NEWS

Fort Vale Mechanical Engineering Apprentice, 19 year old Jack Thomas, is gearing up to compete in his first Sprint for Success race on Colne Grand Prix night Tuesday 26th July. Sprint for Success is sponsored by Fort Vale and this is the first time the global company,...

BIG names in cycling are lined up for next week’s cottages.com Colne Grand Prix night on Tuesday 26th July. Our 2014 winner and world class cyclist, Graham Briggs, will be back, cycling for Rapha Condor JLT – the team known as ‘The Men in Black’. And Russell Downing...

COLNE TOWN COUNCIL’s first Summer Food Festival was a success, with crowds thronging the town centre on Saturday. Chairman of Colne Town Council, Cllr. Sarah Cockburn-Price, commented: “The weather was not as good as originally forecast, but it didn’t rain and people...

COLNE TOWN COUNCIL is holding its first Summer Food Festival this Saturday. Two dozen stalls dedicated to specialist foody offerings will be in the town centre on Saturday, 16th July. But that’s not all, Market Street is closed to through traffic all day, meaning...

DESPITE heavy showers throughout the morning, hundreds gathered along the Parade Route and at the War Memorial on for Colne Commemorates…1916 on Saturday. With talks, films, re-enactments, exhibitions, folk music, brass bands, Knurr and Spell, crafts and period...

A TEAM from Colne Local History and Friends of Colne Library have been poring over old photographs and documents in preparation for the Colne Commemorates… 1916 World War One Event on 2nd July. And one of their main resources has been the yellowed, crumbling pages of...

COLNE Town Council Allotment Awards are now in their second year and once again they are being generously sponsored by LBS. Cllr. Jonathan Nixon, chairman of the Allotments Committee said: “Last year LBS donated a rather splendid trophy and subsidised our garden...

COLNE Town Council has appointed its first CEO who will also act as the town’s Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer. New Colne Town Council CEO, Colin Hill, commented: “Having just enjoyed a nine month sabbatical travelling, I returned to this opportunity and...

PART of Colne Town Council’s Heritage Lottery Funding was to carry out an outreach project to local primary schools in advance of Colne Commemorates… 1916 on Saturday, 2nd July. The children were shown real and replica artefacts from the Great War and they learnt in a...

Hundreds of families converged on Alkincoats for Colne Town Council’s Picnic in the Park Event at to celebrate the 90th Birthday of HM The Queen. Chairman of the Events Committee, Cllr. Ash Sutcliffe, said: “What an absolutely fab afternoon! Earby Brass Band played...