Accrington, England News

The Millers ended a three-game losing streak by putting in one of their best performances of the season in the 2-0 win at Southend on Friday night and Scott looks set to keep faith with the same side.

The two men caught a taxi from Burnley Road, in Accrington, at around 2.12am on Saturday January 28, and asked to be taken to Hapton Street, in Padiham.

Soccer: Accrington have appointed Paul Cook as their new manager after reaching an agreement with Sligo Rovers for his release.

A ROBBER who punched a taxi driver before making off with his takings is being hunted by police in Padiham.

Accrington is set to bid for a slice of A 1m to transform its high street and become a 'Portas Pilot' town.

The Earl of Wessex visited Lancashire House at The Globe Centre to open the centre which will employ up to 400 people.

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Richard Colwill recalls his days in Burma as he looks at an old picture of himself in uniform The assassination of Burmese General Aung San sparked a chain of events leading to the house arrest of his daughter Aung San Suu Kyi.

Hyndburn is celebrating the news that the Queen is to make her first visit to the borough for more than 40 years.

THE Queen will visit both Accrington and Burnley as part of her Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK, it was announced this evening.

The groundbreaking centre at Springhill Care Home, Fairfield Street is a three storey development which includes 46 beds over five separate facilities.

A COUNCILLOR has slammed his own party for not spending money to change a busy road junction where a "fatality is waiting to happen". Labour's Shadsworth and Whitebirk councillor Jim Shorrock said that he has been campaigning for five years to change the layout or improve the signage at the junction of Accrington Road and Audley Range, Blackburn, ... (more)

The Earl of Wessex is visiting Lancashire, 60 years to the day since his mother, the Queen, acceded to the throne.

Roads were closed and residents warned to stay indoors as the arctic conditions brought chaos to parts of the county.

The college has launched a partnership with bailiff firm Rossendales, which will see its hospitality and catering students get a taste of work at the enforcement and debt-collection agency's Helmshore headquarters.

Pensioner Ernest Armstrong has had plenty of life experience to prepare him for his 21st birthday - 84 years in fact.

A SERIAL conman who tried to cash a stolen cheque for A 25,000 at an Accrington bank is behind bars for a year.

EXTRA buses are now being offered between Burnley and Bury as part of revisions to a public transport company's timetables.

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WOMEN ex-criminals and would-be offenders will be helped turn away from a life of crime by a funding boost.

Officers said the blaze, at a converted barn in Accrington, was likely to have started due to a reading lamp that had been left on.