THE hearing was told that Olivia had been playing with a cousin when she was knocked down. Olivia's mother, Laura Whiteside held back tears as she gave the coroner her daughter's name and date of birth. Wearing a t-shirt with Olivia's last school photograph
A MAN arrested over the hit-and-run death of an eight-year-old girl has told her family he was not responsible. Waqas Mahmood, 27, came face-to-face with Olivia Whiteside's mum and other relatives at the inquest into her death. And Mr Mahmood, from
GRAHAM Wright has received a Special Recognition Award for his "Outstanding Contribution" at the Rossendale Sports Awards. Rossendale Harriers are currently celebrating their 40th anniversary and the 57-year-old is the sole remaining active founder
AFTER his first year in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Clitheroe cage fighter Michael The Count' Bisping has been honoured in the brand's unofficial half-year awards'. The awards, listed on the UFC's official website, highlight the best action of
A NEW sensory garden has been officially opened at Newfield Special School, Blackburn. The Mayor of Blackburn with Darwen, Councillor Maureen McGarvey, opened the garden at the Old Bank Lane school, designed to allow children to watch and understand
Cardiff City have played down talk of a move for Blackburn Rovers striker Francis Jeffers. "It's reported in the papers that we're now about to sign Francis Jeffers and that's nonsense," Cardiff chairman Peter Ridsdale said. "We're being linked
THIS is the moment a suspected burglar was captured on CCTV leaving a family's flat. Tony Whelan, owner of Deardengate Dry Cleaners, Haslingden, has made the footage public in a bid to help trace the suspect. Detectives probing the raid on the flat
A DRUNKEN man who beat up a nightclubber, booting him in the head "like a football" after he fell to the ground, could end up behind bars. Nicholas Burke's victim Alan Usher remembered nothing else apart from waking up the next morning after the attack
CHILDREN from St Mary and St Joseph Primary School, Blackburn, have scooped the first prize in the annual "keeping safe at home and play" quiz. The Year six pupils were presented with the winner's shield during a special presentation at the Bennington
A HEADTEACHER has been allowed to remain in the profession despite admitting to having sex with a classroom assistant on school premises. Ron Peden, former head of West Street School, Colne, admitted to a General Teaching Council hearing this morning
A BURNLEY woman who illegally dumped household rubbish on land near to her home has been given a six-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £100 costs by magistrates. Heather Tierney, of Granby Street, claimed she had left the waste on a grass
BOSSES at BAE Systems say a programme to maintain Samlesbury-built Tornadoes is on course to save the RAF and Ministry of Defence more than £500m over the next decade. The expertise gained making the Tornado at the East Lancs complex in the seventies
A DENTIST who groped a woman continued to protest his innocence as he asked to return to work. Dr Martin Kono Abe, 36, grabbed the young woman's breasts at a practice in Blackburn. He was convicted of sexual assault after a trial in March this year
Blackburn have confirmed that their Intertoto Cup third round first leg game against FK Vetra will take place on Sunday. The club have been given an allocation of 300 tickets for the match in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius with prices pegged at £5
SHOPPERS are being warned to continue to be vigilant after a number of vehicle break-ins on a DIY store's car park. Police said they had investigated four similar crimes in the last month at the B&Q in Churchill Way, Nelson. Sgt Mark Baines, of Nelson
COUNCILS in East Lancashire have denied that fortnightly bin collections pose a health hazard or have led to increased flytipping - despite the system being condemned by a powerful group of MPs. Politicians from the parliamentary Communities and Local
A GREAT Harwood man failed to turn up at court to be sentenced for assaulting his wife because he was afraid members of her family would be waiting for him, a court was told. Hyndburn magistrates were told of the absence of Kevin John Percy, 40, by solicitor
BLACKBURN Rovers keeper Brad Friedel has warned David Beckham that juggling a domestic and international football career in the States will be anything but plane sailing. And the 36-year-old believes countless flights back and forth across the atlantic
RIBBLE Valley MP Nigel Evans promoted the need for a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty during a debate at Westminster. He stressed that the Government had promised a referendum in their past two election manifestos and called upon Jim Murphy MP, Minister
A COUNCIL has warned that it may have to increase council tax and make job cuts due to a budget deficit. Burnley Council is facing having to make savings of up to £1.1 million pounds next year, dependant on the amount of money it receives from central
Rishton's Nippers have now finished trainng for the next three weeks. We'll be back on August 11th at St Peter & St Pauls at the usual time 10am-11am. If you have never been to Nippers before or know someone who would like to come, this would be an
WORK on the first homes to be built to breathe life into Burnley's housing market could be under way by the end of the year. Doncaster-based developer Keepmoat plc want to build 83 homes, including 18 homes for Housing Association, Calico, as part of
A DRUGS dealer is facing jail after admitting heroin offences at Burnley Crown Court. Paul Murgatroyd, 37, pleaded guilty to supplying the drug between August 1 and 31 last year and being the occupier of premises allowed the supply of the drug between
MEASURES to stop speeding vehicles are being planned for a Haslingden road - but campaigners say HGVs are still a major problem and want them banned. Lancashire County Council's highways department monitored the speed of traffic on 30mph zone Hud Hey
A FOOTBALL tournament is being run for teenagers as part of initiative to stop youths causing nuisance. Padiham police have organised a five-a-side Summer Football Competition called the BIG Challenge Football Championships. The competition will take
MULTI-million plans to transform an historic building into 10 luxury apartments have been given the go-ahead. The Holme in Cliviger, which was ravaged by a fire four years ago, is to be developed by Rossendale-based Hurstwood Developments. Councillors
A DRUG dealer has been ordered to hand over more than £2,000 he earned by selling cocaine. Martin Hall, 41, of Water Street, Earby, is currently serving a three-year jail sentence and has now been forced to pay £2,210 under the proceeds of crime act.
A REVIEW of the decision to site the new Darwen Leisure Centre on a single site was not a drain on town hall resources, insist councillors. Coun John Milburn has made repeated calls for the new ruling coalition to say how much the hotly-debated issue
HUNDREDS of school pupils are working together in a bid to rid the area of racial tensions. Students from 11 secondary schools in Burnley and Pendle attended a two-day conference at Turf Moor to learn about how racial tension arises, and how to prevent
WORK has started on a scheme to rejuvenate a contaminated recreation ground in Burnley. Lancashire County Council is to spend £727,000 upgrading Fulledge Recreation Ground - home to one of the town's biggest annual bonfires and Wakes Week fair. This
Chief Supt Jerry Graham, commander of Pennine Division, will be taking part in an online webchat with the public on Thursday between 1pm and 2pm. To join in go to www.lancashire.police.uk. It follows on from Assistant Chief Constable Mike Cunningham
A 33-year-old Darwen woman assaulted her neighbours in a dispute over a loan of a few pounds. Blackburn magistrates heard that Lisa Joyce Yvette Shepherd smashed up items she had borrowed from her neighbours on their doorstep. She then punched Lisa
A FUNERAL with full military honours will be given to a Darwen soldier who died in a suspected hit and run crash in Greece. Lance Bombardier Brett Walmsley, 25, of Greenway Street, was killed on a country road in Halkidiki early on Friday morning after
Firefighters were called to tackle a grill fire at 1.30am yesterday. The fire, in Somerset Walk, Haslingden, started after a man had been on a night out and went to bed leaving sausages under the grill, said firefighters. A woman spotted smoke coming
So who was the greatest Rover of them all? As part of its centenary celebrations, the Professional Footballers Association is putting together a list of the top 100 players who have played professional football over the last 100 years. One player will
Clint Wolfenden, a driver from Mill Street, Oswaldtwistle, was found hanging in his stairway on Saturday July 7, an inquest heard. Mr Wolfenden, 33, who was born in Burnley was found by his partner Christine Abbott at 12.32pm, paramedics attended the
Three of East Lancashire's strongest men show off their weighlifting powers in our latest video.
Burnley have today signed former Manchester City defender Stephen Jordan on a free transfer. The 25-year-old left back has signed a three-year deal with the Clarets. Manager Steve Cotterill said: "We are delighted to have Stephen on board. He was
HARD-working volunteers pulled out all the stops to ensure that the weekend's Rishton Festival was a roaring success. While the rain saw the rides cancelled at the Harwood Road Recreation Ground event, stallholders and the crowds braved the elements
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a manhole where foam was bubbling up in Huncoat early today. Police on patrol spotted the foam spread over about three square metres in Whinney Hill Road at about 2.30am and notified firefighters. They discovered water running
POLICE were called as workers arrived at a cricket club's ground, boarded up the pavilion and started digging up the green. On Friday morning residents and officials from the club confronted workers to ask them to stop what they were doing at the Waterbarn
VOLUNTEERS claim an animal welfare charity shop's future is threatened by council plans to open similar premises next-door-but-one. The shop, run by Oswaldtwistle's Only Foals and Horses in Penny Street, Blackburn, will be forced to compete with different
FUNERAL requests are not carried out for thousands of people in Lancashire, according to the charity Age Concern. Age Concern Lancashire report that 92 per cent of people in the county have decided what they would like once they die. However, less than
FORMER Blackburn Rovers player Stuart Ripley is looking forward to quite a different career after graduating from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) this week with a combined honours degree in Law and French. Stuart, who hung up his boots in
SATURDAY night and the wannabes are back on our screens again. Do you think the TV companies have got it written down somewhere that at least one of them must be running some sort of talent contest throughout the year? In this case the Beeb has come
I AM writing in response to Sharon of Accrington. How dare she say that her bin is mostly taken up by dirty nappies? Does she not know that she can buy real nappies, at a fraction of the cost of disposables? I brought my children up to think like me,
RE your article of July 4 headlined: "Nursery gets ok." I am writing to express my disappointment at the subdued nature of the article printed. This report does not give a true reflection of the outstanding performance and achievements of Brunel Nursery
IT IS the "Islamic duty" of Muslims to co-operate with the police to keep Britain safe and to combat terrorism after the attempted car-bombing in London and the attack in Glasgow. Those people who attempt to kill or main in this way are enemies of us
TWO former Ribble Valley mayors who retired at the last local election have been named as aldermen of the borough. Councillors Charles Warkman and Chris Holtom represented Mellor and Wilpshire respectively and stood down in May this year. Mr Warkman
THE Government's plans to teach children the basics of managing money are welcome. The rudimentary principles can be taught fairly easily but the real difficulty lies in the area of investing and risk where financial institutions are only too keen to
THREE men from Blackburn have been added to Lancashire Police's most wanted list after going missing for up to 14 months. Iraq-born Azwar Abdul Amin, suspected of being involved in a kidnapping in Blackburn, is among those who have been added to the
A FLYING object and strange neck pains were the "ghostly going ons" discovered by a team of paranormal investigators at an East Lancashire pub. The ghost hunters plan to return to Pendle's Four Alls Inn, Higham, where they spent the early hours of Saturday
UNITED in faith - that is the message from Muslims and Anglicans across East Lancashire after a pioneering open day at a mosque. Hundreds poured through the doors of the Lambeth Street mosque, in Blackburn, to share in an ecumenical event promoted by
My printer broke at the weekend."Get another one," a colleague told me, "You can pick one up really cheaply - it will cost you more to repair it." Being unable to afford another, I wasn't too happy about this, so I contacted the helpdesk of the company
ELEVEN adults and a two-year-old were trapped in their flats as a rubbish fire blocked the only escape this morning. A resident reported a smell of smoke coming from the foyer and stairway of Daisymeadow flats in Clayton Brook at 1am. Firefighters found
BLACKBURN manager Mark Hughes is confident Rovers will be firing in time for the Intertoto Cup despite last night's friendly defeat to Arminia Bielefeld. Rovers lost 2-1 to their Bundesliga opponents in sweltering conditions at the Heimstetten stadium
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A YOUNG chef took over the kitchen of a Darwen restaurant for an evening - just five months into the job. Andrew Armstrong, 22, of Church, devised the menu, ordered ingredients and cooked the food for about 40 diners at MJs restaurant, at the Whitehall
FORTNIGHTLY bin collections have been slammed by a committee of MPs - just days after Blackburn with Darwen Council announced it would reintroduce weekly collections. The Communities and Local Government Select Committee said fortnightly collections
A DJ is in for a close shave for charity after losing his mother to cancer last year. John Bennett, of Summerton Walk, Darwen, is spending 13 weeks growing a beard until August 3 when he will have it shaved off to raise money for Marie Curie nurses.
A MOTORCYCLIST was taken to hospital after a crash with a Ford Escort. The accident happened around 8.30pm on Saturday in Accrington Road, Intack, Blackburn, near to the crossroads for Knuzden and Shadsworth. Members of the public went to the aid of
The pop-hip hop act from Brighton has a lot to live up to with their follow-up to Mercury- nominated debut album. This early taster of their second album, released later this summer, suggests that all is well: they're still seemingly haphazard whilst
NO, you haven't slipped into a time warp and landed in 1995 - five Levellers albums, those released on the Warner label, have been repackaged and re-released. Zeitgeist is arguably the band's best, certainly their most successful, yet the one that
THE debut single from these Liverpool boys follows pretty closely the ABC of indie-pop, complete with tambourines and fey backing vocals. Pretty, but just for once we'd like to see a Scouse band that doesn't sound like The Las.
IS it prejudiced to say that this sounds a bit... Scottish? Macdonald is from north of the border, so it's only to be expected, but there's something a bit distracting about that accent (cf also Paolo Nutini live, The View any time - oh no, that's
A lovely single from an adorable Swedish singer - songwriter. Emil Svanangen is an incredibly prolific fellow who makes extremely elegant and well-produced music in his bedroom. Charming.
Fried combines Fine Young Cannibals' David Steele's undeniable talents with gospel singer Jonte Short's old-school honeyed vocals. This is an album to stick on when you're cruising along in the summer sun (if we ever get any). It'll lift your mood
A DENTIST who groped a teenage dental nurse in East Lancashire will today begin a fight to save his professional career. Dr Martin Kono Abe, 36, has maintained his innocence over the April 2005 incident, for which he was convicted of sexual assault at
