report that three sheep were mauled by a dog at a farm in Helmshore sometime between Friday and Saturday
MORE than £50,000 is to be invested in a popular scout camp to transform it into an outdoor centre for use by children across the county. Bowley Scout Camp and Activity Centre, Great Harwood, is to be operated through the week by Preston-based Hill
USERS of council-run leisure centres across Blackburn with Darwen are angry at a £10 induction charge – but the council insist it’s good value for money. Michael Leigh, who lives in the Bold Venture area of Darwen was so angry at the “silly” charge
‘Sam Allardyce has two games to save Blackburn career,’ read the headline in a national newspaper. Even then it seemed unlikely, right now it appears downright ludicrous. While Big Sam is in charge at Ewood Park, Rovers can forget all about relegation
A MAN is recovering after he was left with a broken jaw following an assault in a Blackburn nightclub. Officers believe the 22-year-old man was assaulted around 12.20am whilst in the 'Envy' part of Liquid and Envy, St Peter Street, Blackburn. The
A PENDLE firm could be on the brink of collapse after filing an intention to appoint administrators. Bosses at Macgregor Europe, based on the Lomeshaye Industrial Estate in Nelson, are in talks with Bury-based restructuring experts Leonard Curtis.
Barnoldswick Town are looking to clinch the West Riding Cup tonight when they play Garforth Town in the final. The match is at County Headquarters in Woodlesford, Leeds, 7.45pm.
NO team can expect to lose 10 home games and still be promoted. Kris Taylor’s superb long-range strike overshadowed Bobby Grant’s similarly impressive goal to give play-off contenders Port Vale victory last night and take Accrington Stanley’s tally of
WADE Elliott believes Burnley can go to Sunderland with confidence after capping the Clarets’ first ever Premier League away win in style. The winger curled in a cracking free kick deep into the stoppage time to round off a 4-1 win at Hull City and told
LOVERS of things that go bump in the night are in for a treat when psychic medium Joanne Gregory comes to Blackburn's Thwaites Empire Theatre. Joanne first discovered she had a rare ability as a very young child. Though she says she
Morten Gamst Pedersen is considering a second contract offer as talks between the midfielder and Blackburn Rovers continue. The Norwegian’s deal expires this summer, with the likes of Olympiakos, Fiorentina, Palermo, Celtic and Fenerbahce all believed
THERE are more long-term empty homes in Pendle, on average, than any other borough in the country, new figures show. But housing leaders insist they have made strides in tackling the problem. Areas, including the Whitefield and Bradley in Nelson
I would just like to say to the person behind me at the cash machine at Asda Blackburn on the March 23, I hope that you enjoyed spending my £150. I hope that the distress that it caused me to go without it was made up by your greed and satisfaction
I noticed a group of young people sitting on the path down from Darwen Tower having a laugh and drink, and watching the fire brigade attending to the fire on the moor. It’s nice to see young people making the effort to get some fresh air and exercise
ONE of East Lancashire’s most prolific car criminals has told magistrates he is ‘retiring’ – because ‘life begins at 40’. Joseph Farrelly Phillips has clocked up more than 220 convictions during years of breaking into cars in Colne, Nelson
ALL Christians and non-Christians abhor the widespread corruption of the Catholic priest. The Pope should now examine changes to the rule on ceilbacy that will allow and encourage priests to marry. The apostle Paul says: “It is better to marry
Regarding the front page article (LT, April 9) about imposing a blanket 20mph speed limit borough-wide. Firstly, I fully support any credible efforts to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities on our roads, but this would have to be via a process
AN indie band from Pendle could soon be playing alongside rock heavyweights Kasabian and Vampire Weekend as they make a bid to play at one of Europe’s biggest musical events. A New Breed of Monkey, whose members went to Fisher-More High School, Colne
PLANS have been unveiled to create Lancashire’s first ‘green’ college in a landmark Nelson building. Property developer Adam Bhailok, the son of multi-millionaire Yousuf Bhailok, is behind the proposals to convert Trafalgar House, which once housed Nelson
A FUNERAL directors which sold buildings and land for more than £500,000 to the council is looking to open a new site in Blackburn. The council bought Cashmere Cottages, Furthergate, Blackburn, and surrounding land including a pub, from Rashid Iqbal
CLITHEROE manager Pete Smith has backed his Blues to deliver a county shock tonight and win their first major cup final in 25 years. The Shawbridge club are hoping to secure their third Lancashire FA Challenge Trophy when they face Southport at Bolton
TYRONE Mears is determined to avoid the heartache of relegation from the Premier League for a second time. The 27-year-old defender was part of the Derby side that suffered the dreaded drop in 2007/8, with an all-time Premier League low of 11 points.
ACCRINGTON Stanley benefactor Ilyas Khan has confirmed his intention to step down as chairman this summer – once Dave O’Neill's takeover from Eric Whalley is finally rubber-stamped. The multi-millionaire became non-executive chairman in place of O’
YILDIRAY Basturk is set to get his Premier League opportunity as Blackburn Rovers boss Sam Allardyce already starts to plan for next campaign. The Turkish midfielder has yet to feature since arriving at Ewood Park on a short-term deal in
A CHURCH has renewed calls for help in its campaign to raise £30,000 for dry rot repairs. Bosses at St John’s, Baxenden, said the cash was needed to pay contractors who recently carried out the emergency work. The Rev Joe Fielder said the repairs
A ‘VULNERABLE’ teenager who torched an elderly couple’s Accrington terrace home and put lives at risk has been sent to detention for two years. Amer Ahmed, then 17, and who has learning difficulties, was in the empty property in Richmond Hill Street
IT’S no surprise that police were able to give out 20 warnings in just one hour to motorists in the centre of Blackburn’s Mill Hill area last week. Their offence was illegal parking on double yellow lines and even the zig zag markings close to a zebra
A BLACKBURN church fundraising group is celebrating after building a school in Southeast Asia. Volunteers from St Albans and the Good Shepherd first started fundraising to help children in Cambodia in 2000. They already provide hund-reds of families
A DARWEN weightlifter who was part of a record-breaking team has died following a battle with cancer. Vincent Crabtree, from the Marsh House area, had been part of the famous Darwen Weightlifting Club which broke the dead-lift team world record
WITH Miss Blackburn and Miss Burnley titles up for grabs for the first time, scores of young women are scrambling to get their hands on the towns' tiaras. Overall 142 would-be beauty queens from the Blackburn area, and 94 hopefuls around Burnley, entered
Firefighters spent more than an hour dealing with a moor fire above Darwen for the third day running. Around half-a-mile of grass and undergrowth off Rivington Road, near the Blue Lagoon, Belmont, was set alight at around 10pm on Monday. Fire
DIANA Vickers is on the bill for the popular V Festival this August, it has been announced. The singer, who lives in Huncoat and went to Westholme School in Blackburn, will be showcasing songs from her new album at the shows later this summer. She
A FIVE-STRONG gang which planned to commit cash-in-transit robberies, including a Blackburn raid in which a security guard was shot, are facing long prison terms. David Evans, 20, and Dean Farrell, 22 were yesterday found guilty of conspiracy to commit
A DISABLED motorist suffered head injuries and had two fingers broken by a gang after an alleged ‘road rage’ incident. Andrew Nixon, 42, said he was set upon by a 10-strong gang in Crosshill Road, Blackburn, after he asked a driver to move his car
