I AM writing to the thieves who stole £10 worth of goods from the Only Foals and Horses charity market stall on Friday, November 26. Do you realise that £10 would have bought two bales of straw, one bale of hay and two bags of carrots? How can people
I WOULD like to correct the impression your article of last Thursday might have wrongly created, concerning the possibility of another academy somewhere in East Lancashire. Firstly it stated that I would control the curriculum but other than encouraging
CHILDREN in Burnley town centre will not be able to tell Santa Claus what they want for Christmas this year because of red tape and spiralling costs. Town-centre chiefs have revealed that Santa won't be in his grotto this year because of rules designed
A TRADER has accused officials of banning Christmas after they prevented him playing festive music. Family firm Whittakers Butchers plays Christmas tunes every year to get customers into the festive spirit. But bosses at Blackburn's three-day market have
POLICE and the family courts in Lancashire are testing a new way to reduce the delay in domestic violence and child protection cases. Every day officers deal with lawyers' asking for details for use in family court cases - but the is no standard way of
CHILDREN in Burnley town centre will not be able to tell Santa Claus what they want for Christmas this year because of red tape and spiralling costs. Town-centre chiefs have revealed that Santa won't be in his grotto this year because of rules designed
A LISTED barn in Blacko will be left to rot because councillors do not want to see it turned into housing, it has been claimed. Owners of the Pennine aisled barn at Great Stone Edge, Gisburn Road, wanted to turn it into two houses so their children could
YOUNGSTERS from Sacred Heart Primary School, Colne, have dug in to help plant hundreds of trees at Alkincoats Nature Reserve. East Lancashire woodland initiative supplied 300 trees and shrubs including cherry, holly, dogwood and hawthorn and 150 pupils
POLICE are still investigating the cause of a head on car crash in Kelbrook in which a teenager died. The 18-year-old has still not been named by officers more than 24 hours after the smash. They are waiting for the body to be formally identified. He
THE former partner of Hyndburn Council leader Peter Britcliffe is believed to have died before the fire at her home which alerted neighbours. Gabriele Kroger, 50, was pulled from her Oswaldtwistle house by neighbours after a suspected chip pan fire on
A FIRE which swept through Accrington nightclub Opium will not mean the end of the popular venue, the owner said today. Mick Cookson, a businessman based in Burnley, was speaking just hours after his club was damaged in a blaze initially being treated
A HOLLAND'S Pies worker who smashed a man's jaw as he was unhappy over the letting of a house has walked free from court. Burnley Crown Court heard Benjamin Maud lost his temper and twice punched Nazam Hussain in the face. The victim was left scared to
BURNLEY goalkeeper Brian Jensen has been praised for his patience and performances since stepping in for Danny Coyne. The Danish stopper earned recognition from Clarets boss Steve Cotterill after his three clean sheets in a row sent Burnley to Plymouth
BURNLEY goalkeeper Brian Jensen has been praised for his patience and performances since stepping in for Danny Coyne. The Danish stopper earned recognition from Clarets boss Steve Cotterill after his three clean sheets in a row sent Burnley to Plymouth
BLACKBURN Rovers striker Jay Bothroyd insists he's now a reformed character after a ticking off from his mum hammered home the need to learn more self-control. Bothroyd's 'bad boy' reputation came back to haunt him recently when he was sent off for a
A YOUNG film-maker from Darwen scooped the award for Best Pop Video in a student film festival in Manchester. At 15 years old, Richard Nicholson, a pupil at Darwen Moorland High School, was the only entrant under 18 in the category at the Exposures Festival
A FORMER Victorian swimming pool has been transformed into a cutting edge creche, offices and a cafe for a Rossendale community. The official opening of Sure Start in Bacup was carried out by David Culwick, chief executive of Spurgeon's Child Care charity
A BANNED and speeding drink-driver who smashed into a wall, killing his schoolgirl partner and a close friend after a cocktail of drink and drugs, was today starting a six-year jail term. David Cummins, 22, had never passed a driving test and was not
SHOPPERS visiting Blackburn are being treated to a colourful winter wonderland. For the town centre streets and shopping centre are awash with bright lights and decorations as the countdown for Christmas begins. Thanks to a new three-year deal, town centre
A SEX pest who terrified two women by exposing himself in the street during a boozing session had his sentence cut on appeal. At the time of the offence, Paul Holt, 39, of St Peters Street, Blackburn, was on licence and under a restraining order that
A BOOKMAKERS has put up a £10,000 reward to catch the gunman who tried to rob one of its Blackburn branches. Bosses at William Hill want information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the raid on the Accrington Road
LANCASHIRE Police is facing £4.2 million of cuts after the government failed to give the force enough cash -- and pledged to cap large council tax rises. The funding shortfall is £2.8million less than feared -- but the threat of cutbacks to the mounted
IT does now seem that staff cuts of some sort will be inevitable for Lancashire Police. The force says it needs £13.5million extra next year just to stand still but heard yesterday that the government's contribution will only be an extra £7.9million.
THE emphatic 'no' vote against the North East Assembly has killed off all plans to create elected assemblies across England. Nevertheless, as a leading voice of small businesses in the UK, the Forum of Private Business (FPB) is determined to move the
SINCE it is obvious to anybody who takes the trouble to think that road safety is better served by looking at the road ahead for real hazards than watching the speedometer and scanning for covert spy cameras it is not surprising that the amazing proliferation
BLACKBURN Rovers striker Jay Bothroyd insists he's now a reformed character after a ticking off from his mum hammered home the need to learn more self-control. Bothroyd's 'bad boy' reputation came back to haunt him recently when he was sent off for a
YOUNGSTERS from Pendle schools have been invited to test the ice by skating to the end of term. Traders in Nelson's Pendle Rise Shopping Centre had been worried that plans for a three day Christmas extravaganza could fall flat because children would be
FESTIVE Hyndburn residents are to have no less than four chances to see Christmas lights being switched on next week. On Monday, Rishton's lights will be turned on, Thursday will see Great Harwood's lights switched on, and finally on Friday, Huncoat will
RAMSBOTTOM is heading for a festive festival of markets this month with not one but five shopping events being held in the town over the last weekend before Christmas. Over the weekend of Friday, December 17 to Sunday, December 19, Ramsbottom will be
A BLACKBURN Rovers fan was able to meet stars of the past and present when she jetted from her native Japan to Ewood Park. Dillo Hidaka, a graphic designer from Tokyo, watched her heroes play Manchester City and Birmingham. She met her favourite former
The move came as the chairman of Blackburn with Darwen's Governors' Forum claimed concerns had been expressed about the merger of the two special schools shortly after they joined. Fernhurst School, Heys Lane, was created when Tullyallan and Bank Hey
BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw revealed this week that he is mad on Mars bars. When the Foreign Secretary is feeling at a low ebb he sits down, unwraps a king-size bar and savours every last mouthful. Two minutes later he is ready to take on the world again.
A TRADER has accused officials of banning Christmas after they prevented him playing festive music. Family firm Whittakers Butchers plays Christmas tunes every year to get customers into the festive spirit. But bosses at Blackburn's three-day market have
