Lancashire Telegraph

The Lancashire Telegraph, formerly the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, is a local tabloid newspaper distributed in East Lancashire, England. It has two separate geographic editions each day – one for the boroughs of Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley, and one for Burnley, Pendle, and Rossendale. There are around 20 towns in the area, including Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, Darwen, Nelson, Clitheroe, Colne, and Rawtenstall.

The editor is Kevin Young who is also the group editor of the weekly Citizen series and the paid-for weekly, The Westmorland Gazette, in Kendal. The newspapers are owned by Newsquest, a division of the US firm Gannett.

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