A SCHEME to break down racial barriers in an East Lancashire high school where children come from different ethnic backgrounds is being intriguingly extended in a way that attacks prejudices before they start - by pairing up pupils with youngsters at
YOUNGSTERS running wild are the bane of many communities. And the scale of the problem is revealed today as nearly 200 youths in just one small East Lancashire town have had their names taken by police. Reports of juvenile disorder in Oswaldtwistle occur
CHEERS erupted in the assembly hall last week when it was announced that an East Lancashire boys-only grammar school would start admitting girls from age seven upwards. Although Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, has taken girls into its sixth
FORMER Westholme High pupil Antonia Kershaw has returned to school to talk about her fundraising cycle ride from the Great Wall of China to Tiananmen Square. Antonia joined more than 100 cyclists to complete the gruelling 480km China Bike Ride to raise
WALT Meadows (Letters, June 5) asks what is the point of comparing Blackburn with Darwen Council tax with average bills and states that the tax should be likened to other unitary authorities' using Band D as the base for comparison. The answer is easy
I FIND it amazing to occasionally run into a member of the public who still holds the view that New Labour is a desirable form of government for the country. More than 170,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost -- 80 per cent of these in the North -- since
YET again, the police have decided to harass the motorcyclists (LET, June 6). It will be interesting when the information on the Operation Solo crackdown is available to see how many car drivers were stopped on the same day. I find it amazing that information
A PASSENGER caught after lighting up a cigarette on a long haul air flight abused a steward and told him he might "get a smack" a court was told. Burnley magistrates heard how cabin crew on the Monarch airbus feared violence might erupt as John Michael
A PASSENGER caught after lighting up a cigarette on a long haul air flight abused a steward and told him he might "get a smack" a court was told. Burnley magistrates heard how cabin crew on the Monarch airbus feared violence might erupt as John Michael
A NELSON businessman yesterday denied plotting to supply £25,000 worth of heroin to an alleged Merseyside drug dealer at a deserted industrial estate in Lancashire. Furniture wholesaler Abid Hussain told a Liverpool Crown Court jury that he had not handed
A GAS main caught fire after vandals set rubbish alight in a back yard . Gas engineers had to be called to turn off the supply before firemen could tackle the blaze at the empty house in Princess Street, Nelson. The incident was the latest in a series
POLICE in Accrington are growing increasingly concerned for the safety of a 15-year-old girl who has not been seen for more than 10 days. Ruksana Khatun (pictured) was last seen around 9am on June 10 at Accrington railway station when security cameras
A TEENAGER has been told he can't pursue his dream career in the fire service -- because he could kill himself if he lifts any heavy objects. David Knight, 16, underwent pioneering surgery eight days after he was born when surgeons discovered he was missing
MARK Robertson looks set to leave Turf Moor after turning down a new contract offer. The Clarets midfielder has just finished a loan spell with Wollongong Wolves and reaches the end of his current Burnley deal at the end of the month. Manager Stan Ternent
PER Frandsen is in no hurry to leave Ewood Park and is happy to return and fight for his place next season. The Danish international midfielder, who cost Rovers £1.75 million from Bolton last September, is one of five players who been told they can find
POLICE have praised motorists who stopped on a motorway to gather £10,000 in banknotes which had fluttered out of a motorcycle courier's rucksack. A group of people were seen on the carriageway of the M65 near Clayton-le-Moors picking up the cash at around
POLICE today revealed that 17 suspected soccer hooligans from East Lancashire have been deported or arrested in Belgium. The National Criminal Intelligence Service has been working closely with Belgian police in the wake of the mass deportations of hooligans
A JUNIOR school has turned its failings into successes and Government inspectors have removed its special measures status. Audley Junior School in Audley, Blackburn, was placed on special measures last year because it was failing to give its pupils an
COUNCILS all over the country are undergoing the biggest organisational changes in more than 25 years. Blackburn with Darwen council's important and controversial eight strong cabinet met last night in public for the first time. Our Local Government reporter
NEIL Fairbrother received a call from England for his one-day expertise at the weekend -- but not in the way he was hoping. Chairman of selectors David Graveney telephoned Lancashire's veteran left-hander about the forthcoming triangular one-day series
LANDLORDS in East Lancashire are raking in £60 to £70 a week in housing benefit for letting out slums and hovels not worth £5 a week, protests Burnley councillor Stephen Wolski. But this, we hear, is happening when the council operates an 'approved landlord
Blackburn Artists' Society meet Whalley -- river, viaduct, Abbey and cottages. Beer Festival, Accrington Town Hall. Organ Recital, Blackburn Cathedral, 8pm. Friends of Rossendale Museum Walk, meet at the museum, Whitaker Park, Rawtenstall, 7.30pm. Blackburn
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy NOW that we have all got the millennium "bug" out of our systems, it is now time to consider how East Lancashire's wildlife has changed over the last 2,000 years. There is no doubt that the golden eagle has fared very badly
I MUST thank the staff at Blackburn Infirmary where I had an eye operation. From the carers, right through to the top man, they were kind and comforting. C BARTON, Aberdeen Drive, Blackburn.
REGARDING the complaints by Councillor Jean Battle about empty houses in Hyndburn (LET, June 15). I never heard her bringing this up when she was vice-chairman of the housing committee in the last Labour administration. Labour were in control for 13 years
MY friend Dale Winton and I would like to thank Lancashire Evening Telegraph readers who so generously took part in the BT Friends and Family Chosen Charities campaign, which invited friends and family subscribers to forego their discounts, which were
A MOTHER today told how she rescued her 22-month-old toddler from her burning bedroom after finding her cowering under her brother's cot. Amanda Hawley, who is asthmatic, first heard a bang in baby daughter Carlie's bedroom followed by screams. When she
LEAM Richardson is yet to agree his new contract offer at Blackburn but there has been no official approach from Barnsley for the 20-year-old reserve team defender. One Rovers youngster who has been fixed up is goalkeeper Anthony Williams, who has completed
FIREFIGHTERS had to lift a car off a boy after an accident as he went home to watch last night's England soccer match. Luke Purcell, eight, suffered a broken right leg when he was in collision with one vehicle -- which then knocked him underneath a Renault
A HUNGRY rat caused havoc for rail travellers during morning rush hour. It chewed through a power cable at Lostock Hall, shuttling down a 15-mile stretch of the Preston to Blackburn line. Dozens of trains were cancelled as British Rail workmen repaired
GARDEN gates throughout the Ribble Valley will be thrown open to raise money for two village churches. Visitors will be able to wander around and enjoy 23 gardens in Grindleton and Bolton-by-Bowland at this year's Through Country Garden Gates weekend.
DOZENS of bakery workers and one of the country's best known private investors are sitting on a tasty profit after buying a slice of a Blackburn cake firm. Jim Slater, a city-based investor known for backing fast growing companies, owns almost 150,000
STUDENTS at Darwen Vale High School are proving they are on the right wavelength as they prepare to broadcast their own radio station. The Radio Authority has announced the frequency for Darwen Vale Radio (DVR) as 106.5 FM. It will be heard in a three-mile
A MOTHER today told how she rescued her 22-month-old toddler from her burning bedroom after finding her cowering under her brother's cot. Amanda Hawley, who is asthmatic, first heard a bang in baby daughter Carlie's bedroom followed by screams. When she
CHILDREN at a second primary school are to have emergency meningitis jabs following the death of a two-year-old Blackburn girl. More than 200 youngsters at St Oswald's CE Primary and pre-school playgroup in Knuzden were immunised on Monday after the death
A BABY choked to death on a single chip taken from his mother's supper plate, an inquest heard. An inquest heard that Zoheb Hussain (pictured) was just 10 days past his first birthday when tragedy struck at the family home in Corwen Close, Blackburn.
EVENING Telegraph reporter AMANDA KILLELEA was in the Charleroi stadium last night and watched her brother-in-law Phil Neville concede THAT penalty that sealed England's Euro 2000 demise. Here she gives her opinion on the match and reports on how the
THE Transco Lancashire League side could be up against it when they resume their weather-hit match against the Central Lancashire League at Royton tonight. The annual challenge fixture was reduced to 30 overs a side because of a delayed start and with
GYMNAST Craig Heap is hoping to shake off an ankle injury to avoid history repeating itself. Injury kept the Commonwealth gold medallist out of a place in the Atlanta Olympics four years ago and the 26-year-old wants to make sure he is fit to compete
WHETHER or not it was a sign of true dedication or a touch of sunstroke, the fact that dozens of die-hard fans of Irish warbler Daniel O' Donnell were prepared to queue for more than three days for tickets for his show at Blackburn's King George's Hall
NO touching! But ogle by all means. Isn't that what the guidelines adopted by Rossendale Council amount to as it gives the go-ahead to lap dancing, striptease and more topless barmaids in the Valley? Regulation? Pah! Say what they like, this is our councillors
