Clitheroe

Long-running Clitheroe badminton coach Mrs Barbara (Bunty) Meadows who has died at the age of 91

Touching tributes to six decades badminton coach

Miller Homes Development Manager Sarah Calderbank-Jenkins with The Barry Kilby Prostate Cancer Appeal Chairman Barry Kilby.

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Miller Homes offering £10k to charities and community groups

The annual Ribble Valley Scooter Weekender is riding into Clitheroe this weekend

Ribble Valley Scooter Rally ready to ride into town

Pause For Hope will take place at St Michael & St John’s RC Church in Lowergate, Clitheroe, to help support anyone affected by cancer.

Church hosting special service to support people affected by cancer

Clitheroe’s high street has been given a boost with the opening of a branch of The Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

High street boost for Clitheroe as new shop opens

The countdown is on to the Ribble Valley Scooter Rally this weekend.

Countdown to Ribble Valley Scooter Rally

Lovely photos as couple tie the knot at Ribble Valley venue

Stunning photos from couple's wedding day at Ribble Valley venue

The Poulteney Bridge in Bath, famous for its rows of shops.

Trinity Travel Talks return to Clitheroe with Cotswold villages and gardens

Evie Drake (18) gained an A in History and Bs in Classics and EPR at Westholme Sixth Form in Blackburn and will now go on to study Classics at Newcastle University.

Clitheroe duo receive top A'level grades

An open gardens event at Great Mitton Hall in the Ribble Valley attracted 500 visitors and raised £5,000 for three charities

Open gardens at historic Ribble Valley home raises £5,000 for charity

Clitheroe entrepreneur Alfie Cookson is doing free odd jobs for elderly people. Credit: Aaron Dunleavy

TV documentary star doing his bit to help the elderly

Campaigners have made an ambitious bid to buy historic Waddow Hall in Clitheroe which is one of five activity centres earmarked to be sold off by the Girlguiding Association.

Campaigners make bid to buy historic Girlguiding activity centre

Emily Ashworth, of Clitheroe, with her new book, The Land Army’s Lost Women.

Inspiring new book about WW2's Land Girls in honour of author's grandma

Hughie Higginson (left) and Freddie Xavi are spearheading a campaign to raise £300,000

Dynamic best pals back on fund raising trail for children's hospital play area

Seek Out Festival 2023. Credit: Derren Lee Poole

First fabulous Seek Out Festival rocks Gisburn Forest

Drug delivery specialist Kindeva has a manufacturing facility in Clitheroe

Huge cash boost for Clitheroe drug delivery specialist

Salthill Councillor Ian Brown, Sabden Councillor Richard Newmark and Salthill Councillor Donna O’ Rourke at a refurbished Highmoor Park playground.

Clitheroe play areas to benefit from £500k refurb programme

he Salvation Army in Clitheroe supported families through a uniform exchange in 2022 and will hold another this year. (L-R Church leaders, Aux-Captain Elizabeth Smith and Territorial Envoy Brenda Wise

Uniform swap to be held in Clitheroe

Seven members of Colne’s Stage Door Youth Theatre will perform at the world’s biggest arts festival this August, The Edinburgh Fringe

Young theatre stars to perform at Edinburgh Fringe

The garden at Great Mitton Hall near Clitheroe will open to the public next month.

Historic Ribble Valley hall to open its garden in aid of trio of charities

Downham Hall opens its gardens to raise funds for Crossroads Care Ribble Valley and Downham Village Hall on Sunday 30th July

Downham Hall to open gardens for charity fund-raiser

Lee Harbord and Floss, pictured at Janet's Foss, Malham, will be walking the West Highland Way in Scotland

One man and his dog walking 96 miles for little boy

Festival goers start to arrive at the 2023 Beat-Herder Festival in Gisburn, Lancashire. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

Beat-Herder 2023 first pictures

The cast and crew from Greatest Days, including director Coky Giedroyc and the actors and dancers who play the boy band, helped Ribble Valley Mayor Mark Hindle unveil a huge gold star at Clitheroe Market, the scene of one of the film’s many spectacular song and dance numbers, and start of a ‘selfie trail’ taking in some of the film’s locations

Take That film is a hit with fans flocking to Clitheroe to visit locations

Aerial view of the properties

Property spotlight on gorgeous country home

Clitheroe URC EcoChurch group on the day of inspection

Clitheroe church wins Gold Award

Representatives from Macmillan Cancer Support, ELHT&;Me, and RV Crossroads Care with outgoing Clitheroe Rotary Club president Karin Wilson and incoming president Robert Irwin.

Rotary club hands out £14,000 to deserving causes

Sue Swire (front right) is presented with St Michael and St John’s Ladies’ Group donation by group chairman Carol Riley (left) and committee

Calendar of events raise cash for cancer charity

A lovely scene from Clitheroe Town Council's Last Night of the Proms last year. This year's event takes place on July 22nd.

Countdown to Last Night of the Proms

Big Bike Revival.

Big Bike Revival is back to help people get pedalling this summer

The family and friends of former Clitheroe woman Thea Newton, whose body was found after she went missing from her home in Warrington, have launched a fundraiser for MIND in her memory.

Fund raiser launched in honour of former Clitheroe woman

Sarah Johnson-Hale and Dean Maloney are the founders of The Comedy Rooms which is putting Clitheroe on the map for some fantastic nights of comedy

Comedy night in Clitheroe set to have audience in stitches

Police have asked motorists to take care after a crash this afternoon at traffic lights that are not working

Police warning after road accident in Clitheroe

Tributes have been paid to former Clitheroe woman Thea Newton after police found her body near to her home in Warrington earlier today

Tributes for former Clitheroe woman after police find her body

The driving force behind the Clitheroe Contemporary Arts Festival chairman Andy Schofield of Longitude Gallery, treasurer Vicky Carter, secretary Deborah Stevenson, art director Graeme Windle of Atlantic Contemporary Art, Beverley Chapelow of Atelier Arts and Katherine Rodgers Arts Development Ribble Valley Borough Council.

Culture lovers attend first Clitheroe Contemporary Arts Festival

General view inside Ewood Park Football Stadium. (Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images)

Clitheroe man and Bargain Hunt presenter hosting star-studded charity show

The cast of Greatest Day in Clitheroe

Take That inspired movie screens in Clitheroe

Booking is open for the first Ribble Valley Citizens Summit for Climate and Nature

Ribble Valley climate summit

Author Brian Beresford with his children's books

Former headteacher's latest children's book

Conor Walsh at the Prolific North Awards

Young entrepreneur's double awards

Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans has written to Girlguiding UK to express his ‘great concern’ over the organisation’s decision to close all five of its national outdoor training and activity centres, including Waddow Hall near Clitheroe.

MP backing campaign to save Girlguiding activity centre

The cast and crew of ‘Greatest Days,’ the movie based on the Take That songbook, will return to Clitheroe next week to celebrate the film’s release.

Cast and crew of "Greatest Days' heading to Ribble Valley

Firefighters spent more than two hours dealing with a Clitheroe tractor fire.

Firefighters spend more than two hours dealing with Clitheroe tractor fire

Some of the team behind new modern arts festival, Clitheroe Contemporary.

Free modern arts festival to bring Clitheroe to life next weekend

Ella Shaw’s Academy of Arts students will perform Sister Act Jr at The Grand in Clitheroe.

Academy run by Britain's Got Talent star staging musical in Clitheroe