A SCHEME giving fledgling firms a helping hand to get off the ground celebrated its birthday in style. Over the past five years more than 2,000 entrepreneurs - from plumbers to printers, bakers to beauticians - have been helped under the FirmBase programme
REDUNDANCIES are going to be inevitable at Calderstones Hospital as patients are re-settled into the community, but management chiefs are hoping to keep total job losses to a minimum. Plans for creating jobs in newly-developing caring services across
A COLLEGE was today seeking a High Court injunction to stop a lecturers' strike due to start tomorrow. The eleventh-hour move by Accrington and Rossendale College has been condemned by lecturers union NATFHE. It has passed a resolution censuring college
BLACKBURN Rovers and Jack Walker were poised to unveil plans for a £12 million super-stadium. Speaking exclusively to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph Jack Walker said: "Blackburn means a lot to me and I want the town and the club to have the best." Police
BUSES were off the road in Hyndburn as crews met to talk about the effect of privatisation. Services were halted for an hour and a half while workers held a mass meeting to discuss what would happen when the transport authority switched over to a private
CHRIS Coleman was recovering in hospital today after surgery on his ruptured Achilles tendon which will rule him out for the rest of the Premiership campaign. The Welsh international defender left Highfield Road on crutches on Saturday night, heading
Blackburn Hawks 8 Whitley Warriors 4 HAWKS are coming to, they're coming to, they're coming... Two outstanding victories over the weekend and some notable individual efforts, not least from new boys Neil Abel and Colin Downie, suggests that this could
We Muslims in the past have been called 'aliens' and 'moaners,' when minute details that affect everyday life are brought to attention. At times, when sections of the Muslim community have celebrated the Holy Prophet's birthday, their faith has been linked
FOR ALL the debate that will take place at the Labour Party's crucial pre-election conference at Blackpool this week, there is really only one item on the agenda - winning power. And though New Labour and its master builder Tony Blair are certain to have
A FANTASTIC £5,644 in donations has helped push the SuperScan appeal one step nearer the £1 million target this week. Almost a year after the appeal was launched the total stands at £262,121.39. An amazing array of fund-raising efforts have swelled the
STUNNING Blackburn beauty Marie-Claire Harrison was today the centre of attention for the world's photographers after being crowned Miss Europe. The down-to-earth 23-year-old picked up a cheque for a cool £14,000 when she was named Europe's most beautiful
WALKERS strode out to raise cash for a church fund, when members of Christ Church, Accrington, went on a 12 mile sponsored walk to raise money for their millennium appeal. The church is hoping for a refurbishment as well as establishing a drop-in centre
REGARDING your report 'Fireworks sales will be tougher' (LET, August 18) I disagree that tighter controls may be needed, because most display fireworks are safe for public use and most do comply with British Standard 7114, and do pass the safety tests
FORMER screen tough guy Patrick Mower is now playing an altogether different role in the hit musical Crazy For You on the Manchester stage. He took time out to talk to Mark Woodhouse between rehearsals PATRICK Mower was once the most famous "hard man"
EAST Lancashire Cub Scouts are getting ready to go globe-trotting to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Cubs. They will join Cubs from all over the UK who are taking part in the Cub Scout birthday challenge to travel the world in 80 days. Several Cub
A SINGLE mother claims Lancashire County Council education chiefs are putting money before her children's education. Lisa Simpson is using food and clothing money to pay the £25 weekly taxi fares to and from St Luke and St Philip's School in Blackburn
Alfreton Town 1 Accrington Stanley 3 THE form of debutant Peter Smith can only be described as inspirational. Peter scored one and had a hand in the two other goals. His influence in the side started in the opening minutes of this UniBond Premier League
Eric Leaver's Monday GIVEN that the fastest thing to travel across Atlantic is not Concorde, but daft ideas from America - the wearing of baseball caps back-to-front, feminism, gangsta rap, political correctness, line-dancing city-dwellers being given
MANY readers, particularly those who are animal lovers, may have seen that the Political Animal Lobby (PAL) recently donated £1 million to the Labour Party. While PAL has given substantial donations to all three major parties to further the cause of animal
DESPERATE residents living on a troubled estate have called on Blackburn Council help them win the fight against thieves and vandals. Town hall bosses have now pledged to investigate residents labelled as troublemakers on the Whitebirk estate. Council
A NEW pregnancy advice centre connected with a nationwide network of similar projects has opened in Nelson. The Mayor of Pendle, Councillor Frank Clifford, officially unveiled the Lighthouse Pregnancy Crisis Centre at the Living Waters Christian centre
PLEASE allow me to express my delight at now being able to purchase my Lancashire Evening Telegraph (and also my favourite national daily) at outlets that do not offend decent Christian folk by having pornography displayed left, right and centre. I have
DETECTIVES want to question three teenagers after a man was found collapsed in the street suffering severe head injuries. Kingsley McDonald, 27, of West Street, Burnley, is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after undergoing major surgery to
OPPOSITION is mounting to plans for new houses in Hygiene, Clayton-le-Moors. Residents fear the development would add to an already grim problem with traffic congestion in their lane, making it almost impassable for emergency vehicles. The earmarked plot
Burnley 2 Bristol City 3 - Tony Dewhurst reports A ROSEGROVE dental practice sponsored this Division Two tale of murder, mystery and suspense. The menacing figure of Joe Jordan provided a blast of ice cold steel. While unforgiving number 10 Shaun Goater
THE appointment of the Rev Ronnie Clark (LET, September 14) will be warmly welcomed, but he is not the first full-time Church of England chaplain working in Blackburn hospitals. When I came to Little Harwood in 1954, the Rev Harry Voce was chaplain of
A COLLECTION of modern art has been discovered gathering dust in the store cupboard at an East Lancashire nightclub. Now staff at Utopia in Blackburn are anxious to discover the name of the painter - and whether they have a potential Picasso on their
TOUGH new traffic restrictions are planned for Blackburn town centre, in a bid to make the area more pedestrian-friendly. The package of measures for the streets surrounding the town hall will cost £354,000, with most of the money coming from the City
AMERICAN Ducati rider John Kocinski was the fastest rider in Sunday's final of the World Superbike shakedown tests at the Albacete track in Spain. Kocinski was almost a full second faster than rival Troy Corser with Castrol Honda's Carl Fogarty fourth
PLEASINGTON professional Ged Furey played the best round of his season to steer himself and amateur partner Geoff Wilson into a first round lead in the Lombard Top Club Trophy Grand Final in San Lorenzo, Portugal. The East Lancashire pair combined superbly
IT was an express arrival for baby Jamie Lee who was delivered on the settee at her grandmother's home by quick-acting paramedic Jason Swift. Young mum 17-year-old Teresa Humphrys, of Oldham Fold, Darwen, started with labour pains but never phoned for
Coventry City 0 Blackburn Rovers 0 - Peter White reports A LUNCHTIME crisis at Blackburn Rovers' hotel prompted an SOS call for Mr Reliable-and Nicky Marker, once again, didn't let them down. Already deprived of Jeff Kenna's services through injury, Rovers
HIGH-level talks between council leaders and the Irish government are being held over the threat posed by deadly munitions dumped off Lancashire's coastline. County hall chiefs have repeatedly expressed fears about the dangers of the dumped weapons and
A MAN who plans to build a dog track in Darwen is trying to finance it by selling his life story. Steptoe, alias Bob Wilson, of Darwen Car Dismantlers, is hoping to transform his Goosehouse Lane site in Darwen. In a bid to finance the plan Bob has written
ADRIAN Heath was facing the worst injury crisis of his managerial career today. The Turf Moor treatment room resembled a scene from casualty as the Burnley chief sifted through the wreckage of Saturday's 3-2 defeat to Bristol City. Up to EIGHT senior
