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  • Landlord fined £1,000

    FIREFIGHTERS who rescued four people from a hostel found the alarm stuffed with cardboard, a court was told. Burnley Crown Court heard how glass in another alarm at Pendle Lodge, Albert Road, Colne, had been smashed and repairs attempted with tape, and

  • Flynn out to beat old pal Stan

    Burnley v Wrexham - Andy Neild's big match preview BRIAN Flynn and Stan Ternent's friendship goes back a long way -- but it's likely to go out of the window for 90 minutes tomorrow. The managerial rivals may live within half a mile of each other on the

  • Phil hopes to fill in

    STAN Ternent is keeping Wrexham guessing on the replacement for suspended Andy Cooke. The Burnley boss has a number of options as he attempts to leapfrog Brian Flynn's side at Turf Moor tomorrow. Colin Carr-Lawton is in the squad and could provide a straight

  • MPs call for ban on windfarms

    EAST Lancashire MPs have formed a cross party alliance to demand an immediate ban on the building of wind farms in the area while the government conducts a proper review of policy regarding the controversial form of alternative energy. They are to press

  • Blot on the countryside

    WHEN most of the ugly mill chimneys were destroyed, we saw our once-beautiful landscape restored. Now as we approach the new millennium, the threat of several wind farms, dotted all over the horizon, looms. We seem to exchange one eyesore for another.

  • ICE HOCKEY: All Wight on night?

    BLACKBURN Hawks player/coach Bobby Haig is counting on his crestfallen squad to be up and running in time for this weekend's double bill on the English Premier League. On the back of a real battering in the Christmas Cup in midweek, Hawks have re-grouped

  • SOCCER: I'll fight on, says McGarry

    GREAT Harwood Town boss Ian McGarry has vowed to continue the fight in the wake of shock revelations that The Showground club could be in danger of folding, writes ANDY NEILD. The UniBond First Division outfit urgently need a cash injection in the region

  • Pinochet did wrong

    AS your opinion headline (LET, October 23) noted, "There must be no political deal on Pinochet." I agree entirely with what you wrote and would like to add to it by reminding people that the Pinochet regime, with the aid of the American CIA, overthrew

  • Where have angels gone?

    FIVE years ago, we would have been the first in line to campaign for nurses' rights. But I am sorry to have to say that, on the last three occasions that my mother has been admitted to hospital, we just could not believe the lack of care and compassion

  • Head is proud

    FORMER pupil of Burnley's Walshaw High School Maya Vaja, took time out from working as a freelance presenter with BBC Radio Lancashire to present the school's prizes. Maya's success was just one of the achievements acknowledged at the Year 11 presentation

  • Five held after drugs raids

    HOUSES in Burnley and Pendle were raided by forty police officers as part of a major drugs trafficking investigation. Five people, four men and a woman, were arrested and taken to different police stations for questioning. Detective Chief Inspector Clive

  • Rovers swoop for £4.25m Blake

    NATHAN Blake completed a shock £4.25 million move from Bolton to Blackburn Rovers today, in the wake of Dion Dublin's decision to turn down an Ewood transfer. Rovers moved swiftly for Blake as soon as they got the thumbs down from Dublin and both the

  • Cueing off behind curtain

    CUE sports firm Riley is heading behind the bamboo curtain. The firm has recently moved to new head office premises in Burnley. It has been appointed official table sponsors for the World Amateur Snooker championships in Guangzhou, South China next month

  • Customer cleared of wine bar assault

    A WINE bar customer said to have attacked the manager's friend, has been found not guilty. Stephen King, 29, was cleared of assaulting Derek Morton, after a three-day trial, at Burnley Crown Court. King, of Queen Street, Great Harwood, denied the allegation

  • Parish hall gets go-ahead

    CHURCH leaders were slammed for not being "honest and truthful" when plans for a new parish hall in Oswaldtwistle were discussed by Hyndburn councillors. Previous promises by Immanuel Parish Church to provide benefits to the local community had been broken

  • Green course cash on offer

    EXTRA money has been made available for green-fingered people from Blackburn and Darwen who wish to embark on specialist training courses at a college in West Lancashire. Myerscough College, near Preston, offers training in subjects such as agriculture

  • Extra parking bid for centre

    PLANS to create extra car parking spaces in a pedestrianised town centre will go before councillors on Monday. Nelson Town Centre Forum, which represents traders and other groups, suggested trade could be boosted by making the centre more accessible by

  • New home without heating

    A COUPLE with four children have been offered compensation by housing bosses after being left without central heating for four days. Craig and Tracey Whiteley said they repeatedly asked for a faulty boiler at their rented home in Southfield Square, Nelson

  • Waste lines growing at green-minded firm

    WASTE not, want not could well be the company motto at HG Supplies Ltd in Stubbins. Recycling rubbish is a top priority for the firm, based on the Cuba Industrial Estate. The company produces and processes felt products, including felt washers for mattresses

  • Lazio man Marcolin wants to make mark

    LAZIO'S experienced midfielder Dario Marcolin is a man in a hurry - to prove himself in English football. The opportunity to take up a new challenge with Blackburn Rovers proved too tempting to resist for the former Italian under-21 skipper who completed

  • Rovers swoop for £4.25m Blake

    NATHAN Blake completed a shock £4.25 million move from Bolton to Blackburn Rovers today, in the wake of Dion Dublin's decision to turn down an Ewood transfer. Rovers moved swiftly for Blake as soon as they got the thumbs down from Dublin and both the

  • Joe's at home on penny lane

    Wimbledon v Blackburn Rovers - Peter White's big match preview JOE Kinnear's £2 million pursuit of Blackburn-born winger Gareth Ainsworth from Port Vale was not a departure from Wimbledon's much-vaunted system of producing talent - far from it. If anything

  • Police cell hanging - inquest opened

    AN inquest has opened into the death of a 21-year-old man who died in police custody on Tuesday. Paul Barry Buchanan, of St Paul's Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, was found hanged in a cell at Clitheroe Police Station, just over an hour after being arrested

  • FIVE YEARS AGO: Caravan camp fury

    NEARBY residents to a travellers' encampment on Everton playing fields, Blackburn, protested against the new settlement. Around 24 caravans parked on the land owned by Lancashire County Council and legal officers were planning to go to court to seek an

  • TEN YEARS AGO: Pendle prayer vigil

    A PRAYER vigil to ward off evil spirits on All Hallows Eve was planned at Sabden Methodist Church, on the slopes of Pendle Hill. And pubs all around Pendle were also going bump in the night as landlords decided to close their doors after police requests

  • Spree for shoppers?

    A WHOPPING £1 million is to be spent revitalising Nelson Town Centre. Good idea! Give everybody £50 to spend on shopping. All in favour say: "Aye." DANNY McNAMARA, Leeds Road, Nelson. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting

  • Is this a whitewash or just stupid?

    THE long suffering rail passengers of East Lancashire must think they are living on a different planet from that occupied by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and the officials of North Western Trains. The company has said that services in the area

  • Horror tales about flats

    WITH ever-increasing regularity, horror stories are coming from Larkhill Flats, Blackburn. This leads me to believe there is some long-term plan to get rid of these. The type of person they have sometimes put in, the general lack of maintenance, the removal

  • Suspicion over arrest

    THE Prime Minister took the moral high ground by arresting the former dictator of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet, for possible extradition to Spain for abuse of human rights. I think that this was, to say the least, an unwise decision by the Prime Minister

  • Protect our water plea

    TO all readers of my previous letter about the impending commercial development within the catchment area of Fishmoor and Guide drinking water reservoirs. This is your last opportunity to do something positive to prevent the proposed plan to build a petrol

  • Democracy flagging

    'A SNAPSHOT of Britain today.' A foreign flag -- a ring of yellow on a blue background -- flying from most town halls and not a Union Jack in sight; my driving licence emblazoned with that foreign flag; my passport, an unfamiliar and unwelcome red colour

  • Residents asked how to spend £1m

    A £1 MILLION question is being put to residents of Burnley's Daneshouse and Calder areas. Local people and organisations are being asked how they would spend a million pounds on the area where they live. Their answers will help form an action plan being

  • Phil hopes to fill in for Clarets

    STAN Ternent is keeping Wrexham guessing on the replacement for suspended Andy Cooke. The Burnley boss has a number of options as he attempts to leapfrog Brian Flynn's side at Turf Moor tomorrow. Colin Carr-Lawton is in the squad and could provide a straight

  • David's spur a Choice venture

    BEING made redundant proved to be the spur that put David Johnson in business. David, of Haslingden, decided to use his 20 years retail experience to launch his own venture earlier this year. His Consumer's Choice shop, in Clitheroe, stocks household

  • Order placed to light up hotel

    A £500,000 order to light up one of the world's tallest hotels has been won by an East Lancashire firm. Barrowford-based lighting firm AC/DC, has been awarded a contract to manufacture and supply lighting to the Chicago Beach Hotel, in Dubai. AC/DC will

  • Help secure funding, firms urged

    BUSINESSES are being urged to help play a role in trying to win funding to improve their surroundings. Firms based on or around the Carrs Industrial Estate are being asked to take part in a feasibility study being carried out by Groundwork Rossendale,

  • MPs call for ban on windfarms

    EAST Lancashire MPs have formed a cross party alliance to demand an immediate ban on the building of wind farms in the area while the government conducts a proper review of policy regarding the controversial form of alternative energy. They are to press