A MULTI-MILLION pound scheme to revitalise Accrington's market area was needed to attract business to the town, a public inquiry heard The inquiry, into the council's Accrington Market Redevelopment Peel Street Compulsory Purchase Order, opened yesterday
TWO England soccer fans have returned to East Lancashire after being deported from Norway before tonight's friendly international. They have been named by the police as Damian Stuttard, 23, of Burnley, and Glen Ford, 26, of Rossendale. A massive security
SPECIALISTS are preparing to offer free mouth examinations, in a bid to clamp down on cases of oral cancer. Doctors at Blackburn Infirmary are keen to raise awareness of mouth cancer, which experts believe may be on the increase in young people, particularly
BABY Terri Louise James just couldn't wait to be born - so she put in an early appearance in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Impatient Terri Louise took everyone by surprise when she made her debut before mum Audrey could get from her home in Burton
A BIG cut in the marketing budget of Burnley's newest business park has come as a surprise to both a senior officer and committee chairman. Economic and development committee chairman Coun Marcus Johnstone told members of the finance sub-committee last
A BIT of ancient Blackburn was uncovered this week, in the shape of the 14th century foundations of the town's old parish church. The lawns in Blackburn Cathedral were being dug up in a bid to unearth the old church boundaries. **Four factories were hit
ANGRY Burnley councillors were calling for an urgent action meeting with local health chiefs to express their opposition to plans for Burnley General Hospital to 'opt out' of the health service. A Burnley councillor said that the hospital belonged to
I DID not catch John Blunt's article, but can sympathise with Mrs Patricia Flaherty's dismay at his apparently insensitive and inaccurate characterisations of dyslexic children. However, if he took her advice and conducted (or even surveyed) research
LABOUR'S civil war in Lancashire, it seems, has claimed a major casualty - with long-time party stalwart and Lancashire Enterprises boss Jim Mason reportedly shot down on his way to the House of Lords. He is apparently a victim of the row raging between
A WOMAN pensioner is "very poorly" in hospital with a fractured skull after a horror road traffic accident on a zebra crossing in Rossendale last night. Miss Winifred East, 74, of Dale Street, Bacup, was crossing Market Street, Bacup, at 7pm, when the
THOSE interested in natural history are usually quite prepared to travel long distances in search of birds or mammals, writes Ron Freethy. However, very few seem keen to make a special trip to study a botanical garden. This is a great pity because at
RED-faced Tories in Burnley have been branded the most tight-fisted in the North West. They gave less cash than any other constituency to the party's national high command. Conservative grandees didn't expect much in financial backing from the local party
KURT Nogan is waiting in the wings after missing out on a start in tonight's European Championship qualifier against Germany at Cardiff's National Stadium. The Burnley striker was named in Bobby Gould's Wales squad for the high-profile international.
BLACKBURN Hawks are table-toppers - and that's official! Another marvellous performance at Solihull last night saw the soaraway Hawks chalk up a 9-0 victory and go top of the British Ice Hockey League First Division for the first time in their history
HENNING Berg is steeling himself to face the deadliest feet in Europe and admits: "He can be impossible to stop." The Blackburn Rovers defensive ace knows he could be charged with the mission of stopping flying bomb Alan Shearer in his tracks in tonight's
IN what I suspect will be the first of many observations by her, Trisha Buzzard, the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Conservatives at Rossendale and Darwen (Letters, October 5) dismisses some of Jack Straw's recent suggestions for improving
FULL of ham and hyperbole it may have been, but Tory conference delegates just loved Defence Minister Michael Portillo's guns-blazing attack on Europe yesterday. Everything from imagined EU metrication assaults on our forces' cap badges to the spectre
THE WAR between Lancashire County Council leaders and East Lancashire's Labour MPs has cost Lancashire Enterprise's boss Jim Mason a peerage, it emerged today. The quarrel between Mr Mason and Shadow Home Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw over local
HEALTH bosses have beaten the odds by slashing waiting times in dozens of consultant clinics. Trust chiefs in Blackburn have met a Government target to reduce waiting lists for all outpatient clinics to below 26 weeks. Five months ago, Blackburn, Hyndburn
I CANNOT allow your report 'Lawyers are the villains, says 'tec,' September 28, representing the views of Detective Inspector Hargreaves, to pass without reply. It is the hallmark of the police state that the citizen is locked away on the basis of police
