The "main players" behind a plot to blow up multiple aircraft mid-air have been arrested in raids this morning, the home secretary has said. But John Reid said the "critical" level of alert at airports countrywide, allowing no hand luggage on planes
A DRUNKEN children's home resident armed herself with a clothes prop in an attack on a staff member, a court was told. Burnley magistrates heard how "out of control" Lisa Donlan, 18, shouted and swore, kicked Yvonne Wills twice, and flew at her, knocking
A 20-YEAR-OLD woman has died after collapsing at her home in Burnley. Danielle Catlow, of Emily Street, died in hospital after she was admitted to casualty on Friday. Paramedics had been called to the family home, in the Healey Wood area of the town
A 76-YEAR-OLD great grandmother who had a hysterectomy 41 years ago has received an appointment from Burnley General Hospital - for a check up at the maternity unit! Rawtenstall pensioner Annie Gillatt was amazed when the letter from East Lancashire
NINE-year-old golf star Jordan Kellett stunned his older rivals by landing a top East Lancashire junior tournament. Kellett was the youngest entrant by some distance in the Jean Spibey Trophy, held at Great Harwood, which accepts juniors up to 18 years
FOR THE chronic list-makers amongst us (you know who you are), last night's How To Improve You Memory was a relief. It's always good to know you're not the only one so incapable of retaining important details that you have to scrawl them on Post-Its
A GOLF tournament is to be held in memory of a 29-year-old father of two who died last year from a rare form of leukaemia. The event - at Pleasington Golf Club, Blackburn this month - is part of an appeal to buy a heart scanning machine for Royal Blackburn
HYNDBURN Council has moved to allay staff fears over a proposed merging of services with Blackburn with Darwen Council. The Lancashire Telegraph revealed two weeks ago that Hyndburn was in talks to link up with Blackburn with Darwen and break free from
JACK Straw's former press adviser has labelled claims that he was sacked as Foreign Secretary because of his Muslim constituents as extraordinary and terrifying'. The move follows reports that the Blackburn MP lost his job in May because of pressure
THE way people in Blackburn with Darwen are embracing a healthy lifestyle has seen the borough selected to spearhead a major national campaign. And after selecting the borough, organisers are now hunting for an inspirational resident to be the face of
A MAN with long-standing mental health problems plunged to his death from the second floor of a Blackburn hostel. An inquest heard that hours earlier Paul Gates, 45, had spoken to his mum, told her he was fine and that he loved her very much. But his
VANDALS have ripped down the floral hanging baskets which helped add colour to Oswaldtwistle's Jubilee Gardens. And the flowers will not be replaced until next spring after gardeners were unable to salvage any of the plants. Vandals pulled the six colourful
A ROBBER who bragged that putting a gun to a woman shop assistant's head was the best buzz of his life has been jailed indefinitely. Clark Townsend, of Whalley Road, Clayton-le-Moors, made the boast in a pub after the raid on a jewellers in Lancaster
AN EAST Lancashire optician has made a specs-tacular donation of 10,000 pairs of used glasses, which will be shipped out to eye camps in the third world. Kevin Horkin, owner of the chain Spex Opticians, collected the glasses at his branches in Accrington
A Polish man severed a main artery in his arm in an accident, police now believe. The 24-year-old underwent surgery on Monday after being found covered in blood at his home in Abraham Street, Blackburn. A window was smashed during a "domestic incident
CONSERVATIONISTS are offering a £1,000 reward to catch the culprits who polluted the River Ribble, killing thousands of fish. The waste was dumped into storm drains which flowed into Swanside Beck, Sawley, on July 27. The beck feeds the Ribble. Emergency
DOZENS of disabled parking spaces have been axed at Blackburn's new super hospital - because they were painted in by mistake. Contractors have painted over 34 disabled spaces at the Royal Blackburn Hospital because they should have been designated for
LAST week it was reported that Lancashire had won three trophies at the Northern Inter Counties Championships at Gateshead, to record the county's best performance at the fixture in decades. We also noted that the results on the North of England AA website
ALISON Leonard has won the AAAs of England under 17s 800 metres title at Birmingham, defeating the World Schools 1500 metre champion Sarah Hopkinson by eight one hundredths of a second. Following her victory, she has been named in the Great Britain Under
MICK Nester and Tracy Mitchell were the race winners in the Lancashire Sports Repairs Six Mile Road Race at Cliviger, as the runners in the Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix returned after the mid-summer break. For Blackburn Road Runner Nester it was a landmark
EACH stage is under two minutes long, and there are just eight in the day, but competing in the Turkingtons Lurgan Park Rally represents one of the sport's biggest challenges. With speeds of over 100mph along a thin ribbon of tarmac that threads its
IT'S not over until it's over, as Daniel Barritt and Philip Morrow discovered at the recent Manx International. Eager to score championship points and get to the end of the event, the pair opted to consolidate their leading position for the final seven
DAN Boardman clocked the best result of his career after winning his class in the Manx International Rally - by a staggering 12 minutes. The Ribchester rallyman was in a class of his own, finishing 29th overall and top of the N1 category in his self-built
SINCE Jack Straw's July 20 soapbox session, where he said if we banned Scottish and Welsh MPs from voting on English only issues "England would be the loser, and the United Kingdom would start to break up," two things have happened. Firstly, angry at
I REALLY think the parking policy at Royal Blackburn Hospital should be renewed. If a person, such as myself, at 87 years of age, is entitled to "park for free" to do my shopping, surely a hospital appointment is so much more important, and it should
RE parking for the disabled (LT, August 3) fortunately we do not require to use parking for the disabled, but I do take a keen interest in their problems. First I find it absolutely ridiculous that the disabled cannot park for free at the Royal Blackburn
AFTER reading the letter (LT, August 2) from Jackie Hinton regarding her experience at the so-called super hospital, I would like to whole-heartedly agree with her. In the early hours of Sunday, July 30, my son fell off a wall, landing on his head and
By Ms P Barlow, Oriole Close, Blackburn. The rain came down, the thunder roared, The lightning flashed, I used to hide under the table, Behind the chair, I was scared. Terrified and lonely, The world seemed like a big black hole, Never ending
A 10-YEAR-OLD boy was injured in a two-car collision in which the other driver sped off. The crash happened by the roundabout at the junction of Princess Way and Curzon Street, Burnley, near to Asda, at about 5pm on Tuesday. A red Nissan Sunny travelling
Burnley strikers Kyle Lafferty and Steve Jones and defender Michael Duff have been drafted into Lawrie Sanchez's Northern Ireland squad to face Finland later this month. The trio jet out to Helsinki on Sunday, August 13 for the international friendly
SHARPSHOOTER Andy Gray is confident his winning strike against Leicester City will be the first of many Burnley goals to his name this season. Gray's fierce header at City's Walkers Stadium maintained the Clarets' impressive 100 per cent start to their
SEAN Doherty has admitted he was close to tears when he got injured on his Accrington Stanley debut. The summer signing limped off with a twisted ankle after only 11 minutes in the 2-0 defeat at Chester City at the weekend. But Doherty, who spent much
MARK Hughes' latest signing, Benni McCarthy, showed further flashes of his undoubted quality but couldn't prevent Blackburn Rovers from tasting defeat here in Holland. The 28-year-old striker, who recently joined Rovers from Porto, once again caught
Midfielder Brett Emerton is battling to be fit for the start of Blackburn Rovers' Premiership season after damaging his calf in training. The Australian international was sent home early from Rovers' training camp in Holland so that he could undergo
BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes is preparing to make a second bid for Dutch defender Andre Ooijer. The Rovers chief had an initial offer for the 32-year-old formally rejected by PSV Eindhoven yesterday. Now Hughes is ready to up the ante for the experienced
A BLACKBURN Transport worker is swapping his driving shoes for a pair of cycling shorts for a 140 mile charity bike ride. Kevin Riddehough, 43, from Blackburn, is cycling the 140 miles from Whitehaven to Sunderland over three days to raise money for
A MOUNTAIN rescue team received a major boost today with the unveiling of a vital extension to a Trough of Bowland centre. The new £180,000 northern extension to Smelt Mill Cottages, Trough Road, Dunsop Bridge, was opened by the Duke of Westminster,
SIX East Lancashire dentists are still in dispute with health bosses over the new dental contract. Discussions are taking place after a new system was brought in on April 1. Yet bosses insist dentists are still providing NHS services. The six contracts
A FORUM for young people to give their views on East Lancashire's hospital services has been set up by health bosses. Youngsters aged over 14 have been recruited from schools across the area. Their first task is to ask people they know what they think
a 39-year-old Blackburn man hanged himself after hearing voices in his head which blamed him for the death of a friend in 2003, an inquest was told. The inquest heard that David John Whitehead had been disturbed in the weeks before his death because
A Burnley holiday firm is Turkish delighted after reaching a £1million turnover in just 12 months. International Property Agents, of Manchester Road, Burnley, specialises in holiday homes and investment property in the Turkish resorts of Altinkum and
COUNCILLORS and church leaders held a meeting to try to tackle attacks by Muslim youths on a Blackburn Roman Catholic church. The move came after the Lancashire Telegraph reported a vandalism attack by youths at St Joseph's RC Church, Audley, earlier
A Blackburn retailer has slammed cigarette smugglers for hurting small traders. The blast comes as a new survey, by national organisation Retailers Against Smuggling, reveals one in five corner shops in the region is under threat of closure due to the
A FORMER president of Blackburn Rotary Club and the town's Chamber of Trade has died aged 90 after a long illness. George Gray, who lived in Brownhill, ran clothes shop Grays in the town for more than 40 years after inheriting the business from his father
I'M not sure what frustrated me more on Tuesday night - our struggle to score when we were on top or our struggle to attract supporters to the Fraser Eagle Stadium. We dared to anticipate pretty much a full house for the night that League football returned
MUSLIMS from across Lancashire united to call for an immediate recall of Parliament in a bid to bring peace to the Middle East. The Lancashire Council of Mosques (LCM) invited 35 Muslims representing all parts of the county yesterday to express their
BRITISH Heart Foundation shops in Lancashire have launched a volunteering campaign. The BHF welcomes volunteers from all walks of life, and there are no age restrictions - enthusiasm and a desire to help are all that is required. Spokeswoman Kate Roberts
A BLACKBURN artist is to display her carved sculptures at her first exhibition at The Mid Pennine Art Gallery, in Burnley. Halima Cassell's work is rooted in Islamic geometric patterns, with bold African influences. Fusing her Asian background with
POLICE have admitted they do not know whether knife crime is rising in Lancashire - because officers don't specifically record the incidents. Lancashire Constabulary made the disclosure as a national outcry grew over the effectiveness of knife amnesties
Businesses in Lancashire are being warned to be on their guard against faxes asking for financial information. Lancashire County Council's Trading Standards Service has received a number of complaints from traders who have received faxed letters claiming
The family of an elderly stroke victim, who has spent six weeks in hospital, believe her recovery has been hindered because her bedside TV and telephone service has been out of operation for more than a month. The daughter-in-law of Royal Preston Hospital
A railway operator is offering free travel on its network today anyone who was due to take a domestic flight. Virgin CrossCountry, which links the north west of England to the south west, south coast, north east and Scotland, announced it was accepted
Despite the tightened security Manchester Airport is almost fully operational, with only BA and BMI flights bound for Heathrow being cancelled. However, most flights are delayed by between one and three hours. Domestic flights have been affected
HEATHROW aiport has been closed to all incoming flights after police thwarted a terrorist plan for mass murder' in the skies. Flights already in the air will be allowed to land but airports have now had to halt any further planes from leaving for Heathrow
Airports across the country were on the highest level of alert today after police disrupted a terrorist plot to blow up aircraft in mid-air. They carried out a major counter-terrorism operation to disrupt what was believed to be a major threat to the
A Lancashire funeral director and his family are among those caught up in the delays at Manchester Airport. David Potts, who was flying out for a two-week family holiday in Florida, said: "This is not a problem for us. In fact we feel this is the safest
Three women from Lancashire caught up in the delays at Manchester Airport were turning heads with their unusual clothing - jeans, trainers and wedding hats. Katie Dodgson, Sue Dodgson and Megan Brady were flying out to a family wedding in Hungary and
AN Oswaldtwistle firefighter is to be questioned about a stunt which involved an on-duty fireman being filmed whilst spinning in a tumble dryer. Simon Leyland, who is currently on holiday in Spain, is one of nine members of white watch at Blackley fire
A ROSSENDALE youngster is celebrating after beating off stiff competition to scoop a national stock car racing championship. Spencer Taylor, 14, of Tong Lane, Bacup, won the title of Steam Packet Ministox TT champion at the event in Onchan, the Isle
A FAMILY mourning the death of a deputy mayor have slammed a far right party for announcing it would stand for his seat. The by-election for the East Rural ward on Blackburn with Darwen Council, which is yet to be called, looks set to be held in September
The Department for Transport has issued a travel advice to passengers after a suspected mid-air terrorist plot was foiled. "Following this morning's police action, security at all UK airports has been increased and additional security measures have
AN eight-year-old girl left with one leg shorter than the other after doctors failed to diagnose an infection has been awarded £65,000 compensation. The girl, who has not been named but lives in Darwen, could receive more money if an operation to remedy
