CHILDREN playing near a bonfire found highly confidential council documents scattered across waste ground. And today Blackburn Council's chief executive Gerald Davies promised to launch an inquiry into how private papers came to be lying in the open.
Watford 2 Burnley 2 FROM losers to lion-hearts in 72 hours! Because Burnley salvaged their battered and bruised pride at Vicarage Road. Three days after the sorry debacle of Millmoor, the Clarets turned in a rip-roaring Second Division show. And Burnley
THIEVING children as young as eight years old have forced firefighters to put a guard on appliances while they are tackling blazes, it was revealed today. So far the main troublespot has been in the Sackville Street area of Brierfield, where the problems
BARROW 3 CHORLEY 0 CHORLEY face a renewed injury crisis after a thoroughly depressing night at Holker Street, where the depleted Magpies, without Abel, Ross and Emerson at kickoff, lost two players to injury by half time and finished well beaten in a
VITAL bus services in Hyndburn could cost almost 20 per cent more to run if transport giant Stagecoach pulls out of the non-profit routes. County council chiefs plan to keep a close eye on developments in the coming months. Hyndburn Transport ran buses
WALLCOVERING giant Borden Decor International has won a major award for its overseas sales. The Darwen-based export arm of Crown Wallcoverings has scooped the NatWest/FT Export Excellence Awards for the North West. It exports to more than 60 countries
A CUT price will service is being offered to people who pledge a bequest to the Church. Thomas Hoyle, diocesan registrar for the Church of England in Lancashire, will prepare any such will for £20 plus VAT. His service is launched this week to coincide
BUSINESS leaders are being called on to support the campaign for increased investment in the West Coast rail line. County council leader Louise Ellman called for the extra backing at a dinner for Lancashire's industrialists in Preston. She said: "The
SCHOOLGIRL Lindsay Rees has hit the headlines as junior Journalist of the Year in the North West. The 13-year-old from Great Harwood has scooped the top junior award in a Boots Opticians Young Journalist of the Year competition organised by Sight Savers
Ron Freethy's Nature Watch A READER asked me where my favourite bird-watching places in Lancashire were. I would have to make a separate list for each season. High on my autumn list would be one of old Lancashire's most under-rated and least-known places
CASH is starting to roll in to help bring a young boy from Pakistan to Britain for life-saving treatment. Little Owais Baloch's life is hanging in the balance as the youngster battles against a rare kidney illness. Relatives in Blackburn have started
REGARDING your article on youngsters football (LET, October 4), Mrs Louise Innes has done a splendid job for them. I was surprised to learn how much is charged for the school pitches - £17 an hour for practice and £36 for a game (when they always used
COUNTY councillors have agreed not to change the rules on admissions to Pendle high schools, despite increasing competition for places. Members of the county council's community services sub-committee agreed no change should be made next year, but said
SEVEN policemen were injured when mob violence flared on a trouble-torn council estate. Officers came under fire from a barrage of stones thrown by a crowd of more than 100 people who had gathered in Roman Road estate, Blackburn. Health bosses in Burnley
HEALTH studio boss Michael Brown sacked two of his massage girls after the Lancashire Evening Telegraph exposed their sex-for-sale activities. He said he was shocked to learn that his Commodores Health Studio, in Burnley town centre, was being used as
ACCRINGTON 10 WEAVERHAM 46 A PROMISING start to this game saw Accrington take a deserved six point lead after 10 minutes and at that stage were dominating play. With the benefit of a scrum deep into the visitors' half they threw away the advantage by
THE grotbusting work of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph's award-winning environmental campaign was poised to receive royal approval today. Grimewatch has been nominated by the Tidy Britain Group to receive one of the 1996 Queen Mother's Birthday Awards
STARTLING new research has revealed that heart attacks are more likely to strike down householders without gardens. Medical experts in Blackburn believe there is a strong link between the climate and people's susceptibility to coronary heart disease.
ADRIAN Heath is set to bolster Burnley's defensive strength by taking Doug Hodgson on a month's loan from Sheffield United. The big, strong Australian has been unable to claim a regular place in United's side and they recently signed another central defender
TWO women are trying to trace old school pals for a reunion. Nora Greenwood and Lucy Banks want to hear from any past pupils from St James School in Guide, Blackburn, for a party at Guide Conservative Club on Saturday October 26 at 8pm. Contact Nora on
1997 is the year that the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals reaches its 80th birthday and as part of the celebrations we would like to have 80 athletes running to represent us in the 1997 London Marathon. If you have already had your place in the London
PEOPLE from all walks of life are being sought to add to the list of volunteer Samaritans in Blackburn. The service is hoping a new recruitment drive in the area will produce a number of sympathetic people to help man the service 365 days a year and 24
THREE people were due to appear At Preston Crown Court today charged with the murder of former Burnley soldier Simon Lockett. Mr Lockett, 24, was found dead at a house used by the Stonham Housing Association to provide accommodation for homeless women
RELATIVES of a baby struck down by a mystery illness are hoping to throw a first birthday party for him in hospital. Zack Kerr is in a stable condition and making slow progress today in the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, but doctors
MR J Walkden (Letters, September 26) states that "Darwen is filthy apart from the Circus." What nonsense! The vast majority of streets in Dawen are clean. In my opinion, the street cleaners and dust-binmen do an excellent job. Please remember that the
COUNTY councillors opposed to Blackburn's plans to go-it-alone are due to meet tomorrow to discuss moves to alter ward boundaries in the borough. A Local Government Commission has ruled that the new Blackburn Council should have more councillors and there
A BID for £5 million has been made to tackle severe housing and social conditions in Burnley after the town was labelled one of the most deprived urban areas in the country. The move has come as government officials were told problems in Stoneyholme and
IT was English eyes that were shining when dedicated fans of Irish singer Daniel O'Donnell met their heartthrob. About 45 members of the Daniel O'Donnell North West Association travelled across the Irish sea to see their idol's first hometown performance
UNDER-FIRE Ray Harford has been told by Blackburn Rovers - "Carry on as normal". The Ewood boss was the subject of protests by supporters during Saturday's defeat by Arsenal. And, after the game, he intimated he might resign if that was what the majority
