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WITH a rookie stallholder of just 17 and another of just 20, Colne’s Nursery Market Stall Event on 1st August appears to be attracting the town’s next generation of entrepreneurs. Rebecca Taylor-Shaw persuaded her parents to invest in her Moo Moo Melts business and...

COLNE Town Council’s Events Committee plans to publish an Events Calendar for the first time to distribute to every household in Colne.  It will include not just events put on by the Town Council, but also, regular events in the Town’s Calendar, such as the Gala and...

COLNE TOWN Council has announced that this year will see its first Allotment Awards. Allotment holders across the town are being asked to contact Diane Morville, the new Allotment Officer, to enter. Cllr. Jonathan Nixon, Chairman of the Town Council’s Allotment...

AUGUST 1st is the date for the launch of an initiative by Colne Town Council when, for just £15 for a day, people can take a market stall and sell whatever they like (within reason!). Colne Town Council has arranged for the stalls to be pre-erected, with would be...

THE MOST poignant Historic England listing amongst the 510 new listings announced this week is the gravestone of Wallace Hartley in Colne. As every Colner knows, Wallace was the band leader on the doomed Titanic. According to legend, the band played Nearer My God To...

COLNE Town Council has appointed Diane Morville to the new part-time role of Allotment Officer. The role involves close liaison with Colne’s allotment tenants, to ensure full and proper use is being made of the plots. At this time of year, she will also be involved in...

CLLR. ASH Sutcliffe, Chairman of Colne Town Council’s Events Committee, has put out a call for performers who want to showcase their talents on 7th September, which is the date for Stage Two of the Tour of Britain, which finishes in Colne. “We’ve discovered that...

Late night Thursdays are taking off in Colne, as more businesses sign up to open later; until 7 p.m. Known as Lancashire’s Capital of Cool thanks to its great range of independent shops and businesses, over 20 are now opening late on Thursdays. Paul Collins from...

THE NEW Colne Town Council met for the first time on 20th May. As well as previous town councillors, Neil Butterworth, David Clegg, Glennda Clegg, Sarah Cockburn-Price, Joe Cooney, Pat Howarth, Dorothy Lord and Graham Roach, there were nine new councillors. The...

FORTY one years since Colne Town Council left Colne Town Hall because it was subsumed into Pendle Borough Council, history has come full circle and our Town Council Clerk, Susan Graham has moved back in. Previously, she had worked from home in Earby. “It is great we...

The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment is exercising its Freedom of the Borough of Pendle with a parade through Colne on Monday. Around 150 soldiers from the Regiment, represented by its 1st Battalion, will attend a celebration service at St Bartholomew’s Church. Shortly...

  THE plaudits have been flooding in after Colne Town Council’s first Easter Event. Hundreds of people explored the town in the fifteen clue Easter Bunny Hunt devised by Stevie Monk. Quite a few reported learning new facts about their town. The Malteaster Bunnies...