A SEMINAR for small and medium-sized rural businesses is being held later this week. Myerscough College is staging the event to increase awareness of the use of information technology. The event, which starts at 10.30am on Friday, will feature speakers
AN elderly neighbour had a chip pan fire. We rang the fire brigade and they attended within five minutes. They put out the fire, comforted my neighbour and when everything was in order left the scene saying that if they got chance they would return in
CARING police officers have been saddened by a setback in the countdown to their last mercy mission to Romania. Their stores of aid, waiting to be loaded into four wagons for the annual trip, have been targeted by thieves who stole 180 five kilogramme
NEW £2.5 million striking target Per Pedersen was due at Blackburn Rovers today on trial. The Danish international striker, described by Scandinavian sources as the hottest attacking property in the Danish League, plays for Odense Boldklub (OB). Pedersen
A CRACKDOWN on bosses who use child labour in Blackburn is being planned after a shock report commissioned by town hall leaders and backed by the GMB union revealed child employment is rife in the borough. A survey found unscrupulous bosses prefer to
BRITAIN'S women were told by the Government that they had never had it so good. Pendle Tory MP John Lee told the House of Commons, in his capacity as Junior Employment Minister, that women had far more opportunities in society. He was defending the Government's
BURNLEY boxer John Duckworth was stopped in the seventh round by British middleweight title contender Howard Eastham in London last night. "John put on a fine display because Eastham is a class performer," said trainer Bert Myers. Converted for the new
Neil Bramwell recalls his childhood brush with the boy who grew to be England captain HE WAS knee-high to a grasshopper and as scrawny as a stick insect. The angelic wispy blond locks enforced the impression that the kid meandering in to bat would not
"DON'T Cry For Me Argentina" echoed around Burnley Crematorium, but they did shed tears and also shared a lot of laughs in a poignant final farewell to popular singer Chrissie Barnes. Chrissie, known in the music business as Chrissie Rey, died last Wednesday
FORMER Blackburn Rovers star and now multi-millionaire business tycoon David Whelan will be the guest speaker at the 1997 Lancashire Evening Telegraph East Lancashire Business Awards. Mr Whelan, chairman of the £300 million JJB Sports empire, has agreed
COUNCIL chiefs are remaining tight lipped over speculation that holiday giants Airtours could be moving part of their business operation into Accrington. Lawyers are working on a deal to let an entire floor of The Globe Centre to "an international blue
IAM writing to clarify the background to the Boulevard refurbishment scheme and the related traffic issues. Before design work began, the council sought to gather a group of people from the town who could represent all possible views about the refurbishment
A SMARTLY-dressed woman who posed as a social worker and tried to get access to a baby is still being sought by police. The incident happened at 4.45pm on Monday when the woman called at the home of Patrick and Catherine Leonard in Glen Street, Colne.
COMPUTER enthusiasts are battling to stop an American firm taking money from their accounts. Dozens of people are understood to be at loggerheads with California-based software club Micro Star. Sweet-talking saleswomen have been telephoning East Lancashire
ADRIAN Heath will have to sell before he can buy as he bids to strengthen his promotion-chasing squad. The Clarets boss is unlikely to receive further cash assistance with the clock ticking towards next month's transfer deadline day. Heath said: "If I
BLACKBURN Business Club is the place for business to meet business. Established in the late 80s, it now has more than 120 members, all working to improve both their own and the town's commercial prospects. It has three main roles. The first helps businesses
A PROGRAMME of seminars has been arranged during the Blackburn Means Business exhibition to introduce industry to the use of telematics in the business world. Telematics is the merging of computers and communications, which is helping to speed up communications
BLACKBURN and District Enterprise Trust offers the commercial world a comprehensive range of business support. First set up in the early 1980s as an initiative of the then Chamber of Commerce, it continues to advise start-up businesses and provides help
A MAJOR exhibition will bring a host of Blackburn businesses together under one roof next week. 'Blackburn Means Business' has been organised by Blackburn Business Club, in association with Blackburn and District Enterprise Trust. Supported by Blackburn
A COMPANY boss selling people the chance of a dream holiday in Florida has insisted the offer is not a con, after police and trading standards officials said they were monitoring the operation. Blackpool-based TFC Life Ltd began promoting £1 draw tickets
ON February 6, 1958, eight Manchester United players, three of the club's staff and eight journalists died when a British European Airways aircraft crashed on takeoff at Munich. I wonder if I might seek the assistance of readers with a book I have been
COMPLAINTS from ramblers that Yorkshire Water has asphalted the Pennine Way have been refuted by water bosses. Country lovers claim part of the historic route near Hebden Bridge looks like a motorway after being surfaced. But in a statement Yorkshire
BOYS are being encouraged to maintain a good attendance at Barden High School, Burnley - with a series of incentives. The school is aiming for an 89 to 90 per cent attendance level and, with the help of local companies, including McDonald's, for the last
LOW-PAID householders in East Lancashire were due to get cash grants to rip poisonous lead piping from their homes. The move followed a shock survey which revealed horrifying lead levels in the some Blackburn homes. New Government rules meant councils
QUITE rightly, Bolton West MP and Home Office minister Tom Sackville is happy that the town he represents is to be properly marked on motorway signs at last - just as Blackburn is up the road. But as a way of stressing Bolton's merit for the same treatment
THE communications explosion may have made the world a global village, but it lacks a bobby. That is what computer-users in East Lancashire are finding out after falling victim to an international scam. They have been sweet-talked on the telephone into
DESPITE the evident politicking involved, there is nonetheless arrant presumption in the refusal of Labour county council bosses to answer Tory demands for more information on alleged scandals in Lancashire care homes and day centres run by the social
HOSPITAL patients will hear this week how a mayor and mayoress let their hair down. Rossendale's first couple, Councillors Lawrence and June Forshaw, reveal that away from the pressures of office they relax by jiving. And they are hoping to show their
A PIECE of Clitheroe history which almost ended up on a rubbish dump is set to light up the town again. The town's only remaining Victorian gas lamp is to be switched back on once the finishing touches have been completed. Ribble Valley Council has restored
AT the end of your article 'Cyclists' signs of despair' (LET, February 11), a spokesman for Blackburn Borough Council is quoted as saying: "If people want to raise the issue they should write to the director of development services." That is precisely
ATTACK victim Esme Heald, 78, was today undergoing an operation to have a pin inserted in her broken hip. Mrs Heald, a widow, was pushed to the ground by a teenage thug who stole her handbag. She was left screaming in agony in Back Ivy Street as the 15
THE government was today firmly blamed for East Lancashire's Further Education cash crisis. Hyndburn MP Greg Pope and his Pendle Labour colleague Gordon Prentice joined forces in the Commons to call for urgent action to provide extra money to stop lecturer
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy THIS week I visited an exotic aquarium and then went on a cruise. But I didn't set off to the Mediterranean or to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Instead of such exotic locations I spent the day on the estuary of the
MAN of mystery Sven Goran Eriksson was today waiting for the phone call from Blackburn Rovers that would seal his future. The Swede admitted from Sampdoria's training base that a public declaration about his desire to stay in Italy - despite a signed
SAVERS went home and away when it came to spending credit union cash. The low-cost loans offered by Nelson Community Credit Union were snapped up by members like never before. And their main targets were holidays and home improvements when they spent
ASSISTING some of the most deprived areas of Blackburn and Darwen is the aim of the Blackburn Regeneration Partnership. It objectives are to create employment, improve skill levels, develop projects that improve the quality of life and reduce levels of
