THIS year s Lancashire County Council election campaign has been strange as the giant authority s biggest political beast takes a back seat. And polling day on May 6 marks the end of an era as Burnley-born and Rossendale-raised Conservative group leader Geoff Driver bows out of the electoral fray. The controversial 76-year-old Turf Moor season ticket holder is standing down to spend time with his two - soon to be three -grandchildren. He has handed over the Tory torch to his deputy Keith Iddon who has carried on his campaign to portray Labour was wastefully poor managers and the Conservatives as a a safe set of financial hands.
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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.
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