Monthly Archives: August 2014

New housing with care development for older people in Darwen

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2014 at 9:50 am

Older people in Darwen are to benefit from a major new housing with care development.

Plans for an extra care scheme with adjacent bungalows are being developed which will improve housing choices for older people who want to continue living independently, together with care and support services to help them to do so.

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Have a sizzling and safe barbecue

Published on Wednesday 13 August 2014 at 3:12 pm

If you’re aiming to round off your summer with a barbecue in the garden or park, Blackburn with Darwen Council and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) have served up some advice to help make it a success.

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Libraries and Information Service Celebrates Grant Funding

Published on Thursday 7 August 2014 at 5:03 pm

Blackburn with Darwen Library and Information Service celebrates £10,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant

Blackburn with Darwen Library and Information Serivce has been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) ‘First World War: Then and Now’ grant. 

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Give your views on Masterplan for Gib Lane

Published on Wednesday 6 August 2014 at 3:58 pm

Residents’ views are being sought on a Masterplan for the Gib Lane area in Blackburn.

A consultation is being launched on Monday, August 11, on a Masterplan for the land between Gib Lane, Broken Stone Road and Livesey Branch Road, to become a distinctive and high quality housing development site in the draft new Local Plan for Blackburn with Darwen.

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Hundreds gathered as the Borough and Nation commemorates the declaration of War.

Published on Wednesday 6 August 2014 at 1:44 pm

A hundred years ago this week Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary in 1914, returned to his chambers in the Foreign Office and lamented “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life”.

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