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The annual Blackburn 10k race is back for 2023 and is expected to attract hundreds of avid runners

Police are advising people to avoid an area of Blackburn after closing a road

A prolific offender stole a number of items of sentiment, including war medals and a wedding ring and engagement ring.

A VIOLENT criminal on a vodka and drugs bender beat up an innocent person in his car before stabbing another stranger just moments later. Thug Connor Dewhurst has a long history of violence including a brutal hammer attack on a police officer when he was just 13. He was sentenced to three years in a young offenders institute in 2009 for that offence and later escaped from custody. Since then, the now 24-year-old has been arrested, charged and jailed on several occasions for robbery, vio...

SHOPS, pubs and hairdressers all flung their doors open to happy customers — for the first time in three and a half months. As lockdown continues to ease, Blackburn town centre was bustling with plenty of people seemingly excited to get out and about in town. Independent business owners were definitely breathing a sigh of relief with Yaseen Khan, owner of The Emporium, a designer clothes store on Town Hall Street, saying he was optimistic as people had been calling him in advance of th...