A 'HUGE' speeding tickets fraud in which motorists have paid up to £500 to avoid prosecution has been uncovered, police said. In return for the money, officers suspect a man used fake identities for the fines and penalty points. Around 50 officers arrested
A WOMAN needed plastic surgery after she was savaged by a dog on the doorstep of her Burnley home, a court was told. Dong Hong Wang collapsed on the ground and ended up struggling with the large bull mastif which had sunk its teeth into her leg. Mrs
ALAN Shearer has pulled out of the race to become the next manager of Blackburn Rovers. The former Rovers striker, who is working for the BBC at the Euro 2008 championships, dropped the bombshell news tonight when he revealed he had declined the chance
THE council house where former Burnley FC president Dr David Iven lived is being touted to potential buyers. Lodge House, Brunshaw Road, Burnley, went to auction last week with a massive reserve price of £405,000, making it the most expensive council
The get everyone into university plan' seems to be stalling a little and at last there's a debate about whether it is wise to try to funnel everyone into higher education. It was a bit ill-conceived, as is it tends to devalue ordinary jobs, which are
Now we have the credit crunch' and the housing scare, with headlines such as did you know your house has lost £5,000?' Well, it hasn't! Not unless you were selling up and not buying another one. Sometimes periods of difficulty do a bit of good,
ATTRACTIONS at Accrington and Rossendale College first-ever summer festival have been revealed. Inflatable sumo wrestling suits, a surf simulator and a chocolate fountain are on offer alongside stalls and arts and crafts. Staff and students will be
A Golf Event at Rossendale Golf Club, (Ewood Lane Head, Haslingden) is taking place on Wednesday 25th June. The event is organised by Woodcocks Solicitors to raise funds for the Rossendale Hospice. If you would like to enter a team contact 0161 7618089
There will be an evening walk around Helmshore on Wednesday 25th June starting from the White Horse pub car park. It will be mostly on level ground and will take about two hours. Walkers of all ages and abilities are invited to turn up at 6.30pm for
A WAR hero is to be commemorated in the re-naming of a Burn-ley sixth form. Burnley Schools' Sixth Form will be known as the Thomas Whitham Sixth Form after it transfers to a new state-of-the-art building on Barden Lane, Burnley in September. Thomas
SCHOOLS across Lancashire are opening their doors to the community to share creative opportunities. The Wonderful Opportunities Week (WOW) gets off to an international start on Monday at a launch featuring South African artists, Umlando Wezithombe, who
OVER 250 jobs could axed at a major East Lancashire call-centre, it has been announced. Travel Agent Thomas Cook announced the proposal to relocate operations, which are currently undertaken at The Globe Centre Accrington, this afternoon. If the relocation
Find out how to prevent fires in your home . An advice session from Community Fire Safety Practitioner Eileen Brown at Great Harwood Library's regular free Coffee Morning at 10.30am on Thursday July 10th.
A 38-year-old man who drove while disqualified breached a suspended sentence. But Anthony Callender was told by a judge he was getting his "last chance" and if he drove while banned again he would go to prison. Callender, of Garbett Street, Accrington
THE Rossendale Weekend, featuring fun and entertainment, is on Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22. On the Saturday, a Food Festival takes place at Rawtenstall Market - with food stalls, cookery demon-strations and family entertainment from 9am to 4pm
A CONTROVERSIAL plan to expand an out-of-town retail park has been thrown out after an appeal. Manchester-based Peel Holdings wanted to increase the range of shops at Whitebirk retail park on the Hyndburn-Blackburn boun-dary but was refused permission
A MAN who flouted a suspended jail term imposed after a melee got another chance from a judge. Burnley Crown Court heard how Kieron Fawcett, 24, had been on a curfew but twice took off his tag. He told officials he had been sitting on the settee and
A PUB landlord was assaulted by a customer who refused to drink up at the end of the night. Blackburn magistrates heard that Michael Gordon Livesey also damaged a bar stool and a radiator cover at the Brookside Hotel, Duckworth Street, Darwen. Livesey
WE all profess to loving nothing more than a relaxing afternoon in the sun . . . but do we really? According to a recent survey, 80 per cent of women feel too self-conscious to wear a bikini and one in four would even consider surgery to get
AN Industrial Revolution folly' in Stubbins has be-come a target for vandals and intruders. The Victorian grade II listed Tentering Tower, on Stubbins Lane, has become a health and safety concern for owners the National Trust. It was once used to stretch
OSWALDTWISTLE Immanuel skipper Gerard Metcalf is challenging his youthful side to prove their worth in the Senior League. Despite their lowly league position, the New Laners have been the architects of their own downfall on occasions this term thanks
TEN primary schools in Blackburn and Darwen are in line for a funding windfall. Council bosses have prepared spending plans to submit to the government after £8.7million was allocated to the borough under the Primary Capital Programme. The council's
A NEW service to tackle night-time noise is set to be launched on Friday. Pendle Council is joining forces with other East Lancs councils to offer a new service which deals much quicker with night noise nuisance. Anyone suffering noise - be it a neighbour
A £300 REWARD is being offered for the safe return of a large quantity of potentially lethal chemicals stolen from Blackburn. The theft happened between 11pm on Thursday and 6.30am on Friday when thieves broke into a garden shed in Observatory Road and
THE family of a police officer who was shot dead during a training exercise have paid tribute to 'everyone's best friend'. PC Ian Terry's wife, Joanne, 31, and children Lauren, four, and John, three, said that they had meant the world to him' and he
GOVERNMENT chiefs have been accused of failing Burnley after it emerged around 70 tax office jobs will almost certainly be moved out of the town. Workers at the Burnley office, in Kingsway, were told by a HM Revenue and Customs boss today that all could
CELTIC are believed to be favourites in the chase for Clarets striker Kyle Lafferty despite misleading reports suggesting a deal had already been struck with Wolves. Confusion reigned over Lafferty's future yesterday after reports in Northern Ireland
LANCASHIRE'S chief constable has applied for the top job at a rival police force - just over a year after officially taking on his current role. Steve Finnigan has put himself forward for the post at Greater Manchester Police. The £168,000-a-year
STUART Ripley believes an Alan Shearer/Mike Newell management partnership at Ewood Park would be a dream ticket for Blackburn. The former Rovers and England winger, who used to provide the ammo for Shearer and Newell in their playing days, believes the
A SCRAP metal dealer who admitted burgling a former hospital claimed he was let into the site by men wearing hi-visibility jackets bearing the word "security." Blackburn magistrates heard that Asif Firfire had set up his own scrap business and had
ROVERS will host Dutch side NAC Breda a week before the Premier League season kicks off. And that means an Ewood Park reunion for winger Maceo Rigters, who joined from Breda last July. They are the first Dutch club to visit Blackburn since Feyenoord
ROUGHLEE'S annual fair will take place on Sunday with games, cakes, stalls and bouncy castles. Anyone willing to bake a cake or a buns for the bakery should call 01282 693500. Proceeds will go towards running Roughlee Village Centre.
POLICE are investigating reports of shootings on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath after dead ducks and an injured seagull were found. Fire crews who were called to the Dock Street area of Blackburn to tackle grass fires made the grim discovery and
BRIERFIELD residents say they will continue their fight against yellow lines being painted outside their homes after claiming they will increase accidents. A petition signed by 60 people will be handed in to councillors at Pendle's Lancashire Local meeting
AN EAST Lancashire businessman and former cricket club chairman is recovering in hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack. Former Rawtenstall Cricket Club chairman Peter Wood, who also franchised a number of McDonald's restaurants across the
A MAN attacked his friend in front of his children after horseplay turned to violence in the victim's home, a court heard. Burnley Crown Court was told how father-to-be Joseph Hodgkinson, 24, kicked victim James Gorton in the head while wearing steel
AN East Lancashire-based Euro MP has accused former party colleagues of having an "axe to grind" after allegations he misused public cash. Former solicitor and current North West MEP Sajjad Karim, who lives in Simonstone, employed his wife, Zahid, as
Clarets target Martin Paterson has apologised to Scunthorpe United fans after submitting a transfer request at Glanford Park last week. Coyle is tracking the striker - who netted 13 Championship goals for the Iron last term - but two summer bids for
FIFTEEN people have been arrested in a series of raids across Blackburn on those suspected of offloading the blame for speed camera offences. Twelve men and three women were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and will
EVERY business has to rely on temporary workers from time to time. Covering staff sickness, maternity leave and dealing with increased workloads are experienced by most organisations throughout the year. Employing temporary or agency staff is often
REGARDING our troops fighting Brown's false war. Territorial Army soldier Steven Llewelyn was left disabled, now Brown's Government says a bomb was left by insurgents so he doesn't qualify for criminal injuries compensation. How on earth does Brown
LAST Saturday the annual Goosnargh and Whittingham Whitsuntide Festival took place in glorious sunshine and I would like to say a huge thank you to Mr Paul Rigby, musical director of the Northern Jazz Orchestra and also senior lead tutor with Blackburn
AFTER reading about the problems and plight of former soccer star and one-time Burnley player Paul Gascoigne, I am under the impression that many people can't be bothered about him any more. I said a few weeks ago he would be dead before he was 50. I've
IN REPLY to the letter of May 26 headed: Not Enough Police to do a Proper Job. I wholeheartedly agree. It seems youths are being moved from one place to another because recently the residents of Durham Road, Schofield Street and Avondale Road had to
IN JACK Straw's column (LT, May 23) he states that the free vote in the house of Commons regarding the human embryo and fertilisation bill was a personal matter of judgement and belief'. His reasons for voting in favour of changes to IVF treatment which
Caroline Dutton column: Travelling light is always something I've aspired to. Like enjoying olives, ordering steak rare and listening to Radiohead it seems a grown-up and sophisticated thing to be able to do. Of course I'm hopeless at it. Many a time
Caroline Dutton column: There are two people in this world: the snoozers and the non-snoozers. Myself, I'm a firmly planted in the snoozers camp, a fully paid-up member of the "don't get out of bed until the second you have to" club. Which is fine in
CHORLEY'S Nick Dougherty launches his bid for US Open glory tomorrow vowing not to allow his mother's recent death hinder his flourishing career. The 26-year-old Shaw Hill professional tees off at Torrey Pines, near San Diego, hopeful of a repeat show
IF you had said that I'd be staying up past my bedtime on a school night to watch a feature on a Venezuelan conductor I'd have said you were crackers. But that's not taking into account the Culture Show factor. For some reason, which I'm still struggling
ALAN Shearer, Sam Allardyce and Paul Ince continue to dominate the betting as the race for the Blackburn manager's job hots up. Shearer, who has been in contact with Rovers, remains the 6/4 favourite with Sky Bet. But Allardyce, who has been invited
Blackburn Rovers Ladies have completed the double signing of influential Liverpool duo Chantelle Parry and Faye McCoy. Left winger Parry is a former England youth international, while McCoy is an England Under-19 striker. Rovers' assistant manager
LANCASHIRE Lightning skipper Stuart Law will lead his side into their Twenty20 Cup opener against Leicestershire Foxes tonight after recovering from a broken finger. Fast Bowler James Anderson is available to play in preparation for England's International
YOU can't help but feel sorry for poor old Donald MacKenzie. He's the Blackburn chap who had his grey wheelie bin full of carefully sorted plastic, tin, glass, paper and cardboard effectively blacked by collectors because it contained a rogue teabag.
THERE'S nothing wrong with educational targets and it is not unrealistic for parents to expect that 30% of pupils should achieve at least five GCSEs at grades A* to C. But there is a hint of desperation in today's warning by the government that they
EIGHT East Lancashire schools - including four new 'super schools' - have been told they will be shut unless exam results get better. The threat has come from the Government as part of its £400million plan to improve standards. The warning
Address: Hall Lane, Mawdesley Phone number: 01704 822202 Lancashire Telegraph review by Jane Willis from June 11, 2008. I could have lounged around The Black Bull in Mawdesley for the best part of Sunday afternoon, such is the
BLACKBURN Rovers have made contact with both Alan Shearer AND Sam Allardyce as the race to appoint Mark Hughes' successor hots up. The Lancashire Telegraph can reveal that chairman John Williams has spoken to Shearer about the prospect of becoming the
A MAN ended up spending a night in the cells after a bizarre chain of events that started when he fell off his settee laughing. Christopher Cocker, 36, was enjoying watching BBC1's Have I Got News For You when comedian and panelist on the show Paul Merton
