ONE of two teenage girls who beat up a support worker in a late-night attack has been jailed. Nicola Ogilvie, 18, had grabbed victim Jaimie-Dee Tomlinson by her throat, held her over a wall and threatened to kill her as she made her way to a friend's
THE Britannia Coconutters are set to officially dance in the streets on Saturday, April 15. The boundary-to-boundary dance leaves the Travellers Rest in Britannia at 9am and sees the members performing for 12 hours. And Bacup taxi driver Colin Durkin
A child porn "addict" who downloaded obscene images and who works on the internet has been banned from having a computer at home. A court heard how David Baglow, 47, claimed he could not stop himself. Baglow, who runs a business buying and selling
A GREAT grandfather who has dedicated his entire working life to Burnley Council said today a new pay deal which will see £2,000 chopped from his £21,500 wage left him betrayed'. Neil Wilson, 62, of Thursby Road has slammed the council and trade union
A charity which offers financial help to residents is celebrating after its most successful year. Nelson-based Pendle Community Credit Union Ltd last year gave out more than £1million in loans to help its members avoid financial hardship. For more information
FIVE cars were saved after arsonists set fire to a vehicle at a Burnley garage. Fire crews were called to BTS garage, Helena Street, at 2.19am today after a report of a car on fire. Crew manager Alan Ashworth, said: "If we had not got there in time
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an alleged assault on a man in Colne Road, Burnley, at about midnight on Saturday, March 11. The 18-year-old was left with minor injuries following the alleged attack by a group of men. Police especially want to
DETECTIVES were today hunting masked raiders who made off with £40,000 after robbing a security van at gunpoint. Two men believed to be armed with a sawn-off shotgun held up Securicor guards as they filled up the cash machine at the Total garage, Market
BLACKBURN Hawks Northern Crossover Cup qualification is "up in the air" according to assistant manager Graham Lomax after his team suffered a disappointing defeat against Fife Flyers. Hawks must now wait on other results before they will know if they
SIX weeks, five and a half games or 495 minutes. Whichever way you cut it, it's been a long, long wait for a Burnley goal. The die-hard supporters who have sat through every moment of the drought deserve free season tickets for their unwavering commitment
LANCASHIRE made a winning start to their tour of St Kitts with a 25-run victory over St Kitts and Nevis. Karl Brown, a 17-year-old who joined the professional staff this year after coming through the Lancashire Academy, top scored with 65 as Lancahire
OUT of all the buzz words at Accrington Stanley this season, 'discipline' hasn't been one of them. That can't be said of their two previous Conference campaigns, which resulted in manager John Coleman and chairman Eric Whalley being called to meet the
Brighton have failed in a bid to sign Burnley striker Gifton Noel-Williams ahead of Thursday's 5pm deadline for loan deals. Albion boss Mark McGhee, who is desperate for a striker to keep Albion afloat in the Championship, claims to have been alerted
MANCHESTER United manager Sir Alex Ferguson could be lining up a summer swoop for Morten Gamst Pedersen. The Old Trafford chief plans to strengthen his midfield in the close season and he sent Paul Scholes to Ewood on a special spying mission at the
ELEVATE, the East Lancashire Construction Workshop Project, is set to say thank you to the employers who made the scheme a success. Clayton Park Conference and Learning Centre in Accrington will play host to the thank you' event for participants in the
POETRY enthusiasts have been invited to take part in an event billed as Clitheroe's most exciting ever literary event. Six poets published by Bloodaxe, the UK's leading publisher of contemporary poetry, are taking to the stage in a series of readings
A BLACKBURN church will be spreading the gospel all over the world wide web after the launch of a new internet site. But the Rev Bill Hall from St George's Church, Mill Hill, admitted today that he would need some lessons before he set off surfing on
RESIDENTS are invited to have their say on municipal matters at Ribble Valley Council's annual public meeting. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 11, at Read CE Primary School, Straits Lane, at 7pm. Items for discussion will include waste
POST Office bosses have apologised after a broken computer left a rural branch unable to dish out pensions to elderly villagers. Kirsten Heys, who runs Mellor Post Office, has had to turn away dozens of pensioners since the computer went down on Friday
THIS wasn't the evening I had expected it to be. I had thought that we would be entertained by Jim Royle from the Royle Family in the first half of the show and then by Mike Bassett, England manager in the second. Instead, we spent an enjoyable evening
A COMMUNITY of disabled people who work at two East Lancashire factories will be torn apart if Government funding is pulled, it was claimed today. Disabled rights campaigners said that people with physical and learning difficulties would struggle in
A teenager took his grandad's car after he had gone to bed and went with his friends on a joy ride', Blackburn magistrates heard. The car was returned before the owner woke next morning and he only found out about the loan' when police called the following
A mother-of-three from Darwen has warned shoppers to be on the look-out for a mugger who knocked her to the ground. Linda Lucas, 46, of Harwood Street, was attacked as she walked from the Morrisons supermarket in Blackburn to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph
A DRUNKEN father of two who led a gang attack on an innocent man on his own doorstep will be spending his weekends in jail. Stephen Taylor, 21, launched himself at victim Angus Gibson and sank his teeth into his chest. Taylor had claimed to police that
A DRINK driver almost twice the limit in the early hours told police he had just had one beer, Burnley magistrates heard. The court was told how slaughterhouse worker Maciej Lukaszewicz, 25, had been followed by police after he had been seen speeding
BEER lovers will be satisfying their taste buds at the second Pendle Beer Festival. The event starts tomorrow at Colne Municipal Hall and this year's theme is real ales from Cumbria and Lakeland. At least one ale from each of the area's small breweries
THE licensees of a Colne wine bar have come under fire from councillors accusing them of causing noise nuisance and anti-social behaviour. But today Fiona and Anthony Routh, who run Dante's, hit back at the complaints and denied there were any major
FIVE football hooligans from Burnley have been caged after going on the rampage in Manchester at a World Cup qualifying match. The group, including former BNP councillor Luke Smith, were among 24 people sentenced at the culmination of Operation Lucas
BURNLEY new boy Andy Gray has thanked Steve Cotterill for the chance to salvage something from a nightmare season. The former Sunderland striker is in line for his Turf Moor debut against Norwich City on Friday following his first start in three months
PEOPLE with a form of autism which can make them withdrawn and depressed are being urged to join a new support group in East Lancashire. The group is for people with Asperger syndrome and will meet in Rossendale tonight. The National Autistic Society
A CLUB raider and an accomplice stole £600 from a Nelson club. Burnley magistrates heard how Darren Sherratt, 20, was also accused of taking electrical equipment from the Palatine Club. Sherratt, of Halifax Road, Nelson, admitted burglary. He was bailed
The Todmorden Carnival Queen and her attendants will be chosen after a parade at the Fielden Centre at noon on Sunday, March 26. The Charity Carnival will be held this year on May 26 at Bramsche Square. Previous venue Centre Vale Park is unavailable
Blackburn with Darwen Council will welcome a new faith school into its family' of schools from Monday, April 3. Tauheedul Islam Girls High School becomes the sixth state funded Islamic high school in Britain and the 38th state funded faith school in
A SUPERMARKET employee who committed a sex act on a little girl has walked free from court after a judge said jail would destroy him. Darrell Glasgow, now 39, of Tremellan Street, Accrington, was said to be vulnerable and intellectually challenged.
TEACHERS from an East Lancashire private school were quizzed by American police after students on a skiing trip were given fake American dollars by a travel agents. Members of the party, from Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, inadvertently
MAY I appeal to readers, schools and businesses to save their used postage stamps in aid of the East Lancashire Hospice. The more collected, the more money can be raised. Stamps can be sent to: David Kimberley, 28 Duddon Avenue, Darwen, Lancs BB3 0JJ
I'M not in favour of changing road signs to kilometres as we will lose money because of the rounding-up factor. For example six miles equals 9.656km. This will be rounded to 10km on our road signs, meaning that we will have a longer drive from A to B
JUST to put P C Golder's mind at rest (LET, March 10) regarding Bonfire Night and the Glorification of Terrorism Bill. Bonfire Night is in fact a celebration of the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot. This is why effigies of Guy Fawkes are burned on the bonfire
I READ with amazement comments by Councillor Roy Davies in his letter Police battling lack of resources.' He's complaining enough hasn't been done to tackle yobs and ani-social behaviour in Darwen this from a Liberal Democrat whose party opposed the
AS a young married woman I used to change the arrangement of my furniture around quite frequently. It suited my whims and didn't cost a penny. It seems to me that Blackburn with Darwen planners have the same ideas but unfortunately their changes cost
A MAN alleged to have taken part in a Rishton drug deal worth up to £100,000 is being hunted abroad. David Stuart was arrested in June 2004 following a raid on a house in which 20,000 ecstasy tablets were seized. Last year a man with whom he was arrested
AN EXPERIENCED fitter was crushed to death by his forklift truck after he appeared to ignore safety training, an inquest heard. Michael Ian Bradley, known to his family and friends as Ian, died when he was pinned between the forklift and metal shelving
ALL "major" emergencies will be seen at Blackburn's Queen's Park Hospital under a radical shake-up of East Lancashire's NHS services, health chiefs have announced. A 16-week consultation was launched yesterday guaranteeing a raft of major changes to
THE proposed name for the soon-to-be merged Lancashire and Cumbria police force has been revealed. Cumbria and Lancashire Constabulary' has been suggested by the chief constables of the counties' existing forces after they staged discussions on the potentially-contentious
A BRAVE youngster who lost part of her hand in a garden accident is defying the odds and learning to play the violin. Now six-year-old Annabel Harvey's parents are now organising a fundraising day to help inspire other people who have lost limbs. Annabel
Young people are set to benefit from an £8.8million funding boost through the Learning Agreement Pilot, which will be co-ordinated by Connexions Lancashire and the Learning and Skills Council in Lancashire. The cash will be directed at young people who
A MOTHER-of-five who went on a £8,500 spending spree after stealing credit cards to fund a drug addiction was spared jail. Judge Stuart Baker told Wendy Ann Evans, 36, of Blackburn Road, Darwen, that her wish to change her life was genuine. Evans had
A BLACKBURN dad who head-butted the driver of a double-decker bus in a road-rage incident has been spared jail. Preston Crown Court was told that Michael Baron saw a red mist and lost his temper. He forced the doors open of the bus and attacked driver
FOREIGN Secretary Jack Straw today vowed to find thousands of pounds "stolen" from an East Lancashire tsunami charity appeal. The move came after the Dean of Blackburn's son, Johnathan Armstrong, lifted the lid on the torture, corruption, and blackmail
Attitudes are hardening against road pricing, according to a study by the RAC Foundation. The study shows motorists accept the principle that it would be fairer to pay for the roads according to the amount of time spent driving in congestion rather than
Hi-tech cameras, which can tell what you are doing in your car and spot if the vehicle is stolen, could help slash insurance premiums by cutting accidents and reducing the number of uninsured drivers on the road, according to the intermediary the A&A
