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  • Mum's heartache continues

    HEARTBROKEN Ravia Mushtaq is still awaiting news, 10 days after her husband snatched away their six children to Pakistan. She made an emotional appeal through the Lancashire Evening Telegraph yesterday for Mushtaq Ahmed to return them to their home in

  • Faith in human nature restored

    I WOULD like to thank the person who found my purse in the cafe area of the Asda store in Blackburn and handed it in. Having had my purse stolen twice and our car broken into within the past few weeks my faith in human nature was gone when I couldn't

  • Arrogance of council leader

    I FOUND it very interesting to read (LET, December 17) that, on the prospect of replacing shire counties, County Council Leader Hazel Harding stated: "We have the best interests of Lancashire people at heart and will ensure their views are accurately

  • Subsidence the cause of closure

    REGARDING memories of some 40 years ago of the Victoria Cinema off Eanam in Blackburn (Letters, December 26), this was also known as Charnley's, but it did not fall into the canal, as Tom Sharratt says. I was a young police constable at the time and was

  • Lay responsibility on Blackburn

    I FIND it hard to believe that Norman Finch (Letters, December 16) is so concerned on what may, or may not happen when and if Darwen gets independence, or an Arndale centre. I can assure him that Darwen will honour its commitments just as much as Blackburn

  • Let the public be judge of cash shareout

    COUNCILLOR Dave Smith (Letters, December 9) mentions that Mill Hill in Blackburn received millions of pounds in the Eighties -- and rightly so. But that in no way compares with the tens of millions of pounds spent on Brookhouse 1, Brookhouse 2 and Bastwell

  • Ex-Leisure boss dies, 72

    FLAMBOYANT Gil Swift, former Wigan Council Director of Leisure, has died aged 72. Originally from South Yorkshire, joined Wigan Metro in 1973 and was head of leisure until he retired in 1991. A former PE teacher and youth officer he set-up the borough's

  • Life saver

    A NEW initiative to help save children's lives on the road has been given the green light. Blackburn with Darwen Council's Road Safety Team has been given £90,000 for a co-ordinator to run a child pedestrian training scheme in 11 schools. The pilot scheme

  • Planners to consider stadium in spring

    LEIGH'S new state-of-the-art sports stadium will be submitted for planning approval in the spring. If the complex is given the green light, building work could start as early as this summer. The announcement that the multi-million pound scheme, to be

  • Hunt goes on for raid trio

    POLICE are continuing to hunt for three robbers who carried out a ram raid at a sub-post office in Trawden. Detectives arrested one man on Monday, but he was later charged with offences not related to the robbery. Police investigating the raid said that

  • Vigil at crash man's bedside

    A BURNLEY man seriously injured in a car crash is today still fighting for his life as his family face an anxious wait at his hospital bedside. Steven Morris, 48, of Printers Fold, Burnley, was cut from his Ford Escort on Friday morning. Police said that

  • Traders toast a spending boom

    TOWN centre traders in Burnley are toasting the New Year with the news of a bumper Christmas spending boom which has seen some shops take 30 per cent more than last year. Figures from the Town Centre Management Team reveal shoppers were out in the town

  • Falling short

    A REVIEW has been ordered into the operation of Burnley's multi-million-pound bus station after complaints from councillors and passengers. People have reported being left stranded at bus stops, asked to get off buses before the end of journeys and buses

  • Hull visit cash boost chance

    SHAKERS 1, HULL CITY 0: Hull City's New Year's Day visit to Gigg Lane should have helped boost club coffers. With a travelling support of around 3,000, Bury were hoping for their biggest gate receipts of the season. That could also help Steve Redmond

  • Preece asks board to gamble

    FRUSTRATED manager Andy Preece will tell Bury FC directors they must speculate to accumulate at a board meeting on Friday writes Chris Hall The Shakers supremo is sick of constant battles with the club's purse holders over which players he can keep in

  • Highway safety on agenda at committee meeting

    HIGHWAY safety for pedestrians in Barnoldswick will be on the agenda when members of the West Craven Committee meet on Tuesday. Pendle's highways, engineering and design manager Peter Atkinson, will ask councillors to look at two possible schemes for

  • Successful launch year for community project

    PENDLE's new European-funded Community Economic Development (CED) programme is celebrating the end of its first full year of operation. Pendle Partnership was awarded £2.68m in early 2002 from the European Regional Development Fund towards economic development

  • Peace and prosperity

    ANOTHER year over and a new one's just begun. As 2002 gave way to the the fourth year of the third millennium, reporter GAIL ATKINSON asked East Lancashire's celebrities and leaders about their hopes and aspirations. AN end to the Iraq crisis is the New

  • Ten years ago

    CHILDREN were treated to some festive cheer when pantomime stars from Peter Pan at King George's Hall, Blackburn, visited them in hospital. Allo Allo's Arthur Bostrom went to Burnley General Hospital's Turner ward.

  • Five years ago

    A DRAB old Victorian playground at St James' CE Primary School, Greenacre Street, Clitheroe, was transformed into a play area for children. A large planting area with trees and plants was placed around the Victorian building.

  • Ternent sets his target

    CLARETS boss Stan Ternent knows his side must produce promotion form if they are to make the play-offs - starting at Bramall Lane tomorrow. "If we can take 40 points from our last 20 games that will take us up to 76, the same as we got last season," he

  • Time for a break says boss Souness

    BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness today called for a winter break to help ease the strain on players after a punishing Christmas programme has decimated his squad. Souness blames the recent hamstring injuries sustained by Damien Duff and Craig Short on the

  • Life saver

    A NEW initiative to help save children's lives on the road has been given the green light. Blackburn with Darwen Council's Road Safety Team has been given £90,000 for a co-ordinator to run a child pedestrian training scheme in 11 schools. The pilot scheme

  • Burns man off critical list

    A MAN taken to hospital with severe burns following an alleged attack by his wife has been taken off the critical list. Steven Jones, of King Street, Haslingden, was left fighting for his life after an incident on Saturday. Mr Jones was taken to Burnley

  • Board look for good turnout at New Year meeting

    RAMSBOTTOM and Tottington Area Board are gearing up for their first meeting of the New Year and encouraging residents to get involved. On Tuesday, January 7 at 7pm the first meeting of 2003 will take place with a full agenda to get through at Tottington

  • Workshops plan for budding writers

    COLLABORATIVE writing workshops are being held for people who are interested in an imaginative investigation of creative writing. The workshops hosted by the 3dv company of writers, three writers working together to create a single text, are hoping to

  • Peace and prosperity

    ANOTHER year over and a new one's just begun. As 2002 gave way to the the fourth year of the third millennium, reporter GAIL ATKINSON asked East Lancashire's celebrities and leaders about their hopes and aspirations. AN end to the Iraq crisis is the New

  • Reward offer for stolen lap-top

    A REWARD is on offer for the return of computer items stolen in a break-in at Red Rose Estates, Leigh. A Hi-Grade laptop computer and leather carrying bag was stolen containing irreplacable information unconnected with the business. Eight distinctive

  • Crash man is still fighting for life

    A BURNLEY man seriously injured in a car crash was today still fighting for his life as his family faced an anxious wait at his hospital bedside. Steven Morris, 48, of Printers Fold, Burnley, was cut from the wreckage of his Ford Escort on Friday morning

  • Boys the targets in bid to reduce teen births

    TEENAGE boys are to be targeted in the latest drive to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies in an East Lancashire borough. Health workers believe that targeting lads and explaining the consequences of their actions could help trigger a drop in the

  • Family struggle to buy headstone for mum

    THE family of tragic cancer patient Phoebe Morley today revealed how they struggled through Christmas and said they are still short of cash for a gravestone. The Blackburn pensioner died after being diagnosed with terminal cancer of the bowel and kidney

  • Pavilions renovation starts 'within weeks'

    WORK will begin on renovating Blackburn's rundown Pavilions within months, it was pledged today. Council bosses believe they are within weeks of tying up enough funding to begin the £1.5million overhaul of the three buildings. The Georgian buildings,

  • Fire alarm warning at homeless centre

    YOUNG people living at a homeless centre in Blackburn have been warned they face prosecution for setting off fire alarms late at night. Fire crews have been called to the Blackburn with Darwen Foyer, in Feilden Street, Blackburn, twice in the last week

  • LIFE SAVER

    A NEW initiative to help save children's lives on the road has been given the green light. Blackburn with Darwen Council's Road Safety Team has been given £90,000 for a co-ordinator to run a child pedestrian training scheme in 11 schools. The pilot scheme

  • Peace and prosperity

    AN end to the Iraq crisis is the New Year wish of Foreign Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw. But the man embroiled in the battle against terrorism also has a wish-list closer to home - including football domination for his beloved Blackburn Rovers

  • Hawks wiped out at Whitley

    BLACKBURN Hawks crashed in their latest Premier Cup tie, going down by 11 goals to one at Whitley Bay. The under-strength Hawks side travelled more in hope then expectation, but were completely over-run in the opening exchanges and trailed 11-0 going

  • Call up a dream

    STEVEN Holden always knew his Burnley team-mate had something a bit special. After opening the bowling with James Anderson for the best part of nine years, he watched the rising star progress through the Lancashire League club's ranks. But 'Jimmy's' call-up

  • Teenager robbed by gang of thugs

    A TEENAGER was punched and kicked by three thugs who stole cash from his car. The 18-year-old man was standing by his vehicle in Heyside Way, Bury, when he was approached by the men. After beating him to the ground, the thieves stole a bag containing

  • EVENTS taking place in East Lancashire on Friday, January 3

    A LOOK at events, from amateur theatre to rambles through our beautiful countryside. Cuddly Crew present 'Captain Hook,' Crawshawbooth Conservative Club, 592 Burnley Road, Crawshawbooth, 7.30pm. Pendle Jazzmen, Royal Hotel, Station Road, Great Harwood

  • Ending the agony of child deaths

    IT'S difficult to think of anything more devastating to a family than the death of a child. And if that child is killed or maimed for life crossing the road, unimaginable grief must be heightened by the thought that the accident could perhaps have been

  • Nature Watch with Ron Freeethy

    WHEN is winter coming? By the look of the outlook it might be late as we already approach 2003. Hollingworth Lake, Rochdale, overlooking the M62, was built to provide water to the Rochdale canal which has very recently been wonderfully restored. I followed

  • Say goodbye to the old year

    Look back at how the Evening Telegraph reported on the emotional highs and lows of another turbulent 12 months JANUARY The year opened with the hope of peace and goodwill when hundreds from the white and Asian communities got together to celebrate January

  • Teenagers remanded in custody

    Manchester teenagers have appeared before Blackburn magistrates, charged with a series of house burglaries in Blackburn before Christmas. Arron Poyser, 18, Denzil May, 18, and Richard Jones, 19, all of no fixed address, are charged with burglary at a

  • Police hunt goes on for three ram raiders

    POLICE are continuing to hunt for three robbers who carried out a ram raid at a sub-post office in the village of Trawden. Detectives arrested one man on Monday in connection with the raid, but he was later charged with offences not related to the robbery

  • Suspicions over fluoride research

    WHEN presenting the case for compulsory fluoridation much is made of the fact that this area came 94th out of 99 in the tables for dental health (LET, December 23). However, no-one ever states exactly what this means. Do the children in the top areas

  • Falling short

    A REVIEW has been ordered into the operation of Burnley's multi-million-pound bus station after complaints from councillors and passengers. People have reported being left stranded at bus stops, asked to get off buses before the end of journeys and buses

  • Time for a break says boss Souness

    BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness today called for a winter break to help ease the strain on players after a punishing Christmas programme has decimated his squad. Souness blames the recent hamstring injuries sustained by Damien Duff and Craig Short on the

  • Time for a break says boss Souness

    BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness today called for a winter break to help ease the strain on players after a punishing Christmas programme has decimated his squad. Souness blames the recent hamstring injuries sustained by Damien Duff and Craig Short on the

  • Souey opens up his search

    BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness will broaden his search for extra defensive resources after failing in an attempt to land Aston Villa's World Cup star Alpay. Souness recently made contact with the Midlands club about a possible swap deal for the Turkish

  • Artists' chance to make it big on new site

    ARTISTS from across East Lancashire are being encouraged to showcase their talents on a new website. John Bradbury, of Stoneyhurst Height, Burnley, has been an artist for more than 15 years and said he wanted to help other artists get their work recognised

  • Award after schools' healthy interest

    SCHOOLS across East Lancashire have been praised for the high standard of health-related education offered to pupils. Lancashire's Education Health Partnership -- made up of the county council and Lancashire's eight primary health care trusts -- has received

  • Ending bus stop bother

    SERVICES from Burnley's multi-million pound flagship bus station are letting passengers down, according to councillors. Despite the much-heralded opening of the new facility, passengers have complained about being left stranded at bus stops, being asked

  • Worsthorne column

    ST JOHN'S Church allocated £4,700 from general Church funds for this year. Several donations were made during the year amounting to £1,939, with £600 going to the Bishop's Harvest Appeal, £200 to St Luke's Hospital, USPG, CMS and the Historic Churches

  • Glen's 2003 wish-list

    EAST Lancashire's football derby could be back on the menu if Clarets star winger Glen Little's New Year wish is granted. The Lancashire Evening Telegraph columnist and Burnley hero said: "It would be great to make the play-offs and then get promoted

  • Peace and prosperity

    AN end to the Iraq crisis is the New Year wish of Foreign Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw. But the man embroiled in the battle against terrorism also has a wish-list closer to home - including football domination for his beloved Blackburn Rovers

  • Lawson winner puts Shakers third

    SHAKERS 1, HULL CITY 0: Ian Lawson's 72nd minute goal has put Shakers up to the heady position of third in the Division Three table after he clinched victory over Hull City at Gigg Lane. Full reaction here on Thursday morning. Lawson rose to the occasion

  • Successful launch year for community project

    PENDLE's new European-funded Community Economic Development (CED) programme is celebrating the end of its first full year of operation. Pendle Partnership was awarded £2.68m in early 2002 from the European Regional Development Fund towards economic development

  • Peace and prosperity

    ANOTHER year over and a new one's just begun. As 2002 gave way to the the fourth year of the third millennium, reporter GAIL ATKINSON asked East Lancashire's celebrities and leaders about their hopes and aspirations. AN end to the Iraq crisis is the New

  • Taxi plan wait

    A SINGLE car private hire firm could soon be running from an address in Salterforth Road, Earby, if councillors give plans the thumbs-up next week. The proposed site is a mid-terraced property with parking space for one car in the back garden area with

  • Peace and prosperity

    ANOTHER year over and a new one's just begun. As 2002 gave way to the the fourth year of the third millennium, reporter GAIL ATKINSON asked East Lancashire's celebrities and leaders about their hopes and aspirations. AN end to the Iraq crisis is the New

  • Pre-school group wins accreditation

    GRIMSARGH pre-school group has been awarded the pre-school learning alliance Accreditation Award" for excellence in child care and education for children aged two and a half to five years. The group is a Lancashire County Council Eligible provider and

  • Martin's mission to rescue Titan

    CLITHEROE-BORN entrepreneur Martin Myerscough is making a last-ditch bid to rescue his multi-million-pound dream. He has launched a new company which has offered just £1 to buy the rights to the revolutionary Titan washing machine he invented. Monotub

  • Peace and prosperity

    ANOTHER year over and a new one's just begun. As 2002 gave way to the the fourth year of the third millennium, reporter GAIL ATKINSON asked East Lancashire's celebrities and leaders about their hopes and aspirations. AN end to the Iraq crisis is the New

  • Short sharp shock!

    CLARETS boss Stan Ternent has admitted it may be time to scrap the youth system at Turf Moor in order to use resources more effectively. Speaking at the club's Annual General Meeting he admitted: "In my view it will be better to have one team of 20 players

  • MBE for Foley

    IF an MBE was ever deserved, it was the one awarded to Michael Foley, Salesbury cricket club's junior organiser. That is the opinion of one of Foley's former charges, the Church veteran Phil Sykes. After Sykes heard the news that retired Foley had been

  • Leaver at Large

    Boozers' sanctuary or upmarket cafe? HAS the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Alan Chesters, been on a foreign mission in some remote spot way beyond communication with his diocese? One would be forgiven for thinking so after his plea the other day for

  • Short sharp shock!

    CLARETS boss Stan Ternent has admitted it may be time to scrap the youth system at Turf Moor in order to use resources more effectively. Speaking at the club's Annual General Meeting he admitted: "In my view it will be better to have one team of 20 players

  • Widow's treasured jewellery stolen

    A PENSIONER has been left devastated after burglars ransacked her home and stole £2,500 worth of jewellery given to her by her late husband. Kathleen Hunt, 70, of Blackburn Road, Darwen, discover the theft when she returned from a shopping trip. Items

  • Residents urged to meeting

    RAMSBOTTOM and Tottington Area Board are gearing up for their first meeting of the New Year and encouraging residents to get involved. On Tuesday, January 7 at 7pm the first meeting of 2003 will take place with a full agenda to get through at Tottington

  • Citizens' army idea to boost district's parks

    ROSSENDALE Council is to meet next month to discuss a plan to create a citizens' army dedicated to improving parks. Councillors know the area's many parks need extra cash so they are signing up members of the public to make it easier to get grant awards

  • 'Worst' council begins search for new chiefs

    THE new year will bring a new look and a new start for Rossendale Council when it begins a recruitment campaign for senior personnel. The authority, which was named the worst in the country last year, is to advertise for three senior employees soon. It

  • Council launches quest for officers

    THE New Year will bring a new look and a new start for Rossendale Council when it begins a recruitment campaign for senior personnel. The authority, which was named the worst in the country earlier this year, is to advertise for three senior employees

  • Burnt-out club up for sale

    A BURNT-OUT former nightclub described as 'very dangerous' by firemen has been put up for sale by the supermarket company which had planned to redevelop it. For Sale signs have appeared outside the old Millennium nightclub, Blackburn, which has been attacked

  • It's Good Morning - from the library

    EXPECT plenty of angry faces at Burnley Library - but don't blame the librarians! People with an opinion are to get the chance to vent their thoughts on national TV, via an internet link to the library. Lancashire County Council has teamed up with the

  • The bell tolls for Methodist chapel

    WORSHIPPERS at a Methodist chapel said their final goodbyes to the building at a packed closing service. Around 100 people filled the pews for a final Covenant Service at Hoghton Methodist Chapel, Chapel Lane, Hoghton. Built in 1794, it is the oldest

  • Donations pour in for Magic Eye Appeal

    LATEST donations to the Magic Eye Appeal include: S Kenton, Blackburn, £106; L Flannery, Blackburn, £32; M O'Grady, Blackburn, £10; Mrs A Pennington, £33; Mrs L Pennington, £50; B Otley, £76.50; P Wilson, £104.50; M Grimshaw, £215; K Ramsbottom, £255;