STUDENT nurse Carol Harper was hailed a heroine today after a light aircraft crashed on an isolated farm near her Rossendale home. Despite leaking fuel she gave first aid to the badly injured passenger while others held the weight of the split fuel tank
THE chief executive of Enterprise plc - formerly called Lancashire Enterprises - has been urged to dispose of share options by a Tory MP. Christopher Chope has called on David Taylor to relinquish 300,000 share options he has in the economic development
Division Two: Watford 1 Burnley 0 - Tony Dewhurst's big match verdict GRAHAM Taylor collected the Division Two accolades at Vicarage Road but forecast a prosperous future for Chris Waddle at Turf Moor. Taylor, after all, knows a little about the trials
VILLAGE gardeners, cooks and craftsmen showed off their skills at the 39th annual flower and handicraft show at Cliviger Village Hall. Entries were of a high standard and up to the level of recent years. Village Hall management committee chairman Beryl
WEEPING friends and family of murdered Blackburn youngster Dillon Hull heard how he was the victim of "violence in its crudest form" during a church service. The Rev Steven Abram told about 100 worshippers at St George the Martyr church, near Dillon's
SUPPORTERS of Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School were celebrating the school being reprieved from the axe. Education Secretary Kenneth Baker ruled against a Lancashire County Council move to amalgamate the school with Fearns CS School, Stacksteads.
LANCASHIRE have made a shock bid to sign Shane Warne to replace Wasim Akram as their overseas player. Wasim has a contract, and a benefit, with Lancashire next year. But after he was ruled out of almost all of this season with a serious shoulder problem
Worsley Cup Final: Haslingden 283-9, Burnley175-9 DYNAMIC duo Steve Dearden and Jack Simpson both plundered sunshine centuries - but one of them needn't have bothered! So one-sided was yesterday's Worsley Cup Final at Turf Moor that Haslingden could have
REGARDING your article (LET, August 5) about mediums, I am a Catholic and my husband, daughter, her friends and I visit the Spiritualist Temple and have found it very comforting. We sing hymns and say prayers and think mediums are wonderful. They know
THE hottest day of the year, with temperatures well into the 80s, was chosen by Burnley Rotarians and staff at the Oaks Hotel, Reedley, for a charity Christmas party! They tucked into a full traditional Christmas dinner of turkey and stuffing with all
A WRITER who has provided entertainment to hundreds of people has opened her heart on her battle to beat breast cancer - and earned £1,000 for East Lancashire's SuperScan appeal. Benita Moore, 59, has already undergone a double mastectomy and is now having
Premier League: Blackburn Rovers 1 Derby County 0 - Peter White's big match verdict NOT every revolution begins with a bloody uprising and Ewood Park's new era was ushered in with more of a softly, softly approach. But every cause needs a spiritual hero
Looking Back, with Eric Leaver IF YOU believed the film industry hype whenever the latest "record-breaking" blockbuster was billed, you would think cinema queues were at their longest ever. But even with the revival that multi-screen outlets and mega-productions
REGARDING the council debate over applying new legislation making it an offence not to clear up after a dog which fouls in the parks, although 15 years since the by-law banning dogs from all three major parks in Burnley was introduced, I am still deeply
HENNING Berg was set to join Manchester United today in a sensational deal that could be worth £5 million. The Blackburn Rovers central defender was believed to have been at United's Cliff training ground today to negotiate personal terms and United called
RESIDENTS in a Ribble Valley village sent more than 220 letters to the council in opposition to a road calming scheme. Ribble Valley councillors will hear objections from Billington residents during a Planning and Development Committee meeting tomorrow
CHRIS Waddle completed his fifth signing today when he snapped up defender Lee Howey from First Division Sunderland. Now Howey will make his Clarets debut in tomorrow's Coca-Cola Cup first round, first leg tie at Lincoln City. The deal for the 27-year-old
PRESSURE was growing on the Home Secretary Jack Straw today to order a full scale inquiry into Britain's drugs culture and consider legalising the trade following the murder of Blackburn youngster Dillon Hull. The calls came in the wake of the five-year-old's
PREMIERSHIP new boys Crystal Palace have been eyeing Blackburn Rovers central defender Ian Pearce as a potential transfer target. And London rivals West Ham United are also believed to have expressed an interest in taking him back to the capital, where
A TERRIBLE amount of theft is taking place in Darwen town centre. We shopkeepers are being robbed blind by a group of young people - all known to us - but can do nothing about it. We are being made a laughing stock. They walk into our shops, keep us taking
HOW would it be if, because of continual shoplifting, a store only allowed people to enter under supervision? Sadly, that's exactly the policy, in a driving sense, adopted by Hyndburn and Lancashire County councils. The only way to drive around the Accrington
AN initiative by the East Lancashire Training and Enterprise Council is putting unemployed people on target for new careers. ELTEC's Target Training helps unemployed people of all ages gain new skills to help fill gaps in the local labour market. It has
A TRAIN ploughed at 50mph into a barricade of concrete blocks, metal and logs on the vandal-plagued East Lancashire line. Badly-shaken passengers had to walk a quarter of a mile to Burnley Central station where they were taken by bus to their destinations
READ crashed their way to victory with a spectacular late smash and grab raid against Settle. The Dalesmen set a total of 230-1 with Mark Verden scoring 83, David Morrell 76 not out and Tim Green undefeated on 53. The home side fell a long way behind
IN AN echo of the row over the alleged conflict of interest stemming from trade minister Lord Simon's shareholding in BP, the chief of Lancashire-based Enterprise plc, David Taylor, finds himself under similar pressure. He is being urged to dispose of
INEVITABLY, in the aftermath of the murder of five-year-old Dillon Hull in a turf war between drugs dealers, there come calls from Labour backbenchers for an open debate about the decriminalisation of drugs. That there should be a debate is paramount.
ANGRY householders have raised the roof over plans to raise the level of a town's tip near their homes. But their campaign looks set for defeat, with county planning chiefs poised to give the go-ahead to the upward extension at Rowley landfill site in
WORK has started on a multi-million factory which will bring up to 20 new jobs to Blackburn. Weltonhurst Ltd has begun work on a new site in Centurion Way which will employ around 160 when it opens next year. Workers from the firm's Bottomcroft Mill in
SOME two years have elapsed since a traffic-calming scheme was brought into operation in Harwood Road, Rishton. We have narrower roads, white-painted circles at junctions, parking areas, cycle tracks, numerous white lines and small islands. Like many
THE clock was turned back for a nostalgic trip through East Lancashire. Sixty classic cars took part in a coast-to-coast rally organised by the Blackburn-based Lancashire Automobile Club. The vehicles, which departed from Blackpool Promenade, passed through
SOCIAL services chiefs did not consider tragic Dillon Hull to be at risk while he lived in Blackburn - even though a judge had warned his mother to protect him from the evil world of drugs. The murdered five-year-old had never been placed on the child
SHOPPERS in Blackburn will be able to sample exotic food and tasty barbecue snacks during the Great British Markets Week. Aziz Kureshi, who runs a salad bar of Asian food on the three-day market, will be giving shoppers samples of his food. And Paul Bernard
IWAS very pleasantly surprised to receive in the post a cutting from your newspaper, taken from your 'On This Day' column. This republished my award of the title North West Nurse of the Year five years ago. I find it hard to believe that it is five years
THE death rate for baby boys born in Blackburn is double the national average, shock statistics revealed today. The frightening figures, showing health inequality at its worst for more 50 years, reveal that the town is one of the main baby death blackspots
BOSSES from a Danish firm are heading for Blackburn this week to see one of their plants at first hand. Managers from MD Foods, owned by 9,000 Danish farmers, are visiting the company's Blackburn fruit drink plant which is one of the firm's UK sites benefiting
