AFURTHER crisis at our sanctuary unfolded when the concrete mixer stopped working. Building work has been in progress over the past few weeks to prepare new stables for the horses, ponies and other animals for the winter months' ahead. This work will
A TOP East Lancashire restaurant has been praised in the new Good Food Guide for 1997. The book, which was released on Tuesday, rates Paul Heathcote's Longridge restaurant among the best in the country. And the overall news for food lovers is good. According
FURIOUS tenants today vowed to fight a feared sell-off of the troubled Within Grove estate in Huncoat. The bombshell was dropped on Huncoat Residents' Association yesterday. The association had asked for a meeting with Hyndburn director of community services
BURNLEY Football Club manager Frank Casper resigned from the club following a slide in the Clarets' form. His assistant manager Jimmy Mullen took charge of team matters until a new appointment. An armed raider escaped with £200 in cash from Avenue Service
POLICE are looking into the pension scheme at an East Lancashire engineering works - as employees' top-up contributions are delayed after the company hits a cash-flow problem. But, encouragingly, the firm - involved in a management buy-out recently and
THERE'S a lesson for the bosses of all football clubs in the demonstration planned by Brighton and Hove Albion fans on Saturday at the East Lancashire home of chairman Bill Archer over the sale of the side's ground. It is that, though professional soccer
A FORMER East Lancashire brewer responsible for the famous Lancaster Bomber bitter has died of cancer at the age of 52. Brian Moss left St Mary's College, Blackburn, aged 15 to work at the former Dutton's brewers in Blackburn as laboratory assistant.
MORE than 300 angry football fans plan to invade a peaceful East Lancashire village to protest at the way the chairman is running their club. Followers of trouble-torn Brighton and Hove Albion plan to demonstrate outside the Mellor home of chairman Bill
RESIDENTS and allotment holders have joined forces to save their threatened "oasis". More than 100 people packed a public meeting at Baxenden Conservative Club to protest over the possibility of houses being built on allotment land at Hill Street, Baxenden
A £30,000 award is set to help sell East Lancashire and its products to the outside world. A consortium made up of the Chamber of Commerce, three local firms and Blackburn College has been awarded the cash to help pay for a special multi-media project
WALKING around Blackburn, one cannot but help notice the new forms of modern act decorating the streets. These sculptures take the form of litter bins piled to overflowing with rubbish. I assume that they must be meant to be only ornamental because, over
IN response to the remarks of Mr M Nottingham (Letters, September 25), on the standards of driving in the USA, allow me to present a moderating opinion. I'm afraid he is misled by the broadcaster's beliefs that road-rage, racing and speeding are not a
Shrewsbury Town Reserves 1 Burnley Reserves 1 BURNLEY Reserves picked up a hard-earned point with a battling display at Gay Meadow last night. The Turf Moor injury crisis meant that coach Harry Wilson was forced to field his youngest ever Burnley side
Nottm Forest Reserves 0 Blackburn Rovers Reserves 2 BLACKBURN Rovers scored a splendid victory at the City Ground last night. Swedish star Niklas Gudmundsson put Rovers on the road to victory with a first half header while striker James Beattie continued
Accrington Stanley 0 Chorley 3 THE first 45 minutes produced very little from either side to write home about. After the break the game started to live up to expectations with Stanley forcing the pace. On 55 minutes Smith crossed from the right which
MORE patients than ever are being treated by the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Authority and waiting lists are falling. According to the Trust's annual report for the last year, the Trust dealt with an extra 2,500 in-patient and day care
CONDITIONS on a gipsy camp have been described as deplorable by council chiefs, who have promised to improve the site. Gipsies living on the permanent camp near Aqueduct Road, Ewood, Blackburn, have won a battle to have extra baths fitted in the washing
FURIOUS Blackburn Rovers chairman Rob Coar has slammed reports linking Tim Flowers with a £4 million move to big-spending Newcastle United. Several national newspapers today said the England goalkeeper is poised to follow in Alan Shearer's footsteps to
ISHOULD like to take this opportunity to thank everyone from your area who has contributed to the report of the National Commission of Inquiry into the Prevention of Child Abuse. We have received thousands of letters from members of the public who have
HUNDREDS of unemployed people in East Lancashire are set to lose up to £75 a week in the Government's benefits shake-up, it has been claimed. From Monday, people looking for work will have unemployment benefit or income support replaced by the Job Seeker's
A MAN whose Rottweiler dogs savaged an 11-year-old boy causing fatal injuries will not face criminal charges, despite an unlawful killing verdict at an inquest into the boy's death. Police have revealed the Crown Prosecution Service does not intend to
ELECTRONICS company Shorrock announced nearly 50 redundancies, with 30 jobs axed at the company's Blackburn headquarters. The first phase of a new business complex was unveiled by Lancashire Enterprises Ltd. The £1 million scheme was aimed at transforming
LANCASHIRE championship cricket is set to enter a new hi-tech era. And the man set to flick the switches is new Australian coach Dav Whatmore. His innovative but typically Aussie approach to the game spurred Sri Lanka to the incredible heights of World
WHEN are local councillors going to get some police protection for their tenants against persistent yobs? I endorse private guards for many estates - the police are too thin on the ground. We need a curfew time for all teenagers, on a regular basis, not
WHAT a stinking stew we find served up to the taxpayers of Burnley by councillors as the Lancashire Evening Telegraph reveals the scandal of a shut-down caf owned by the town hall. Thousands of pounds have been lost. And as well as trying to cover that
VINCE Overson could be back at the heart of the Burnley defence for Saturday's blood and thunder Division Two encounter against Stockport County. Manager Adrian Heath is hoping to include the big defender in his Turf Moor plans after Overson continued
A 'ONE-DAY-at-a-time' policy is rapidly gaining ground at Burnley hospitals. Day case treatment has soared to record levels - with more and more people being discharged on the same day they undergo operations. Over the last year Burnley Health Trust treated
THE country's first green tax was introduced yesterday amid fears councils could be facing higher bills for getting rid of rubbish. And there are also concerns that people will dump rubbish illegally rather than pay the new tax. From now on, operators
A PUBLIC meeting tomorrow will discuss the future of countryside around the Forest of Bowland. The remote corner of Lancashire is regarded by many as among the most scenic countryside in England. And Lancashire County Council has recently won concessions
THE humble Batchelors mushy pea has come of age and is celebrating its 21st birthday this week. To mark the occasion Batchelors have delved into the fascinating history of the pea and discovered some quirky stories, including one featuring a housewife
POLICE are to take more time investigating a family of alleged benefit fraudsters who are believed to have netted £200,000. A 42-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman had been due to answer to police bail yesterday after being arrested by Blackburn police
A SCHEME to create a base for an expanding young rugby club on land earmarked for housing has gained some ground, after local councillors backed the idea. But club officials will have to tackle Pendle Council's policy-makers before West Craven Warriors
THE NAME of an Oswaldtwistle soldier carved into the wall is proving a mystery for the owner of a French farmhouse. Avril Williams, from Gloucester, has been running a guest house in Auchonvillers, in the Somme region of northern France, for five years
DEFENSIVE rock Colin Hendry was today in London facing surgery on a troublesome groin injury. The Blackburn Rovers stalwart was forced to pull out of the Scotland squad to face Latvia in Riga on Saturday and Estonia next Wednesday. And he faces a month
