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Donald Trump is set to announce that America will agree on a trade deal with the UK, according to several reports. Three sources familiar with the reported plans had earlier told the New York Times ...
Frank Littler & Sons in Mellor still sells some of the finest locally sourced produce, butchered in the traditional way.
A Nelson man who distributed indecent images of children has been spared jail. John Stables, of Railway Road, appeared before Burnley Crown Court on Friday, May 2, to be sentenced for distributing ...
A Blackburn man due to be sentenced for making indecent images of children will now be sentenced in August after failing to turn up.
Residents of Colne are not set to get a banking hub after their last official high street branch closes this summer ...
Pendle Borough Council has apologised after one of its polling stations did not have disabled access at last week's election.
A planning application to put up a temporary weather-monitoring mast and equipment on Scout Moor – linked to a potential new wind farm – will ...
This week's pub is in a quiet rural setting in an area on the outskirts of Blackburn. The Royal Arms in Ryal Fold, Tockholes Road, is run by landlord Peter Ainsworth and his wife, after they took over ...
A 'fourth strike' drug dealer from Accrington is to be sentenced in July. Imran Azam, 37, appeared at Preston Crown Court on Wednesday (May 7) to be sentenced. The hearing could not proceed, though, ...
I’d call Blackburn a classic Northern Soul town.” says writer Mick Martin, “so it’s perfect for what we are trying to do.” ...
A family of travellers has applied for backdated planning permission to regularise its use of land at Pendle View Farm in Altham as a gypsy site.