Blackburn, England News

TWO violent revellers have been jailed for attacking a doorman with an iron post when he refused them entry to a nightclub.

A BURNLEY fan found hanged after watching his team lose the East Lancashire derby left a note saying the result was not to blame, an inquest has heard.

A NELSON man who admitted sheltering a 17-year-old Blackburn girl who had ran away from social services care has walked free from court after a judge heard he had turned his life around.

An Iraqi asylum seeker who knocked down a 12-year-old girl and left her to die while banned from driving has won the right to remain in the UK.

FIFTY cars were ticketed by 'over zealous' parking wardens as residents struggled to park outside their homes because their streets had not been gritted.

TWO of East Lancashirea s six former Woolworths still stand empty a year after the historic retailer went into administration.

AN ASYLUM seeker who left a 12-year-old Blackburn girl dying under the wheels of his car has won the right to stay in this country.

COMMUTERS suffered travel chaos this morning on the road and rail network struggled to cope with the winter weather.

ENGLANDa S first drive-through Starbucks is set to be built in East Lancashire. Planning permission has been granted for a major business complex off Haslingden Road, Blackburn, which includes a a stand-alone drive-through unita run by the coffee giant.

RELATIVES remembered their lost loved ones as they helped 'Light up a Life' at East Lancashire Hospice on Saturday.

ZERO temperatures and snowfall have continued across East Lancashire today. This morning another inch of snow had fallen in Blackburn and around two inches in Burnley, with more expected during the afternoon.

A SCHOOL nurse determined to keep up her degree studies despite being pregnant is celebrating the double joy of a new baby boy and a university award.

A 52-YEAR-old Iranian chef has been jailed for eight years after engaging in sexual activity with a child and supplying drugs.

A LANCASHIRE charity has thanked people's generosity as it sends an astonishing 22,500 shoeboxes to needy children.

A KNIFEPOINT robber who went on the run has been jailed for five and half years.

A MOTHER has spoken of her agony after her son was fatally attacked in a park. Christopher Folkes was walking to his mum Christina Baxtera s home when he was attacked in Queena s Park, Blackburn, near his home in Shadsworth.

CHIEF executives and councillors in East Lancashire have criticised a county economic strategy for being a heavily biaseda towards Preston and Lancaster.

He visited a spiritual centre in Pringle Street, Blackburn, as part of a whistle-stop 10-day tour of England which also includes a trip to Burnley and Nelson on Friday.

A COUNCILLOR has been accused of abandoning his ward after spending the past four months in India.

OUT of the Champions League, floundering in the Premier League but now a new low in this season of woe - relegated to the graveyard slot on Match of the Day.