Hundreds turn out to funeral of popular James (17)
Pink socks and Liverpool FC shirts filled Colne today as around 800 people came to remember a popular and much-loved teenager.The funeral of James Goodship (17), who drowned in a Foulridge reservoir...
View ArticleAt last – someone on our side
Clitheroe Residents’ Action Group welcomes the news of a legal challenge against the decision to surround Standen Hall with 1,040 houses. I’m sure most Clitheroe residents will applaud the attempt by...
View ArticleDoes National Anthem hit right note?
I am not going to bore you with my views on the current FIFA World Cup this morning ... people who know, or at least think they know, a lot more about football than I do have already been doing that...
View ArticleTragic cancer death of mum Nicola (29)
Tributes have flooded in for a popular and well-known beauty therapist who died aged 29 from a rare form of cancer.Nicola Jane Hutchinson (née Livesey) died on Wednesday, June 18th, after courageously...
View ArticleLiberal Democrats win Fence by-election
The Liberal Democrats retained the OLd Laund Booth ward in Thursday’s Pendle Council by-election.Their candidate, parish council chairman Brian Newman, polled 427 votes and had a majority of 161 over...
View ArticleInjured woman’s two-hour ambulance wait
Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson is demanding to know why a fallen elderly woman had to wait almost two hours for an ambulance to arrive on Saturday evening.Mr Stephenson actually tended to the woman who...
View ArticleSunstroke warning after Colne pupil’s ordeal
A devastated Colne mum has relived the moment she thought her daughter was having a second brain haemorrhage when she came from school with sunstroke. Leila Neve was left terrified after Pendle View...
View ArticleSchool promises it will do better
Staff and governors at a Nelson primary school have made a promise to their parents and pupils that they will do better and succeed after it was placed in special measures by Ofsted. Castercliff...
View ArticleCertainly no time to relax
The end of June always seems to mark a watershed moment for me. Up until now everything has been about the season ahead, but suddenly that period of anticipation is over. Spring has ended, and summer...
View ArticleWall-to-wall footy lost its appeal!
So England’s players are probably now sunning themselves on some faraway exotic beach while the thousands of supporters who scrimped and saved to follow their heroes are left contemplating the arrival...
View ArticleWest Craven pupils win national debating contest
Pupils at West Craven High Technology College have proved themselves to be among the best young debaters in the country.A seven-strong team of girls travelled down to Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire...
View ArticlePolice appeal for missing man
Police are appealing for information about a 51-year-old man who is missing from his home in St Annes.Nigel Sutcliffe, who has links to Burnley and Nelson, was last seen around 10-45am on Wednesday...
View ArticleTrawden Beatrix Potter fan’s success story
It is a tale that Beatrix Potter herself would have been proud of. For in Trawden, one resident has created a Mr McGregor scarecrow that has fetched more than £12,000 for community causes.Lynne Barnes...
View ArticleLeadership bid a waste of time
While Mr Pendle was on holiday two weeks ago, the annual Pendle Council meeting was held, and most of the traditional business was conducted without undue fuss.The new Mayor was installed, tributes and...
View ArticleTown’s prostate scanner delight
Monday I was back down to London ready for a busy and exciting week.The day started with some important meetings including a meeting I arranged with Vince Cable and Mr Mahmud Kaman and Tony Burley from...
View ArticlePolice man checkpoint in Operation Monaco
Voluntary police officers were out in full force as motorists were stopped at a checkpoint on a busy Burnley road.Operation Monaco was carried out between 2pm and 3pm in Padiham Road, across from the...
View ArticleFamily plea after man plunges to death from Colne viaduct
A family has made a desperate plea to the government after a man plunged to his death from Colne’s viaduct. The relatives of newly-employed Paul Naughton, of Burrans Meadow, Colne, want to ensure more...
View ArticleColne historian’s delight as datestone preserved
A Colne historian has expressed his delight that an Edwardian datestone has been preserved during the demolition of a former thread mill. Leader Times Columnist Geoff Crambie requested that the piece...
View ArticleLegacy of the brass band
A truly rare photograph this week as we gaze upon the sartorial splendour of the bandsmen of the Trawden Upper Town Band, captured here during the 1870s.My former Royal Mail colleague and good friend...
View ArticleHere comes the judge
Last Saturday I feared I might become the most hated man in Gisburn, pursued by angry villagers with pitchforks and blazing torches like in the Frankenstein films.The reason: I’d been asked to...
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