A PENSIONER woke to find two men in her bedroom last night claiming to be security guards in a bogus official-style burglary. Police have labelled the men ‘depraved’ and ‘without morals’ for breaking into the flat of the 76-year-old lady and pretending
A BLACKBURN teenager jailed for a £20,000 armed raid in which a guard was cold-bloodedly shot in the leg has had five years added to his ‘unduly lenient’ sentence by top judges. David Jordan Evans, now 21, was originally jailed for 10 years
A CREATIVE Ribble Valley student is celebrating after his unique sensory maze for dogs has been picked to feature on the BBC’s Blue Peter programme. Connor Nealon, a pupil at the prestigious Stonyhurst College in Hurst Green, spent three years working
A TWO-year neighbourly dispute ended up in court when a noisy bin sparked a serious assault. Neighbours James Corps and Glen O’Connell, both of Kingsway, Great Harwood, had been arguing two years ago over a boundary issue between their homes and, according
THE magical Finnish creatures, the Moomins, will be the focus of a new exhibition at Bury art gallery celebrating the creatures’ 65th anniversary. This is the first exhibition of a unique cultural partnership between Bury and Tampere in Finland.
NO stranger to controversy, Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown’s latest Bolton date coincided with a dinner being held in the town hall, attended by a group of Indian businessmen. Council officials moved that event to a room further away from the bar as they said they
One of my favourite programmes on Five (and there aren’t many) is The Gadget Show, which is wild and wacky with agreeable presenters and delivered at a machine gun pace. They like to test things on the gadget show, often to destruction.
THIS week, I watched a great programme on the amazing bravery displayed by the young men in the RAF’s wartime bomber command. I was transported back 70 years to the early days of the Second World War with a film about the dangerous dambusters
DESPITE the success of The Libertines’ reunions at Reading and Leeds festivals this summer, singer Carl Barat’s self-titled debut album, which was released earlier this month, marks a notable turning point. The guitar-fuelled bluster of both The Libertines
FORMER Blackburn schoolgirl Helen Flanagan will be showing her saucy side when her Coronation Street character Rosie Webster takes part in a cheeky photoshoot with Jason Grimshaw, played by Ryan Thomas. Rosie gets a job modelling for lingerie brand
MORE than 700 Chorley fans voted in an online poll to name the club’s new magpie mascot – and one name soared ahead of the rest. That name was Victor in homage to the club’s ground. But Victor is not alone after superstitious staff at the club decided
SIX men have been arrested in connection with an incident in which a 20-year-old man was slashed across the face. Police said five men, aged 19, 20, 21, 24 and 25, all from Brierfield, as well as a 22-year-old, from Nelson, have been arrested
The on-going hill climb season focuses on Pendle Hill this weekend with two events using the iconic hill to test the strength of the climbing specialists. Nelson Wheelers present a new climb on Saturday using the 1,620 yard ascent out of Barley on the
X FACTOR singer Nikki Conway is performing in Preston tonight to raise cash for the Madison Allan Appeal. Nikki, 29, who works for children’s services at Blackburn with Darwen Council, will be taking to the stage at St Bernards Catholic Club in a bid
LEICESTER City boss Sven Goran Eriksson has admitted he is interested in Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts, although no deal is imminent. The Swede said Roberts was on a long list of potential targets but the Lancashire Telegraph understand
PLANS to create a 120-hectare forest park in Burnley have moved a step closer. Discussions have taken place between Burnley Council and Lancashire County Council to finalise plans for the scheme. It is hoped the 1.2sq km park, which will start
Chris Eagles is gunning for a goal-den best – and is determined to soar into double figures to help the Clarets back into the Premier League. The 24-year-old is in the form of his life and bagged a brilliant brace as Burnley gave Barnsley
LANCASHIRE Telegraph readers grilled Blackburn with Darwen's new leader today on how the council will deal with cuts. Coun Kate Hollern took part in the live webchat the day after the government's Comprehensive Spending Review put a further
A BURNLEY firm has been honoured at the North West Business Environment Awards. Flynn and Dawson took the runner-up trophy for Environmental Innovation, for its Safelinx scaffold board retainer. Aimed at the construction industry, Safelinx is a
VILLAGERS have expressed fears that crime will increase if police are diverted away on other duties. Worsthorne residents have reported 49 incidents to the parish council over the past four weeks. These include a road rage incident in
A DEER was rescued by firefighters when its antlers became trapped after it wandered on to a school’s grounds. An off-duty firefighter discovered the distressed fully grown adult male in playing fields at Alder Grange Community Technology College
A GROUP of soldiers who have returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan will be paraded at Turf Moor on Saturday. The Clarets fans, from the 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, will be VIP guests at the Championship clash against
SAM Allardyce has urged his Blackburn Rovers side to pile the pressure on crisis club Liverpool. The Anfield giants could be bottom of the Premier League when they entertain Rovers on Sunday, and Allardyce is determined to take full advantage
BACK in 1967, a government minister was jeered and slow hand-clapped into silence by angry mill workers, including hundreds from East Lancashire. Antony Greenwood, also MP for Rossendale, appeared at a demonstration and pageant, organised by Lancashire
HASLINGDEN, Lancashire’s highest market town, and the village of Helmshore, in the valley below, both have a long heritage. Now, a new book records the ways in which the places have changed over the past century. It records the coming and going
A BLACKBURN couple are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary today after 60 happy years together. Geoffrey, 82 and Margaret Grierson, 81, who live in Stopes Brow, will throw a party this weekend for more than 30 friends and family at the Pack
HYNDBURN Council has bought 30 tons of extra grit to help ‘top up’ the county council service this winter. Though the grit is ordinarily funded by the county, Hyndburn Council spent £790 on the project in case of another bad winter.
The Lancashire Telegraph Football podcast is back with a bang. Our sports team tackle the potential takeover at Blackburn Rovers - and look at the front-runners and non-starters. The team discuss the dangers of foreign ownership, and
A BUILDING housing a Polish shop is in a ‘dangerously unstable condition’ after a fire ripped through the property. Fire crews remained at the scene yesterday, in Whalley Banks, Blackburn, after the attack on the Almera Polish Shop, on Tuesday
A COMMUNITY action group is reeling after the probation service pulled the plug on helpers. For three years, teams of criminals serving community payback sentences had been sent to help out at St Paul’s graveyard in Johnson New Road, Hoddlesden
WE are delighted that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has decided to allow doctors to prescribe Alzheimer’s drugs to people with mild symptoms of the disease. There is no know cure for Alzheimer’s but these drugs can
OUR older generation should be able to go about their daily routines without fear of being victimised. But criminals are seeing these vulnerable people as easy prey. Now a mugger has forced an 84-year-old woman to switch post offices after stealing
As Hallowe’en approaches, I feel it important to remind parents and children that the festival has an undercurrent of occultism and is absolutely anti-Christian. The feast of Hallowe’en was once the vigil feast of All Saints’ Day, which is
Former Blackburn coroner Andre Rebello picked up his OBE for “services to the administration of justice”. The 52-year-old, who lives in Mellor, is a former chairman of the Salford Roman Catholic Diocesan Lourdes Hospitalite Committee, a former governor
A NEWLY formed martial arts club can already boast one champion - and they are hoping to unearth a few more. Hakuda Thai Boxing Club in Burnley only opened its doors three months and has around 20 members so far. But it is quality and not quanity that
BURNLEY Basketball Club seniors maintained their unbeaten start to the season with a hard-fought 76-59 Manchester Cup win over Bolton. Fresh from their opening league victory over Tropics One, Burnley edged the opening quarter 17-16 with David Bolt and
A MAN caught in possession of drugs worth around £11,000 has been jailed for more than four years. Liam Pinnington was found to have ten bags of cocaine in a wardrobe at his home in Great Harwood. He also had what the prosecution at
HASLINGDEN and District Fly Fishing Club have put themselves on the map afer an impressive performance in an international competition. Haslingden, considered a ‘small catch’ compared to other bigger clubs, took part in the Anglian Water Airflo 2010
PLANS for a “dog hotel”, for the pets of guests at one of the Ribble Valley’s most prestigious venues, has been given the go-ahead by planning chiefs. The Duchy of Lancaster — the Queen’s private estate — is planning to develop redundant farm
BURNLEY coach Getty Schinkel said everything is beginning to come toget-her after seeing his young side run in six tries - three of them for fly half Simon Finnan. But the South African says his side still need to find that killer instinct if they are
ROSSENDALE returned to winning ways with a bang after taking maxim-um points at Beverley. Dale, who had lost on their two previous outings, produced their best performance of the season to blow Beverley away - only a flurry of late tries from the home
Clarets legend Ralph Coates reckons current Turf Moor hero Chris Eagles can go on to scale the heights of English football – and says he can see a little bit of himself in Burnley’s 24-year-old wide boy. Former Manchester United starlet
HEROES from across East Lancashire, fresh from the sweltering heat of Afghanistan, braved an icy parade ground to enjoy a richly-deserved homecoming. Troops from the 1st Battalion of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment have endured one of their
AROUND 2,500 girl guides flooded Blackburn's shopping centre last night to celebrate the movement’s 100th anniversary. Guides aged from four to 94 turned up for the Vision 2010 party where they promised to continue their work for at least another century
ANOTHER 600 paintings by Rossendale artist Dave Pearson, who died in 2008, have been discovered. Around 15,000 unseen works were discovered in the 70-year-old’s crumbling studio just yards from his home in Manchester Road, Haslingden, following his
WEDNESDAY October 20, 2010 - remember the date. It was the day that football took out a shotgun, pointed it at its feet and pulled the trigger. On the day when Chancellor George Osborne signalled the start of radical spending cuts to plunge the United
A POLICEMAN has been recognised for tackling crime and making residents feel safer in Pendle. PC Brian Magee was awarded the prestigious George Herbert Red-man Award at a special awards ceremony held at Lancashire Constabulary headquarters.
‘What Parliament decides, the street can un-decide”, declared one of the leaders of the demonstrations taking place in France. I was visiting on Tuesday to speak to a foreign policy centre and was lucky to make it: Eurostar was about the only means
Claude Peter-Thomas has laid that old saying ‘Jack of all trades and Master of none’ well and truly to rest. The Blackburn Harriers Mens’ Track and Field captain has proved he is the ‘Master of all Trades’ by winning the British Masters’ National
Blackburn Harriers and Athletic Club celebrated 100 years of history in style at Ewood Park when 320 former and current members attended a centenary dinner. The guest speaker was Paul Dickenson, one of BBC Sports top athletic commentators,
PAUL Buckel and Simon Boardman will be hoping to light up the roads of Cumbria and North Lancashire when they contest the Morecambe Illuminations Rally. Buckel, from Accrington, will have regular mapman Steve Butler alongside in his Proton
ROSS Miller’s bid for the 2010 SD34 Stage Championship has reached the home straight after a successful debut run on the Mull Rally. The Whalley driver finished 63rd overall, and Miller was delighted to make it to the end – and with a hatful of SD34
NEIL Calvert marked his return to the stages in fine style on last weekend’s Cambrian Rally as, together with co-driver Colin ‘Captain’ Thompson, he won the award for finishing second in class in his Ford Lotus Cortina. Starting in Llandudno
Northern League Darwen will entertain Lancashire League Worsley Cup holders Colne in the pick of next season’s LCB Lancashire Cup ties. The clash at Birch Hall promises to be keenly contested as The Horsfielders make a rare appearance in the
WHEN you have a former England number one standing between you and your Premier League dream, life is never going to be easy – but Mark Bunn is relishing the challenge. The former Northampton stopper appears to have won the battle with Jason
AN East Lancashire headteacher who is being investigated over bullying allegations is taking early retirement, it has been revealed. Katrina Ryan, head of Mount Carmel RC High Carmel School, Accrington, will be quitting her post on October 31 due to
URGENT work is needed to prevent Burnley's iconic Weavers Triangle from collapsing. Conservation architects have been hired by the council to carry out safety work on Victoria Mill, Sandygate Mill, Slater Terrace and the Waterloo pub.
Darren Fletcher says MANCHESTER UNITED will get over the expected loss of Wayne Rooney - just as they did when Roy Keane left Old Trafford five years ago. OLDHAM defender Sean Gregan has joined FLEETWOOD TOWN on a three-month loan spell. CHARLTON
AN 84-YEAR-OLD Burnley woman who was mugged for her pension in the street has spoken of her ordeal. As reported by the Lancashire Telegraph on Tuesday, Ora Walton was knocked to the floor by her six-foot attacker and had her purse stolen after
