SIXTEEN self-contained flats are to be created in redundant storage space above empty shops in Accrington town centre The conversion plan is part of Hyndburn Council's "living over the shop" programme Council leader George Slynn said: "It does not make
A WAGON driver escaped with slight injuries when his skip loader smashed into a railway bridge at Church, closing the road for two hours. John Duckworth was heading from Accrington towards Oswaldtwistle when the top of the hydraulic arms struck the roof
URGENT moves are under way to prevent a listed building from crumbling into dereliction. The house, Allsprings at Great Harwood, had become a boarded up "blot on the landscape," Hyndburn development services committee was told. Councillors approved the
"THE MOST honest man in Britain" is quite a title to live up to. It's one that John Willan - the National Lottery's "man with the white gloves" - has to match up to all the time. But today a secret can be revealed : he's from the same town and same school
TEACHER Trisha Longworth had an amazing escape from serious injury when her car careered through a wall and plunged 80-feet down an embankment crashing into trees. Miss Longworth, 25, of Kensington Street, Nelson, was helped from the wreckage of her H-registered
A FORMER Blackburn Council press officer was left scratching her head after she was asked to manipulate a piece of global match-making Lindsey Macdonald was amazed to receive a letter from a Ugandan woman asking to be fixed up with a European partner.
TRADING standards chiefs have criticised clubs and societies who rent rooms to touring companies who mount "black bag sales". Officers are investigating a number of sales held at various locations in East Lancashire after complaints from members of the
PEOPLE were pouring and cups were clinking all over the county as the World's Biggest Coffee Morning fever gripped East Lancashire. Organisers were hoping to top the 1994 coffee morning target of £1 million raised nationally for the fight against cancer
