TURF Moor chief Adrian Heath has made a fresh offer to Portuguese club Boavista in a bid to land big centre-foward Bambo. The deal to land Bambo stalled this week but Heath revealed: "I've made another offer by fax today to Boavista and I'm still very
A YOUNG inventor from the Ribble Valley has been ringing his own bell in a top engineering competition. Teenager James Johnson took the second prize in the regional finals of the contest with an ingenious door bell answer machine. James's entry in the
SCHOOLS were under siege from a spate of high-tech raids, a senior policeman warned. Detective Inspector Jim Oldcorn appealed to the public to help catch burglars who were clearing classes of valuable computers. It was revealed that Blackburn and Darwen
TEACHERS, pupils and parents took to the streets to try to save Everton High School, Blackburn, from closure. Armed with banners and petitions they sought support from shoppers as details of a campaign to save their school were unveiled. County councillors
DAVID LLOYD will not be at Lord's when his native Lancashire take on Northants in tomorrow's Benson and Hedges Cup final. Lloyd was banned from joining the BBC commentary team along with umpire Dickie Bird because of his contract as England coach with
BLACKBURN Hawks could yet be facing opponents from 'down south' next season as the plan to regionalise British ice hockey skids from crisis to crisis. The intention to run Northern and Southern Conferences faces the order of the boot and a move back to
ONCE again Northern Ireland stands on the brink of a precipice. In fact, it seems to be already slipping over the edge into the abyss. Last night three RUC officers were shot and today looks set to be even more explosive with the Twelfth of July parade
TODAY we report a disturbing case in which a 15-year-old girl was recruited off the street by Mormons and persuaded to attend religious meetings, including a partially-clothed baptism. Angela Theaker was taken in by the Mormons who have been "recruiting
A BROKEN-hearted businessman is selling his palatial home to try and win back the love of his life. Arthur Morgan claims his one true love has left him because she doesn't like living at the remote Lords Hall, near Darwen, which he once shared with another
A HIGH tech company backed by Jack Walker's millions is set for a major expansion. Datastrip, which specialises in reading devices for high security data codes, has forged links with a growing list of partners including Royal Mail, Kodak, ICL and NatWest
BURNLEY MP Peter Pike today defended voting to give himself a £9,000 pay rise and challenged those government ministers who had voted against not to accept their own bigger increases. He joined Blackburn's Jack Straw and Rossendale and Darwen's Janet
NOSTALGIA lovers are sharp to carp at the loss of Blackburn's old town centre at the hands of the council-backed redevelopment in the '60s and '70s - especially over the demise of the much-loved Market Hall - but not local historian Matthew Cole. In a
THE graves of East Lancashire war heroes may have been desecrated after vandals went on the rampage through a war cemetery in France. The headstones of 112 graves at the Aval Wood Military Cemetery in Arras, northern France, were pushed over and broken
A SEMINAR to help business owners review their position as a General Election looms is being staged later this month. Blackburn-based solicitors Taylors have joined forces with Downham Train Epstein chartered accountants to hold the event covering the
GRAEME Parkinson takes over as Darwen skipper for tomorrow's Vaux Northern League clash at Leyland. Mike Friend is unavailable but Simon Painter returns to the Darwen starting line-up. High-flying Chorley visit Preston after having been quoted as 11-10
BATSMAN Micky Graham is believed to have been suspended by Whalley for his club's next two Vaux Ribblesdale League games. The league are currently inquiring into an alleged incident involving Graham and Edenfield's Mark Burns during the recent game between
A CONTROVERSIAL religious group has been recruiting members as young as 14, we can reveal today. And the Mormons even baptised a 15-year-old girl without her Catholic parents' consent in a bizarre ceremony. The events bear a striking similarity to a current
GAS bosses today issued a public apology after their jammed switchboards sparked angry customers to boil over with rage. Hordes of householders have blown a fuse after failing to get through to British Gas Trading, which covers the North West The Lancashire
A WOMAN claims her two daughters were turned off a bus and humilated by a driver for being each 2p short of their fare. Julie Barton, of Alfred Street, Darwen, sent her children Lean, 11, and Carleen, ten, to catch the 346 Blackburn Transport bus from
RAY Harford seems to have run into a brick wall in his attempts to add a second major signing to his capture of express winger Georgios Donis from Greek giants Panathinaikos. The Blackburn Rovers manager's mission at the start of the summer was to bring
JOHN STANWORTH has painful memories of the Benson and Hedges Cup final. In 1984, as a young wicket keeper preparing to make his Lord's debut against Warwickshire, he was told on the morning of the match by Lancashire coach Peter Lever that he wasn't playing
SUPERGRAN Ada Gibson has made her mark in North Carolina with the help of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and the Internet. A family who moved to America from the Accrington area over 20 years ago came across the writings of Ada Gibson when they were
NELSON Mandela, in Britain this week, is the great man of our age. Many TV viewers wept as they watched millions of South Africans queuing for up to 10 hours in the broiling sun in their first free elections. They chose by a huge majority a ma imprisoned
A CHARITY is hoping to bring a tragic victim of the Chernobyl disaster to the UK for vital treatment. The 15-year-old girl, Alaina, has been left devastated by a rare skin condition which leaves large parts of her body red raw. But East Lancashire charity
FORMER Manchester City and Oldham striker Paul Moulden is on the verge of joining Accrington Stanley. Moulden has had talks with Accrington officials today and could link up with Stanley early next week. "We've made Paul Moulden a fabulous offer and we're
THE PHILIPS factory at Simonstone has become the first of the company's UK sites to gain a top green award. The factory, which manufactures glass screens for TVs and colour monitor tubes, has been accredited to the European Community Eco-Management and
