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Nine people from across East Lancashire, including Blackburn and Nelson, have been given awards in the New Years Honours list for 2024.

Volunteers from a community group spent the evening helping to maintain graves that had collapsed due to the harsh weather. The Brookhouse…

Here we speak to those on the frontline as the battle against Covid-19 takes its toll. In Islamic culture the burial must take place within the shortest period of time. In the majority of cases burials have taken place within a 24 hours. In some cases people are being buried within four hours of death. Blackburn and Bolton have had the most Muslim burials in the past year.  A further 47 people (up to January 27) were buried in the Muslim section at Pleasington Cemetery, Blackburn, this m...