Pendle Phoenix maintain fine form
FOLLOWING two cancelled games earlier in the season, Pendle finally travelled to Carnforth this week hoping to continue the excellent formfrom their previous match against Clitheroe.However this was...
View ArticleVIDEO: Sir John Thursby students run Burnley’s Holiday Inn
Students from Sir John Thursby Community College, Burnley, got the chance to take over the town’s Holiday Inn Express as part of an educational initiative.Sixteen students from Years 9 and 10 took on a...
View ArticleEmergency meeting over future of Kelbrook church
Kelbrook’s Parochial Church Council held an extraordinary meeting on Monday night to discuss the future of St Mary’s in the village.The Archdeacon of Craven, the Ven. Paul Slater, attended the meeting...
View ArticleAll Blacks looking to bright future
The end of the season is near and Colne and Nelson’s first XV are having their most successful campaign for a few years.The commitment and outstanding coaching supplied by Ian Cockcroft and John...
View ArticlePendle Pool League reaching climax
THE Pendle Pool League has reached the business end of the season.After week 21, all divisional winners have already been decided before the final game of the season, but several teams are still able...
View ArticleElderly man rescued by firefighters after Colne farm blaze
AN elderly man, believed to be in his 80s, was taken to hospital yesterday afternoon after being rescued by firefighters in his Colne home. Emergency services attended the scene at a farm in Skipton...
View ArticleBook review: The Queen’s Promise by Lyn Andrews
Not content with a string of novels set in the early decades of the 20th century, Lyn Andrews has taken us on a thrilling leap back in time to uncover a rich nugget of Tudor history.Long before Anne...
View ArticleTributes to Gary (25) found dead in snow drift
A BURNLEY man found dead in deep snow in a remote part of Briercliffe was on his way home from a night with friends.The body of Gary Windle was discovered buried in a snow drift by a farmer in Shay...
View ArticleNelson teenager not guilty of rape
An 18-year-old man has been cleared of repeatedly raping and beating a girl at a house in Nelson.Teenager Mikael Hussain, now of Bradford, who lived in Wickliffe Street, Nelson, at the time, was found...
View Article23 snow ploughs tackle East Lancs huge drifts
Lancashire County Council’s highways teams have been battling round the clock to keep East Lancashire’s roads open. Freak end-of-March weather has brought heavy snow coupled with high winds, a...
View ArticleFormer ‘Apprentice’ star training for Pennine Lancashire race
HE has proved he has a talent for making money.And now former television star and Pendle entrepreneur Azhar Siddique (35) is planning on putting his skills into action by running the Pennine Lancashire...
View ArticleVIDEO: Villages cut off by snow drifts
VILLAGES around Burnley were left completely cut off as extreme snow storms battered East Lancashire.The area was hit by some of the worst blizzards in decades and many roads were left impassable by...
View ArticleBrierfield bodybuilder thought drugs were ‘exercise supplement’
A BODYBUILDER caught with amphetamines believed the powder was an exercise supplement, a court heard.Gym-goer Muzzammil Iqbal (20) was found to have 1.5g of the substance after a car crash in Nelson...
View ArticlePlans to twin Pendle with Palestinian town collapse
plans to “twin” Pendle with the Palestinian West Bank town of Beit Leed have collapsed, Thursday’s meeting of the full Pendle Council heard.Coun. Tony Greaves said the twinning could not go ahead as...
View ArticleBook review: Magda by Meike Ziervogel
What could drive a mother – even a Nazi mother – to kill her six children?Magda Goebbels, wife of Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, crushed cyanide tablets between her children’s teeth as...
View ArticleGame Review: Alien Spidy
I personally love platform games they are still relevant today as the old Donkey Kong days so when Alien Spidy developed by Enigma and published by Kalypso Media landed in my inbox I was very keen to...
View ArticleGORDON BIRTWISTLE MP: Great to see Burnley Bridge taking shape
A RECENT week in Westminster began with the swearing in of the newest MP, Mike Thornton, who won the recent by-election in Eastleigh. It was great to see Mike take his seat in the House as it was the...
View ArticleBurnley loanee Kacaniklic impresses for Sweden
ALEX Kacaniklic and David Edgar were the only Clarets to get any senior international game time over the weekend.Kacaniklic, on loan from Premier League side Fulham until the end of the season, played...
View ArticleMan admits child abduction and sex charge
A MAN has admitted three offences of child abduction and one of sexual activity with a child.Mohammed Imran Amjad (26), of Halifax Road, Brierfield, pleaded guilty to the offences on a girl who was...
View ArticleMan (77) extradited from Australia to face child sex charges from 1960s
A MAN is due to appear in court charged with 20 sexual and cruelty offences against children.Jeffrey Lake (77), of Peregian Springs, Queensland, Australia, will appear before Blackburn magistrates...
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