POLYTHENE bag manufacturer Flexipol has won a major deal from Marks & Spencer after less than two years in business. The Rossendale based firm, which manufactures bags and sheets for the food and pharmaceutical industry has been approved by M&
BREWERS Thwaites have raised a glass in support of a national energy efficiency campaign. The Blackburn based brewery has made a corporate commitment to the Government's campaign to improve environmental performance. And Thwaites have appointed utilities
RAY Harford is continuing to scour Europe in a bid to bring new blood to Ewood Park. Italy has again come under the Blackburn Rovers manager's scrutiny and, at the weekend, the club had representatives watching games in both Holland and Norway. And I
A ROCK band playing in Blackburn next month has proved to be big in Japan. For one fan of Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers rang King George's Hall all the way from the city of Oits. Ticket office manageress Dorothy Ramsey said: "It was a Japanese
A FORMER pub has changed its produce from beer, wine and whisky - to the holy spirit! The East Lancashire Community Church has moved its base from a Blackburn house to The Barge Inn, on Audley Range. The building's owner, Blackburn councillor Yusuf Virmani
ROAD deaths in East Lancashire were heading for an all-time high. Figures for Lancashire police's Eastern Division - covering Blackburn, Hyndburn, Darwen and Rossendale - revealed 23 had died in accidents since the beggining of the year. Traffic bosses
LANCASHIRE today handed Nick Speak the shock news that he would be allowed to leave the club. Speak has a year of his current contract still to expire, but was told before the start of today's Championship game against Middlesex at Old Trafford that he
LANCASHIRE today handed Nick Speak the shock news that he would be allowed to leave the club. Speak has a year of his current contract still to expire, but was told before the start of today's Championship game against Middlesex at Old Trafford that he
"NEVER mind the flu - what a great knock." Neil Fairbrother's post-match tribute to John Crawley after Lancashire's second Championship victory of the season over Sussex at Hove yesterday said it all. Crawley hit a magnificent unbeaten 112, his third
THE famous Thwaites dray horses appeared outside Westminster yesterday as the Blackburn-based brewery joined a protest to try and stop Britain's beer trade being destroyed by cheap foreign imports. It is estimated that more than 1.1 million pints a day
PRAYERS were answered. The skies stayed blue. And organisers went home exhausted but delighted after another successful Barrowford Show. All the months of hard work and organisation paid off as the crowds came out in their thousands to give the village
TURF Moor's shooting star David Eyres is 50 not out! And there is the fruitful promise of plenty to more come from a player enjoying a fresh lease of life at Turf Moor. Eyres will take the number three shirt when Burnley face Mansfield Town tonight with
I AM disgusted by the attitude of Burnley Football Club to the problem of poor television reception in nearby homes caused by the construction of their new stands. The club admits there is a problem as it is prepared to install a signal booster but this
REGARDING your great article (LET, August 28) on our soldiers' return from Bosnia, the compassion they felt while there is typical of a regiment whose motto is "Loyally I Serve." Our soldiers are among the best in the world and when Burnley permits their
A CLAMPING company has been sacked by pub bosses after a series of "upsetting" incidents and complaints. Third Pub Estate Company employed Pendle Clamping to patrol the car park outside the Moorings pub in Bolton Road, Blackburn, after non-customers began
COUNCIL bosses have revealed that the final bill for replacing the controversial cladding at Blackburn's troubled town hall could cost more than £420,000. And Blackburn Council looks like having to foot most of the bill after contractors Sunley-Turriff
UNWANTED facial or body hair is an unspoken problem affecting many women Hundreds suffer crippling embarrassment and even shun the social scene to hide at home, unable to face the public . "Some women come to us with a full beard and have shaved every
IT seems that Sylvia Noble (Letters, August 9) has decided to rewrite medical history to suit her own arguments, as usually happens when animal rights supporters run out of excuses for not appreciating animals for their crucial role in preventing ill
MORE than 100 people have pledged to take on the ultimate challenge - to raise cash for SuperScan. Last month the Chairman's Challenge was launched by Mike Trickett, spearheading the bid to raise £1 million for an MRI scanner in East Lancs. He is encouraging
THIEVES stole a £15,000 Turner watercolour during a daylight raid at Burnley's Towneley Hall. Embarrassed council officials, who had recently spent thousands of pounds improving security, mounted their own enquiry to compliment the police hunt. Football
JONATHAN Fielding will be Clitheroe's Vaux Ribblesdale League professional in 1997. The Chatburn Road side has agreed a new deal with the former Lancashire player. Fielding has enjoyed a productive season for Clitheroe - landing 94 wickets and scoring
BLACKBURN Hawks are to have a distinctly Scandinavian flavour in the forthcoming ice hockey season ... after signing two more top Swedes. The double signing of defenceman John Goransson and centre ice Johan Englund comes on the back of Hawks capture of
BOXING manager Jack Doughty rates the possibility of a Warren Stowe-Herol "Bomber" Graham showdown as no better than 50-50. Reports today suggested that the Burnley Bulldog was being lined up to fight Graham in the Sheffield boxer's comeback fight on
IF EVER there was a case of Joe Public having to pick up the tab for someone else's bungle, it is the fiasco surrounding Blackburn Town Hall tower block. Consider the circumstances. The tower block needed recladding. Tiles were dropping off and it was
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners spread their warning over growing air pollution in Colne town centre in an unusual way on Saturday. Members of Pendle Friends of the Earth handed out balloons with chemical symbols on them to passers-by outside the market hall
A MOTHER of two today spoke of her horror as a fireball car hurtled towards the front wall of her terrace home. Barbara Maudsley and husband Jack, both 43, were watching the burning Ford Fiesta from the bedroom window of their house in Marlton Road, Blackburn
AN EIGHT-year-old boy is in hospital with serious head injuries after he ran into the road and was hit by a taxi. Martin Redhead, from George Street, Rishton, is said to be "stable" in Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury. Police said Martin, who
A WAR of words was about to explode today after a councillor expressed his anger that a visit to Burnley by the Queen's Lancashire Regiment should be "at minimal cost." Independent Councillor Harry Brooks has launched a four-prong attack by putting a
COUNTY council leader Louise Ellman has welcomed the news that the long-awaited Eurofighter project finally looks like getting off the ground. The Government announced at the Farnborough Air Show that it was backing the project and doing its best to persuade
WHEN Roman Road estate was built in the 1960s new tenants eagerly moved into the premier Blackburn Council properties. Three decades later, part of the estate has been sold off to a private developer, housing associations have taken over running some
TENS of thousands of healthy foals will be needlessly slaughtered over the next few weeks. They are unwanted "by-products" or "throwaways" from the most widely prescribed hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) drugs, Premarin and Prempak-C, which are made
A SUBSTANTIAL reward has been offered for the recovery of paintings and antiques valued at £29,000 stolen during a raid on a house in Read. Burglars forced open the patios doors of the detached house in Singleton Avenue to get inside. They stole two Breanski
A BID for £36 million worth of government and lottery money for services in Lancashire could be under threat because of a lack of support from local business. Town hall bosses have been meeting with government officials as the final touches are put to
LABOUR councillors at odds with their party over the sell-off of Hyndburn Council's freehold interest in the Arndale Centre, Accrington, will not face any disciplinary action. But Coun Dave Massey may be disciplined over a separate issue. A letter has
PAUL Barnes' record-breaking move to Turf Moor could come a step closer today. Further discussions between Birmingham City boss Trevor Francis and Clarets chief Adrian Heath were planned after Burnley made their £300,000 bid public yesterday. Heath confirmed
