ROSSENDALE Council’s Conservatives have elected a new leadership as two of its councillors moved to sit as Independents. Cllr Margaret Pendlebury, who represents Greenfield, will take charge of the group, with newly-elected Goodshaw councillor David Foxcroft as her deputy. Thursday’s local elections left the authority in no overall control with Labour having 18 councillors, the Conservatives 15, two sitting Community First representatives and a new Independent Janet Whitehead who beat Labour in Facit and Shawforth ward. Labour also lost Goodshaw to Cllr Foxcroft but picked up the vacant Stacksteads ward. The Conservatives also won Whitewell ward, previously held by Pam Bromley as an Independent after being expelled from the Labour Party.
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A MULTI-MILLION pound Aldi superstore is coming to an East Lancashire town.
Rossendale Council s development control committee gave the green light to an application on Henrietta Way in Bacup at their meeting on Tuesday night. The scheme will bring between 40 and 50 full and part-time jobs to the area as well as funding in the local area. Cllr Jimmy Eaton, who represents the Greensclough ward, says that the developers were looking to complete building the store in two years time. He said: This is going to be a good thing for the people of Bacup and surrounding areas and I feel this will create a lot more competition for supermarkets.