The Lancashire Evening Telegraph's club-by-club guide to the Sponsorbank Lancashire League. ACCRINGTON. Captain: Matt Wilson. Pro: Nishit Shetty (India). In: David Ormerod (Bacup). Out: None - but doubts remain over Tariq Hussain and Mohsin Ahmed
HALLIDAY Healthcare in Bacup has won a prestigious accolade from a leading supplier. The company, based in Burnley Road, was founded five years ago and was this week recognised as one of the leading growth companies by Shermond Glove Manufacturers.
PLANS for an extreme sports village in a disused Rossendale quarry have come closer to reality after the project was shortlisted for £50million of lottery cash. However, the list of those in the running for the Big Lottery award to become the so-called
Burnley council's sports development unit will host a May Day football festival for youngsters across the borough. The competition, organised with Burnley Young Volunteers Forum and sponsored by Unison, will coincide with the celebrations at Towneley
FORMER council planning chief Daniel Hartley has joined a leading Rossendale-based property and development company. A native of Rossendale, he has also worked for Pendle and Rossendale Councils as development control manager and principal planning officer
THE mounted branch has been drafted in by police in Padiham to help tackle problems of juvenile nuisance in the town. The branch will be patrolling the town over the next fortnight, focusing on some of the areas where problems of teenage gangs have been
A MAN who got involved in dealing hard drugs because of a cannabis debt has paid the price with two and a half years behind bars and has lost his car as well. Mahtab Hussain, 24, of Berkeley Street, Brierfield, had drugs "paraphernalia" at his home
BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes paid tribute to the fans for the way they got behind Rovers during Sunday's 1-0 defeat to Liverpool. A bumper crowd of 29,142 - the biggest at Ewood for 18 months - turned out in force in an attempt to cheer Rovers a step nearer
MILLWALL are keeping their fingers crossed that Blackburn Rovers secure a top eight finish - because it could net them a cash windfall. The Lions, who were recently relegated to League One, had the foresight to insert a number of clauses in the deal
LANCASHIRE took eight points from their opening Liverpool Victoria County Championship fixture against Hampshire as day four was washed out without a ball being bowled and the match declared a draw. On Sunday, the Lightning play their opening C&G Trophy
THE Lancashire Evening Telegraph is always first to report Burnley's new signings - and it could be you making the headlines this summer. The club have launched the latest lottery initiative to find the club's "number 41" to take their place in the squad
A BURNLEY soldier killed 92 years ago in a bloody First World War battle may have finally been found in Belgium. Private Walter Robinson, 30, who lived in Stanley Street, died along with four other Lancashire Fusiliers three months after the start of
A SHOP assistant told magistrates he had made the mistake of his life by selling alcohol to a 16-year-old girl. Asad Javed 25 and Mohammed Aslam, 54, were caught when trading standards officers carried out a random test purchase at MAS Stores in Manchester
A BURNLEY company boss has become the unlikely brains behind an unofficial song for the England football team's World Cup campaign. Matt Baxter, 32, who has no musical experience, today told how the idea unfolded following a drunken brain-storming session
SINCE when did being miserable become so celebrated it constituted an entire TV series? Don't the TV executives know we've already got EastEnders to turn to if we fancy a dose of depression? Last night's Grumpy Old Men (BBC2) saw Arthur Smith, Rory
FED up ambulance staff have launched a campaign to stop attacks on paramedics. The public service union Unison said hard hitting posters would be placed in ambulances and NHS premises to warn the violence was putting patients' lives at risk. The move
THE Rev Kevin Logan, vicar at Christ Church, Accrington, married Ann Edmonds, of Whitewell Road, Accrington, at the church. The service was conducted by The Rev Nic Deane. The couple fell in love following the death from cancer of Mr Logan's first wife
HI, Michael Mouse here, filling in again for this column's usual author. And while your vicar, right, is away, church mice, namely moi, will play. Kev the Rev's off canoodling on his honeymoon, which is beneath us non-humans. Entirely unnecessary'
IT looks like it is time to get your camera out and take a picture of the T J Hughes building before it goes for ever. One of the few remaining buildings of character will disappear and no one seems to care. When my children see what Blackburn used
FRANCIS Cross's letter (LET, April 3) about people in different regions and cultures living longer, certainly gives food for thought. However, I was a bit apprehensive about the last part of his letter, which stated that we are left to "think that dying
COUNCIL officers are drawing up plans for Darwen town centre after the completion of public consultation. Residents gave plans the thumbs-up during the two-month consult-ation, as more than 250 responses were received. The town centre masterplan consultation
A 23-year-old student thanked magistrates who made her subject to a supervision order with a drug rehabilitation requirement. Joanna Marie Warner told Blackburn magistrates she had turned her back on friends involved in drugs and was desperate to make
A LANCASHIRE policeman who sold pirate CDs and DVDs to fellow officers has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £1,750. PC James Moodie, 44, from Burnley, had initially been accused of making counterfeit discs but these charges were dropped
MORE than half of Lancashire youngsters including children as young as nine have seen pornography on the internet without their parents' knowledge, it has been revealed. And around a third may also have been targeted by paedophiles after receiving
TEENAGE winger Sergio Peter could have played his way into Mark Hughes' plans for the final three games of the season following his impressive cameo against Birmingham City on Wednesday night. The German flyer came on as a half-time substitute for Morten
A MAN who was jailed for drug offences in Thailand returned home yesterday and revealed he plans to write a book about his ordeal. Christopher Egan, who endured a Thai prison nightmare after being jailed almost two years ago, made an emotional return
POLICE officers acting on a tip-off were lying in wait for a 24-year-old Blackburn man when he arrived home from the pub in his car, a court heard. Blackburn magistrates heard that the driver David Orrell was marginally over the limit and Andrew Church-Taylor
A DEVOTED couple proved their love for each other by going back down the aisle at their local supermarket. Stanley and Anne Brotherton's ceremony with a difference took place at ASDA in Accrington with a little help from the store's resident chaplin
A MIDDLE-aged man tried to "strangle" his partner because he did not like the country music she was playing, a court heard. Burnley Magistrates were told how Ernest Eric Taylor, 43, of Leonard Street, Nelson, was then found in the middle of the road
A MAN attacked his partner in a 10-minute onslaught and then went for his anger management appointment with the probation service, a court heard. Brian Booth, 44, of Elmwood Street, Burnley, who had started drinking strong lager at 6.30am, assaulted
A MOTHER of four who had high strength heroin worth about £500 at her home has been spared immediate jail after a judge said she needed help. Burnley Crown Court heard how Gail Talbot, 36, of Holt Buildings, Stacksteads, had a Kinder egg containing
VISITORS to a Pendle park can now walk more safely after the completion of an improvement project. The Nelson Neighbourhood Action Group has donated several handrails to be installed down a steep path in Walverden Park. The park is currently undergoing
AN EARBY youth hostel is to be axed eight years after bosses were given £71,500 in grants to improve the building. Today County Coun David Whipp slammed the decision by the Youth Hostel Association (YHA) to shut the Birch Lane facility in October and
DETECTIVES were today searching the home of missing mum Jayne Payne after admitting they were becoming "increasingly concerned" for her safety. Detectives have been searching for the 29-year-old who disappeared on Friday, March 31. And today police
A house raider walked free from court after a judge said he was trying to turn over a new leaf. Thomas Casey, 22, was given what Judge Pamela Badley described as a "one-off opportunity". The court heard how Casey, fresh out of prison, had helped himself
FIRE chiefs today urged people to get a smoke alarm fitted after a man was lucky' to escape a house fire in Burnley. Firefighters were called to a house in Lindsay Street at about 3am after the man fell asleep after lighting a cigarette in bed. He woke
Blackburn Hawks insist that they are full of confidence ahead of their crucial league play-off clash with Billingham Bombers. Hawks travel to face the English National Ice Hockey League champions tomorrow evening and assistant manager Graham Lomax believes
BURNLEY Council has appointed a new head for its personnel department. David Wilcock, currently the council's head of legal services, will continue in his current role, as well as taking up his new position. He will replace John Booth, who is retiring
A WELL-KNOWN drunk is back in prison for flouting a criminal Anti-Social Behaviour Order just days after he vowed to stay off the drink. Derek Maxwell, 33, has been arrested at least three times since the three-year order was imposed by Burnley magistrates
PRIME Minister Tony Blair has told councils in Lancashire to sort out the row over county-wide free travel for pensioners. Mr Blair told local authorities to get their act together after they were accused of taking cash meant to pay for the new scheme
IT'S refreshing to eat out at lunchtime if you can escape your desk and an ever-ringing telephone. Happily, there's now an array of town centre eateries where you can stave off the mid-day hunger pangs, be it with a sandwich or a more substantial meal
A CRACKDOWN on anti-social behaviour in Lancashire has been re-launched in a bid to kick alcohol crimes into touch during the World Cup. Operation Summer Nights was launched at the end of May last year and saw all emergency services and other agencies
I HAVE just received a flyer through the door asking me to vote for Andy Kay, one of the councillors for Highercroft ward. It states that he wants Blackburn to have clean streets,' amongst other things. I would ask anyone from the Highercroft area to
RE: the Criminal Justice System. Readers may be aware that our prison population is bulging at the seams. I am a keen advocate of utilising our prison service in a positive way. If we can develop the right culture within its walls then organisations
SO the merger between Lancashire and Cumbria is to go ahead. We are assured by the chairman of the Police Authority, Councillor Malcolm Doherty and the Acting Chief Constable, Steve Finnigan, that this is a merger made in heaven. Then why is this merger
A FORMER semi-professional footballer has admitted selling drugs to undercover police officers. Blackburn magistrates heard that an officer paid Kevin Barski £940 for amphetamine and then bought another £1,100 worth just 10 days later. Barski, 35, of
SUDELL ward councillor Eileen Entwistle has hit out at absentee landlords who have left houses to become neglected and rundown in Darwen. Coun Entwistle has urged people to improve their neighbourhoods by maintaining their houses before they become dilapidated
ROVERS have shot down speculation linking them with a summer swoop for Besiktas midfielder Ahmed Hassan. The 30-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season and his agent, Alper Gokdemir, claimed Rovers were among a posse of clubs who had registered
FORMER Liverpool ace John Aldridge reckons Burnley can make it to the Premiership - and he says Alan Mahon is the one that can take them there. Aldridge played alongside and managed the new Clarets star at the beginning of his career when he was at Tranmere
FORMER Burnley hero Ade Akinbiyi has sent a message to the Turf Moor faithful: "Thanks for pushing me to the Premier League!" The Blades hitman is still celebrating promotion to the top flight of English football after Leeds could only draw with Reading
BLACKBURN Rovers' European hopes have been given a boost with the news that Tugay should be fit to take part in the final three games of the season. The veteran Turk has only made two appearances for Rovers since the 1-0 win against Arsenal in February
A FAMILY's pet cat couldn't wait to move back home when they decided to return to their old house and set off without them. But Thomas the tabby sparked a two-week alert before completing the four-mile journey back to Darwen. Rosanne and Leon Hughes
HOME Office minister Hazel Blears visited Blackburn and praised a scheme which will see police officers based in the community. Mrs Blears, minister for community safety and policing, made a special visit to Mill Hill Community Centre to see the new
JJB Sports has reported a disappointing' drop in its profits over the past year. The firm, founded by former Blackburn Rovers defender Dave Whelan, has revealed its pre-tax profits have fallen from £62.5million to £33.7million. Despite this, the firm
