A FURNITURE group which opened its first ever store in Blackburn is heading for the stock market. UNO, which has a site at Whitebirk, Blackburn, trades from nine stores around the country. The firm, based in Liverpool, is seeking admission to the Alternative
THOUSANDS of East Lancashire aerospace workers were today on tenterhooks waiting to find out who has won the battle for billions of pounds worth of defence contracts. The Ministry of Defence is on the verge of announcing the winner of the £2 billion contract
BIG Vince Overson could be on his way home to Turf Moor on a free transfer. I can reveal that Clarets boss Adrian Heath has followed up his interest in Stoke City skipper Nigel Gleghorn by checking out the strapping Victoria Ground centre-half. Now wheeler-dealer
REGARDING the article (LET, June 3) on the possible sell-off of East Lodge in Corporation Park, Blackburn, the council assure us that there are no more plans in the pipeline for selling-off bits of this park which was built for the townspeople. How ridiculous
RIBBLE BUSES were to axe almost half of their 90 drivers at the Blackburn depot. Forty drivers were to be made redundant in August as Ribble slashed bus services in East Lancashire. Maintenance and cleaning jobs were also to be lost, but Ribble had not
TWO historic aircraft which have played a major role in British Aerospace's Military Aircraft Division are on the move. The Experimental Aircraft Programme development plane is to be moved on loan to Loughborough University to replace the Fly-By-Wire
DOWN and out Craig Heap today vowed to bounce back after just missing out on a place in the British Olympic gymnastics squad. A fall off the high bars, normally his strongest discipline, in the final trials dashed the Burnley gymnast's hopes of making
NORTH West Water has announced a new £2.2 million scheme to fight drought problems in East Lancashire - but the hosepipe ban remains despite several heavy downpours. The company says that although this week's rain has helped ease the situation, reservoir
TRIM manufacturer Viktor Achter enjoyed a double celebration at its Burnley factory recently. The firm, which employs 350 making car interior trims, has been awarded the Investors in People standard and a top supplier award from Rover. "Investors in People
LANCASHIRE aim to bring a flavour of Euro 96 into their preparations for the Benson and Hedges Cup Final. Coach John Stanworth wants the players to go into camp, England-style, for a couple of days before next Saturday's Lord's showdown with Northants
I AM running a nationwide sponsored parachute jump programme for the registered charity BLISS, - Baby Life Support Systems - which buys incubator units and associated equipment needed to save the lives of premature and sick new-born babies. I am looking
WORRIED family and friends are travelling to visit alleged child-smuggler John Boast in a "hell hole" jail after hearing nothing from him for two months. The Great Harwood charity worker has been kept in prison in the Romanian town of Oradea since being
THE creditability of the Mastercard survey as to the golden age of music (LET, June 25), and conclusion that 'the Swinging 60's' are tops is much in doubt. Much would depend upon the question and terminology used - which is immediately in error by equalling
FROM doorman to doctor - Jeff Slater got his education the hard way. For years he was a bouncer, cracking heads in tough bars from Pendle to Perth. But it was when he used his head to switch to brain-power that he really found his true strength. Now the
PUBLIC grievances and grumbles have put Lancashire Police among the top ten most complained about forces in the country. Newly-released figures show a 24 per cent rise in the number of complaints about Lancashire officers in the year ending in March 1996
ASIANS who can't read English face an 'L' of an ordeal taking the new written driving tests. But help is on its way, with the Government rushing out the theory tests in six ethnic minority languages. "They should be available within the next few weeks
POLICE swooped on 245 drink-drivers in a two week blitz on Lancashire motorists. And almost half the positive breath tests were recorded in East Lancashire, police revealed following the crackdown. Blackburn's police division came out on top of the drink-drive
RIBBLE Valley MP Nigel Evans is perfectly in tune with public sentiment when he says it would be wrong for MPs to vote for a 26 per cent. pay rise for themselves when ordinary people are being asked to accept increases of two and three per cent. However
WHEN two pistols were stolen from his shop by crooks who smashed its window, East Lancashire gun shop owner Frank Kay decided it needed security shutters. A wise step - and, after the dreadful Dunblane massacre, a vital one - plain common sense would
MORE than 4,000 club-goers have been successful in their campaign to bring back their favourite DJ to a Blackburn nightspot. DJ Tease - alias Vince Williams - returned by popular demand at the weekend after the paid dancers at the Utopia started a petition
A GUN shop owner has claimed crooks are stealing weapons from his premises because he has been banned from putting up security shutters Frank Kay has spoken out in the wake of the nation-wide call for tighter laws to control the use of firearms, which
THE jobs of 16 Whitworth Town Council staff are secure until September. Rossendale Council has agreed to continue to pay their wages. But calls for an extra £30,000 cash, in addition to an agreed £300,000, fell on stoney ground when council leader John
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice has stoked up the row about the Government's legal aid cuts by claiming they restrict access to the law to the rich. As the Government published its latest proposals in a White Paper, Mr Prentice lashed Justice Minister Gary
ON June 17, the House of Lords agreed an amendment to the Nursery Education and Grant Maintained Schools Bill which, if passed in the House of Commons in its next stage, will delay the implementation of Phase 2 of the Government's Nursery Voucher Initiative
BLACKBURN Council housing boss Coun Sue Reid has hit back at accusations from Tory ex-minister Alan Clark. Mr Clark took the council to task for asking people applying for home improvement grants about any polygamous marriage partners they may have. Writing
A FOUR-YEAR-old girl is fighting for her life after being knocked down on the pavement by a teenage cyclist riding a bike which was said to have no brakes. Kirsty Fisher, of Flimby Close, Blackburn, is "poorly but stable" in intensive care at Manchester
TIM Flowers has agreed a new five-year contract with Blackburn Rovers who are also hoping to persuade young Shay Given to commit himself to Ewood on a long-term basis. England keeper Flowers has seen David Seaman establish himself as number one on the
A FORMER general manager of a plastics firm has led a management buy-in of the company, Techbuild Composites, which manufactures glass and carbon fibre reinforced products in Clayton-le-Moors, has been bought by a team headed by Robin Wolfendale who becomes
