A NEW health and leisure club is set to open in Rawtenstall after councillors gave plans the green light. The Riverside Fitness Centre will open at the Hurstwood-owned former Groundwork offices at New Hall Hey. The club will offer exercise classes
A NEW ‘gastro pub’ is set to open in Blackburn creating 25 jobs. The Oyster and Otter, which is being developed on the site of the former Hordens in Livesey Branch Road, Feniscowles, is due to open in early March. But its proposed opening hours
A STALWART of Darwen Library Theatre has quit after nine years, blaming council management for lack of support. Volunteer Don Banks, 65, has handed in his notice to officers at Blackburn with Darwen Council because of “silly workloads” put on the small
A FORMER Colne publican who turned into a cocaine dealer with a ‘£200 a week’ addiction, has started a three year, four month jail term. Geoffrey Stubbs, 43, had a bag of the drug at his home when police raided last January. He also had texts related
BURNLEY have this afternoon confirmed the appointment of Eddie Howe as manager. The former Bournemouth boss, 33, has signed a three-and-a-half year deal at Turf Moor. Howe, who watched Burnley draw with QPR at Turf Moor this weekend,
MERCER Hall’s revamped leisure facilities have finally been unveiled. The long-awaited new-look centre opens to the public today following a launch for dignitaries, councillors and community groups on Friday. Contractors working on the Queen Street
BURNLEY-born writer Paul Abbott is the toast of Hollywood after the US version of his TV drama ‘Shameless’ garnered rave reviews. Abbott’s own childhood experiences living on the town’s Healey Wood estate inspired the original serial, based around
A RECYCLING charity and business for homeless people plans to open five centres across East Lancashire. Bosses from Recycling Lives are in talks over setting up 10 to 20-bed complexes, where residents would work on recycling contracts before eventually
THE former Asda boss who has taken the helm at a fast-growing East Lancashire business has declared ‘I am here for the long-term’. Andy Bond, who was chief executive of the supermarket giant between 2005 and 2010, is the new non-executive chairman of
