BURNLEY could have the option of bringing loan target Chris Lucketti to Turf Moor. The 35-year-old Sheffield United defender is among four veteran players who have been made available for loan by Blades boss Neil Warnock. Burnley manager Steve Cotterill
AN ESTATE agent has vowed that a half-built housing development in the centre of Earby will be completed. The Hall Varley Homes development in Victoria Road is almost built, but builders left the site around a month ago, leading to rumours that the company
ARSONISTS are being warned that they put lives at risk by targeting an empty shop. Crews from Bacup and Rawtenstall fire stations were called to a former second-hand shop at the junction of Commercial Street and Newchurch Road, Stacksteads, early on
A 10-year-old girl fled in terror after a "drunken gunman" and two accomplices burst into a house, Burnley Crown Court heard. The girl ran upstairs in fear after Christopher Costello, Ian Jackson and Ashley Cullen, all 18 and from Colne, turned up looking
A CHRISTMAS tree will not be put up in Burnley's Charter Walk Shopping Centre this year, it has been revealed. Chris Gribben, manager of the centre, said putting up the tree was "very labour intensive" and that they had got better value for money from
A WOMAN who has dedicated more than a decade to helping disadvantaged children has won a national award. Mary Walker, of Lords House Farm, Rishton, has recieved a British Horse Society Silver Stirrup award for her dedication to developing the quality
IN the past few weeks I have read a lot of people quoting the Koran about the veil. These people are falling into the same trap as the terrorists by taking extracts and quoting out of context. I have been a Muslim for the past 30 years and even I can't
MILLIONS are being spent to return Blackburn Corporation Park back to the splendour of its Victorian heyday. With one exception. The panopticon' that sits at the top of the park reminds me of a jester's hat, sat on the head of a majestic old lady. If
AS A proud resident of Darwen I am continually dismayed to see all the negativity and griping and moaning about the current investment in the town week in, week out in the Letters and editorial pages of the Lancashire Telegraph. The current leisure centre
THE report in the Telegraph warning of a timebomb in the price of houses should be treated with a good deal of caution. It is true that the prices of houses have risen at a much higher rate than wages, but the reasons for this are exceedingly complex
A BLACKBURN moth-er found her 21-month-old daughter dead on the floor of her bed-room with a duvet draped over her, an inquest heard. An inquest was told that extensive tests had failed to establish a cause for the death of Holli Chappell for what was
OLD and tired houses in a Darwen town centre street are set to receive a £500,000 make-over. Residents in Higher South Street have seen scaffolding go up this week for an extensive programme of facelift work to begin. The street is within St Peter's
SUPERNANNIES are to be sent into East Lancashire to advise parents how to bring up their children. The parenting experts are coming to Blackburn with Darwen and Burnley as a result of a £4million government bid to nip anti-social behaviour in the bud
BLACKBURN Hawks crashed to defeat on a night of frustration in their opening English Cup encounter with Sheffield Spartans. The local ice hockey aces put in an uncharacteristic poor display on Saturday night in a competition the management had highlighted
A FORMER England manager has backed on-loan Accrington Stanley winger Gary Roberts to have a bright future. Sir Bobby Robson has been impressed by the 22-year-old in his loan spell at Championship side Ipswich. After Ipswich's 3-1 win over neighbours
BLACKBURN Rovers winger Morten Gamst Pedersen is ready to put his body on the line in a bid to ease the club's injury crisis. The Norwegian international broke a rib following a collision with Gary Neville in Rovers' 1-0 defeat to Manchester United 11
A NURSERY is celebrating after winning tens of thousands of lottery cash - days after being told their hopes had been dashed. Rainbows, a specialist therapy nursery for children with special needs based at the Holden Centre, Barrowford, appeared to have
PARTS of Burnley's £29million health and leisure centre are being shut for urgent repairs - less than 12 months after it opened in a blaze of publicity. Critics have hit out after council bosses announced the moves to correct defects, including a leaking
THE proprietors of a Blackburn hotel have paid the price for playing music without a licence. London's High Court heard that Sonic Leisure Ltd have now brought their licence up to date for The Grapes Hotel, Northgate, Blackburn. But a judge ordered
THE man who plays Britain's biggest telly addict has backed the Lancashire Telegraph's campaign urging people to turn off electrical stand-by buttons. Actor Ricky Tomlinson, Jim Royle in BBC1's The Royle Family, said people need to "do themselves a favour
A FATHER has told of his disgust after finding burglars had smeared HP sauce and discarded food across his home. David Goddard was in bed at his home in Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, when his partner Shelley McKelvie woke him to say there were noises coming
AN ARMED robber has been found guilty of six "violent and threat-ening" robberies at Blackburn off licences. Thomas Moffett, 43, of Roebuck Close, Blackburn, robbed terrified shop assistants while brandishing a nail gun and wearing a balaclava in March
A "SUBSTANTIAL" amount of cash and Class A drugs were seized after 80 police officers raided houses in five towns. Operation Tobago saw police swoop on eight homes in Blackburn, Darwen, Great Harwood, Accrington and Oswaldtwistle early yesterday following
SUSPECTS are to have their fingerprints taken at the roadside - and have their details matched against 64million people within five minutes! Lancashire Constabulary has been chosen to pilot new high-tech scanners. The devices will be fitted on the dashboards
A PREGNANT schoolgirl is being kept at home after her mother claimed teachers' attempts to protect her left her "feeling like a leper." Sixteen-weeks pregnant Nina Dixon, 16, a final year pupil at Darwen Vale High School, has not set foot in class since
THE boys are back in town for yet more tasteless pranks and dangerous stunts that just also happen to be side-splittingly, achingly hilarious at the same time. Johnny Knoxville and the gang, directed again by Jeff Tremaine, really just continue where
BOSSES of a theme park where an East Lancashire teenager fell to her death from a ferris wheel today admitted breaching health and safety laws. Salma Saleem, from Nelson plunged 30ft from the ride at Gulliver's World in July 2002 and bosses of the
A MENTAL health nurse has been suspended over an allegation that he had an inappropriate relationship with a vulnerable female patient. Liam Whittaker, of Blackburn, became involved with a woman at Brierley Court independent hospital in Moston, Manchester
MUSLIMS are being urged to get vaccinated for meningitis prior to next month's Hajj pilgrimage. The vaccine will protect them from strains of meningitis that are not common in the UK but may be carried by pilgrims from other areas of the world, said
FOURTEEN Lancashire schools were today due to be branded "outstanding" by education chiefs. The plaudits come in the annual report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools which has identified 1,476 education establishments branded outstanding by
