I have been given the privilege of launching the countdown to Britain's first National Cancer Day. The Cancer Research Campaign has designated May 23 (its birthday) to raise public awareness of the great strides in science, which now mean more than 100,000
TEXTILE firm Albert Hartley has become the latest East Lancashire firm to gain the Investor in People award for staff training and development. The firm, a subsidiary of Coats Viyella, employs more than 200 staff producing curtains, quilt covers, pillowcases
GARY Parkinson put pen to paper on a three year contract with Lancashire rivals Preston North End today and declared: "I've made the right decision." The Lancashire Evening Telegraph player of the season described the Deepdale deal as a "fantastic package
IN response to the comments regarding the survey on room occupancy at Blackburn College (Letters, May 14), I was one of the nine, not two, overpaid bureaucrats employed by the outside consultants to undertake the job. The survey was more to do with space
A FORMER East Lancashire couple who emigrated to Canada are urging old folk to get on the Internet so they can keep in touch with long distance relatives. Dave and Rena Barnett read the Lancashire Evening Telegraph every night - direct from their computer
LIFE or death emergency calls could be delayed because of cost-cutting changes in the 999 service, angry ambulance officers claimed. They warned that plans to axe the number of staff manning emergency control desks would cause delays - and could cost
THE countdown has begun to the official launch of a sculpture trail to celebrate the new millennium. School pupils and community volunteers are busy working hard to create 21 sculptures with a difference - each will mark the location of a time capsule
LANCASHIRE's Championship problems piled up today with fresh injury worries over Wasim Akram and Mike Watkinson. Wasim (right) is almost certain to miss the Old Trafford clash with Northants starting tomorrow after his shoulder problem flared up against
THE GLOVES-OFF, new broom approach, with which the Labour government has dazzled from the start, today looked set to spark a row with the teaching unions. The issue is the government's naming of more than a dozen "failing" schools. The unions do not like
A WIDOW has been left devastated after thieves snatched garden ornaments from a collection she built up with her late husband. Doreen O'Grady pulled back the curtains at her home in Shaw Close, Blackburn, yesterday morning to discover 25 gnomes, toadstools
HEALTH bosses are considering possible cuts in hospital checks for pregnant women in an attempt to save cash. It follows an Audit Commission report outlining savings by reducing the number of antenatal checks for women at low risk of complications in
THE final line-up for this week's Chamber of Commerce exhibition has been unveiled. More than 1,500 visitors are expected at the Combined Strength of Business event being staged at Ewood Park, Blackburn, on Friday. As well as the main exhibition, where
A BUS company has launched an investigation into claims that a 10-year-old boy was ordered off a vehicle and left stranded when the driver decided to change his route because he was late. Catherine Turner says stepson Dax was returning home from St Oswald's
BLACKBURN Railway Station is to have another £2 million spent on it, Railtrack announced today. The company also revealed it was spending £6 million on refurbishment of Preston station as part of a £1 billion package of improvements at 2,500 stations
Tuesday Topic with Christine Rutter IN 1885 Queen Victoria was the reigning monarch, the motor car was invented, the American Indians were forced to live in reservations - and Accrington Pipe Band was formed. Today, the men in tartan are believed to be
TWO major department stores are set to move into Burnley's new Curzon Square shopping development. T J Hughes and Wilkinson's are ready to sign up, it was announced by David James, project executive with the Charter Walk owners Great Portland Estates.
YOUNG cellists can hit the high note in a masterclass led by a top musician at Ribchester Music Festival. The masterclass, at St Wilfrid's Parish Church, Ribchester, will feature renowned British cellist Lowri Blake. And young cellists from throughout
POLICE believe the same burglar has struck twice in a week in Yarmouth Street, Haslingden. Witnesses have given similar descriptions of a man seen in the area on both occasions. After the second break-in, police recovered a dark brown leather bomber jacket
LITTLE Joanne Waring did not blink an eye when her parents' car skidded off the road and overturned after rolling down a 15ft embankment. The eight-month old slept through the drama yesterday in Cravens Brow, Darwen, and only stirred when the emergency
FORMER East Lancashire schoolboy and now bank chief Martin Taylor is to head up a new Government task force. The chief executive of Barclays Bank will be responsible for looking at ways to improve incentives for people to work and get people out of the
FIREFIGHTERS were called out after two heifers fell down a 15ft sewer shaft on a farm. Vandals had lifted heavy concrete slabs from the shaft on the canal bank at Dill Hall Farm, Church, leaving it open. One of the nine-month-old heifers was already dead
ADRIAN Heath began a nationwide search for a new full-back today. Gary Parkinson's sudden departure to Preston North End has left Heath in the market for a right-sided defender. The Clarets chief will begin talks with Richard Huxford when he returns from
RIBBLESDALE League side Cherry Tree were humiliated at Chorley in the second round of the Abbot Ale Cup. The visitors were bowled out for just 32 by the twice-winners of the national competition. Medium pacer Neil Walmsley did the damage for the Northern
TO the thieves who stole my car, ran it round a field then dumped it, I am sure that if I had money to put more petrol in, you would have got further with it. But instead you had to trash it and destroy things that did not belong to you. I am an ordinary
THE bosses of the water companies are said to have sat glum-faced as the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, in effect read them the Riot Act over water going to waste. No doubt they were stunned. For Mr Prescott left them in no doubt over where their
TWO outstanding young athletes, diver Daniel Crake and thrower Emma Morris, look set to win grants from Burnley Area Sports Council. Daniel, a member of Burnley Dolphin Diving Club, is showing the potential to reach national level, having won county and
TOP Russian striker Igor Kolyvanov is the latest name to be linked with Blackburn Rovers. But fans should not hold their breath in anticipation. The 29-year-old is being chased for his signature by both Rovers and Liverpool according to Moscow reports
A PUBLIC inquiry was due to start today in Ribble Valley Council chamber, Clitheroe into the proposed closure of a stretch of the Ribble Way. Former Environment Secretary John Gummer ordered an inquiry into the deletion of the path, in Sawley, from the
THE headline on your story (LET, May 8) on the Hawthorns School's decision to "drop the Christian faith at assemblies" only incites the growing Islamaphobia which inevitably leads to racism. Reporting the item as a 'shock' was completely unnecessary,
A TEENAGER had to be cut free from his car by firefighters after a smash with another car last night. Mark Haworth, 19, and his 16-year-old passenger were in a Vaxhall Nova in an accident with a Renault Savanah estate at the junction of Lower Fold Lane
MAY I thank Eric Leaver for his interesting article (LET, May 12) on the Whitsuntide Walks and the Coffee and Bun days. It brought back pleasant memories of by-gone days in Huncoat, where I have lived since 1941. In my younger days, Huncoat's four churches
SADDENED family and friends met to pay their last respects to a brave, uncomplaining ten-year-old who died on May 10. William Robson, who had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, died at his home in Central Avenue, Oswaldtwistle, after suffering a chest infection
A TRAFFIC boss has pledged to investigate allegations that a bus firm is operating unreliable services - but he can do so only if passengers make a formal complaint. Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth has urged people to inform him of problems they
LITTLE Anthony Shankly was annoyed when his mum wouldn't let him help with her shopping - so he locked her out of the house. The two-year-old was trapped inside the family home at Heys Close, Blackburn, for 45 minutes yesterday afternoon while firefighters
WORRIED Burnley fans believe Adrian Heath could quit Turf Moor if he is not allowed to play the summer transfer market. Fans' fury boiled over today following the departure of Gary Parkinson to Preston North End. "If the board of directors are not going
