‘Freaky’ sex offender breached court order
A SEX offender convicted after attacking a pensioner was said to have made advances to a frightened schoolgirl in an alley, a court heard.Adam Collier had been jailed for four years in 2004 after he...
View ArticleAdvice line open over festivities
LANCASHIRE County Council is reminding young people who need information and advice during the festive period that its help line will be open over Christmas and the New Year. The line’s guidance and...
View ArticleMan knocked down in Barrowford
A PEDESTRIAN was in collision with a car in Barrowford last night.The incident, which involved one vehicle, happened around 10pm in Gisburn Road, near Holmefield House. Police and ambulance crews...
View ArticleDrugs ‘custodian’ is jailed
A CANNABIS addict said to have been the brains behind a blackmail plot has received another jail term for looking after a £10,000 drugs stash.Javaad Daar had owned up to having the 1.19 kilos of...
View ArticleThanks for saving my life!
A COURAGEOUS Nelson toddler has sent a letter and biscuits to the town’s firefighters as a thank you for saving his life.Archie Wilson (3) was at home with his dad Terry Wilson on Wednesday, December...
View ArticleMan slightly hurt in accident
A 21-year-old male pedestrian from Barrowford was in collision with a car on Gisburn Road on Saturday night.The accident happened just after 10pm near Holmefield House and the victim was taken to the...
View ArticleNo apologies given in housing application row
A WAR of words has broken out between political groups on Pendle Council after an investigation cleared a senior Labour councillor of abusing her position to secure the tenancy of a cottage in...
View ArticleInspectors give school top marks
A SCHOOL has received top marks in a National Society Statutory Inspection of Anglican Schools report.An inspector who visited St Thomas’s CE Primary School, Barrowford last month said the school had...
View ArticleRotary president’s charity swim
The President of the Nelson, Brierfield and Reedley Rotary Club, Rod Marsden has completed a one mile charity swim at Pendle Wavelengths, a total of sixty-four lengths! The Rotary Club is a society...
View ArticleCouncil bids to demolish presbytery
A BATTLE has been launched to create a key new housing area on one of Nelson’s most difficult sites in the Whitefield Ward.If it gets the go-ahead, it will mean more restoration of the Whitefield...
View ArticleRespected Colne GP dies
A HIGHLY respected Colne doctor who was a GP in Colne for 40 years has died at the age of 87.Dr John Bryson, who first served in Colne with Dr John Eadie in Albert House in 1955, knew his patients well...
View ArticleSuspended sentence for insurance fraud
A NELSON man who created a string of fraudulent insurance policies to make repeated bogus claims for “lost” smartphones has been given a suspended jail term.Shufahit Hussain took out 10 home contents...
View ArticleThe Wow Factor comes to our websites!
Johnston Press has launched a national online entertainments platform, WOW247.co.uk.WOW247 will keep users up to date with what’s on where and what’s on when locally and across the UK, 24 hours a day,...
View ArticleSolicitor facing lengthy jail sentence
A CROOKED Pendle solicitor who worked on the Harold Shipman inquiry faces up to five years behind bars for nobbling witnesses in a Crown Court trial to get his client off £310,000 fraud...
View ArticleColne residents want Sainsbury’s parking restrictions
SUPERMARKET giant Sainsbury’s has issued an apology to Colne residents for inconvenience caused by its wagon drivers and shoppers.The town’s store has been subject to criticism, after failing to stop...
View ArticleCinema land could be car park
PLANS to turn the site of Nelson’s demolished historic Regent Cinema into a car park are under consideration – and it may be for a medical practice across the road.But there are also concerns that...
View ArticleTwinning link with Palestine agreed
PENDLE councillors have agreed to formal twinning links being made with the Palestinian town of Beit Leed.Labour and Liberal Democrat members agreed to a motion backing the move at the full council...
View ArticleEx-youth leader jailed for 12 years
A WELL-KNOWN ex-youth leader and councillor who lived a double life as a paedophile is behind bars for 12 years after his sordid past caught up with him two decades on.John Duffy, now 51, had lived in...
View ArticleCut down on drink warning to shop thief
A WOMAN who robbed a shop was then spotted heading towards it armed with a metal bar, a court heard.Rachel Tovey had set about trashing the store in Parliament Street, Burnley, and frightened the staff...
View ArticleFamily must pay back fake insurance claim cash
A FAMILY who claimed thousand of pounds in fake insurance claims have now been ordered to pay back a total of over £278,000.In August, 2010, 30-year-old Nadeem Dad and his brother 27-year-old Amer Dad,...
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