Burnley, England News

SCORES of advertising signs are set to be put on more than 20 roundabouts across Burnley and Pendle.

A DEAL worth A 850,000 is helping a Burnley ironworks to forge ahead despite the gloom gripping the manufacturing world.

TWO men have been jailed for a total of more than eight years for drugs and firearms offences.

AN EAST Lancashire building society is closing two branches in Burnley. But bosses at the Marsden Building Society said there will be no compulsory redundancies as a result of the amalgamation of its Briercliffe Road Retail Park and Padiham Road, Ightenhill, branches to one location in St James Street, in the town centre.

AN advertising and graphic design guru has died after a battle with a long illness aged 68.

ALMOST half of Britaina s 20 cheapest streets are in Burnley or Pendle, a new survey claims.

In a major step forward, investments will be made from Burnley councila s share of White-hall housing market renewal funding to improve housing in the area.

RESIDENTS have appealed to councillors to help resolve a parking nightmare prompted by charges imposed by Burnley General Hospital bosses.

ORGANISERS of a huge summer fair have promised it will go ahead rain or shine - a year after it was axed because of the wet weather.

Borough councillor David Heginbotham is demanding that new speed warning indicators should be installed along Burnley Road, Cliviger.

A BURNLEY grandmother is spearheading a campaign to help people in Zimbabwe after returning from a fact-finding mission to the poverty-stricken country.

A ROW has broken out after a council paid for a teenage criminal to stay in a town centre hotel when he claimed to be homeless.

A PLUMBERS merchants is making a A 3m investment to tackle the recession head on.

FORMER Downing Street spin doctor Alastair Campbell has ruled himself out of the running to be Burnley's next MP.

A NELSON man who recently received an order banning him from Turf Moor has appeared before Pennine Magistrates' Court charged with breaching the peace.

FORMER Clarets goal ace Andy Payton has been cautioned by police after 17 cannabis plants were seized in a drugs raid on his house in Burnley.

ONE in ten children leave Burnley every day to go to schools elsewhere, it has been revealed.

A FORMER taxi driver from Burnley has gone on trial accused of a series of sex assaults and rapes on young girls.

Danielle Green, 34, claimed at Reedley Magistratesa Court that her 14-year-old son Jordan has raised his fists to her and caused havoc, rather than get out of bed and go to the Rose School.

A HIT and run probe has been launched after a man was found seriously injured in a street.