Coordinates: 53°51′19″N 2°10′32″W / 53.8554°N 2.1756°W / 53.8554; -2.1756

Colne (/kɒln/) is the second largest town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 20,118. It lies at the eastern end of the M65, 6 miles north-east of Burnley, with Nelson immediately adjacent, in the Aire Gap with two main roads leading into the Yorkshire towns of Skipton and Keighley. It is 25 miles east of Preston, 25 miles north of Manchester and 30 miles west of Leeds. There is beautiful countryside around Colne and many old villages close by, including the Bronte Country and Haworth to the south east and Pendle Hill, Newchurch and Barley and Clitheroe to the north west. Nearby villages include Barrowford, Foulridge, Winewall, Cottontree, Trawden and Laneshaw Bridge and the hamlet of Wycoller with its historic pack horse bridge and clam bridge said to date back to the Iron Age. Wycoller Hall is a ruin there. There are narrow roads to the south over the moors to Hardcastle Crags and Hebden Bridge. The attractive Forest of Bowland lies near Pendle.

Frederick "Fred" Talbot (born 17 December 1949) is a Scottish-born British television presenter and meteorologist, well known for his weather forecasts for the British TV show This Morning on ITV.

Currently he is a weather forecaster for the Granada region and continues his long running Where's Fred segment on Granada Reports.

Brought up in Altrincham, at the time in Cheshire, he was a pupil at North Cestrian Grammar School, and in 1964 Talbot was a founding member of the Altrincham and District Astronomical Society, and remains involved today. He co-discovered a meteor shower, the June Lyrids, in June 1966.

He taught biology at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and also recorded a weekly astronomy programme for radio. This work later, in 1984, extended into TV, where he presented reports on Granada Reports, a local news programme in North West England.Granada Television later commissioned Talbot to appear in a general educational science programme for children called The Final Frontier. He remained a regular reporter for Granada Reports prior to, in 1988, accepting a position as a TV weatherman for the ITV network's This Morning.