Padiham

'I would hardly call a body such as Padiham Life a key local position.

Some Stuff Ralph 2007

I would hardly call a body such as Padiham Life a key local position.

Some Stuff Ralph 2007

I will be raising money for charities – but they have to be in Padiham.

BNP member in line to become Padiham mayor 2011

Terraced houses in Padiham, a stronghold of the BNP.

BNP member in line to become Padiham mayor 2011

He said others had raised no objections and had supported him for the deputy mayor's job as an out-and-out Padiham man.

BNP member in line to become Padiham mayor 2011

Cave said his role was non-political and the council was "about Padiham and not politics".

BNP member in line to become Padiham mayor 2011

John Cave, whose wife, Sharon Wilkinson, is a BNP county councillor for the small former mill town of Padiham, on the edge of Burnley, is likely to take over the office in a year's time after being chosen as deputy mayor this week.

BNP member in line to become Padiham mayor 2011

For me Padiham is home and I think it could be a lot better.

BNP member in line to become Padiham mayor 2011

The council bats single-mindedly for Padiham, a cluster of dark stone Pennine houses in a steep valley with the National Trust's Gawthorpe Hall a famous link with the Bronte family, whose wealthy Liberal friends the Kay-Shuttleworths ran their cotton empire from the town.

BNP member in line to become Padiham mayor 2011

The council has only parish status but Padiham retains the title of town and uses traditional civic regalia and the town hall to assert as much independence as it can against Burnley borough council.

BNP member in line to become Padiham mayor 2011