CASH-STRAPPED Burnley council will splash out more than £34,000 to fight poverty in the town this year - if it can find the money to finance the project. Official figures show Burnley is the 57th most deprived local council area in the country and Labour
A COUPLE and their two young children have been living in freezing conditions for two years claiming that the council have failed to repair damage to their home. The health of asthma sufferer Christine and husband Eric Dickinson, who is registered disabled
RAY Harford knows that in young Irish keeper Shay Given, Blackburn Rovers could soon have a red-hot property on their hands. He could even turn out to be another million-pound man. And it's not only the Ewood manager who believes the only way is up for
RENTS for Rossendale's 5,020 council houses will go up by 1.9 per cent from April 1, councillors decided at last night's housing committee. It is the smallest increase for a number of years. The rent of a three-bedroom semi-detached house - currently
AN Irish style knees-up and hotpot supper helped more than 150 members of an East Lancashire Church forget the cold. The Ceilidh evening was organised by St Alban's Church, Blackburn, to boost their appeal to raise around £500,000 for a new church roof
A £6 MILLION cash boost was announced to regenerate run-down areas of Blackburn and Burnley. Blackburn was set to net £4.01 million and Burnley £2.17 million from the Government's £264 million urban programme package. But Blackburn's share was £90,000
ISEE there is a job vacancy in Blackburn for a "Racial Harassment Officer" at £17,127 to £19,260 per annum. There should be plenty of applicants - for that amount of money most unemployed people would be prepared to harass anyone. SYLVIA NOBLE (Mrs),
MAY I write a few words praising the NHS and the social services as not a lot of people do that these days? Since my husband has been ill, he could not have had better treatment if we had paid thousands of pounds. Our doctor arranged for nurses to come
DENNIS Taylor edged out fellow Irishman Fergal O'Brien in a marathon encounter at Newport yesterday to reach the last 32 of the Regal Welsh Open. Taylor took five-and-a-half hours to win 5-4 and was due to meet former world champion John Parrott for a
DAVID Pearson, vice-chairman of Blackburn Conservatives, (Letters, january 23), asks me, because I am opposed to the Maastricht Treaty, John Major and the European Union, where my vote will go. It will go, Mr Pearson, to an anti-Euro candidate. In Spring
BLACKBURN Hawks have swooped to sign Solihull Barons defence man Declan MacNaughton and former player Ian Hough, just beating Wednesday's transfer deadline. The pair go straight into Hawks squad for tonight's game away to bottom of the table Billingham
A WARNING about deadly drugs has been issued after a doctor's bag was stolen from a car in Oswaldtwistle. The brown leather briefcase contained class A controlled drugs, syringes and some used syringes in a sharps box. Detective Inspector Jim Oldcorn,
BUDDING Alan Shearers and Kurt Nogans could soon be studying for an A-level in football at East Lancashire schools and colleges. The Associated Examining Board is finalising plans for the new A-level which could be offered from September. It will make
IAM a regular shopper in the Blackburn Markets and I am harassed by winos, beggars and drug users, begging for money, nearly every time I go along Market Avenue. This is unnerving and could be frightening. These people are a blot on the town and not only
EURO cash has helped brighten up a town centre spot and give work to young unemployed people. Money from the European Social Fund has helped pay for a tree-planting scheme in Bottomgate, Blackburn. And the scheme, which is also backed by City Challenge
A BIG Mac bid to open new restaurants in Burnley, Colne and Whitebirk, Blackburn, could bring 150 new jobs and £2 million investment in the area this year. The giant McDonald's UK empire want a bigger slice of the North West's food service outlets and
HUNDREDS of pensioners could be too frightened to turn up the heat during the big freeze because of spiralling fuel bills. Advice lines at Age Concern branches throughout East Lancashire have been flooded with calls from anxious elderly people who want
YOUR recent revelations regarding a certain prospective parliamentary candidate's seeming dishonesty on his CV has promoted me to write, expressing my utter disgust. I felt sick to learn that this person had apparently succeeded in supplying misleading
A CRIME-BUSTING blitz on burglars has reduced break-ins by more than a third in a blackspot area. And organisers are now extending the scheme into another problem part of Blackburn. Since its launch in the Infirmary area of Blackburn last March the Homesafe
CHURCH members have given their new vicar a friendly welcome The Bishop of Burnley, the Right Rev Martyn Jarrett, and Archdeacon of Blackburn, David Robinson, were among the dignitaries who attended the induction service of the Rev Paul Carter at the
A WHOLE community is on the lookout for Lady the Labrador who took a walk in the snow and can't find her way home. Lady, a black Labrador cross, has been the constant companion of 85-year-old Mr Eric Hill and he and all his neighbours in the Sydney Avenue
WITH an American style siren and blue flashing lights on all sides, East Lancashire's latest ambulance has taken to the road. The Ford custom paramedic ambulance was presented to Clitheroe ambulancemen and will be used for emergencies in the Ribble Valley
HASLINGDEN CC members have voted in favour of the proposed merger with Parkwood Tennis Club. The scheme which could eventually lead to the building of an indoor tennis and cricket centre at Bentgate was given unanimous approval at the club's AGM last
FERGIE does it again - £3 million in the red. All blown on a life of Riley - with the odd holiday thrown in. But it's not the taxpayers to the rescue this time, but Budgie The Helicopter - American-style. Not that the rest of the royals are a great deal
DERELICTION is not only an affront to the eye, it is a cancer that attacks the sense of community. So says a report today on its effect in the North West - where more people than in any other region regard their area as run-down, depressing and unsafe
TRADE President Ian Lang was today urged to order the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to investigate Stagecoach's proposed purchase of half of Burnley and Pendle Transport. With meetings this week deciding whether the Liberal Democrat-led Pendle Borough
YOUR contributors (Letters, January 4, 10 and 18) use common sense and facts when condemning the Racial Equality Council and the Commission for Racial Equality, but Phil Riley (Letters, January 10) seems to view race relations with blinkered vision. We
BURGLARS have robbed a young disabled woman of the joy of music. Intruders in Victoria Street, Oswaldtwistle, fled with 600 compact discs worth £6,000. Karen Johnston, 26, who suffers from epilepsy, lives with her boyfriend, Nigel Donlon, 29. Karen said
IF D D'ARCY (Letters, January 22) had spoken to Labour councillors or county councillors and perhaps not Tory or Liberal councillors, about the staved-off closure of Darwen police station at night, then he may have got his facts right. Firstly, Lancashire
A COUNCILLOR is demanding to know why a fence surrounding a railway line has remained unrepaired despite assurances from rail bosses that it would be rebuilt. Coun David Smith has campaigned for more than a year to try to have the fence surrounding the
LABOUR'S search for a Parliamentary candidate in Hyndburn restarted today after the bitter row that split the constituency. The party's national executive confirmed recommendations that the left-wing group at the heart of the row should disband. The row
AN A-level in soccer? Yes, seriously, the beautiful game could actually be on schools' and colleges' exam curricula later this year. But while not doubting that it will be a super subject for youngsters to "study," our concern is whether it will be a
RICH spices of the East were sampled by an East Lancashire Mayor and Mayoress when they were invited to an India Republic Day. Blackburn Mayor Maureen Bateson and Mayoress Margery Caville were treated to a buffet dinner followed by traditional classical
PROMOTION hunters Burnley have beaten the big freeze to take another frosty step towards Division One against Oxford United at Turf Moor tonight. Burnley gave the green light to the fixture this morning and, unless there was a marked deterioration in
OUTDOOR specialist Karrimor is moving its cycle equipment division to Lancashire. The warehouse and sales offices of Karrimor Cycle Equipment in Newport, Gwent, are relocating to the head office of Karrimor International in Clayton-le-Moors next month
COUNCIL road sweeper Gerry Newton will receive his MBE at Buckingham Palace on March 12. Gerry, 56, is still on cloud nine after being honoured by the Queen for his services to the community in Rishton. Gerry, of Derby Street, Accrington, said: "I'm very
FOR YEARS men have accused women of being too vain. And for years the fair sex have been telling the guys that it's nothing to do with vanity and everything to do with the pressures of advertising and - more recently - the emergence of the supermodel.
A SHORT-TIME working schedule could help to save jobs at a Clitheroe company. The 110 staff at Lappet Manufacturing Company in Lowergate will be asked to stop working for one week and then return on a short-time programme until a surplus of stock has
REPORTS that David Batty was ordered to train with the Ewood juniors, along with other stories, were blasted today by Blackburn Rovers chairman Robert Coar. Clearly angry, Mr Coar took the unusual step of issuing a special statement after local radio
TURF Moor's lethal weapon Kurt Nogan is closing in on Mick Conroy's 1991/92 goalscoring harvest. Red-hot Nogan has 16 Endsleigh League goals in the bag and already his destructive fire-power inside the penalty box has put him in sight of Conroy's 24-goal
CHARTERED accountant Stephen Anderson has taken up a top post with the British Junior Chamber of Commerce. Stephen, a partner with Blackburn-based PM&M is the new chairman of the chamber's North West Region. He has been a member of the Blackburn branch
