TO pun or not to pun, that is the question answered in a Clitheroe man's controversial new book which claims the works of William Shakespeare hid thousands of secret meanings. Dennis Baron also believes that Shakespeare was merely a front man for the
HAVE-a-go taxi driver Anjam Javed is a good advert for first aid training after helping out in an emergency - for the third time. Anjam became a first aider two years ago and in that time has helped out at two car accidents and a suspected heart attack
THE elitism rampant in Labour's shadow cabinet is made even more obvious by the decision of Liverpool's renowned Blue Coats School to opt for grant maintained status. This means that Peter Kilfoyle, Labour's education spokesman, is now included in the
A POST problem in a Ribble Valley village should be getting first class attention at a meeting of a Royal Mail watchdog committee tomorrow. Since Rimington Post Office closed down some weeks ago, the village has been left without not only the usual post
A MAJOR rail accident was narrowly averted after 40 bricks fell from the walls of Sough Tunnel, Darwen. BR engineers closed a section of the Blackburn to Bolton line after the problems were spotted. Royal photographer Lord Lichfield was seriously ill
SO now we know. Blackburn's town centre traffic system is all right. How do we know? Coun Andy Kay, chairman of the development services committee, says so. He has announced that the town hall will stand by the controversial changes to traffic flow in
NOW you see it, now you don't: banner bandits have stripped a Rishton restaurant of its advertising sign for the second time in months. In the latest raid, a 16ft nylon banner advertising the Auberge Restaurant was torn from its fixings on the wall of
A MYSTERY overseas company is soon to relocate to East Lancashire bringing up to 150 new jobs. But Hyndburn councillors were being kept in the dark about the nature of the investing firm. They were told the deal was "confidential" but would be announced
ARSONISTS are believed to have started a blaze at Rishton Cricket Club, which damaged a shed containing the covers and a section of boundary fencing. Accrington firefighters were called to the ground yesterday. Great Harwood police are investigating.
A ROAD safety scheme for the Sudellside area of Darwen is to go ahead following a survey of local people. The £120,000 scheme, jointly funded by Lancashire County Council and Blackburn Town Hall, is designed to reduce accidents in the area. The problem
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy THIS week's postbag contained a bumper bundle from the Groundwork Trust in Blackburn, which is doing sterling work on the conservation front. The subject was the feeding of birds and the provision of bird boxes. For millions
I HAVE recently ceased smoking after more than 50 years of blissful addiction to the so-called pernicious weed and I now consider myself to be the definitive know-all, clever-clogs on the subject of smoking and the alleged advantages of not smoking. After
TWO decorative metal trees soon to be features of an Accrington road have been slammed as "an insult to the people of Hyndburn" by a councillor. Coun Peter Britcliffe said residents would see the new trees attached to a wall at the junction of Eastgate
CLAIMS that council house repair teams were paid for jobs not carried out has brought a call for action from auditors. Housing managers admit that some jobs carried out by Burnley Maintenance Services were booked as finished before they were completed
BLACKBURN'S Moat House has been sold off by Queen's Moat Houses in a £91.5 million sale. The group sold six Moat Houses and 19 County Hotels to a management buy-in team in a bid to reduce its debt. The hotels had a combined turnover of over £42 million
IT was with interest that I noted your article about hospital patients going hungry. I take it by Dr John Spier's answer that the Department of Health is not going to do anything about it. Of course the report is alarmist, but it is nowhere near as alarming
SVEN Goran Eriksson wants out of his contract with Blackburn Rovers, the Lancashire Evening Telegraph can exclusively reveal. The Swedish coach, due to take over at Ewood Park from July 1, has changed his mind about coming to England say Italian sources
PART of Coal Clough Lane, Burnley, was closed following a chemical spillage. Firefighters and police were called to the scene after a barrel fell off a lorry delivering to Habergham Mill spilling a milky-white substance over the main road. Station Officer
A HIGH percentage of Burnley council's total spending goes straight into the pockets of white collar staff, the district auditor's report shows. And Burnley are big spenders in the pay league, with the report revealing that three quarters of other 160
GOVERNMENT plans for lower Lancashire pay rates to shorten dole queues came under attack. The county's opposition MPs slammed the move announced by deputy Employment Secretary Ken Clarke during a debate on national pay bargaining. British Rail guards
EXPERT advice on National Insurance, tax and VAT will be on offer to North West employers at an open day at the Swallow Hotel, Samlesbury, next Tuesday. A programme of seminars will cover topics like self-assessment, pensions and the national insurance
FOLLOWING a high speed car chase through East Lancashire, it emerges that the 14-year-old boy behind the wheel was taught to drive by a social worker when he was just ten years old. When he appeared in court at Blackpool even his own lawyer told the hearing
THE Government's failure to deal with the extra cross-Pennine traffic through Pendle, which will follow completion of the M65, has been branded "an absolute disgrace". MP Gordon Prentice is appalled that the Department of Transport has not even bothered
WIDZEW Lodz striker Marek Citko finally dashed Blackburn Rovers' hopes of bringing him to England last night, when he turned down a move for personal reasons. It leaves Rovers to start again from scratch in the search to boost their attacking resources
COMPUTER company P and P is to change its name to reflect a widening range of business being conducted throughout the group. The company, which has just announced an increase in profits for the fifth year running, employs about 500 at its offices in Haslingden
BAXENDEN Cricket Club have announced a small profit of £931 The Vaux Ribblesdale League club reported that their income was down £600 on the previous year, mainly due to a reduction in corporate sponsorship. But their expenditure was slashed by £2,200
CAN anyone tell me what is happening to the roads of Blackburn? By this, I mean why all of a sudden are major roads such as Montague Street being narrowed? On several occasions I have noticed heavy goods vehicles having trouble trying to avoid clipping
A PENSIONER who suffered a fractured skull in a road accident was said to have "had a comfortable night" in hospital. Elsie Burrell, 79, from Oswaldtwistle, also broke her leg and sustained injuries to her hand in the accident with a Ford Escort in Eastgate
ONE hundred houses, cut off and blighted by the motorway link road in the Stoneyholme area of Burnley, will be flattened. Many of the properties in the Cavour Street, Rectory Road, Holme Road and Ashley Street block were already empty and boarded up,
THE FAMILY of Paul Wells are hoping to win the council's backing to help fund a second mercy mission to Kashmir. Bob Wells has written to Blackburn town hall asking for help to fund his fact-finding trip. And the request for help is likely to win the
BIG Vince Overson's Second Division season is over, writes Tony Dewhurst The giant defender will enter hospital on Monday for an Achilles tendon operation. And that surgery will rule Overson out until pre-season training in July. Disappointed manager
