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  • No inquiry into baby Lewis's death

    HEALTH chiefs have revealed there will NOT be an inquiry into the death of tragic tot Lewis Jackson. The 21-month-old Clitheroe baby died after his parents were forced to take him 85 miles to the nearest intensive care bed in Stoke-on-Trent. Bosses at

  • 'Come clean' says Bannister

    BURNLEY supporters' chief Tony Bannister has appealed to the Turf Moor board: "Tell the fans what is going on." Bannister says the worrying wall of silence surrounding Turf Moor following the hostile board room bust-up is doing irreparable damage to the

  • Red hot summer show 'a record'

    THE Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society, which runs the popular Royal Lancashire Show, is celebrating a financially successful year. The show, held at Astley Park, Chorley, over three hot summer days, was a record for the society, taking in receipts

  • Alarm over post safety

    IWAS on Ainsworth Street in Blackburn town centre when there was some sort of alarm and all the Post Office staff left their building. What followed shows how badly planned Ainsworth Street is. If it had been a major incident, none of the rescue or ambulance

  • Teacher basher

    WHAT was predictable about John Blunt's predictions (LET, January 3) was that he would soon be indulging in his favourite sport - teacher bashing. This man knows nothing about teaching or education, but this does not stop him seizing upon any reported

  • Good jobs

    IHAVE crossed swords with Mr J Pilkington on many topics but find myself in complete agreement with his latest remarks (Letters, January 4). The Racial Equality Council is an industry, albeit a non-profit making industry, and is kept going by the personnel

  • Fair society

    Idon't suppose it will help Mr J Pilkington's sense of paranoia (Letters, January 4), if I tell him that Blackburn Labour Party had absolutely nothing to do with the local Racial Equality Council's successful application for a National Lottery grant.

  • Nurses' rents

    IN your report (LET, December 27) on nurses forced out by higher rents on houses at Calderstones hospital one nurse stated that she tried to buy her home for several years but was repeatedly turned down. It is plain that the nurses are being put under

  • Voters know who to blame for these cuts

    HAVING felt the full force of spending cuts this financial year - to the extent of some 300 teaching jobs being axed - Lancashire's hard-pressed schools are to have their budgets boosted in the next one by around five per cent. But while staff, parents

  • School is a partner in Euro link-up

    STAFF from an Accrington high school are flying out to Portugal next week to cement a four-way European pupil partnership. Accrington Moorhead High School has had a bid accepted by the European Union in Brussels to set up a multi-lateral partnership between

  • Dearing makes Turf Moor resignation official

    BURNLEY chairman Frank Teasdale today received director Basil Dearing's official letter of resignation from the six-man Turf Moor board. And the latest turn in the Burnley board-room crisis looks set to spark further developments before the weekend. Dearing

  • Come and join us call

    A RALLYING call was made for successful career women to join ranks when the Blackburn branch of the Business and Professional Women held its annual meeting. Newly-elected president Lorraine Mullins from Mellor, made a pledge to launch a recruitment drive

  • Roaming Rupert's rescue on end of a scarf

    RUPERT was saved by a scarf when he went roaming on a country road. A passing motorist spotted the little dog in the road, where cars were swerving to avoid him. So the driver used his scarf as a lead, popped the dog in his car in his car and took him

  • Mafia suspect back home

    AN alleged Mafia suspect facing extradition to Italy was on his way back to Darwen today after being granted bail by the High Court. Guiseppe Cavallo, 52, dubbed the "Clogfather", of Higher Perry Street, was committed in custody by Bow Street magistrates

  • Ice rescue (Nature watch, by Ron Freethy)

    A TELEPHONE call from a friend of mine who lives on the River Lune sent me hurrying off to my tool shed to find a hammer and a chisel. Having found them, I set off to do a spot of bird watching! No, I had not gone mad. I was off to help the birds along

  • Education services suffer big cutbacks

    EDUCATION services are to suffer swingeing £6.6 million cuts in Lancashire - although schools have been spared the rod - as the county council bid to meet government capping limits. Lancashire's Youth Service is one of the biggest losers after having

  • Town's pool plunged into closure by leak

    A TOWN'S swimming pool is to close indefinitely because of a suspected leak. Technical experts have been called in following the discovery of the leak at the council-run pool at Great Harwood's Mercer Hall Leisure Centre. The problem came to light during

  • Parkinson on comeback trail

    BURNLEY full-back Gary Parkinson is ready to hit the comeback trail against old pals Middlesbrough tonight. But Parkinson and the Clarets reserve team squad will be not be revelling in the glamour and glitz of Middlesbrough's Riverside stadium. Parky,

  • Lottery's £900,000 boost for sports

    SPORTS funds in East Lancashire have received a bumper £900,000 share of the National Lottery treasure chest. As lottery ticket sales rocketed over the weekend, news filtered through that the area is to receive a record shareout in National Lottery Sports

  • An invitation

    OVER the last few weeks, every time my Lancashire Evening Telegraph has dropped on my door mat I have asked myself what next has the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Hyndburn, Hugh Neil, been up to. I now see he is reported to have

  • Red-faced Labour's short-list blow

    THE controversial industrial tribunal decision over Labour's all-women selection procedures, has been criticised by Lancashire County Council leader Louise Ellman. Mrs Ellman was herself selected from an all-women short-list as a prospective parliamentary

  • Joy as mum cuddles Cameron once more

    YOUNG mum Catherine Howard has been able to hold her son Cameron for the first time since he was stricken by the potentially fatal disease meningitis. Battling two-year-old Padiham tot Cameron, has been taken off the ventilator that has kept him alive

  • 5 YEARS AGO: Need to raise cash

    NURSES were told to get out the begging bowls and raise charity cash for essential equipment according to a former health authority member. Mrs Eileen Scott launched a blistering attack on hospital managers after visiting children's wards at Queen's Park

  • 10 YEARS AGO: Cheaper drivers

    FURIOUS busmen today hit back at a "like-it-or-lump-it" deal put to them in a bid to cut costs. In a letter from Blackburn Transport chiefs, the men had been told to accept reduced pay and conditions, or be sacked. And they had been warned that if they

  • Who's racist?

    NOTING your articles (LET, December 29) I must respond to the comments made by the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Hyndburn, Mr Hugh Neil, regarding racism within the Hyndburn Conservative Association. I would like to ask Mr Neil to state publicly

  • Panic is the wrong response

    ONCE again, a health scare caused by killer meningitis hits East Lancashire, with the tragic death of a four-year-old - matching alarm elsewhere in the country where the deadly bug has struck. But panic would be the wrong response. For, as the statistics

  • Tragedy as girl dies of meningitis

    A FOUR -YEAR OLD girl has died from meningitis only six hours after being admitted to hospital. And today her grieving mum praised hospital staff who tried for 40 minutes to revive her daughter. Little Charlotte Rogers, is the second child in a week in

  • MERSEY BEAT-EN: Rovers Youth 0 Tranmere Youth 2

    BLACKBURN Rovers succumbed to the 90s version of the Mersey Beat at Ewood last night. Not another Beatles revival, but a Tranmere side completely in tune and deserving winners of an entertaining FA Youth Cup third round tie. Two goals in front five minutes

  • Well done, Jack

    ALL parties on Blackburn Council joined in congratulations to Coun Jack Bury, who was awarded the OBE in the New Year honours. Coun Bury represents Higher Croft on Blackburn Council and Ewood and Higher Croft on Lancashire County Council. Coun Malcolm

  • Accident victim dies

    A WOMAN involved in a collision with a car outside her home has died in Blackburn Royal Infirmary. Mary Eileen McNally, 67, of Mayfield Flats, Bolton Road, Darwen, was injured in an accident on December 16 when she was in collision with a Ford Sierra

  • Dad forced to sell his furniture to feed son

    A SINGLE dad and his eight-year-old son were left without money over Christmas and New Year because of a social security mix-up. Patrick Boyle of Scotland Bank Terrace, Blackburn, was left waiting for payment for five weeks when his Income Support was

  • Latest in ticket fiasco

    ONCE again, the patience of Blackburn Rovers fans is being stretched to the limit. Last season, the festive joke played by the ticket sales administration manager was to close the sales office to allow staff to recover from the previous night's festivities