Blackburn, England News

Bosses at Blakewater College, Beardwood Humanities College and Crosshill School have put together a programme to ensure pupils begin integrating before the move.

A MURDERER who replaced his anti-psycotic medication with cannabis has been told to pay back A 18,000 of drug dealing profits.

Joe Prest was instrumental in raising over A 3million for the first CT and MRI scanners for East Lancashire's hospitals.

Redknapp is the favourite to take the England reins after Fabio Capello's resignation on Wednesday and Football Association chairman David Bernstein said on Thursday he would keep an open mind to candidates wanting to take the role alongside existing club commitments.

A five-year-old boy was knocked down by a car in Blackburn last month where the firm is undertaking part of a A 35million water quality and drainage improvement scheme.

UP TO 600 teenagers are set to leave mainstream education in Blackburn and Darwen with the creation of two new schools.

A FIRE badly damaged a bedroom in a semi-detached home following a street disturbance in a quiet suburban close.

EAST Lancashire's GP consortiums have passed the first test towards taking over the planning and buying of health services.

Figures released by the Local Data Company, which tracks retail trends in the UK, showed more than a quarter of shops in Blackburn were empty last year - the national average was 14.3 per cent.

It has been 20 years since the General Synod passed controversial legislation giving women the right to be Anglican priests.

Brian Greaves was last seen by his partner at their home in Patterdale Avenue around 5pm on Monday, February 6, and police and his family are growing concerned for his welfare.

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)

Samantha Allan, 36, has been chosen as a "Woman We Most Admire" by Blackburn-based charity Woman's Voice, which celebrates female achievement and gives a voice to concerns.

A property group wants to turn a former social services building close to Preston's university campus into student flats.

CHATBURN man William Reid , of Downham Road, was fined 320 with 100 costs and banned from driving for 19 months by Blackburn magistrates after admitting driving with excess alcohol.

A LIBRARY and cafe will be opened in a popular community facility, which is now run by a team of volunteers after council bosses slashed its funding.

A SALON owner who has been burgled three times recently says more needs to be done to protect businesses from crime.

Simon Cockerill, 26, and Ethan Hesketh, 21, went on the arson spree in Mill Hill, Blackburn, as people were asleep.

Simon Cockerill, 26, and Ethan Hesketh, 21, went on the arson spree in Mill Hill, Blackburn, as people were asleep.

Figures released by the British Heart Foundation show that on average the North West sees 10,766 men and women die from heart disease annually.