ANOTHER major shake-up of the magistrates courts system in East Lancashire has been criticised by a senior county councillor and a former MP. Ministry of Justice bosses have confirmed Burnley, Pendle and Magistrates Court will no longer take custody cases from May 1. Remand hearings and sentencings potentially involving prison terms will then take place at Blackburn, according to the HM Courts Service.
Category: Blackburn, England
County show returns to venue
THE Royal Lancashire Show is returning to one of its traditional sites this summer after last year’s event was held in Blackburn. The organiser has announced the event will be returning to Salesbury Hall which has hosted a number of successful shows in the past, the most recent being in 2015.
Historic former Blackburn church to host major beer festival
More than 30 ales will be on offer at Holy Trinity Church in Mount Pleasant, Blackburn, on April 22 and 23. The Grade II-listed gothic structure, built between 1837 and 1846, has been empty for more than 30 years since it closed as a place of worship in 1981. The festival, with free entrance, is the latest in a series of events designed bring life back to the church.
Family doctors looking to end perscriptions for minor illnesses to save money
PATIENTS are set to be told to pay for their own medication in a bid to save hundreds of thousands of pounds. Plans have been unveiled by Blackburn with Darwen CCG to recoup A 663,000 per year by refusing to prescribe everything from pain relief and indigestion medication to head lice treatments, anti-histamines and sun creams.
Blackburn man caught – driving’ for drug dealer makes fishy claim
A 30-YEAR-OLD man caught ‘driving’ for a drug dealer claimed he was only doing it because the man had promised to invest in his fish and chip shop. Blackburn magistrates heard that since the offences in May Yasser Mahmood had obtained funding from another source and was running a takeaway business in Preston.