A government inspector will rule within three months whether a footpath through the grounds of a primary school should be officially recognised. Inspector Peter Norman has promised a site meeting with parents, staff and nearby residents of Shade Street
A BURNLEY butcher is hoping to make Bonfire Night go with a bang-er after creating a special spicy sausage. Danny Heys, of the family-run GT & L Butchers in Lyndhurst Road, has introduced Danny's Dynamite sausages to mark both British Sausage Week,
A NEW drama group in the Whalley area is looking for new members. The Whalley Wannabes are appealing for performers and those willing to help with props, costumes, backstage, front-of-house and even making tea. The group, set up earlier this month
A MAYOR shocked guests at a glittering launch ceremony by slamming the decision to transfer council houses to a private company. Coun George Adam had been invited to do his ceremonial civic duty and launch Housing Pendle, which has taken over 3,500 council
A VICTORIAN mill is to be turned into a house - prompting anger from all the residents of a tiny street. Councillors went against the advice of officers in approving the application to convert the three-story mill in Burnley Road East, Waterfoot. They
BURNLEY councillors are set to discuss who should be responsible for the collection of waste in the town from next year. The council's current contract with Biffa runs out in April 2007, and council bosses want to ensure a smooth handover to the next
A TEACHER caught sending pornographic Christmas cards to pupils at a Lancashire school after a parent recognised his handwriting has been jailed for 14 months. PE teacher Mark Walsh, 29, of Derwent Road, Farnworth, created the explicit cards with pornographic
A WOMAN who runs a post office in a pub today appealed for her regulars to be allowed to carry on ordering: "Two pints of lager and a packet of stamps!" The Eagle and Child pub in Whalley Road, Hurst Green, is utilising a community partnership in a bid
A DARWEN horserider is seeking a sponsor to enable her to continue her dream to represent her country in the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. Felicity Coulthard, 21, of Essex Street, is attending trials at the weekend for a world-class training programme but
A CAR-PARK company has altered its parking tickets after they were deemed invalid in a test court case. The change comes five months after we highlighted that Lancashire County Council's Parkwise tickets could be contested as they did not contain the
THEY may be separated by thousands of miles, but Pendle and Salem, Massachusetts, are both famous for witches. But while Salem has enjoyed a month of Hallowe'en events to shout about its witchcraft heritage it is a different story here. BEN TURNER asked
NEIL Pickup heads an East Lancashire contingent of arm wrestlers who will take part in the World Championships which take place in Manchester this week. The Blackburn puller - who has twice won the world title - is one of six wrestlers heading for the
AN initiative that mirrors moves used to clean-up the streets of New York in the 1990s has been launched in Accrington. The Woodnook area is being targeted for a week as police team up with the fire service, environmental services, Hyndburn Council
NOVELTY sex toys being sold next to children's play items on the shelves of a pound store should be removed immediately, according to an angry shopper. Vibrating soft toys, three-foot inflatables and novelty toothbrushes were on display opposite the
LUTON Town boss Mike Newell has told his players they owe it to Sol Davis to beat Burnley tonight. A traumatic last few days for the Hatters has seen left-back Davis suffer a stroke on Saturday before the team were ripped apart 5-0 at Ipswich on Sunday
A brand new club was launched last Wednesday with a party at the Vue Club in Accrington. Ribble Valley Athletic Club is now formally affiliated to the North of England Athletic Association, and already there are around 70 members. According to the Coaching
BLACKBURN Rovers Reserves slipped to a 1-0 defeat at Newcastle United last night. Substitute Andy Carroll scored what proved to be the winner in the 72nd minute after controlling Phil Cave's cross and firing past goalkeeper Frank Fielding, with fullback
EAST Lancashire motorcyclists are making it easy for thieves to steal their bikes, police have warned. The warning comes after a spate of bike thefts from properties in Blackburn which have been targeted eight times by crooks since October 10. Inspector
Accrington Stanley fullback Leam Richardson is confident that he could reach another cup final. Richardson was part of the Blackpool squad that lifted the then LDV Trophy with a 2-0 win over Southend in 2004. A hamstring injury forced the unfortunate
BLACKBURN'S Carl Fogarty is frantically searching for a new sponsor in a desperate attempt to keep his Foggy Racing team alive. But the four-time World Superbike Champion has admitted that, after a disastrous five-year spell with Malaysian petroleum
Burnley boss Steve Cotterill admits he could do without tonight's Championship clash at Luton Town as he waits on the fitness of Wayne Thomas. Clarets captain Thomas faces a battle to overcome a knee injury sustained in last Friday's dramatic 3-2 derby
Chairman John Williams has urged Blackburn Rovers fans to take advantage of the special ticket offer and pack Ewood Park for the visit of Swiss side FC Basel. Season ticket holders can get in for just £10, or purchase tickets for both the Basel and
A Barnoldswick pensioner had her shopping stolen when she left it in her mobility scooter outside a cafe. The woman was eating her lunch in The Cafe On The Square, in the town square, around 11.30am yesterday. Owner Jackie Poole, said some customers
FOLLOWING on from winning the East Lancashire Pub of the Year Award, the Victoria Hotel, in St John's Street, Great Harwood, was named CAMRA's Lancashire Pub of the Year. This is the first time that an East Lancashire pub has won the county award.
TWO people were hurt in a car smash on the slip road off a busy by-pass. The accident happened on the A682, which is the exit slip road from the A56 into Rawtenstall coming on to the Queen's Square roundabout, at about 11.30am yesterday. Police said
A DEALER caught with £3,200 of heroin has been jailed for three and half years. Gary Taylor, 36, of Lytton Street, Padiham, was caught out following two raids by police. Burnley Crown Court was told how Taylor tried to hide the heroin by swallowing
A SHOP raider attacked almost 20 premises in Rossendale to raise cash to pay for his dying father's funeral, a court heard. Burnley Crown Court heard how drug addict John Kyle, 33, who had been in and out of jail for 14 years, was used to being behind
THE new landlord of 3,500 council houses in Pendle has promised £45 million of investment over five years. Housing Pendle, a not-for-profit housing association, took over the stock yesterday after 80 per cent of residents voted for the move in a secret
BUSINESSES are being offered a cash injection to boost tourism in the borough. New and existing businesses can claim up to £4,000 from Pendle Borough Council in a bid to attract more visitors to the area, regardless of whether the owner lives in Pendle
A SEX-grooming victim has been attacked and subjected to death threats, just weeks after her mother begged social services to re-locate her. The girl's mother, who herself had to move house to escape intimidation, said her 15-year-old daughter has been
A FIREFIGHTER was punched and kicked and colleagues had bottles and bricks hurled at them as they attempted to put out a fire. Around 30 youths and children, including some as young as six, attacked the crew as they attended a fire at a children's play
PAULA Walker's introduction to the bobsleigh was memorable for all the wrong reasons - she was left terrified, battered and bruised and vowed never to climb in one again. As far as she was concerned, her bobsleigh days were over and soon as they had
TWO East Lancashire riders are the cream of the county after starring in the recent British Horse Society's National Cross Country Championship. Ryan Smith from Oswaldtwistle and Daisy Shufflebottom from Bacup were the best Lancashire riders in the respective
A TEACHER is attracting interest from education chiefs after devising a pioneering approach to Spanish which could revolutionise the way languages are taught. The method is the brainchild of Paul Howard, 32, who for the last three years has taught languages
A STEROID-taking stonemason attacked his ex-girlfriend after finding her in bed with a man on New Year's Day, a court was told. Mark Shaw, 21, had climbed into mother-of- two Virginia Hussey's home through a window, taking with him with a rottweiler
MARLON Beresford is worried by the twin threat of Burnley's attacking duo Andy Gray and Steve Jones. The former Clarets goalkeeper faces the task of keeping out Steve Cotterill's summer signings at Kenilworth Road tonight. Gray, who linked up with Beresford
DERBY honours - and a place in the next round of the UniBond League Challenge Cup - are up for grabs as Chorley and Clitheroe lock horns for the second time in a month tonight. The sides drew 2-2 in the Division 1 fixture two weeks ago at Shawbridge
Burnley's opponents tonight, Luton Town, are reeling from a 5-0 defeat at Ipswich and news that left-back Sol Davis could be out for six months after suffering a stroke. And Clarets manager Steve Cotterill, who expects a tough match in Bedfordshire
Burnley supporters are reminded that there is no cash turnstile for visiting supporters at Luton. The Turf Moor ticket office will be selling tickets, priced £21.50 adults and £14 concessions, including students and OAP's,between 9am-3pm today.
BLACKBURN Rovers striker Jason Roberts has successfully come through an operation on his broken toe - but is still facing three months on the sidelines. The former Wigan man broke his fifth metatarsal after a challenge with Jonathan Spector in Sunday's
In Breaking and Entering director Anthony Minghella (of The English Patient and Cold Mountain fame) takes stock of life in London in the 21st Century. What he finds is a city of paradoxes, hypocrisy and hope. At the core of the film Minghella analyses
IN recent years Hollywood has become obsessed with the collision of reality and fantasy, but Will Ferrell's new comedy-cum-drama has a surprisingly original take on this done to death scenario. Like The Truman Show, Big Fish, The Matrix and Adaptation
THIS study about the corruptive nature of power in politics starring the charismatic Sean Penn is almost a fine film. He plays Willie Stark, an idealistic salesman, who persuaded into standing as governor of his home state by businessmen who plan to
Bobby is about the assassination of Robert F Kennedy, yet in all of its 120 minutes Kennedy does not appear even once - apart from in archived footage of his California campaign, that is. Disappointing? Not at all. In fact, this film says more about
To coincide with Halloween, storyteller Simon Entwistle brings to life the timeless, spooky tale of the Pendle witches. The video was filmed at Clitheroe Castle with the imposing Pendle Hill in the background.
THE History Boys is a film adaptation of the award winning play, of the same name, by Alan Bennett. It tells the story of eight bright history students in the sixth form of a school in Sheffield in the early 1980s. The boys are chasing an undergraduate
LANCASHIRE Police Authority will be paid back the £750,000 it spent preparing for a doomed merger with Cumbria, it has been announced. The merger was part of a government scheme to reduce the existing 43 police forces to as few as 17. But the scheme
By Mrs Rubina Shaban. My freedom - I choose to privatise my faith, and my face, I am a woman in control and full of grace, I express myself with perception, for equality as that is my aim, To protect myself and women of every look, colour and race
WHILE visiting the new Royal Blackburn Hospital several times I was horrified on every visit to see one or two patients standing outside the main entrance in nightwear and dressing gowns smoking. All round the main entrance were cigarette ends. Scenes
BLACKBURN with Darwen Council bangs on about thrash the trash' and we've all done our recycling duty, but you'll see from the following experience, it's only one way. Every Tuesday, residents in our area religiously leave their green boxes together
WHILST welcoming Councillor Dave Harling's letter (LT, October 17) to the debate on segregation, I was a little surprised to be accused of hypocritical comments in relation to the segregation within education.' I am willing to accept criticisms for views
