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Here is a small selection of the painted eggs that Colne's infant and primary school children have prepared for our Easter competition. We have 1,613 entries in total and they will be staged on the first floor of the Library on Easter trees. Judging takes place on...

Part time 5 hours per week Salary £8 per hour Colne Town Council is seeking to recruit an allotment officer to start April/May 2015. The main responsibilities of the role include managing the waiting list and administrating all aspects of letting and upkeeping of...

COLNE Town Council Events Committee not content with staging the most successful competition in the history of the town, has now announced a Cake Baking Competition. Its Egg Painting Competition for Children has already attracted over a thousand entries within a week...

COLNE Town Council Events Committee is contacting local schools to ask them to submit entries to its Egg Painting Competition. The prizes to be announced and presented on 4th April. Events Committee Chair, Cllr. Dorothy Lord said: “We hope schools will put in their...

After the most successful year in Colne for events ever in 2014, Colne Town Council’s Events Committee plans to top them in 2015. The Committee has met to discuss its events’ schedule and has decided to offer help to other groups who stage events, concerts, galas,...

THE ORGANISERS of both Colne’s Second Food Festival and the Christmas in Colne Event last Saturday are delighted with the enthusiasm that has been shown for their events. It has been estimated that between 2,300 and 2,500 people gathered in The Precinct to watch the...

COLNE Town Council’s Events Committee is creating a Christmas Extravaganza this year on Saturday, 29th November. Co-opted member, Ashley Sutcliffe of Colne’s Live Like the Boy, is working with Let’s Get Crafty’s, Charlie Bolton, to link Christmas in Colne with the...

ALTHOUGH Colne’s Legion Club on Keighley Road is thriving, over the years, the numbers who are also members of the British Legion in the town has dwindled. Sqn Ldr Bob Ellis (retd), a local British Legion representative, approached the Events Committee of Colne Town...

THE TEAM behind last year’s successful Colne Food Festival has been co-opted onto Colne Town Council’s Events Committee to jointly host a double event with Christmas in Colne on Saturday 29th November. Co-opted member, Ashley Sutcliffe of Colne’s Live Like the Boy, is...

  COLNE Town Council has developed a scheme that sees loos freely available in the town centre, thanks to help from local businesses. The Colne Community Toilet Scheme was launched in response to the recent decision by Pendle Council’s Executive to reluctantly...

GreenRock 2014 has attracted accolades aplenty from the GreenRockers who filled Colne’s Millennium Green on Saturday. [soliloquy id="911"] The Events Committee’s Chair, Councillor Dorothy Lord, said: “We started off with disappointing fine drizzle and we feared our...

COLNE Town Council’s GreenRock 2014 promises a magical first two hours between noon and 2 p.m. this year, as it has secured Peter Dean Magic to entertain the crowd, and especially the younger members of the audience, alongside the music. The Events Committee’s Chair,...