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Tributes have poured in for an East Lancashire-born TOWIE star, who has died aged just 57. Mick Norcross, who was born in a Haslingden sweet shop in 1964 and was raised until the age of four in Blackburn, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday afternoon. His mum and dad, Margaret and Bernard Norcross, both came from East Lancashire families, his maternal grandmother living at the house in Audley Range where iconic walking writer Alfred Wainwright grew up, and his paternal grandmother a few doors away. The family moved south to Essex in 1968 when Mick’s dad secured a job a...

Tributes have poured in for an East Lancashire-born TOWIE star, who has died aged just 57. Mick Norcross, who was born in a Haslingden sweet shop in 1964 and was raised until the age of four in Blackburn, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday afternoon. His mum and dad, Margaret and Bernard Norcross, both came from East Lancashire families, his maternal grandmother living at the house in Audley Range where iconic walking writer Alfred Wainwright grew up, and his paternal grandmother a few doors away. The family moved south to Essex in 1968 when Mick’s dad secured a job a...

A mosque and Islamic school have paid their tributes to a former general secretary and head teacher. Nizamuddin Makda, died on January 13 aged 69. His wife Rashida Nizam Makda of Cambridge Close died on 20 December 2020 aged 63. Mr Makda was a long serving committee member of Noorul Islam Mosque, Audley Range one of the largest Mosques in Blackburn. He was also one of the founder members and a former head teacher of one of the first Independent Muslim schools in Lancashire. Mr Makda also represented Noorul Islam Mosque on the Lancashire Council of Mosques for some years. He was also a...

RATHER than an explosion to topple it, demolition teams took down the steeple of the former United Reformed Church on Blackburn’s Audley Range stone by stone in 1989. The steeple was the last visible sign that a church had stood on the site which was being cleared to make way for additional housing and road remodelling. If you look closely you can see one of the demolition men being hoisted to the top of the steeple in a ‘cage’ attached to the giant crane which dominated the skyline. The stone was being salvaged for use elsewhere. Churchgoers had amalgamated with the congregat...