A CONVICTED paedophile is living just 300 yards from a primary school while trying to forge links with a charity that works with children. Robert Williams, 41, has been a tenant in Blackburn Council flats at St Albans Court since February. He has served
A VICTORIAN shopping arcade in Rossendale, being eaten away by dry rot, is at the centre of a planning row. An application to remove the wooden fronts of most of the shops in the Victoria Arcade in Waterfoot is being opposed by Rossendale Council planning
A HOSPITAL patient who collapsed and died on a garage forecourt after leaving his bed to buy a newspaper has been named. The coroner had been informed of the death of Peter Hamlet, 61, of Burnley Road East, Waterfoot. However, results of a post mortem
A TOP doctor in East Lancashire has claimed that smoking and junk food have nothing to do with the cause of heart disease. And Dr David Grimes has revealed there could be an intriguing link between the killer condition - and the weather! His comments
FORMER Coronation Street star Pat Phoenix, known to millions of views as Elsie Tanner, lost her battle against lung cancer. Burnley Labour councillors were planning to sell off council houses in a desperate bid to raise cash. It was part of a revolutionary
BURNLEY Engineering Products , whose factories are based on the Heasandford Industrial Estate , slashed 71 jobs in the second wave of redundancies in four months. Difficult trading conditions in the world aerospace industry were blamed for the cuts. Gipsy
IF EVER there was a prime example of the need for a comprehensive register of paedophiles then, surely, it comes with the shocking revelation today of a vile sex offender being housed in a council flat overlooking an East Lancashire primary school. Worse
LONG-serving busmen are offering to empty bins or sweep the streets to salvage their hopes of retiring at 50 with a pension. They are calling on Hyndburn Council to redeploy them within the authority. They claim the sale of Hyndburn Transport to Stagecoach
THE head of a victim support scheme has urged the police to consider banning booze from the streets of Blackburn after an escalation in alcohol related violence. Mr Les James said there had been a dramatic increase in young male adult "victims" needing
RAY Harford already owes Brentford manager David Webb one vote of thanks. For it was while in charge of Chelsea that Webb allowed Graeme Le Saux to move to Blackburn Rovers and the Channel Islander went on to make the Ewood and England full back spot
A LEADING East Lancashire company has strengthened its position overseas by teaming up with a French firm. Darwen-based ink manufacturer Wolstenholme International has linked up with Paris-based MGM, one of France's leading suppliers to the printing industry
RECENTLY, you published letters in favour of using animals for vivisection, experiments, research, or whatever it has been phrased as. It does not matter how you dress it up, the fact remains that to inflict pain on any living creature is never justified
CONTRACTORS at the scene of a gas explosion in which a man was injured carried on working an hour after they had smelled gas, it was revealed today. John Kennedy employees, under contract to North West Water, had dug down to a water pipe under Burnley
"WE promise you that Toffee Crisp wrappers won't appear out of nowhere. Neither will the ground open up. If it happens, I'll be the first one out of here." These were the reassuring words from the president of Blackburn Spiritualist Church before opening
I THINK Coun Tim O'Kane (Letters, September 9) must have nightmares about the Tories on Hyndburn Council not setting a budget each year. Well, I think it's time to put the record straight. When Labour took control of Hyndburn Council ten years ago, the
OUT-of-favour Burnley star Steve Thompson today blasted suggestions that he wants away from Turf Moor. And the midfield ace made it clear that he wants to fight for a first team return. "All this talk about clear-the-air meetings make me come across as
AN 18-month-old child was badly injured after he was knocked down by a car his father was reversing in a driveway. The boy suffered serious head, leg and arm injuries in the accident in Rosemount, Bacup. A police spokesman said: "As he was reversing the
KENNY Dalglish almost quit as manager of Blackburn Rovers, before the Premier League title came to Ewood in May 1995. Dalglish, who left his Ewood post of director of football last month, revealed today that he was reviewing his situation the summer before
A THEATRE company has opened the doors on its biggest ever production - the £400,000-plus transformation of a decaying building into a new centre for the arts in Rossendale. The Horse and Bamboo Theatre decided to open its doors to the public to show
PORTER Matthews & Marsden has become only the second accountancy firm in East Lancashire in its field to receive Investors in People. The firm, now more widely known as PM&M, employs more than 60 staff at offices in Blackburn and Burnley. Said
I SEE that it's that time of year again when local breweries start whingeing about people who buy foreign beers. I suppose the encroaching festive season has nothing to do with this. They would be entitled to a more sympathetic hearing if they were to
GEORGE Donis faces a late fitness test before Blackburn Rovers' Coca-Cola Cup clash with Brentford at Griffin Park tonight. But, while he waits for the verdict on his Greek star, Rovers boss Ray Harford can celebrate good news over another Ewood international
HAVING read newly-elected Coun Tim O'Kane's comments on the sale of the Arndale Centre in Accrington (Letters, September 9), I come to the conclusion that Hyndburn's ruling Labour council has delusions of grandeur. Quite apart from the admitted reason
CONTROVERSIAL Castle Cement today announced it wants to build a £4 million gas cleaning system after facing pressure to clean up its act. The company is seeking planning permission for the system at its Ribblesdale plant in Clitheroe and bosses say it
OUR 'flag day' at the Arndale Shopping Centre, Accrington, on August 30 and 31 was a tremendous success, raising £1,007.82. I would like to thank the Arndale management and the people of Accrington and district who are more generous than anyone could
THE SWEEPING powers proposed by Labour today to curb neighbourhood nuisance may be designed to out-tough the Tories on law and order, but the politicking does not detract from their value or the necessity for them. For as we have seen in East Lancashire
BLACKBURN micro brewer Jim Botur is back in business, resurrecting a beer name which vanished more than 60 years ago. Mr Botur is presiding over the rebirth of Blackburn Beer Company, originally founded in 1882. The new brewery is located at the Hornby
A VILLAGE inn once dubbed the grottiest pub in the country is now proving so popular that its car park is overflowing causing a problem for neighbours. The Hare and Hounds in Foulridge has long since cleaned up its act after being labelled with the unfortunate
MARLON Beresford is an injury worry for tonight's Coca-Cola Cup clash at Charlton Athletic. The Clarets goalkeeper had further problems with his troublesome shoulder injury after Saturday's 2-1 win over Wycombe Wanderers and remains a doubt for the second
BURNLEY is bidding for Millennium Fund cash to create a £2.5 million centrepiece to the town's Weavers' Triangle complex. The scheme would provide a new visual arts centre and public square and also involve the widening of the canal basin to provide more
