POLICE have arrested a teenage boy on suspicion of the murder of Lindsay Birbeck. The teenager, from Accrington, was arrested following an appeal for information. He remains in custody. Lindsay’s family have been told of this latest development
Tony Mowbray said there was no ‘angry exchange’ with a ball boy which led to him being sent off in Rovers’ Carabao Cup defeat at Sheffield United. Mowbray was seen have a conversation with a ball boy as Rovers chased a late equaliser at Bramall
DETECTIVES investigating the killing of mum-of-two Lindsay Birbeck have released footage of a suspect pulling a wheelie bin down a road. The CCTV footage shows a man walking along Burnley Road towards Accrington at about 2.30pm on August 17 - five
A TOWN square was buzzing with sound, colour and sunshine as hundreds of people took part in Amazing Accrington’s Biggest Weekend event. The square was transformed into an outdoor garden where teams played a family interactive quiz. Free live
THE blue badge scheme in East Lancashire will change from Friday. People with hidden disabilities, such as autism and dementia, will be able to apply for a blue badge parking permit, under Department for Transport guidance. Under the new regulations
A man who damaged a car and a number of house windows, before shouting racist abuse and then making off from the scene is wanted by the police. Officers would like to identify and speak to the man pictured in the CCTV image in connection with the
A SERIAL rapist who attacked a woman after serving two jail terms for the same offences in his home country has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Vasile Nastase dragged a woman he had met at a Leigh nightclub into his home and raped her during
TWO men who were arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died outside a working men's club have been released without charge. Police were called to the Regent Street Working Men's Club in Haslingden on Sunday at 10.20pm, where a man received
POLICE have confirmed the body found at Accrington Cemetery is that of Lindsay Birbeck - and she died after being strangled. The teaching assistant went missing from home on Monday, August 12, and a woman's body was found on Saturday at the cemetery
Yellow weather warnings have been issued for Burnley and Bacup. After a sunny weekend, the weather is expected to return to its previous gloom, with a yellow weather warning forecasted by the Met Office for Burnley and Bacup this afternoon.
A MEMORIAL walk has been organised for Lindsay Birbeck after police announced a body found in a cemetery over the weekend was believed to be that of the mum-of-two. The idea for a respectful walk to take place in Lindsay’s memory was requested
A BLACKBURN dad has died in a crash in Cumbria. A blue Kawasaki motorcycle and a black Seat Ibiza crashed on the A595 near Muncaster at 6.45pm on Sunday. The motorcyclist, Lee Mercer, 46, from Blackburn, died at the scene. A family spokesman
BURNLEY'S players have started the new Premier League season in fine form and Matt Lowton believes that is down to the hard work the squad put in during the off-season. A convincing win over Southampton was followed by a narrow defeat at Arsenal's
Close to leaving on loan 12 months ago, midfielder Lewis Travis has emerged as one of the first names on Tony Mowbray’s teamsheet. A turning point in his rise from fledgling prospect to first-team regular could well be charted back to Rovers’ last
A MAN has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged with dangerous driving following a police pursuit in Blackburn in February. Sarfraz Aslam, 38, of Cranwell Close, Blackburn, was sent on bail to Preston Crown Court charged with dangerous driving
A FORMER pub which featured in a football hooligan documentary could be turned into bedsits. Proposals have been submitted to turn the former Foresters Arms in Burnley into 14 living quarters. Applicant Ryan Wrigley submitted the plans to Burnley
TIMES were very hard in East Lancashire during the 1930s and the 1940s. It was two decades which shock the British isles to its core. East Lancashire's declining mill industry lead to large portions of the population out of work. Families
TWO unemployed men were tempted when they say a handbag on the seat of an unattended car. Blackburn magistrates heard Francis John Duffy and David Harwood then used a contactless debit card taken from the bag in two stores. Duffy, 41, and Harwood
A CUP of vending machine coffee that he didn’t get proved expensive for a 26 year old man. Blackburn magistrates heard Hayden Paul Carroll lost his cool when he put his money in and didn’t get his coffee. He punched the machine, damaging a panel
AN investment house based in Blackburn, which looked after pension pots worth £130million, owed nearly £1million when it went under. Eleven staff at Guardian Pensions Consultants (GPC), a self-invested personal pension scheme (SIPPS) firm, had
A MAN who believed he was involved in internet chat with a 13-year-old girl introduced a sexual tone to the conversation. Blackburn magistrates heard Peter Samuel Russell was actually communicating with a police officer. And Peter King, defending
PLANS have been submitted for 10 homes on a former poultry farm near Darwen. Joanna Cheetham, of Good and Tillotson Ltd from Bolton are the agents for Mr A Shorrocks the application, who wish to build the houses on the site near to Waterside Brook
A PAEDOPHILE caught with indecent images of children as young as three told police he had watched adult pornography but it didn’t satisfy his needs. Preston Crown Court heard when an iPhone and computer belonging to Robert William Esson they found
A TWO-HOUR talk on the climate emergency, mass extinction and animal farming is to take place in Blackburn. Hosted by Animal Rebellion Lancashire, an off-shoot of socio-political movement, Extinction Rebellion, the talk will provide statistics
ANIMAL welfare bosses are urging owners to watch what and how much their pets are eating after taking in a number of pets whose weights have dangerously ballooned. The RSPCA is raising awareness of the problem after caring for several obese animals
A FORMER police officer controlled his ex-partner by monitoring her mobile phone, demanding she delete her Facebook account, and turning up at her work to check up on her, a court was told. Elliott Jowett, 43, pleaded guilty to engaging in controlling
SIX months after her cancer returned, Millie O’Shea has celebrated her sixteenth birthday with a very special prom. The Shawforth teenager was first diagnosed with a Wilms' tumour as a schoolgirl, but after intensive treatment was given the all
TODAY we take the use of floodlights for evening football games for granted but this was not always the case and it was Darwen which helped lead the way. The first-time floodlights were used for a sport’s event was on July 18, 1878 at Fulham between
Tony Mowbray expects both sides to make changes for tonight’s Carabao Cup tie with the league their primary focus. Mowbray made 11 changes for the last round, last-gasp 3-2 win over League Two side Oldham, and after three hard-fought games in the
IT was a bit of a sticky situation when the World Gravy Wrestling Championships took place on Bank Holiday Monday at the Rose‘n Bowl pub in Stacksteads. Deemed as one of the world’s craziest culinary competitions, the annual bout saw contestants
MORE than 200,000 children in the North West may have gone hungry this summer, Labour claims. Shadow Children and Families Minister Steve Reed MP says that official government figures reveal millions of youngsters across England may not have been
NEW Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week received a plea to restore the 750 officers Lancashire police has lost since 2010. County crime commissioner Clive Grunshaw has warned him and Home Secretary Priti Patel it would be‘unacceptable’ if the
A BUSINESSMAN is asking a cabinet minister to stop a council forcing him to sell his property. Mujahd Ansa bought two adjoining properties on Burnley Road, Padiham, early this year for £40,000. He is in the process of refurbishing the buildings
TWO historic East Lancashire pubs are set to go under the hammer early next month. Auctioneers Pugh hope that The Hapton Inn will meet a reserve price of £265,000 at their next sale on September 3. Would-be publicans not only get a 19th century
BLACKBURN'S town fathers were beginning to realise, in the 1840s, that railways were crucial to the future expansion of the textile industry. Four key industrialists were chiefly responsible for bringing a line to Blackburn - Henry Hornby, Charles
THE descendants of an East Lancashire radical campaigner retraced his steps to the sit of the Peterloo Massacre on the commemoration of it 200th anniversary. George Dewhurst, accused of high treason imprisoned for two years for his efforts to improve
ANGRY Blackburn bus drivers issued a 'behave or else' warning to rude passengers. They threatened to take the buses off the roads unless passengers improved their manners. Bus services were out of action for 30 minutes while drivers held a union
