A BUSINESSWOMAN accused of performing sex acts with a fellow passenger during a flight from Dallas to Manchester was today keeping a low profile. Car sales manager Amanda Holt, 37, of Moorside Crescent, Bacup, right, and company director David Machin,
QUEENS Park Rangers midfielder Richard Langley believed Rovers keeper John Filan was lucky to stay on the pitch following his 20th minute tangle with Chris Kiwomya. "Other keepers have definitely gone for incidents like that this season," said Langley
CRICHTON: Not to blame over his positioning for Brentford's equaliser, although a couple of second half slips kept Burnley on the back foot...6 WEST: Under pressure after the break and not as solid as he has been...6 SMITH: Didn't really get into top
LANCASHIRE Police are appealing for four-footed recruits to join the dog section. PC Dave King, of the dog training section, said: "We are very keen to hear from dog owners who are considering giving up their pets. "Dogs are brought to us for a variety
Division Two: Burnley 2, Brentford 2 - Pete Oliver's match verdict BURIED in the welter of statistics that Opta will churn out this week on behalf of the Nationwide and Premier leagues should be a goal assist credited to Middlesbrough's Graham Frankland
THE family of a five-year-old girl who died of a brain tumour have launched a campaign to get the MRI scanner at Blackburn Royal Infirmary opened at weekends. Laura-Jayne Haworth died at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, in July and
Division One: Queens Park Rangers 0 Blackburn Rovers 0 - Peter White's match verdict BLACKBURN Rovers may still be dealing in Monopoly money compared to the majority of their First Division rivals. But gone are the days of lording it up in all four corners
Blackburn Breast Care Support Group meet Beardwood Hospital, Preston New Road, Blackburn, 7pm-9pm. "Diamonds," with Philip Ainsworth. Jewellery Party, organised by the Burnley and Padiham branch of the RNLI, St Peter's Parish Church, Burnley, 7.30pm.
AN independent school looks set to build a new nursery near where a child care centre closed last week. Bosses at Oakhill College, Whalley, today revealed they were negotiating towards a purpose-built centre in Brockhall Village, in the wake of the closure
AS the anniversary approaches of the opening of Blackburn's "new" market 35 years ago next month, how many are aware that townsfolk might have gone shopping on the very same spot and as much as 50 years earlier if the plans of the visionary T.P. Ritzema
THE NSPCC's £100,000 Child Care Centre Appeal kicked off in style - with a £3,000 donation from Blackburn Lions. People across the area were gearing up to raise cash for the appeal, to transform a run-down building in Wellington Street, St John's, Blackburn
CARL Fogarty's final race of the World Superbike season may be cancelled because of radiation fears in Japan. Championship organisers were due to decide today whether to abandon next weekend's final round in Sugo, Japan. The race track is many miles away
NERVES were taut as the Tories lined up for what is probably their most crucial annual conference since the early 1950s. For leader William Hague, struggling to impress his own party faithful let alone floating voters, it is make-or-break time. There
STANLEY'S first visit to Bradford's Horsfall Stadium produced their fifth defeat of the season and kept them in the bottom half of the table. A goal just before half-time was enough to give the home side the points and place them among the early-season
A LATE strike from veteran striker Paul Baker extended Darwen's magnificent unbeaten league record to 10 matches. The Anchormen looked set to lose their first league match this season after an afternoon of frustration against the Merseysiders. But with
IT seems there are suggestions, if not plans, for the motorway service stations to bring down the price of food, etc served in the restaurants. This is a move well overdue. Many motorists are not prepared to pay what seem to them exorbitant prices, so
REGARDING the castigation of L Burrows for his earlier remarks for their 'stunning inaccuracies.' Councillor D Smith (Letters, September 23) may be correct in saying it is not Labour in Blackburn that is imposing a 'special cabinet' system on the council
EAST Lancashire will go dough-nutty tomorrow to launch a hospital fund-raising appeal. The aim is to raise £1.5million in East Lancashire to pay for a revolutionary "double doughnut" MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner for the Christie Hospital in
TORIES on Hyndburn Council have vowed to keep their grip on power after severing links with outspoken independent councillor Adrian Shurmer. The ruling Conservative group has booted Coun Shurmer off three committees after he formally withdrew support
THOUSANDS of small companies in Lancashire are being urged to take steps to identify hidden risks which threaten to destroy their businesses. Diane Eatough, president of the North West Society of Chartered Accountants, warned: "There are many issues beyond
THE DISTRAUGHT grandmother of a 14-year-old girl has told how she found the teenager dead in her bed early today, as police launched an investigation into the mystery death. Catherine Smith said she thought her granddaughter, Catherine Kent, was playing
THE distraught grandmother of a 14-year-old girl has told how she found the teenager dead in her bed early today, as police launched an investigation into the mystery death. Catherine Smith said she thought her granddaughter, Catherine Kent, was playing
A TEENAGE driver suffered a broken neck and spinal injuries after a head-on collision left nine people needing hospital treatment. Police said Rory James Mulderig, 19, of Douglas Road, Bacup, lost control of his Ford Escort cabriolet on a slight bend
PAUL Evans lived up to his billing as the scorer of spectacular goals to end Burnley's perfect home record. The Brentford midfielder followed up his 60-yarder against Preston with another long-range chip to complete the Bees' fightback and snatch a 2-
A DEVELOPMENT plan for Haslingden Tor View Special School has been adopted after a year of consultation with parents. At the school's presentation evening last year, head teacher Andy Squire said parents would be asked for their views for the Plan for
THE countdown to the year 2000 officially began in Earby when the Rev Stephen Heap switched on the Millennium Clock - although the weather forced him to unveil the plaque inside instead of outside. But the rain did not dampen the spirits of the hundreds
FILAN: Could have been sent off in the first half but recovered to make a string of top saves...8 KENNA: A steady performance considering his preference for the right back role...7 GRAYSON: Had his hands full against the marauding Baraclough but stuck
UPBEAT Burnley boss Stan Ternent insists his side are still on course for a promotion challenge, despite surrendering their 100 per cent home record to Brentford. The Clarets let slip a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with the buzzing Bees who are now unbeaten
CAMPAIGNERS have won the first leg of a battle to keep a training and education body in East Lancashire. Businesses, colleges and other groups joined forces with district councils in East Lancashire in arguing for the area to have its own Learning and
BLACKBURN Rovers were today rocked by another injury blow to midfielder Lee Carsley. Republic of Ireland boss Mick McCarthy was set to send the former Derby man for an X-ray on the foot injury he picked up at Swindon last week. And, if the examination
NORTH West Water chiefs were to be put under strict new controls by a future Labour government, it was revealed. The warning came as the Labour Party conference was told that consumers' bills throughout the North West were three quarters larger than before
Blackburn Hawks 3 Nottingham Lions 3 BLACKBURN Hawks threw away a two-goal lead last night as Nottingham Lions took a share of the spoils in this English Ice Hockey League Division One (North) clash at the Arena. The Hawks fans responded to Bobby Haig's
LANCASHIRE's cricket committee meet tonight with the Andy Flintoff saga and a new coach at the top of the agenda. Flintoff has still to agree a new contract with the club, while Neil Fairbrother has emerged as the favourite to take over as player-coach
CAN readers help me find the whereabouts of a girl from Somerset Avenue, Wilpshire, who was at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School for Girls in the mid 1950s? Her name was Ruth Pearson and she was in the sixth form there at the same time as I was in the corresponding
IAN Milne, an economist at Global Britain and a eurosceptic, has analysed the pattern of British trade. The USA is Britain's largest export market by far, worth more than Germany and France put together. In 1998, Britain exported more than £61 billion-worth
RAMSBOTTOM came so close to netting a maximum-points haul from their trip to big-spending opponents Prescot. Among the Merseysiders' midweek captures was the Accrington Stanley striker Billy O'Callagan. But after a tentative start, with play concentrated
FOLLOWING the attack on Home Secretary Jack Straw by my colleague, Coun John Williams (Letters, September 14), at the following council meeting, Coun Dorothy Walsh predictably blamed the increase in juvenile crime and drug abuse on the previous Conservative
A MAN wearing a Blackburn Rovers shirt needed seven stitches to a head wound when he was attacked outside the cricket field stand after Burnley's home game on Saturday. Football bosses are today scouring security camera tapes to try to identify who attacked
BLUES Cafe Bar at Ewood Park, Blackburn, is in a league of its own when it comes to serving the business community. For it has just launched a new fax service for customers on a tight schedule at lunchtimes. Business people dining at the new venue, between
EMPLOYERS in East Lancashire who are confused by the continual reforms and developments in employment law can now receive free advice. Business Link East Lancashire and Pierce Chartered Accountants, Blackburn, are hosting a half-day seminar aimed at employers
THIS week we welcome hundreds of young readers who will be using copies of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in school classrooms as part of Newspapers in Education, helping them to study the history of East Lancashire. Today we invite them to become journalists
TWO new honorary canons have been installed in Blackburn Cathedral by the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Alan Chesters. They are the Rev Steward Hartley, priest in charge of St John's, Great Marsden, near Nelson and the Rev Jim Burns, rector of St Mary's
SOCCER coach Mark Wardle had a lucky escape when a gas fire blew up in his face. Mark, 26, who coaches at the Centre of Excellence based at Burnley FC, was hit by shards of glass and had his hair singed when the fire exploded in the living room of his
WORKERS at Nelson's Coloroll factory who will be made redundant when it closes at Christmas will be given help by council officers to find other jobs. Economic development staff from Pendle Council were due to meet with bosses and staff representatives
A MUSIC festival in Nelson over the weekend was such a success it is to become an annual event. Two pubs and two night clubs took part in the Nelson Unplugged event, which attracted more than 1,500 people. The clubs were packed for the three-hour acoustic
CHEMICAL giant ICI today struck a £505million deal to sell off its Darwen bases. The town's sites, which employ around 300 people and are part of the firm's acrylics division, have been up for sale since April. They have been sold to Ineos Acrylics, a
