A NEW council bin collection system caused chaos in one street after residents put their rubbish out on the wrong day. Residents in Merlin Road, Blackburn, put their bins out early on Wednesday morning ready for their weekly collection. But after hours
CANCELLED operations at East Lancashire's hospitals have fallen by nearly 40 per cent. The number of cancelled procedures was 39 per cent down from April to September this year compared to the same period in 2005. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
A BLACKBURN headteacher named the best in the North West has been pipped in the UK final of the Teaching Awards 2006. Glenys Lees, head for the last eight years at Roe Lee Park Primary School, Blackburn beat off hundreds of others from across the region
A CAR was stolen and used in a weekend of burglaries in Darwen, during which a distinctive sports watch worth £1,000 was stolen. Two men were seen getting into a white Rover Metro stolen from Abbey Crescent in the early hours of Saturday. Police said
A WOMAN has told police how she was attacked and seriously sexually assaulted in a stairwell at a town centre shopping complex. The incident happened about 8pm on Sunday on the stairs leading from the centre of Lord Square, Blackburn, to the roof car
MAN mountain Mark Felix proved it was third time lucky in the recent World's Strongest Man competition. For the Great Harwood-based strongman finished in fourth place in China - the first time he had managed to qualify for the latter stages of the competition
Aaron Hargreaves has won the Lancashire Five Mile Road Race Championship which was incorporated into the Green Drive Five Race at Lytham. The Blackburn Harrier clocked 25:03, but was narrowly beaten into second overall by Tarus Elly of Salford with
ACCRINGTON Stanley manager John Coleman has revealed the full extent of his League Two ambitions. The Reds boss admitted he was targeting back-to-back championships after lifting the Conference title in April. But Saturday's 2-1 defeat at home to leaders
A POLICE officer was smashed over the head with a vase after he went to arrest a drunken 100mph motorway driver, a court was told. PC Darren Irving, ended up bleeding heavily from his wounds, but still managed to restrain Imran Hanif, 23, at his Nelson
POLICE have dished out scores of warnings for loutish behaviour as part of a new crackdown on anti-social youngsters. Police issued 45 youth referral notices to youngsters caught with booze in the Edge End area of Nelson on Friday night. The forms warn
LANCASHIRE Police have achieved a hat-trick of success after being named as the top police force in the country in a report released today. In the latest Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) baseline reports, Lancashire Constabulary has
A MAJOR review of holiday patterns launched in Blackburn with Darwen could lead to all Lancashire schools adopting a six-term year. From September, schools in Lancashire County Council's 11 districts adopted a standard year comprising two seven-week
IT was the day Faz Patel and thousands of Muslims like him had been building up to for weeks. With his family and friends, Mr Patel, 30, sat around a table which was covered with enough food and drink for a feast. He said: "After we finish prayers,
THIS is the face of a pick pocket working as part of a gang preying on the elderly as they shop in charity stores in Darwen. CCTV images released by police show the female withdrawing £500 from one victim's bank account after stealing a purse by bumping
A FORMER bank manager has been charged with 28 offences of theft, forgery and deception. Mark Gidlow, 45, of Brownlow Street, Clitheroe, is a former vice-chairman of Clitheroe FC. He has been charged over allegations relating to his former employer,
A FIRE caused by a TV being left on stand-by tore through a family's living room and left the house massively smoke damaged. James Lee Turner rescued his wife and two young daughters from the blaze at their home in Heys Lane, Blackburn, yesterday. And
PROPERTY developers are to invest more than £260,000 in a Hyndburn village. The cash will be used by Hyndburn Council to create a footpath and cycleway in Huncoat. Work on playgrounds, playing pitches and woodland could also be completed after a donation
I DON'T know if it's his dandyish appearance, his flamboyant charm, or just those flowing raven locks, but I'm really starting to warm to Laurence Llewelyn Bowen. And it seems my view is shared by his bosses at BBC1's Holiday. On last night's show Laurence
IF YOU enjoy a good mystery, you won't want to miss Burnley Garrick Club's production of Summer End, showing at Burnley Mechanics from November 22 to 25. Written by Eric Chappell, whose most famous work is TV's Rising Damp, the play is a touching and
Bill Atkinson has been chosen to represent England at the British and Irish Masters International Cross Country Championships at Falkirk on November 18. There is a full calendar of veteran or masters races nowadays, but this fixture is the only one where
MATT Derbyshire fired Blackburn Rovers Reserves into the next round of the Lancashire Senior Cup when his exquisite finish saw off Blackpool at Bloomfield Road last night. The Seasiders fielded a strong side that contained no fewer than nine players
IT'S not so long ago that Blackburn Rovers went a full season without being awarded a single penalty in the Premiership - a statistic that drove former manager Graeme Souness to distraction. Now Rovers seem to be getting more than their fair share of
MICHAEL Duff admits the loss of Clarets team-mate John McGreal until December is a "big miss". Veteran defender McGreal is sidelined for up to six weeks after scans revealed he tore medial knee ligaments seven days ago. His absence opened the door for
BLACKBURN Rovers midfielder Robbie Savage is facing a fight to be fit for next week's crunch UEFA Cup date with FC Basel after picking up an injury in the defeat to Bolton. Savage was forced to limp off in the 74th minute of Sunday's hotly-contested
RAIL bosses and police have welcomed a prison sentence for a violent and abusive passenger who attacked a Northern Rail train conductor. Paul John Ideson, 22, from Todmorden, had boarded a York to Blackpool service at Hebden Bridge and verbally abused
A PENDLE landlord has hit out at thieves who stole a giant pumpkin left outside his pub to raise money for a childrens' charity. The vegetable - weighing between 70-80lbs - was bought by Paul Smith, landlord of the Emmott Arms, Laneshawbridge, who was
PRODUCTION at boiler giant Baxi Potterton's Padiham factory stopped after staff went on strike in support of a sacked worker. All 415 staff walked out of the Wyre Lane factory to back Richard Knappett, 43, who they believe was wrongly dismissed. Workers
TWO students have appeared in court charged with the murder of former Rossendale rugby player William David Prosser. The 36-year-old former Newchurch resident died in April after a night out in Colchester, Essex. Two 21-year-olds were charged with his
A WIDOW will walk the Great Wall of China in memory of her husband to raise money for research into the illness that took his life. Laura Forster, 42, of Rothesay Road, Blackburn, lost her husband, Stephen Forster, to cancer a few months ago and has
THE Lancashire Telegraph today launches a campaign to encourage people to save lives, save energy and save money - by not leaving electrical appliances on stand-by. The Turn It Off campaign comes the day after firefighters said a family-of-four were
By Keith Sowerbutts. Two friends made a trip to South America To visit jungles and live off the land Camping, appreciating the local culture Learn language, all their ways at first hand. They didn't mind the swarming mosquitoes Eating strange
IN response to Miss A Allotte, I don't quite get why you class my reply as laughable as I do eat 99.5 per cent of what I shoot. As for shooting magpies and crows, I point out two things. Firstly, I've tried eating both and find them bitter and unpalatable
I'LL tell you why people feed pigeons. They are all God's creatures. St Francis of Assisi was the patron saint of birds. How dare people call them flying rats. They never harm anyone. I have some near me in the next building and I never have pigeon
REGARDING the article Protest mounted to bridleway bid, October 12. Why are the Friends of Sunnyhurst Wood, Darwen, determined to distort the facts regarding a request for bridleway access through a small section of Sunnyhurst Wood? I would like to
I AM appalled by the sentence imposed upon Burnley businessman Alec Cunningham. His was a victimless crime', if it could be described as crime, in that the perpetrators of the crime against him were convicted on evidence quite independent from his declared
I WOULD like to ask Blackburn with Darwen councillors to take a little time to reflect over the matter of Darwen Baths. Would you all like to consider whether the facility is intended for the residents of the borough or as a prestigious jewel in the
