What careers advice did you get at school?
DIVERSIFIED technology company 3M – which has a manufacturing site at Clitheroe – has launched a national online survey to explore the careers guidance British adults received at school.It follows an...
View ArticleBook review: The Duke is Mine by Eloisa James
When a girl’s betrothal springs not from love or greed (the two usual suspects) but from a curse, you know this story is not going to be a run-of-the-mill romance.In fact, The Duke is Mine is more a...
View ArticleConman locked up for 16 months
A SEX offender and thug who took on a fake identity to start a new life in England has been locked up for a total of 16 months.Burnley Crown Court heard how Lithuanian robber Stasys Baranauskas, who...
View ArticleBurnley boss Howe wants to emulate Norwich
EDDIE Howe hopes to learn the lessons from the FA Cup exit at Norwich – and try to follow the Canaries’ remarkable upward trajectory.Paul Lambert’s side eased to a 4-1 win at Carrow Road as they...
View ArticleBurnley student charged with racially abusing Stan Collymore
A 21-YEAR-OLD Burnley student has been charged with racially abusing ex-Premier League star Stan Collymore on social networking site Twitter.Northumbria Police said that Joshua Cryer, who comes from...
View ArticleJail warning to Colne man
A MAN was found “pretty legless” in his dad’s minibus which had been taken without the owner’s permission, a court heard.Burnley Crown Court was told how Damien Geddes was a passenger in the vehicle...
View ArticleYoung Burnley midfielder Lynch joins Stalybridge Celtic on loan
Teenage Clarets’ midfielder David Lynch has joined Blue Square North promotion challengers Stalybridge Celtic on a month’s loan.Lynch moves to Bower Fold after completing a recent three-month spell...
View ArticleBurnley boss looks to tie up Mee deal
CLARETS boss Eddie Howe continues to look to add to his squad, two weeks into the transfer window.Howe has already completed a permanent deal for Manchester City right-back Kieran Trippier, who was on...
View ArticleLeon Cort leaves Burnley
BURNLEY Football Club can confirm that they have today parted company with defender Leon Cort on a permanent basis.Cort, who joined Charlton Athletic on a season-long loan in August, has had the...
View ArticleHelp the hospice with unwanted Christmas gifts
With Christmas now a distant memory, you may be wondering just what to do with those gifts that were not quite what you wanted or those boxes of chocolates and bottles of wine and spirits now that...
View ArticleBook review: Dickens’s Victorian London by Alex Werner and Tony Williams
‘Wealth and beggary, vice and virtue, guilt and innocence, repletion and the direst hunger ... the great heart of London throbs in its Giant breast.’So wrote Charles Dickens, the great 19th century...
View Article‘The league’s the priority for us now’ - Jay Rodriguez
STRIKER Jay Rodriguez is hoping the Clarets can use Norwich’s Premier League tale to help write their own success story.Paul Lambert’s Canaries prevailed in the FA Cup third round tie at Carrow Road...
View ArticleTop 25 slot for Nelson author
An author from Pendle enjoyed record sales of her debut novel during the Christmas period, securing her a place in a top 25 best seller list on the bookstore website, Amazon.Joanne St. Clair, from...
View ArticleReading v Burnley to be shown live on Sky
THE Clarets’ nPower Championship fixture away to Reading next month has been moved for live television coverage.The game at the Madejski Stadium has been brought forward a day to Friday, 17 February...
View ArticleMeeting over Nelson school closure proposal
PEOPLE concerned about plans to transfer St Paul’s CE Primary School from Nelson to Brierfield are invited to a meeting on Tuesday.Lancashire County Council is considering a controversial move of the...
View ArticleBook review: Selection of Macmillan Children’s Books
As a new school term gets underway, the youngest members of the family are heading off to the library to find the pick of the new crop of books.And Macmillan Children’s Books have some new and exciting...
View ArticleNominate fan of the year!
THE Football League has launched a nationwide search to find the ‘power Fan of the Year for the 2012 Football League Awards.Supporters are encouraged to nominate fellow fans that have gone above and...
View ArticleBrierfield man over drink-drive limit on M65 on Boxing Day
A 58-YEAR-OLD Brierfield man was found to be over the drink-drive limit when police attended after his car broke down on the M65 in the early hours of Boxing Day.Peter Shorrock told Blackburn...
View ArticlePolice hunt suspender-wearing flasher
A PERVERT flasher wearing suspenders exposed himself to a woman out walking her dog in Burnley.The incident happened at 5-25 p.m. on Monday on a grassed area between Monk Hall Street and a new housing...
View ArticleDavid Edgar signs new Burnley contract
CLARETS boss Eddie Howe has rewarded defender David Edgar with a contract extension.Edgar has started the last 25 games for the club, and has agreed a deal to the summer of 2014.Howe feels the Canada...
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