Stone memorial at church in Withnell tells story of Pte James Miller who was killed at Battle of Somme in 1916
A granite stone cross in the boundary wall of an otherwise ordinary English churchyard has been given listed status because of the “extraordinary” story it reveals of first world war heroism.
Most war memorials are dedicated to numbers of people, but the memorial at St Paul’s church in Withnell, Lancashire, is dedicated to just one.
Continue reading...Seized dog, named Bruno, euthanised while owners were applying for exemption to keep him
Lancashire police has apologised after putting down an XL bully dog while the owners were in the process of applying for an exemption to keep him.
The seized dog, named Bruno, was euthanised due to an “administration error”.
Continue reading...Officers called to house in Accrington on Tuesday after 53-year-old dog owner found dead
Police have launched an investigation after a man was killed by his own XL bully dog in Lancashire.
Officers were called to reports of a canine attacking someone inside a house in Accrington shortly before 9.30pm on Tuesday, Lancashire police said.
Continue reading...Hundreds of people attend service for 19-year-old who died after going missing in Tenerife mountains
The family and friends of Jay Slater have paid tribute to the teenager who died while on holiday in Tenerife at a funeral service attended by about 500 people.
Mourners packed into the chapel at the Accrington crematorium for the funeral of the 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, who is believed to have fallen to his death after getting lost in a mountainous area of the Spanish island on 17 June.
Continue reading...Attempt to find British teenager now in its second week as groundless theories circulate about his disappearance
As the search for Jay Slater, the British teenager who went missing while on holiday in Tenerife, enters its second week Spanish rescuers continue to comb the rugged mountain terrain where he was last seen for clues.
Staff and volunteers from the local police, fire brigade and civil defence force have been using dogs, drones and helicopters to hunt for the 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire.
Continue reading...Debbie Duncan, mother of Jay Slater, says it is right that search should be intensified for 19-year-old
The mother of Jay Slater, the 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer who is missing from Tenerife, has said she believes that Spanish police have intensified their search for him, as the hunt enters its sixth day.
Debbie Duncan told the Guardian she spent eight hours in a police station on Friday, as police outlined their detailed plans to search for the missing teenager from Lancashire. “I think it’s been stepped up,” she said, which she described as “too right”.
Continue reading...Whalley residents say drunken crowds and antisocial behaviour at weekends is making life unbearable
Whalley, in Lancashire’s verdant Ribble Valley, is famed for its 14th-century Cistercian abbey and historic churches, as well as the spectacular views from Whalley Nab, the wooded hill that overlooks this seeming picture-postcard idyll.
But while the village still draws in family day-trippers and history buffs, it is also attracting an altogether different type of tourist, after earning perhaps an unlikely reputation as Lancashire’s premier drinking destination.
Continue reading...Spanish police say they have the resources it needs for hunt for 19-year-old who was last heard from on Monday
Spanish police have rejected an offer of support from Lancashire constabulary as the hunt for the missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife continues.
Lancashire police said it had made “an offer of support to the Guardia Civil to see if they need any additional resources” in their efforts. The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle was last heard from between 8am and 9am on Monday morning when he contacted a friend.
Continue reading...Jay Slater, 19, reported missing on Monday morning after phoning friend while walking in vast nature reserve
Friends of a British teenager who disappeared in Tenerife have urged British and Spanish police to send reinforcements to aid the search as they have resorted to hunting for evidence and interviewing potential witnesses themselves.
Police on the island have been looking for Jay Slater, a 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire, since Monday morning with the help of drones and a helicopter.
Continue reading...Jay Slater, 19, from Lancashire, last made contact on Monday morning from a mountainous area
The mother of a British teenager who has gone missing during a holiday in Tenerife has said she has “not slept at all” as the search continues.
Jay Slater, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from on Monday morning when he told a friend he planned to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus, a journey that would take about 11 hours on foot.
Continue reading...Nine-month-old Harlow Collinge died after ‘forceful shaking’ by Karen Foster, court told
A Lancashire childminder has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a baby boy in her care.
Karen Foster, 62, was due to stand trial at Preston crown court for the murder of nine-month-old Harlow Collinge in March 2022. But before a jury being sworn in on Friday, she pleaded guilty to his manslaughter.
Continue reading...Emergency services corden off large area of Darwen while army bomb disposal unit removes and destroys grenade
A town centre in Lancashire was placed in lockdown on Saturday, with British army bomb disposal experts forced to remove and destroy a grenade.
It is understood that a member of the public had donated items to a heritage centre in Darwen which included the grenade.
Continue reading...Force reviewing available information after claims that Menzies used political donations to pay off ‘bad people’
Allegations that the MP Mark Menzies misused campaign funds have been referred to Lancashire police. The force said it was reviewing the available information after receiving a letter “detailing concerns around this matter”.
The PA news agency understands that the Labour party chair, Anneliese Dodds, wrote to Lancashire police calling for an investigation into the allegations about Menzies.
Continue reading...Withdrawal of backing for Graham Jones, candidate for Hyndburn, follows Starmer’s action against Azhar Ali in Rochdale
Labour has suspended a second parliamentary candidate over their remarks about Israel, as Keir Starmer struggles to contain the fallout from the leak of a private meeting of party activists in Lancashire last year.
Party sources said on Tuesday that Labour had suspended Graham Jones, the candidate for Hyndburn, less than 24 hours after the party withdrew its support from Azhar Ali, its candidate for the Rochdale byelection later this month.
Continue reading...Susan and John Cooper, from Burnley, fell ill after hotel room next door was sprayed for bed bug infestation
A woman whose parents were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning during a holiday to Egypt has said her family is “broken without them”.
John and Susan Cooper, aged 69 and 63 respectively, died after falling ill in their hotel room after a pesticide was sprayed in the room next door to kill bed bugs, a coroner ruled on Friday.
Continue reading...Coroner says Harry Colledge, 84, would probably be alive if council had acted on warnings about 87-metre-long crack in the road
A council has been severely criticised by a coroner over the death of a cyclist who suffered fatal head injuries after hitting a pothole that had been visible on Google Street View for 14 years.
The Lancashire area coroner, Kate Bisset, concluded that Harry Colledge, 84, would probably not have died last January if Lancashire county council had acted on warnings to fix the 87-metre-long crack on Island Lane near the village of Winmarleigh.
Continue reading...Detention of 34-year-old followed examination of footage taken from within police cordon
A man has been arrested in connection with footage shot from inside a police cordon on the day the body of Nicola Bulley was found. Lancashire constabulary said the footage was then posted online.
The 34-year-old man from Kidderminster in Worcestershire was arrested on suspicion of malicious communications offences and perverting the course of justice in connection with the investigation to find Bulley, the force said.
Continue reading...After the first quake hit, 77 Britons were deployed to join teams from around the world. Here, some recount their experiences
British search-and-rescue specialists deployed to Turkey after its earthquake on 6 February have recalled the scenes of devastation that they encountered, as the country and its southern neighbour Syria were hit by two more tremors this week.
“If we were still out there [this week], we would have been in those buildings,” said Wayne Ward, a firefighter for Lancashire’s rescue service, and one of 77 British specialists deployed to Turkey in the days that followed the first quake.
Continue reading...Mortgage adviser, 45, went missing while walking her pet after dropping off daughters at school
A body has been found in the search for the missing woman Nicola Bulley after a tipoff by members of the public, police have said.
Bulley, 45, a mortgage adviser from Inskip, Lancashire, vanished while walking her dog after dropping off her daughters, six and nine, at school more than three weeks ago, on 27 January.
Continue reading...Former victims’ commissioner Vera Baird says revelations likely to hamper future missing person cases
The release of sensitive details about the missing woman Nicola Bulley was “as sexist as it comes”, the former victims’ commissioner has said, as Lancashire police come under further pressure over their handling of the case.
Dame Vera Baird condemned the force’s “dreadful” decision to divulge medical information about Bulley, saying it was “the biggest error that I have seen for quite a long time”.
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