The Latest Breaking News from Blackburn

Inside house of horrors as squatters leave waste piled from floor to ceiling

View footage from inside a a two-bedroom property in Blackburn previously occupied by squatters as workers from Dingle's Waste Disposal contend with rats, fleas and an overwhelming stench

Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2022

Inside Susan Boyle's glammed-up West Lothian council house she's lived in for nearly 60 years

The Scots singer could live in any luxury location but got her dream house together after buying the property next door to her childhood home in Blackburn.

Daily Record · Feb 22, 2022

Pedestrian dies after being struck by taxi

Police Scotland are investigating the incident in Blackburn, West Lothian.

The Independent UK · Feb 14, 2022

Schoolboys hailed as heroes for raising the alarm to help people escape terrifying blaze

Jay Jay Blake, Kaiden Smith and Caiden Anderson dialled 999 when they saw smoke billowing from Blackburn flats fire

Daily Record · Feb 3, 2022

Texas siege: Manchester anti-terror police investigate financing of US trip

Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, held four hostages at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue

Manchester Evening News · Jan 28, 2022

Family living in fire-hit block of flats say they have been plagued by antisocial behaviour for years

Aimee Robertson says there has been trouble at the Blackburn block of flats for years

Daily Record · Jan 28, 2022

West Lothian children as young as 10 'spoken to' by police after deliberate fire

The blaze on Rowan Terrace in Blackburn had seen the building go up in flames after a 'deliberate' fire was ignited shortly before 5.40pm on Saturday.

Edinburgh Live · Jan 24, 2022

Scots mum 'haunted' and left with clothes on her back after flat torched in deliberate attack

Mum-of-four Lee-Anne Davis, 40, lost all her belongings after a fire was deliberately started outside her top floor flat in Blackburn, West Lothian, late on Saturday afternoon.

Daily Record · Jan 23, 2022

West Lothian woman rushed to hospital after deliberate fire in block of flats

Emergency services were called to the scene on Rowan Terrace, Blackburn, shortly before 6pm on Saturday. Residents were evacuated while fire crews tackled the flames on the top floor of the building.

Edinburgh Live · Jan 23, 2022

Woman rushed to hospital after ‘deliberate’ blaze at Scots flats as cops hunt firebugs

A number of residents were evacuated from the building on Rowan Terrace in Blackburn, West Lothian, late on Saturday afternoon with paramedics treating a 40-year-old woman.

Daily Record · Jan 23, 2022