LOCAL gun collector (Letters, October 2) will find his answer in his question. I suspect that Jack Straw and Greg Pope regard the 98 per cent of their fellow MPs who choose not to own hand guns, fully fit to do so and fit to control the nuclear button
FRIENDS of David Crossley are rallying round their pal as he fights for his life after a horrific accident in a graveyard. Money has poured into a fund set up by Alison Walker and Lisa Horrocks, of Stoops and Hargher Clough Community Centre in Burnley
POSTAL workers have put pen to paper to complain about animal lovers who allow their pets to urinate on mail boxes. A spokesman for the Royal Mail's Blackburn collections team complained after delivery staff became sick of the stench on letters they handled
BLACKBURN Rovers bid to land German centre-forward Oliver Bierhoff could still be alive today. Manager Ray Harford revealed the background to the transfer talks with Italian Serie A club Udinese when he spoke to 250 Blackburn fans at a supporters' football
WREATHS will be laid on behalf of three East Lancashire families who lost a loved one in the First World War. The ceremonies follow an appeal in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. Haslingden Army Cadets asked for help in tracing relatives of soldiers who
YOUNGSTERS have been presented with special awards for work they have done in their community. Blackburn Deputy Mayor Coun Maureen Bateson handed out Community Action Awards at a ceremony at Blackburn Town Hall. The awards scheme was launched last year
A THIEF got more than he bargained for when he tried to steal a vehicle. The van, which was delivering to Cobble's Eden Street depot, Blackburn, had a child passenger. The youngster was later found dumped in a back street. A quantity of dangerous drugs
PAUL FLEURY is fighting a fitness battle as Blackburn Hawks prepare for a top-of-the-table tussle with Fife Flyers on Sunday. Fleury, skipper of the Lancashire ice hockey aces, is struggling with a broken finger, but could still make it. Another broken
GED Furey followed up his magnificent success in the Lombard Top Club Trophy by retaining the Softspikes Lancashire Open title at Heron's Reach in Blackpool. The Pleasington professional fired a tremendous second round four-under-par 67 to secure victory
OLD Trafford, headquarters of the Lancashire County Cricket Club, could stage rugby union during the winter break. Three Sale fixtures have been pencilled in although negotiations are still ongoing. The two sports are played in tandem at grounds such
NO-GO zones for dirty dogs are busily being drawn up by Hyndburn Council - and officers will be empowered to issue on-the-spot fines to the owners of those that do "go" on them. It is all part of the government's new Dogs Fouling of Land Act coming into
ANOTHER full-house fans' forum is staged by Blackburn Rovers, with under-pressure manager Ray Harford in the hot seat - and, by all accounts, another successful event. Other clubs should take note of this venture. It is vital that they have the supporters
THE CINDERELLA of the railways, the InterCity West Coast line, gets to go to the ball at last. For, despite being the most intensively used route on the national network, it was last modernised 30 years ago. Now the line is promised a £1.5billion upgrade
ELTON John fan Dean Torkington boasted "I'm Still Stand-In" after tackling a huge screen explosion for his musical hero. Burnley-born Dean, 34, was called in to act as a body double for the world famous Rocket Man during the mking of the video for his
JIMMY Mullen is ready for the challenge of football management again. The ex-Burnley chief has emerged as a strong candidate to take the vacant Cardiff City post after the departure of Phil Neal to Manchester City. Mullen said: "I'm missing football badly
READING your editorial (LET, September 25), I was sorry to note the editor had taken unsubstantiated claims by Jack Straw to be fact. The Shadow Home Secretary is claiming unfair lobbying of Conservative members forced the Commons Home Affairs Select
A JOBS and training programme for young people has been named the best in England. East Lancashire Training and Enterprise Council's XTEND scheme came out on top in the Training and Enterprise Council league tables. The survey found XTEND helps young
A MONUMENTAL stonemason who devoted much of his life to young people and charity work has died at the age of 72. Mr Thomas Rock of York Street, Clitheroe, spent all his working life as a stonemason and built up his own business in Market Place, Clitheroe
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy THIS last week I had to travel a long distance in order to study two of Britain's most fascinating mammals. Firstly, I went to the Farne Islands in Northumberland and - despite wet weather - the wind was not too strong to
I COULDN'T quite believe it when I heard Tony Blair stating that New Labour's priorities are "education, education, education." Great! About time - but are you listening Lancashire County Council? Are you listening, Hyndburn Council? If so, I and thousands
BRITAIN'S canals are an underused resource, according to Pendle MP Gordon Prentice. Mr Prentice, who was visiting British Waterways refurbished offices in Burnley today, called for a new canal age to boost tourism in East Lancashire. Mr Prentice, who
DISCOVERING that a discarded cigarette was to blame for starting the house fire at Chorley, on September 21, makes the deaths of the three victims all the more tragic. The tobacco industry has known for 30 years how to make fire-safe cigarettes - cigarettes
HOLIDAY hero Phillipe Edmondson, 12, of Beech Street, Clitheroe, was congratulated for his quick-thinking actions which saved the life of a toddler. Phillipe was on holiday with his parents in Almeria, Spain, when he dived into the hotel swimming pool
WHEN it comes to knowing the rules of golf, Wilpshire Golf Club is the tops in the country. A team from the club travelled to the Royal and Ancient headquarters at St Andrews to win a nationwide rules-of-golf competition and £5,000 worth of greens equipment
PROFITS at bed and furniture giant Silentnight have soared by more than 30 per cent, according to results out today. The Salterforth-based firm saw pretax profits increase to £4.9 million in the six months to August with turnover up to £98.8 million.
THREE bodies found after the mysterious sinking of the trawler Gaul in 1974 could be members of the British crew, according to a TV probe. Now a solicitor acting for the families of the crew is investigating the possibility of identifying the bodies and
BOSSES at one of Blackburn's biggest employers are hopeful of avoiding forced job losses during a major shake-up. Although production of a component is being phased out at Philips, manufacturing of a new product is being transferred to Blackburn from
A WHEELCHAIR bound elderly woman who lives in fear of heart attacks has been reconnected to her life-line thanks to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. Widow Winifred Lank, 74, had been unable to make emergency telephone calls from her home in Cowell Way
A CANCER victim died today only days after being granted a final wish...a ride in a classic British sports car. Harry Clegg, 68, of Baxenden, who had lung cancer, rode in a 1948 MG TD roadster after his wife June and sister-in-law Beryl Crossley "fixed-it
THE cast of Bacup Amateur's next production will be looking swell and it is all thanks to nimble fingered dressmaker David Garside. The lavish production of Hello Dolly with its flowing frilly frocks was set to cost the company a lot of money, until David
