Blackburn Breast Care Support Group meet Beardwood Hospital, Preston New Road, Blackburn, 7pm. Summer Party Night. Strawberry Fair, All Saints Church, Aspen Lane, Oswaldtwistle, 7pm. Fashion show and sale of Brats children's wear, Meadowhead Infants School
AMID the words of anger at the mass rally protesting at the loss of 550 jobs and closure of the former Lucas Rists works in Accrington, there will be much understanding for the sentiment expressed by Hyndburn MP Greg Pope over the shutdown stemming from
THEY'RE the closest thing East Lancashire has got to Posh and Becks. She's the singing soap star who wowed a national TV audience by winning ITV's Celebrity Stars in their Eyes on Saturday -- he's the goalkeeper who looks set to play a key role in Blackburn
IT IS to be hoped that Blackburn's Church Street project is more successful than the Ainsworth Street effort. The use of ordinary bricks where buses have to pass over was stupid in the extreme. The curved railings make things difficult for the buses to
EVEN after all the publicity you have given to dumping on the land on our road, I arrived home from work at 8am the other day to find 21 bags of household refuse had been left there. There is absolutely no excuse for this, especially as that day the binmen
FIREFIGHTERS managed to stop major damage to Leigh Cricket Pavilion after youths set a pile of chairs and tables on fire. The club steward, who lives nearby the hut in Beech Walk, raised the alarm in the early hours of Sunday morning, after smelling smoke
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after Burnley's council leader and an opposition councillor were hurt following a clash in a town hall corridor -- and each blamed the other for their injuries. Independent Bob Chadwick has made a formal complaint after
BLACKBURN Rovers' pursuit of Brian Deane may be put on hold -- but manager Graeme Souness insists he won't be concerned if he packs his squad off for Germany next week without any more new faces on the plane. With Middlesbrough target Chris Sutton --
A TWENTY-three year old woman left in charge of a care home and its 19 elderly residents was awarded £5,000 compensation for unfair dismissal. An industrial tribunal in Leeds found that Sarah Wilson had been wrongly dismissed by Burnley Health Care Trust
DOZENS of police man hours were wasted by a hoax caller who sparked off three emergency responses in Nelson. A full firearms incident was set up in West Street after a caller rang at 5.55pm saying that his brother was running around with a shotgun. Sergeant
PROPOSALS TO build a massive housing estate would create a blot on the landscape and extend the urban sprawl between Colne and Nelson, councillors were warned. Beazer Homes wants to build 201 homes on 8.8 hectares of greenfield land off Knotts Lane, Colne
A CHRISTMAS card signed by Colne's famous son Wallace Hartley is back where it belongs after it was revealed local postman and historian Geoff Crambie was the mystery buyer of the precious memento. Mr Crambie, of Lancaster Street, Colne, bid £1,762 for
WATER way to spend your retirement! While many pensioners are just happy to put their feet up when they gain OAP status, grandad Philip Lynch has decided the time is right to plunge headlong into his favourite hobby. For 70-year-old Philip (pictured),
NIGEL Evans has backed Home Secretary Jack Straw over his refusal to allow a murderer to father a child through artificial insemination of his wife. Blackburn MP and Home Secretary Mr Straw ruled that Gavin Mellor should not be allowed to donate sperm
A MAN who was ferried by air ambulance from the scene of a car crash in Longridge remained in hospital today. David Sunderland, from Stonyhurst, suffered chest and head injuries and his car, a Porsche 944, was in collision with a Ford Mondeo. The accident
A FURIOUS councillor has lashed out at vandals who toppled a war memorial. The 10ft stone memorial in Billington was overturned in the early hours of Saturday by a gang of youths. Billington councillor Alan Oldham, of Grafton Street, claims the village
CAMBRIDGE United are leading the chase for Tom Cowan following his release from Burnley this summer. The former Huddersfield left-back spent a successful loan spell at the Abbey Stadium last season and U's boss Roy McFarland is keen to sign the Scot on
FOLLOWING on from a deal with Lookers Volkswagen to sponsor the away end stand at Turf Moor, Burnley today revaled that North Stand sponsors James Hargreaves Plumbing Merchants have agreed to extend their agreement with the club for a further 12 months
IAN Cox is raring to return to action and fight for his place in the Clarets' line-up. Cox missed the last two games of the promotion campaign with a broken wrist. But with the plaster now off he's looking to regain full fitness as quickly as possible
CRAIG Hawthorne has joined Whalley based marketing and publicity specialists, Patriot to head up their design team. During his career Craig, 29, has been responsible for packaging designs seen in Sainsburys, Asda, Booths and Tesco. Craig has also designed
A £200,000 investment is helping create 14 new jobs at an engineering firm. B & M Longworth received a £40,000 Government grant to help their expansion move from Glenfield Park to larger premises on the Shadsworth Industrial Estate. The move will
DARREN BERNSTEIN is out to succeed where England failed -- he aims to be a winner. Sunnybank-based leisure management consultant Darren, already a sports Master after successfully completing a degree course at Chichester University, is now set to undertake
YOUNGSTERS from Bank Top Community Centre had fun taking part in a sunflower competition. The competition was part of Green Week organised by Blackburn with Darwen Council. Children from the centre and youngsters from St Lukes Rainbow Group planted seeds
PERFORMERS are already rehearsing for Blackburn with Darwen's Arts In The Park three-day show. The music and arts festival, billed as an "extravaganza" by the borough council sponsors, runs from July 28 to 30 in Corporation Park, Blackburn. Guitarist
CIVILIANS and former servicemen enjoyed songs and sketches from the First and Second World Wars at King George's Hall, Blackburn. The 'War Time Revue' matinee performance of songs, music and comedy was part of the week-long Somme Festival held in Blackburn
EDUCATION officials in Lancashire have been celebrating after it was revealed the county is one of the most efficient in the country. According to the official figures. County Hall has one of the best records in England and Wales for cutting through red
THERE was no initial success for Majid Hussain when he tried to cash a cheque in the name of Mushtaq Hussain. Blackburn magistrates heard that the cashier felt there was more to a name than simply having the same initials and her suspicions were confirmed
COLNE'S Neil Simpson puts his Scottish Rally disappointment behind him to win the group N class on the Jim Clark Rally. Simpson and co-driver Mike Gibson finished fifth overall in their Mitsubishi Lancer, five minutes behind winner Mark Higgins.
Matt Dixon of Great Harwood helped the Great Britain to a 1-2 finish in their match against the USA yesterday. Running the mile in Glasgow, Matt, now with Sale, finished second to team mate John Mayock in 4.01.61 on his full international debut. Now he
LANCASHIRE captain John Crawley believes his team have got their foot in the door of the Championship race after completing a crushing nine-wicket victory over the First Division leaders Yorkshire at Old Trafford on Saturday. Two wickets for Mike Smethurst
A DEFIANT Gareth Cordingley continued his fine form amassing 163 runs in a disappointing weekend for Darwen Cricket Club. Darwen hung on for a draw against Netherfield in the Northern League on Saturday and went down in a tight finish to the Liverpool
RISHTON could do worse than hide Andrew Bartley's passport. The opening batsman was away working in China last summer and has just spent three months on a contract in the United States with Accrington engineering firm Emerson and Renwick. He has evidently
SAM Spence (Letters, June 22) appears to have done nothing but criticise and write letters of complaint, aimed mainly at Blackburn with Darwen Council's ruling Labour group and our three ward councillors, Don Rishton, Mohammed Khan and Kate Hollern. There
I WAS distressed to read your article (LET, June 19) regarding the tragic death of little Kourtney Burns, aged two, from suspected meningitis. I would like to express my sincere sympathies to all her family and friends. Having lost my own little boy through
ONCE again, the deplorable state of the NHS comes under scrutiny with the vote of no confidence against the General Medical Council. But amid all the headline-grabbing criticisms, screams for new controls and spin-induced blame-shifting, aren't we missing
IN his 'Green Gods of Industry' article, in your East Lancs 2000 supplement (LET, June 26), Ron Freethy asks why ISO 14001 was not renamed "an international award for protecting the environment?" The answer, Mr Freethy, can be found in the same paragraph
A PIONEERING project which aims to raise standards in struggling schools in Blackburn and Darwen is to run for an extra two years after education bosses were told: "Carry on helping local children." The Government has also announced that the borough's
DON'T bet against Leigh now going all the way to the Grand Final. In this mood they're capable of anything. They hammered league leaders Dewsbury 38-16 -- and in a manner which suggests they mean business when the play-offs get underway this weekend.
THE appointment of Graeme Souness and the confidence of a Premiership return prevented a clutch of transfer requests at Ewood Park this summer. That's the verdict of Jason McAteer who believes that in these days of player power anyone not happy with their
STUDENTS from Burnley's Towneley High School brightened up a youth shelter in Burnley Wood and were rewarded with a trip to a theme park. Pupils take part in activities for the last few days of term and this year they got involved with Youth Works Burnley
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after Burnley's council leader and an opposition councillor were hurt following a clash in a town hall corridor -- and each blamed the other for their injuries. Independent Bob Chadwick has made a formal complaint after
NURSERY children had a colourful early start when a film crew from ITV's GMTV turned up. Staff at Kiddiwinks in Old Hall Square, Worsthorne, arrived at 5.45am and by 6.20am, more than an hour before the usual start, 20 children were eagerly waiting for
A TOP grammar school took a further step towards "opting out" of local authority control. Governors at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School met to discuss going grant-maintained. The school wanted parents to meet Lancashire Education Authority chiefs and talk
A YOUNG family had a narrow escape when a lorry smashed into the front of their house. Carol Grandidge and her two children had just woken up when the lorry demolished the front of their house in Grane Road, Haslingden. Council officers were called in
A POLICE officer from East Lancashire is continuing with an industrial tribunal action against her bosses although the man accused of sexually harassing her is dead, after apparently taking his own life. Reehaina Saddique, the chairman of the Lancashire
PUPILS from Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and St James' Primary in Clitheroe, took part in the annual Medieval re-enactments at Clitheroe Castle. Historian Pauline is pictured showing youngsters how food was cooked and the children were also able to
KEEN sportsmen David Bateson and Simon Fox are taking on new competition. The pair have recently launched their own business to offer a specialist programming service for industry. The firm, Dynamic Solutions, has already secured contracts with firms
TOURISM in Lancashire is worth more than £1billion to the local economy, according to figures released today. Almost 40,000 businesses and people are also dependent on the industry according to research by the North West Tourist Board. The figures are
A PIONEERING project which aims to raise standards in struggling schools in Blackburn and Darwen is to run for an extra two years after education bosses were told: "Carry on helping local children." The Government has also announced that the borough's
AN animal sanctuary which achieved most of its millennium projects is asking the public for help to develop a hospital building and vet's room. Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary, Turn Village, has stone clad buildings for its cats and dogs, a sound stable block
YOUNGSTERS had a ball at their school's annual summer fair -- and raised money for charity on the process. Pupils from Westholme Lower School, at Billinge House, Blackburn, enjoyed attractions such as a bouncy castle, a Punch and Judy and a magician,
PEOPLE are opening their homes to the public as part of a British Red Cross Appeal. Their gardens are to be focal points for keen-eyed hordes of horticulturists wanting to take a look at how they keep them. Nine homeowners have volunteered for their gardens
STUDENTS are getting ready for their trip of a lifetime when they will spend time in a Zulu village and trek trough African mountains. Fifteen pupils from St Wilfrid's High School and Technology College, Blackburn, have got their bags packed ready for
A FORMER director of a family firm of steeplejacks was made the subject of a restraining order after admitting harassing his former partner. Blackburn magistrates heard that Jacquelie McMyler received several phone calls from Mark Anthony Warburton and
BUS drivers have decided against all-out strike action -- but plan to stage more one-day stoppages throughout East Lancashire. Stagecoach Ribble drivers based in depots in Blackburn, Burnley, Clitheroe, Preston and Chorley decided against all-out strike
YORKSHIRE exile Gary Keedy insists he now treats the Roses Match as "just another game." But he is already looking forward to Lancashire's trip to Headingley at the end of July. Keedy, who was lured across the Pennines by then Lancashire coach David Lloyd
NEIL Hodgson's bid for the lead of the British Superbike Championship at Silverstone ended in controversy after yet another clash with rival Chris Walker. The 26-year-old Burnley rider crushed the opposition with a dominant win in the first of two races
FORMER Australian Test star Peter Sleep took an incredible eight wickets for just seven runs in a 17 over spell as Barnoldswick were shot out for 91 in the Jennings Ribblesdale League. Read knocked off the winning runs with just one wicket down with Michael
A 58-year-old Bury woman has died in a horror road crash. Mrs Gloria Patricia Bryant was killed after her Renault Clio car was in a head-on collision with a Fiat Punto vehicle in Oldham Road, Middleton, early on Saturday (July 1). Two male passengers
