The man, 77, was given CPR at the scene and on the way to the hospital in the ambulance, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

The 22-year-old was driving along Grane Road near Haslingden when he lost control of his blue Renault Clio.

Fresh fears over the future of the department were raised after maternity was axed at the site in February. But chiefs at Pennine Acute Trust have agreed to spend £2.25m to improve facilities – and say that will secure its long-term future.

Two crews from Bacup Fire Station attended the scene on Osborne Terrace and used a hose reel to put out the flames.

Sunday's event included live music, ski and snowboard taster sessions, children's activities, a beer tent and fireworks.

Members of the public are being asked to nominate their favourite group for the Community Club of the Year accolade.

Labour gained Cribden, Greensclough, Hareholme, Irwell, Longholme, Whitewell and Worsley and defended Goodshaw meaning they have an overall majority on the council.

Mr Eastwood, 17, of Haslingden, was stabbed up to 12 times at a home last summer. Mr Fell, 25, was found unanimously not guilty of murder and manslaughter after a jury heard evidence that he had acted in self-defence.

Gambling addict Matthew Hayhurst, who worked for Lloyds TSB in Accrington, was jailed for 18 months for targeting the pensioner’s bank accounts over a 16-month period.

The offence took place at around 2pm on Tuesday, April 24 at a terraced house on Market Street, which backs onto St John St Michael Primary School playing fields.

The trickster engaged the lady, who was in her 80s, in a conversation outside her house.

Fire crews were called out at around 4.15am on Sunday to the incident on Western Road in Stacksteads.

Rosie Hollins, who has worked at the Eagle and Child pub in Ramsbottom since it opened in October, has been selected to carry the Olympic torch through Blackburn on June 23.

Justin Feber was on Abbey Park Way, Wychwood Village, Crewe when he was struck by the bolt.

The 2012 Rossendale Sports Awards are to be held for the first time at Haslingden Sports Centre on Friday, July 20 and organisers Rossendale Leisure Trust are hoping to make it the biggest and the best ever to coincide with Olympic Year.

They struck between 2am and 2.40am on Tuesday after getting in through one of the pub's windows.

Elisa Sampson was hit in the face with a wrench by Sabina English, shattering her eye socket. After English was jailed for two years, Elisa told how she was still haunted by the attack and that it was only after becoming pregnant that she had found the strength to rebuild her life.

Elisa Sampson was attacked in her own home after she interrupted Sabina English, 31, and Paul Greenwood, 33, in the act.

Police said two dogs ran at the 11-year-old boy on Lime Road in Accrington as he walked home from school.

The century-old group performed their famous boundary dance on Easter Saturday beginning from the Old Travellers Rest in Britannia village.

The one-year-old tot had been placed in the back seat of the car on Cutler Lane at around 10.30am on Sunday, April 8.

The caravan, on a hillside off Burnley Road, Bacup, was situated close to horse stables and a chicken shed.

Firefighters said the boy switched the oven on in the house on Sandby Close, Bacup at around 12.15pm on Saturday.

With just four weeks left in our campaign 80 jobs have been created and 56 people have started work.

Nine grids have been stolen from local roads in the last weekwith four taken from the Rochdale Road are near Rossendale School. The other five have gone missing from Burnley and Bury Roads.

The borough has been awarded the money out of the Government’s £10million High Street Innovation Fund, which it is labelling its ‘Portas Plus’ plan.

Rawtenstall councillors Jason Gledhill, Nicola May and Janet Graham are standing down from their Longholme, Hareholme and Cribden seats respectively.

Jay Bathgate, 27, made the weapons after watching an instruction video on YouTube, a judge was told. Police found the guns during a raid last August after a bogus tip-off that he was storing stolen goods from the Manchester riots.

One man ran to the back of the shop, jumped over the counter and threatened the cashier by demanding money.

Highlights included folk music, stalls packed with treats, a giant Easter chick mascot and a life-size chocolate statue.

Dozens of supporters from all over the Valley – and one from as far afield as Afghanistan– have been logging on to the Town Team’s website to sign a register calling for the town to win one of 12 ‘golden tickets’ to high street revival.

Firefighters from the Lancashire and Greater Manchester brigades were called to moorland near Edenfield Road just before 6pm yesterday. About two square miles of grass was on fire.

Residents who made the 14-mile round trip were turned away from the Haslingden tip on Sunday as the site was full by midday.

Earlier Bacup fire crews had fought a fire on land close to Spring Mill reservoir in Whitworth.

Police said the steel has covered both sides of the road, close to the roundabout between Haslingden and Rising Bridge.

The collision happened on Market Street just before midday on Friday.

Firefighters think the blaze on Cooper Street may have started because of an electrical fault.

Events have included runs and walks in aid of people living in some of the poorest countries in the world.

The BMW was the only vehicle involved in the incident which happened at 4.35pm on Wednesday, March 21.

The torch is expected to come into Crawshawbooth from Burnley at 12.58pm on Saturday, June 23 and will pass through Reedsholme and Rawtenstall finishing at the Rawtenstall Train Station.

Paul Morris, who runs Ramsbottom’s Chocolate Cafe, has created a chicken tikka masala chocolate.

Just eight weeks pregnant, she went along to see Dr Gordon Mackinnon at his Ramsbottom surgery for a routine check. He instantly diagnosed pre-eclampsia, a potentially killer condition which causes high blood pressure.

The 18-year-old's body was found on Kay Street in Rawtenstall in the early hours of Saturday, February 11.

The four-foot bird was discovered by workers at Buckhurst Plant Hire on Warth Lane.

Firefighters were called to the manufacturing facility on Stubbins Lane after an industrial dryer oven exploded just after noon yesterday.

Police said the male driver, in his late teens, was driving along Haslingden Road near Whittaker Park when his van hit a parked Mitsubishi Lancer at around 2.15pm yesterday.

Sixteen firefighters were called to a second-floor flat on Deardengate, Haslingden just after midnight after the fuse box overheated.

Crews attended the scene on Hargreaves Street just after 6pm yesterday and used breathing apparatus to put out the fire.

The incident happened at around 12.30pm on Friday, March 9 on Underbank Close causing minor smoke damage.

Firefighters were called to a house on Fernhill Drive, Stacksteads after the man climbed into his attic and couldn't get down.

Gavin Noakes, 31, from Salford, was shot three times when he and three others were arrested in the car park of a Co-op supermarket.

Adam James Madden, from Bacup, died after his blue Ford Fiesta hit a black Mitsubishi L200 on Bacup Road in Cliviger.

Anthony Ljevar jumped on to the terrified woman’s car as she drove along the street. She reversed away as Ljevar shouted ‘get out of the car I’m going to kill you’ and ‘I’m going to rape you’.