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  • Craig Conway calls time on Rovers career after five years

    Craig Conway has announced he will be leaving Rovers this summer after five-and-a-half years. Rovers announced earlier this month they remained in discussions with Conway over his future with his current deal set to expire at the end of June.

  • Cooker fire damages kitchen

    FIRE crews were called to a house fire in Burnley. The occupant of the mid-terraced house in Dean Street in the town was out when the blaze started in the kitchen on Saturday. On his return he noticed smoke and rang 999 and two appliances were

  • Wife of cancer sufferer encourages others to get checked

    A WIFE who lost her husband to cancer this year has asked everyone who 'doesn't feel right' to get themselves checked out. Ruth Holden's husband, Chris Greenwood, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016 and despite several rounds of chemotherapy

  • SHUIAB KHAN COLUMN: Smokers perils in Ramadan

    There is little point of getting through an 19 hour fast and then lighting up at the end of it. I last had a puff on that dreaded stick back in 2006 and whilst I have been tempted like most ex-smokers I have yet to yield to the pressure. Ramadan

  • Drug driver caught out morning after smoking cannabis

    A MAN failed a drug driving test the morning after he had been smoking cannabis. Blackburn magistrates heard Lee Warren Holden gave a reading of 2.5 against the legal limit of 2. Holden, 43, of Pendle Drive, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to driving

  • Rovers linked with move for departing AZ Alkmaar midfielder

    Rovers have been linked with a move for Dutch midfielder Adam Maher. Reports in Holland say the midfielder has told his club, AZ Alkmaar, that he won’t be extending his contract and is set to leave as a free agent. Rovers are one of six clubs

  • Crews called to kitchen fire

    FIREFIGHTERS were called to a kitchen fire near Rawtenstall. Crews from Rawtenstall and Haslingden were called to the incident in Queen's Terrace, on Friday at 9.15pm. A fire service spokesman said the small fire was put out by firefighters and

  • Looking right back - it's a position Rovers yet to nail down

    Rovers have now amassed 322 games since relegation from the Premier League in 2011/12. In that time, 12 players have started matches at right back, or wing-back. It’s a position in which Rovers have struggled to nail down, with Ryan Nyambe’s 69

  • Five of the best: Pie shops in East Lancashire

    IT seems as though we can’t resist a good pie. When we asked you to suggest their favourite pie shop in East Lancashire we should have known that the response would be overwhelming. From meat and potato pies to traditional Lancashire favourites

  • Wonderful Orlando has still got that magic

    FROM our glass bubble high in Florida sky, we could just make out a giant silver sphere, a raging volcano, a twisting green rollercoaster and a swarm of snaking water slides. My wife Rachel and I, along with our daughters Isla and Evelyn, were riding

  • Extra £8m lined up for ambitious Lancashire furniture firm

    AN expansion plan for an East Lancashire furniture maker has been given an £8million cash injection. Bosses at Buoyant, in Nelson, who employ more than 750 people already at their sites off Hallam Road, have secured the banking facility from Barclays

  • High school pupils rocket to car finals

    A GROUP of year seven girls from Pleckgate High School in Blackburn have reached the finals of a national competition. The pupils had to design and make a rocket to power a miniature car at the Race for the Line event at Bury Transport Museum.

  • Group campaign to raise awareness of climate change

    MORE than 100 signatures were collected by a group trying to raise awareness of global warming. Climate Action Now were collecting signatures in preparation to send a letter to Blackburn with Darwen Council to encourage the authority to do more

  • 700-mile cycle from Barcelona to Bilbao for lawyer, 62

    LYCRA is not the usual choice of clothing for a lawyer at a directors’ meeting. But Graham Ireland can be excused for his athletic attire as he is dedicating his time training for a whopping 700-mile charity bike ride. Mr Ireland, director and

  • Bid to keep Oswaldtwistle post office branch in town centre

    A TOWN centre location has been retained for Oswaldtwistle Post Office, it has been proposed. Councillors and Hyndburn MP Graham Jones had expressed concern when it emerged that the central post office was shutting down at McColls, in Union Road

  • Garage wall collapse in Colne led to leg amputation

    A BUILDER has been ordered to carry out community service after a wall collapse led to a householder having his leg amputated. Stephen Farnell, trading as Farnell Building Contractors, was carrying out a garage demolition in Colne when the incident

  • £1.6m extension at school officially opened

    A £1.6m extension at a school has been officially opened. The new building at Langho and Billington St. Leonard’s Church of England Primary School, in Langho, includes two additional classrooms, a studio, a group room, and cloakroom and toilet facilities

  • Well kept best village of the year?

    VILLAGE postmistress Judith Wood and Brian Hopkinson, who cut the grass and tidied the village of Hurst green, winners of the best small village in Lancashire Best Kept Village competition in 1992. The duo are standing in front of the war memorial

  • Stall brings touch of luxury to town market

    A STALL has opened on Blackburn Market — selling oils containing one of the world’s most desirable perfume ingredients. Oud is one of the most expensive oils in the world, due to the painstaking lengthy process of extraction and its rich balsamic

  • Progress on campaign to preserve ancient wells in Clitheroe

    HISTORIC wells which previously served as water supply to Clitheroe residents should be treated as an important cultural asset, councillors will hear. Ribble Valley Council community services committee members will receive an update on work to identify

  • Borough 3G pitch plan to bring in £95k a year

    RIBBLE Valley Council hopes to boost its coffers by £95,000 a year when new 3G pitches open to the public. Work has started on the £1.4million Edisford Sports Complex in Clitheroe, which will include a full-size artificial grass pitch and also see

  • 'Easier said than done' in Rovers' quest to make early moves

    Rovers will look to press on with their transfer dealing as they eye earlier market moves – but Tony Mowbray insists that is easier said than done. Mowbray will return from his week-long talks with owners Venky’s today with the summer transfer

  • Trainee GP warned in Burnley prescription con case

    A TRAINEE GP who wrote her own prescription - and signed it from a colleague - has escaped with a warning. Dr Ashleigh Williams, who was attached to the obstetrics department at Burnley General Hospital at the time, handed over and paid for the

  • Scaled back Padiham petrol station plan set for approval

    PLANS to turn a former primary school site which has been disused for almost 10 years into a petrol station are set to be approved. Leeds-based Valli Forecourts Ltd has submitted an application to Burnley Council proposing to build the petrol station

  • Historic shop fronts to be replaced promises owner

    PLANS to fully reinstate the historic frontages of two buildings in a market town knocked down for safety reasons have been lodged with the local council. Simon Stansfield, the owner of a former newspaper office and shop on King Street in Clitheroe