A plastics company was without electricity for more than 15 hours after a power cut in the Livesey Branch Road area OF Blackburn yesterday. Houses and businesses were all affected by the power cut caused by a high voltage fault at 5.30pm yesterday. Norweb
EDUCATION in East Lancashire will receive a £1.4million boost next year. The Government has revealed that Lancashire County Council will receive an extra £1.2million towards its budget from next April. Figures released by the Department for Education
A NEWSAGENT was trapped when his car and a bus collided leaving five people injured and a road blocked for more than two hours. Kulbinder Singh Johal, known to his customers as John, was freed from wreckage after a 30 minute operation by firefighters
A WAR of words has broken out between a councillor and Blackburn's biggest inward investor over job losses at the firm. Councillor Don Rishton has complained about the way curtain manufacturer Rectella has handled the loss of 53 people over the past three
A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings I'LL tell you what, those Derby fans are a sensitive bunch. Regular readers of this column will recall that last week I had a bit of fun at Derby's expense following the FA Cup draw. I called them
BLACKBURN Rovers are set to step up their chase for Norwich boss Bruce Rioch. The Lancashire Evening Telegraph understands that talks are planned with the former Bolton Wanderers and Arsenal manager later this week. There was a deafening silence at Carrow
I AGREE with almost everything Neil Bramwell said in his Speaks Out column (LET, November 25). I also cannot understand the logic in attempting to secure the services of managers like Colin Todd and Dave Bassett to be the new manager of Blackburn Rovers
A BURST water main left a school gym under several feet of water for most of yesterday. North West Water workers were called to Moorland School, Clitheroe, after staff arriving for duty found the school field and gym waterlogged. They worked all day to
GIANT GEC announced the shock closure of most of its engineering site at Clayton-le-Moors. The company told its 280-strong East Lancashire workforce most of the site would be shut by the end of March. Only 80 men making plastic aircraft parts in a small
NEWCOMERS Hoddlesden Con Club made it five wins out of five in the Darwen Hotels League when they beat Uncle Jack's 6-2, and are going to take some stopping on this form. Oggy haven't faced any really tough opposition, however, and tonight will see just
ON A day when Barnoldswick expected to consolidate their position in the West Lancashire League Premier Division, they were firmly beaten by a reconstructed Springfields outfit. Some of the home side's signings have been recruited from a higher standard
THE weekend's action saw the Under-Nines Panthers produce one of their best performances of the season. Despite trailing to Clitheroe Wolves at the break, they came up with a second-half fight-back in a thriller at Memorial Park. Their opponents led after
I HOPE other bus users will join me in writing to the manager of Blackburn Transport regarding the unsatisfactory service on the No 40 Higher Croft route. According to the timetables, it is supposed to be a 10-minute service, but that is not the case.
THE response by officials to the case of meningitis involving a teacher at an East Lancashire school with 1,000 pupils is as crass as it is bewildering. For though this can often be a deadly disease, parents are being deliberately kept in the dark over
I HAVE read with interest about the changes which are to take place in the way Blackburn with Darwen Council is to administer the town's affairs. What is really worrying is that nowhere was there any mention of the electorate being consulted. I presume
IN THE Under 14 Blue League, Huncoat Utd keep the pressure on top placed Oswaldtwistle Juniors with a 4-3 victory at Whalley. In the Under 15 Blue League, Blackburn Eagles lost their second league game in succession, when they were defeated 4-1 by third-placed
I WAS pleased to support the unveiling ceremony of the controversial sculpture entitled Arte et Labore, situated on an island along the new Lower Eccleshill link road of the M65. Predictably, there has been critical horror and condemnation of the detail
RESULTS - Under Nine Red: Akzo Juniors 0, St Joseph's 1; Blackburn Boys Res 0, Feniscowles Juniors 6; Gt Harwood Tigers 1, Rishton Utd 0; Readstone Utd 9, Oswaldtwistle Juniors B 0. Under Nine Blue: Akzo Juniors 1, Huncoat Utd 0; Blackburn Boys 3, Borrowdale
I TAKE S Hopwood's remarks on orange badge holders with a tiny pinch of salt, for as a widower whose wife was wheelchair-bound, I can speak with experience on the problems of orange badge parking. It is stated that homes for the elderly have orange badges
HAVING just become unemployed once again, I was looking at the jobs on offer in the local jobcentre. I found one vacancy that infuriated me - for a fully-conversant computer user with experience of a wide range of software, to be a Web developer, with
AT the European Parliament, I met British farmers frustrated by the French beef ban and demanding action. They had good reason for their anger; by breaking European law the French have inflicted pain on farmers and damaged the European single market.
A NATIONAL Children's Home charity box was stolen from Kathleen's Florists, Coal Clough Lane, Burnley, early today. Someone in dark clothing was seen leaving the premises at about 3.30am. making off around the rear of the shop. The empty collection box
UP close and personal is the style of a superb magazine produced by students in a Chorley school. More than 30 pupils formed an editorial team at Southlands High School with a mission to seek out and interview people who are achievers in their field and
HEALTH officials came under fire today after they refused to offer meningitis vaccine to pupils at a high school where a teacher has been struck down with the disease. The 42-year-old male teacher at Darwen Vale High is in Bury General Hospital after
A COUPLE whose footwear firm crashed owing more than £390,000 have been banned from being company directors. David James Wilkinson was disqualified for seven years and Adele Louise Wilkinson for two years by Manchester County Court over their running
FLYING winger John Robinson could pose the biggest threat to Rovers unbeaten run at The Valley tonight. Signed for just £75,000 from Nationwide League minnows Brighton, Robinson has been one of Alan Curbishley's best ever buys. And it's his trickery down
I WAS very pleased to read your tribute to Cyril Washbrook - whom I greatly admired (LET, November 24). The writer could have added that Washbrook was a brilliant cover point, usually fielding in that position in the Test matches. FRANK BEAVINGTON (Dr
CRIME figures in Lancashire have been slashed by a fifth over the last five years, according to figures published today by the Government. A league table comparing how each force in the country has performed has been published for the first time. And
A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd UNLIKE other columnists I could mention, I don't really want to have the Lancashire Evening Telegraph sports desk inundated by fans of opposing clubs that I have annoyed, so let me put it this way: Stockport
IT IS with great interest that I read The Hot 100 every night and enjoy it very much. Having followed the fortunes of Burnley for more than 40 years (LET, November 22), I seem to remember Colin McDonald broke his leg playing for the English Football League
THE makers of Tampax tampons today faced a £35,000 damages claim by a Lancashire woman who said she almost died from toxic shock syndrome because of insufficient warnings and advice on how to use their product. Teacher and mother-of-two Alison Worsley
Division One: Charlton Athletic v Blackburn Rovers - Andy Neild's preview EGIL Ostenstad believes it's only a matter of time before strike-partner Ashley Ward gets back among the goals as Rovers prepare to face Charlton tonight. Ward hasn't scored since
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent will not be making a move for former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett. Speculation in the Midlands today claimed the Clarets were one of three clubs tracking the Birmingham City defender. But Ternent has emphatically quashed those
WITH reference to Bramwell Speaks Out (LET, November 25) about Rovers' first team squad being top heavy, creating the problem of the excellent youth set-up being stifled and the emerging talent struggling to break into the reserves on a consistent basis
A RELIEVED mum today told of her baby's amazing recovery from the killer bug meningitis and admitted: "I didn't think he would see his first birthday." Laura Reed was over-the-moon when doctors at Blackburn's Queen's Park Hospital gave little Leon the
Late Night Shopping, Blackburn Town Centre, until 9pm. Anthony Worral-Thomson, Horizons Hotel and Restaurant, Globe Centre, Accrington. The Lightning Seeds, Guild Hall, Preston, 7.30pm. Woodlands United Reformed Church Open Fellowship, Blackburn, 8pm.
HOPES rose for a brighter future for Accrington Victoria Hospital after a health minister lifted the threat of a cut in the North West's budget. The news came at a meeting between Tory MPs and Health Minister Mrs Virginia Bottomley, and in a late night
DIVING dangerously to a record low and towards parity with the US dollar, the ailing euro has Britain to blame for its plunge, according to Germany's finance minister. He claims that Britain's resistance to a new Europe-wide tax on investments - which
Harry's Stable Whispers HOPEFULLY tomorrow at Catterick I will have my first runner of this National Hunt season and only my second runner under that code. Lady Iona who has schooled well, faces a very difficult task with Martin Pipe possibly running
RESULTS - Under 10: Brierfield Cerltic 3, Junior Clarets 3; Colne Clarets 3, Borrowdale Utd 1; Fulledge Colts 2, Brunlea 0; West End 0, Foulridge Minors 5. Under 11: Brierfield Celtic 1, Langho Juniors 4; Junior Clarets 0, Michelin 4; Readstone Utd 2,
WHO would believe that an ordinary red post box would attract the media's attention and the public's imagination? To everyone, it is a symbol of the resistance and spirit of the people opposed to the IRA's murderous campaign carried out on the mainland
A FAMILY fled a blaze at the cafe they own - Butty Bill's - in Todmorden Road, Burnley. Bill Nobbs, his wife June and their two-year-old grandson Liam were taken to Burnley General Hospital for check ups after the fire yesterday. The accident was caused
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent will not be making a move for former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett. Speculation in the Midlands today claimed the Clarets were one of three clubs tracking the Birmingham City defender. But Ternent has emphatically quashed those
A PROJECT to celebrate Hyndburn's past, present and future will be led by a woman from the borough. Accrington-born Julia Denwer, 28, of Ash Lane, Great Harwood, who has lived and worked throughout England, has been appointed Hyndburn Council's millennium
AN angry, axe-wielding husband threatened to chop a neighbour's arms off before arming himself with a pool cue, a court was told. Burnley Crown Court heard how the neighbour was terrified when confronted face to face by Terence Nicholson. The man 'dived
THE family of a crash victim who suffered terrible neck injuries when she was flung from a car have been told she could be paralysed. It was hoped Kathryn Gottweiss, aged 20, may eventually be able to walk again after it was discovered her spine was not
